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Movies Set in 1939

Public list by WPS with 109 movies or TV shows/series

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Up(2009)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 36min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Adventure
4.0/5 (with 9,120 votes)

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.

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.

Life Is Beautiful(1997)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 56min | Comedy, Drama
4.2/5 (with 5,868 votes)

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning(2006)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 31min | Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 752 votes)

Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.

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 Good Shepherd(2006)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 47min | Drama, Thriller, History
3.2/5 (with 493 votes)

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

The King's Speech(2010)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 58min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 3,922 votes)

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

The Zookeeper's Wife(2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 6min | Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 682 votes)

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

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.

Tora! Tora! Tora!(1970)

FSK: 16+ years
| 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.

The Banker(2020)

2h | Drama
3.8/5 (with 333 votes)

In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.

Cats Don't Dance(1997)

3.6/5 (with 73 votes)

Danny, an ambitious singing and dancing cat, goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.

Directed by Mark Dindal
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 47min | Mystery, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, Adventure
2.9/5 (with 541 votes)

When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link between the global robot attacks and missing men, Sky Captain and Polly decide to work together. They fly to the Himalayas in pursuit of the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf, the mastermind behind the robots.

All Dogs Go to Heaven(1989)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 29min | Drama, Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 443 votes)

When a casino-owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy, to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles onto an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares of what's waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.

Directed by Don Bluth

Stargate: Continuum(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Adventure, Science Fiction, TV Movie
3.6/5 (with 206 votes)

Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

Marlowe(2023)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.0/5 (with 129 votes)

Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to track down her former lover.

Tender Cousins(1980)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 20 votes)

Teenage Julien loves his teenage cousin Julia among flowers in summer of '39 France.

The Devil's Backbone(2001)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Fantasy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 522 votes)

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

Directed by Guillermo del Toro - With Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Javier González Pantón, Junio Valverde, Irene Visedo, ...

The Natural(1984)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 17min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 254 votes)

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.

A Hidden Life(2019)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Foreign Correspondent(1940)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h | Action, Mystery, Thriller, War
3.5/5 (with 154 votes)

The European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Johnny Jones, an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put a fresh spin on the drowsy dispatches emanating from overseas, has a nose for a good story—which promptly leads him to the crime of fascism and Nazi Germany's designs on European conquest. In attempting to learn more about a seemingly noble peace effort, Jones walks into the middle of an assassination, uncovers a spy ring and—not entirely coincidentally—falls in love.

Get on Up(2014)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 19min | Drama, Music
3.4/5 (with 234 votes)

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Puppet Master(1989)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 25min | Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 143 votes)

A Jewish puppet maker who's discovered the secret to creating living puppets commits suicide to avoid capture by the Nazis and hides his beloved and harmless puppet children in a California hotel. Years later, a cult of magicians arrive at the hotel under the invitation of an ex-member who betrayed them all, only to find that he's dead - and that the living puppets, under the influence of a new Puppet Master, have turned murderous!

Katyn(2007)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 2min | Drama, History, War
3.4/5 (with 101 votes)

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day(2008)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 28min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 171 votes)

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.

Forever Young(1992)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 42min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Science Fiction, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 400 votes)

A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.

303 Squadron(2018)

1h 40min | War, Drama
3.0/5 (with 48 votes)

After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.

Directed by Denis Delić - With Piotr Adamczyk, Maciej Zakościelny, Cara Theobold, Andrew Woodall, John Kay Steel, Kirk Barker, ...

Hope and Glory(1987)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 53min | Drama, War, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

Director John Boorman drew from his own childhood experiences for this coming-of-age tale about a boy growing up in and around London during World War II. For young Billy, the nightly bombings provide a frightening show, but they include opportunities to rummage through the rubble with friends in the mornings. As Billy plays, his family struggles to remain intact as they suffer through the anguish and losses of wartime.

The Cremator(1969)

1h 40min | Comedy, Horror, Drama
3.8/5 (with 84 votes)

Mr. Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world. There may be another idealogy that fits snugly with his existing worldview.

The Dig(2021)

1h 52min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 496 votes)

As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future‎.

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