Movies Set in 1941

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Inglourious Basterds(2009)

4.1/5 (with 9,987 votes)

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino - With Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, ...

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The Godfather Part II(1974)

| 3h 22min | Drama, Crime

4.3/5 (with 5,728 votes)

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire, Morgana King, ...

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Greyhound(2020)

PG-13

| 1h 31min | War, Action, Drama

3.7/5 (with 1,196 votes)

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

Directed by Aaron Schneider - With Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan, Elisabeth Shue, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Karl Glusman, ...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

PG-13

| 2h 46min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 5,674 votes)

I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Directed by David Fincher - With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Tilda Swinton, Mahershala Ali, ...

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Citizen Kane(1941)

| 1h 59min | Mystery, Drama

4.0/5 (with 2,550 votes)

Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Directed by Orson Welles - With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Warrick, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, ...

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Pearl Harbor(2001)

PG-13

| 3h 3min | Action, War, History, Romance / Love, Drama

3.5/5 (with 2,920 votes)

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Directed by Michael Bay - With Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, ...

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Malena(2000)

| 1h 49min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 1,024 votes)

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore - With Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Gaetano Aronica, Gabriella Di Luzio, Angelo Pellegrino, ...

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Casablanca(1942)

| 1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.1/5 (with 2,329 votes)

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, ...

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Nightmare Alley(2021)

| 2h 19min | Thriller

3.5/5 (with 1,191 votes)

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

Directed by Guillermo del Toro - With Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, ...

Midway(2019)

PG-13

| 2h 18min | Action, Drama, War, History, Adventure

3.6/5 (with 1,076 votes)

The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.

Directed by Roland Emmerich - With Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans, Mandy Moore, Patrick Wilson, Ed Skrein, Aaron Eckhart, ...

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Raging Bull(1980)

| 2h 9min | Drama, History

4.0/5 (with 1,896 votes)

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Frank Adonis, ...

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The Aviator(2004)

PG-13

| 2h 50min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 2,412 votes)

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, ...

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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death(2014)

PG-13

| 1h 38min | Thriller, Horror, Drama

2.6/5 (with 467 votes)

40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

Directed by Tom Harper - With Jeremy Irvine, Helen McCrory, Adrian Rawlins, Genelle Williams, Phoebe Fox, Mary Roscoe, ...

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Australia(2008)

PG-13

| 2h 45min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 1,021 votes)

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

Directed by Baz Luhrmann - With Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Bruce Spence, Jack Thompson, ...

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Battle for Sevastopol(2015)

1h 50min | War, Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 193 votes)

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

Directed by Sergey Mokritsky - With Yulia Peresild, Yevgeny Tsyganov, Vitalii Linetskyi, Joan Blackham, Anatoly Kot, Valeriy Grishko, ...

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women(2017)

| 1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 379 votes)

The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.

Directed by Angela Robinson - With Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, JJ Feild, Oliver Platt, Connie Britton, ...

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The Final Countdown(1980)

| 1h 43min | War, Action, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 244 votes)

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Directed by Don Taylor - With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning, ...

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The Hours(2002)

PG-13

| 1h 54min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 772 votes)

"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Directed by Stephen Daldry - With Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, ...

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Evil Under the Sun(1982)

| 1h 57min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama

3.4/5 (with 175 votes)

An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.

Directed by Guy Hamilton - With Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith, Nicholas Clay, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, ...

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Tora! Tora! Tora!(1970)

| 2h 24min | Drama, History, War

3.6/5 (with 230 votes)

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

Directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda - With Joseph Cotten, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, James Whitmore, E. G. Marshall, Keith Andes, ...

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Panfilov's 28 Men(2016)

1h 45min | History, Action, Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 67 votes)

USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, under the command of General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though armed only with standard issue Mosin-Nagant infantry rifles and DP and PM-M1910 machine guns, all useless against tanks, and with wholly inadequate RPG-40 anti-tank grenades and PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles, they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.

Directed by Andrey Shalopa, Kim Druzhinin - With Alexander Ustyugov, Aleksey Morozov, Amadu Mamadakov, Yakov Kucherevsky, Oleg Fyodorov, Kim Druzhinin, ...

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Operation Petticoat(1959)

| 2h 4min | Action, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 147 votes)

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Directed by Blake Edwards - With Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, Dick Sargent, Marion Ross, ...

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Goodbye Christopher Robin(2017)

| 1h 47min | Kids & Family, History, Drama

3.6/5 (with 388 votes)

The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.

Directed by Simon Curtis - With Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Campbell Moore, Alex Lawther, Geraldine Somerville, ...

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A Hidden Life(2019)

PG-13

| 2h 54min | Drama, War, History

3.6/5 (with 271 votes)

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

Directed by Terrence Malick - With August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Nyqvist, Bruno Ganz, Jürgen Prochnow, ...

Railroad Tigers(2016)

| 2h 4min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, War

3.0/5 (with 55 votes)

A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor.

Directed by Ding Sheng - With Jackie Chan, Jaycee Chan, Huang Zitao, Wang Kai, Darren Wang, Xu Fan, ...

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From Here to Eternity(1953)

| 1h 58min | War, Romance / Love, Drama

3.7/5 (with 266 votes)

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann - With Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Donna Reed, ...

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Kalashnikov AK-47(2020)

1h 45min | War, History, Drama

3.7/5 (with 111 votes)

Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line.While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle— the AK-47.

Directed by Konstantin Buslov - With Artur Smolyaninov, Olga Lerman

Underground(1995)

2h 50min | Comedy, Drama, War

3.9/5 (with 276 votes)

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

Directed by Emir Kusturica - With Miki Manojlović, Slavko Štimac, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Joković, Srđan Todorović, Mirjana Karanović, ...

Marshall(2017)

PG-13

| 1h 58min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 266 votes)

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

Directed by Reginald Hudlin - With Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, James Cromwell, Sterling K. Brown, ...

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The Last Frontier(2020)

2h 10min | War, Drama, History

3.5/5 (with 20 votes)

The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.

Directed by Vadim Shmelyov

Movies Set in 1941

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Inglourious Basterds(2009)

The Godfather Part II(1974)

Greyhound(2020)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

Citizen Kane(1941)

Pearl Harbor(2001)

Malena(2000)

Casablanca(1942)

Nightmare Alley(2021)

Midway(2019)

Raging Bull(1980)

The Aviator(2004)

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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death(2014)

Australia(2008)

Battle for Sevastopol(2015)

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women(2017)

The Final Countdown(1980)

The Hours(2002)

Evil Under the Sun(1982)

Tora! Tora! Tora!(1970)

Panfilov's 28 Men(2016)

Operation Petticoat(1959)

Goodbye Christopher Robin(2017)

A Hidden Life(2019)

Railroad Tigers(2016)

From Here to Eternity(1953)

Kalashnikov AK-47(2020)

Underground(1995)

Marshall(2017)

The Last Frontier(2020)

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