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Movies Set in 1942

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Oppenheimer(2023)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h | Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 2,359 votes)

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 34min | War, Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 3,135 votes)

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

Captain America: The First Avenger(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 4min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 9,910 votes)

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

The Pianist(2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 30min | Drama, War
4.2/5 (with 4,313 votes)

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Greyhound(2020)

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.

Pearl Harbor(2001)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Midway(2019)

FSK: 16+ years
| 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.

Nightmare Alley(2021)

FSK: 16+ years
| 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.

The Thin Red Line(1998)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 51min | Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 1,293 votes)

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.

Lust, Caution(2007)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 36min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 273 votes)

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!(1966)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 12min | Comedy, War
4.0/5 (with 571 votes)

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops - and the consequences of their own blunders.

Downfall(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 36min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 1,696 votes)

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

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Australia(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Battle for Sevastopol(2015)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 50min | War, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 193 votes)

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

Allied(2016)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 4min | Action, Drama, War, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 2,059 votes)

In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

The Man with the Iron Heart(2017)

3.3/5 (with 341 votes)

With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich, head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

Anthropoid(2016)

3.5/5 (with 432 votes)

In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.

Summer of '42(1971)

3.4/5 (with 62 votes)

Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II.

Conspiracy(2001)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 36min | History, Drama, War, TV Movie
3.7/5 (with 166 votes)

The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking German officials came to the historic and far reaching decision that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated in what would come to be known as the Holocaust.

Heaven Can Wait(1943)

3.5/5 (with 90 votes)

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

The Promise(2016)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 13min | History, Romance / Love, Drama
3.5/5 (with 194 votes)

Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

Against the Sun(2014)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | War, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 86 votes)

A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.

Directed by Brian Peter Falk - With Garret Dillahunt, Tom Felton, Jake Abel

Persian Lessons(2020)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h | War, Drama
3.8/5 (with 161 votes)

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.

Sarah's Key(2010)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 51min | Drama, War
3.6/5 (with 317 votes)

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.

Mank(2020)

2h 13min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 685 votes)

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

Fat Man and Little Boy(1989)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 7min | War, Drama, History
3.1/5 (with 55 votes)

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy.".

In Harm's Way(1965)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 45min | War, Drama
3.3/5 (with 61 votes)

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

The Notorious Bettie Page(2005)

1h 31min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 63 votes)

Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.

The Devil's Brigade(1968)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 10min | Action, Drama, War
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.

El Alamein(2002)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Action, Drama
3.3/5 (with 40 votes)

War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?

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