1940s Movies

A man working in a fish cannery has a guilty conscience and begins to imagine he is a murderer. In his delirium/dream the fish try him for murder in...

During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing...

Young Fouad, the son of Adel Pasha, travels abroad to continue his studies. During his absence, Adel Pasha assaults Amina, the widow of Attia, the...

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when...

This is movie is about the story of the people who keep on fighting after the Spanish Civil War were officially finished. They were republicans who...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful...

A throwback musical comedy set in 1943, where clueless radio stars, The Apple Sisters botch a chance of a lifetime by forgetting their movie pitch to...

A retrospective on Hollywood's role in the war effort in World War II, narrated by Johnny Carson.

Set against the fiery backdrop of 1940s Mexico, Isabel Fernández is a fearless, soul-stirring bullfighter who shatters tradition and dares to...

Remedios Buendía defends her homeland and will fight for it. This fateful day of 1945, a group of maquis take the post where she tries on her...

Based on Larry Loftis’ bestseller of the same name, Dusko Popov is a double agent during World War II who was also a suave and sophisticated...

A drama from the period of village collectivisation in 1947-1948, it depicts the life of former beggars who, after the war and land reform, acquire...

Set in 1944, The Farm Boy is a black and white feature film. A love story and adventure, the film is loosely based on the real life story of the...

Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the...

Danish social democratic propaganda film. During the Occupation, the young freedom fighter Søren had a good working relationship with a...

Victoria is a prostitute who is defenseless and in danger when Gaston, a serial murderer of prostitutes, hiding under the guise of a police...

Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and...

Vlado has just passed his high school diploma and is starting a job as a home tutor in the family of a big businessman. He finds himself in a very...

In Fascist Albania 1942, Albanian partisans will do all they can to remove the Italian fascists from their country.