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1101.
Pornografia (2003)
 Poland,  France
Based on the novel by Witold Gombrowicz, writer/director Jan Jakub Kolski's Pornography is set in the Polish countryside during WWII...
User Rating: 10.0/10
Votes: 1
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1102.
Eye of the Needle (1981)
 United Kingdom
WWII German superspy, the Needle, who gravitates towards murder using his trusty switchblade, discovers vital evidence about the Allies D-Day invasion...
User Rating: 5.5/10
Votes: 2
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1103.
La petite fille en velours bleu (1978)
France
The French Riviera felt the heavy hand of German occupation much later than the rest of the country, and was a haven for wealthy misfits who had no other place to go to escape that regime...
User Rating: 5.9/10
Votes: 8
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1104.
Uranus (1990)
France
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists...
User Rating: 6.4/10
Votes: 5
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1105.
Sister Kenny (1946)
 USA
Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories...
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 1
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1106.
Arachveulebrivi gamopena (1968)
 Soviet Union
Back from the war, a promising sculptor Aguli gets married and while in the need to make for living becomes stuck in daily routine...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 2
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1107.
Kak doma, kak dela? (1987)
Soviet Union
User Rating: 6.7/10
Votes: 11
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1108.
Pugowitza (1981)
 East Germany
User Rating: 7.4/10
Votes: 8
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1109.
Poslednie kholoda (1993)
 Kazakhstan
The film is an adaptation of the work of the same name by Albert Likhanov...
User Rating: 7.1/10
Votes: 14
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1110.
Lust och fägring stor (1995)
 Sweden,  Denmark
Malmö, Sweden during the Second World War...
User Rating: 6.5/10
Votes: 11
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1111.
I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
USA
Songwriter Gus Kahn gets the Hollywood treatment...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 4
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1112.
Le jardin des plantes (1994)
France,  Hungary,  Germany
In Paris, near the end of World War II, crotchety professor Fernand Bonnard maintains a zoo and continues his research...
User Rating: 10.0/10
Votes: 1
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1113.
Jauche und Levkojen (1978)
West Germany
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 6
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1114.
Härlig är jorden (1991)
Sweden
Named one of the top ten shorts of all time by France's prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Andersson's haunting and hilarious short, an absurdist tale of average, everyday life turning horrific (and apocalyptic), is a mini Songs from the Second Floor...
User Rating: 5.7/10
Votes: 6
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1115.
Edges of the Lord (2001)
USA, Poland
Polish 12 year-young city Jew Romek gets a crash-course in Catholicsim from his daddy ('stay hanging by your arms till your prayers are perfect') so he can be sent away and escape deportation (Auschwitz?) hiding in the country where the clergy found a host, Gniecio's simple peasant family, posing as their city relative...
User Rating: 6.5/10
Votes: 15
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1116.
Monsieur Batignole (2002)
France
In "Monsieur Batignole," a Gentile butcher gets a crash course in Jewish reality when a young escapee neighbor falls into his lap during the summer of 1942...
User Rating: 9.5/10
Votes: 2
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1117.
The Grey Zone (2001)
USA
During the Jewish Holocaust of the Second World War, as part of the genocidal "Final Solution", several death camps are established in occupied Poland to recieve, process, and extreminate the Jews of Europe...
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 2
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1118.
Il cielo cade (2000)
 Italy
A film about a Jewish family living in wartime Italy...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 9
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1119.
Malèna (2000)
Italy, USA
On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna...
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 22
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1120.
Friend or Foe (1982)
United Kingdom
In wartime Britain, two boys are looking for a crashed Nazi German plane...
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1121.
Get Cracking (1943)
United Kingdom
George Formby joins the home guard...
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1122.
Went the Day Well? (1942)
United Kingdom
The residents of a British village during WWII welcome a platoon of soldiers who are to be billeted with them...
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1123.
Eva Braun: Her Life with Adolf Hitler (1996)
USA
Documents the tale of a dim, middle-class teenager who comes to love the greatest mass murderer of all time...
User Rating: 6.3/10
Votes: 3
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1124.
