Movies Set in 1938

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Oppenheimer(2023)

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.

Directed by Christopher Nolan - With Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, ...

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade(1989)

PG-13

| 2h 7min | Adventure, Action

3.9/5 (with 4,542 votes)

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Sean Connery, John Rhys-Davies, Harrison Ford, River Phoenix, Michael Byrne, Alison Doody, ...

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Monster House(2006)

| 1h 31min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.3/5 (with 1,723 votes)

Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.

Directed by Gil Kenan

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb(2014)

| 1h 38min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids & Family

3.1/5 (with 2,662 votes)

When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.

Directed by Shawn Levy - With Ben Kingsley, Ben Stiller, Bill Cobbs, Dan Stevens, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, ...

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Haunting of the Queen Mary(2023)

1h 54min | Horror, Thriller

2.4/5 (with 21 votes)

When photographers Erin and Patrick are brought aboard the ship with their young son Lukas, they unleash a series of events that entwines their family with the ship’s dark past. As the terror unfolds around them they begin to realise there is more to this sumptuous ocean liner than meets the eye: its remarkable legacy masking violent secrets.

Directed by Gary Shore - With Alice Eve, Joel Fry, Lenny Rush, Angus Wright, Jim Piddock, Nell Hudson, ...

The Sound of Music(1965)

| 2h 55min | Drama, Kids & Family, Music, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 1,506 votes)

In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Bill Lee, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Nicholas Hammond, ...

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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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Lust, Caution(2007)

NC-17

| 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.

Directed by Ang Lee - With Tony Leung, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Wang Leehom, Anupam Kher, Wang Hui-ling, ...

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2(2013)

PG-13

| 1h 18min | Science Fiction, Action, Animation, Mystery

4.0/5 (with 616 votes)

Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.

Directed by Jay Oliva

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Batman: Year One(2011)

PG-13

| 1h 4min | Action, Animation, Crime

3.6/5 (with 397 votes)

A wealthy playboy named Bruce Wayne and a Chicago cop named Jim Gordon both return to Gotham City where their lives unexpectedly intersect.

Directed by Sam Liu, Lauren Montgomery - With Ben McKenzie, Bryan Cranston, Eliza Dushku

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The Color Purple(1985)

PG-13

| 2h 34min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 725 votes)

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, ...

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A River Runs Through It(1992)

2h 3min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 449 votes)

A River Runs Through It is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying life circumstances in the untamed west of Montana in the 1920s.

Directed by Robert Redford - With Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Edie McClurg, ...

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Double Indemnity(1944)

1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

4.1/5 (with 769 votes)

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Gig Young, Porter Hall, Fortunio Bonanova, ...

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City of Life and Death(2009)

| 2h 12min | Drama, History, War

3.7/5 (with 93 votes)

City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

Directed by Lu Chuan - With Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Fan Wei, Qin Lan, John Paisley

The Banishing(2021)

1h 37min | Horror

2.7/5 (with 47 votes)

In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.

Directed by Christopher Smith

The Conformist(1971)

1h 48min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 282 votes)

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Gastone Moschin, Pierre Clémenti, Enzo Tarascio, ...

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The Rocketeer(1991)

| 1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Kids & Family

3.2/5 (with 383 votes)

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.

Directed by Joe Johnston, Mark Dindal - With Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino, Tiny Ron Taylor, ...

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The Phantom(1996)

| 1h 40min | Adventure, Action

2.6/5 (with 237 votes)

The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls that would give him the secret to ultimate power.

Directed by Simon Wincer - With Billy Zane, Treat Williams, Kristy Swanson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar, Patrick McGoohan, ...

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The Remains of the Day(1993)

| 2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 553 votes)

A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

Directed by James Ivory - With Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant, Ben Chaplin, ...

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Dick Tracy(1990)

| 1h 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

3.1/5 (with 407 votes)

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Directed by Warren Beatty - With Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Madonna, James Caan, Seymour Cassel, Dick Van Dyke, ...

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The Children of Huang Shi(2008)

| 2h 5min | Drama, War

3.4/5 (with 65 votes)

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode - With Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, David Wenham, Matthew Walker, ...

Valley of the Dead(2020)

1h 41min | Comedy, Horror, War

3.2/5 (with 122 votes)

During the Spanish Civil War, sworn enemies must work together when they encounter flesh-eating zombies created in a Nazi experiment.

Directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera - With Miki Esparbé, Aura Garrido, Luis Callejo, Álvaro Cervantes, Jesús Carroza, María Botto, ...

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Brief Encounter(1945)

| 1h 26min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 253 votes)

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

Directed by David Lean, Farhan Rana Rajpoot - With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg, ...

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Red Joan(2018)

1h 41min | Thriller, History

3.3/5 (with 154 votes)

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

Directed by Trevor Nunn - With Stephen Campbell Moore, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Nina Sosanya, Tereza Srbová, ...

Munich: The Edge of War(2022)

PG-13

| 2h 3min | Drama, History

3.4/5 (with 225 votes)

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.

Directed by Christian Schwochow - With Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner, Sandra Hüller, Liv Lisa Fries, August Diehl, ...

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Swing Kids(1993)

PG-13

| 1h 52min | Music, Drama

3.3/5 (with 102 votes)

The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.

Directed by Thomas Carter - With Jessica Hynes, Ciaran Madden, David Robb, David Tom, Jeremy Bulloch, Johan Leysen, ...

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Suspicion(1941)

| 1h 39min | Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 318 votes)

Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, ...

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Being Julia(2004)

| 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 41 votes)

Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.

Directed by István Szabó - With Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Shaun Evans, Lucy Punch, Michael Gambon, Bruce Greenwood, ...

A Special Day(1977)

| 1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 279 votes)

In Rome, fascist supporter Emanuele attends a parade commemorating Adolf Hitler's historic meeting with Italian leader Benito Mussolini, leaving his apolitical wife, Antonietta, to tend to household duties. Antonietta encounters a man, Gabriele, who appears surprisingly nonplussed by the political event. Over the course of the day, the two forge a close friendship that will forever change their perceptions of life, love and politics.

Directed by Ettore Scola - With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Alessandra Mussolini, Françoise Berd, Vittorio Guerrieri, ...

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Harlem Nights(1989)

| 1h 56min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

3.1/5 (with 128 votes)

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

Directed by Eddie Murphy - With Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello, Charlie Murphy, Michael Lerner, ...

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Movies Set in 1938

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Oppenheimer(2023)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade(1989)

Monster House(2006)

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb(2014)

Haunting of the Queen Mary(2023)

The Sound of Music(1965)

The Aviator(2004)

Lust, Caution(2007)

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2(2013)

Batman: Year One(2011)

The Color Purple(1985)

A River Runs Through It(1992)

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Double Indemnity(1944)

City of Life and Death(2009)

The Banishing(2021)

The Conformist(1971)

The Rocketeer(1991)

The Phantom(1996)

The Remains of the Day(1993)

Dick Tracy(1990)

The Children of Huang Shi(2008)

Valley of the Dead(2020)

Brief Encounter(1945)

Red Joan(2018)

Munich: The Edge of War(2022)

Swing Kids(1993)

Suspicion(1941)

Being Julia(2004)

A Special Day(1977)

Harlem Nights(1989)

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