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1051.
The Cider House Rules (1999)
 USA
Homer is an orphan in remote St...
User Rating: 8.0/10
Votes: 1
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1052.
Idi i smotri (1985)
 Soviet Union
During WWII, a Belarusian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 8
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1053.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
 United Kingdom,  France, USA
In 1941, Italy allies with Germany and ruthlessly conquers the much weaker country of Greece...
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1054.
Charlotte Gray (2001)
United Kingdom,  Australia,  Germany
Charlotte, a young Scottish woman, who has studied in France, is living in London during World War II...
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1055.
Empire of the Sun (1987)
USA
Based on J...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 15
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1056.
Jeux interdits (1952)
France
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II...
User Rating: 6.9/10
Votes: 7
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1057.
The Others (2001)
USA,  Spain, France,  Italy
A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle...
User Rating: 10.0/10
Votes: 1
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1058.
Munich (2005)
France,  Canada, USA
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September...
User Rating: 4.0/10
Votes: 2
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1059.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
USA
Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt...
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1060.
War and Remembrance (1988)
USA
The saga of the Henry family, begun in "The Winds of War" continues as America is attacked by Japan and enters World War II...
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1061.
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom,  Ireland
In the winter of 1942, the German and Russian Armies meet in the great Battle of the Stalingrad, one of the most vicious engagements of the Second World War...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 1
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1062.
Korczak (1990)
 Poland, Germany, United Kingdom
Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war...
User Rating: 6.5/10
Votes: 2
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1063.
Au revoir les enfants (1987)
France, West Germany, Italy
During WWII, in a Catholic boarding school in the French countryside, two boys become friends...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 20
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1064.
Waterland (1992)
United Kingdom
Tom Crick, a high school history teacher, is having trouble connecting - with his class, with his wife...
User Rating: 10.0/10
Votes: 1
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1065.
Summer of '42 (1971)
USA
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII...
User Rating: 10.0/10
Votes: 1
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1066.
Blagoslovite zhenshchinu (2003)
 Russia
The action of this film opens in a tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War...
User Rating: 5.5/10
Votes: 4
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1067.
Zelyonye tsepochki (1970)
Soviet Union
Soviet propaganda film about three boys helping KGB to catch spies during WW2...
User Rating: 5.7/10
Votes: 12
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1068.
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
USA
Carl, a fisherman in the waters off Washington state, has been found dead, drowned in own nets, but with a serious head wound...
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1069.
The Last Emperor (1987)
 China, Italy, United Kingdom, France
Bernardo Bertolucci does the nearly impossible with this sweeping, grand epic that tells a very personal tale...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 5
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1070.
Ivanovo detstvo (1962)
Soviet Union
12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the eastern front...
User Rating: 7.1/10
Votes: 27
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1071.
The Aviator (2004)
USA, Germany
The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels...
User Rating: 6.4/10
Votes: 14
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1072.
Schindler's List (1993)
USA
"Schindler's List" is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 5
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1073.
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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1074.
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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1075.
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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1076.
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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1077.
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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1078.
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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1079.
Kak doma, kak dela? (1987)
Soviet Union
User Rating: 6.7/10
Votes: 11
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1080.
Pugowitza (1981)
 East Germany
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 7
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1081.
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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1082.
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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1083.
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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1084.
Jauche und Levkojen (1978)
West Germany
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 6
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1085.
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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1086.
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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1087.
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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1088.
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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1089.
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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1090.
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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1091.
Friend or Foe (1982)
United Kingdom
In wartime Britain, two boys are looking for a crashed Nazi German plane...
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1092.
Get Cracking (1943)
United Kingdom
George Formby joins the home guard...
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1093.
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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1094.
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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1095.
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: 6.9/10
Votes: 10
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1096.
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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1097.
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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1098.
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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1099.
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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1100.
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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