Der Laden (1998)
Germany
Director Jo Baier assumed the challenge to direct these mini series about the life of Esau Matte and his family, based on his autobiographical novel...
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 10
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1125.
The Thin Red Line (1998)
USA
Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War...
User Rating: 3.0/10
Votes: 4
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1126.
Elysium (1986)
Hungary
This jarring wartime drama set in Budapest is adapted from a novel of the same name by Imre Keszi which was, in turn, based on a true story...
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 14
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1127.
La tregua (1997)
Italy, France, Germany,  Switzerland
This is the true story of Italian Jews returning home from Auschwitz after the war...
User Rating: 6.7/10
Votes: 13
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1128.
Bye Bye Blues (1989)
 Canada
Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war...
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1129.
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
United Kingdom,  Yugoslavia
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing...
User Rating: 5.6/10
Votes: 7
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1130.
Map of the Human Heart (1992)
 Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, France
In 1931, a chartist lands a plane in the Arctic to map unrecorded regions...
User Rating: 6.4/10
Votes: 5
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1131.
Les violons du bal (1974)
France
For many years, filmmaker Michel Drach wanted to tell the story of his childhood during WWII and his family's escape from the occupying Nazis...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 2
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1132.
Hei tai yang 731 (1988)
 Hong Kong,  China
Story of a Japanese terror camp in the end of WW2, where the Japanese are using the Chinese as guinea pigs in terrible experiments to develop deadly bacterial-plagues...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 9
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1133.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
USA
While it might not have been the best idea on earth to remake the 1939 classic Goodbye Mr...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 3
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1134.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
USA
Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time", which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation...
User Rating: 5.5/10
Votes: 6
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1135.
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
United Kingdom
Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds...
User Rating: 3.7/10
Votes: 3
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1136.
Detskiy sad (1984)
Soviet Union
A spacious and exuberant film-poem from director/writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko tells the semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy tramping across Russia during World War II with his trusty violin...
User Rating: 6.4/10
Votes: 5
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1137.
Hope and Glory (1987)
United Kingdom, USA
A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 12
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1138.
Le vieil homme et l'enfant (1967)
France
Claude is a Jew...
User Rating: 6.9/10
Votes: 15
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1139.
Das Boot ist voll (1981)
Switzerland, West Germany,  Austria
During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland...
User Rating: 6.9/10
Votes: 27
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1140.
Sibiriada (1979)
Soviet Union
This ambitious 1979 Russian film attempts no less a feat than the encapsulation of the tumultuous history of Russia in the 20th century...
User Rating: 6.9/10
Votes: 14
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1141.
Jób lázadása (1983)
Hungary
Hungary, 1943...
User Rating: 6.7/10
Votes: 26
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1142.
Adieu, mon ami (1996)
Germany
Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through a bomb attack...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 16
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1143.
Begynnelsen på en historie (1988)
 Norway
Norway 40s...
User Rating: 6.4/10
Votes: 7
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1144.
Poslední motýl (1991)
 Czechoslovakia, France, United Kingdom
Stage mime Antoine Moreau (Tom Courtenay) is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems...
User Rating: 6.9/10
Votes: 18
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1145.
Die Blechtrommel (1979)
West Germany, France, Poland, Yugoslavia
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 27
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1146.
Nirgendwo in Afrika (2001)
Germany
A Jewish family in Germany emigrate short before the Second World War...
User Rating: 6.7/10
Votes: 15
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1147.
Novecento (1976)
Italy, France, West Germany
Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (de Niro)...
User Rating: 7.4/10
Votes: 65
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1148.
Voor een verloren soldaat (1992)
 Netherlands
Set in The Netherlands at the end of WW II, this touching story, told in flashbacks, explores the complex and romantic relationship between an adult soldier and a displaced, lonely adolescent boy...
User Rating: 7.6/10
Votes: 63
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1149.
Le petit garçon (1995)
France
Touching story of the boy who kept sincere belief in kind human feelings after difficult ordeals.
User Rating: 7.2/10
Votes: 22
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1150.
Hong ying tao (1995)
China
Based on a true story, this horrifying tale follows two orphaned friends as they struggle to survive during World War 2...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 23
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