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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

PG-13
| 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.

Directed by Mark Herman - With Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend, Amber Beattie, ...
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Pan's Labyrinth(2006)

1h 58min | Fantasy, Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 4,773 votes)

Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.

Directed by Guillermo del Toro - With Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Álex Angulo, ...
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Jojo Rabbit(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Comedy, War, Drama
4.0/5 (with 4,116 votes)

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

Directed by Taika Waititi - With Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Rebel Wilson, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Rockwell, Alfie Allen, ...
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Come and See(1985)

NR
| 2h 22min | Drama, War
4.1/5 (with 559 votes)

The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

Directed by Elem Klimov - With Aleksei Kravchenko, Liubomiras Laucevičius

Empire of the Sun(1987)

PG
| 2h 33min | Drama, History, War
3.8/5 (with 822 votes)

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirits, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips, ...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks(1971)

G
| 1h 57min | Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Kids & Family, Music
3.5/5 (with 417 votes)

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

Directed by Robert Stevenson - With Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Cindy O'Callaghan, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson, ...
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The Diary of Anne Frank(1959)

NR
| 3h | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 151 votes)

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

Directed by George Stevens - With Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, ...
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The Children of Huang Shi(2008)

R
| 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, ...

Ivan's Childhood(1962)

1h 35min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 290 votes)

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - With Andrei Konchalovsky, Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Nikolai Grinko, Irma Raush, Yevgeny Zharikov, ...
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The Book Thief(2013)

PG-13
| 2h 11min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,999 votes)

While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

Directed by Brian Percival - With Emily Watson, Geoffrey Rush, Sophie Nélisse, Nico Liersch, Ben Schnetzer, Roger Allam, ...
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Grave of the Fireflies(2005)

2h 28min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 41 votes)

Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and Kyoko is killed. Hisako is forced to take care of Kyoko's two children in addition to her own, but there is not enough food for everyone.

Directed by Toya Sato

Belle and Sebastian(2013)

1h 44min | Adventure
3.5/5 (with 295 votes)

Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that has been killing their sheep.

Directed by Nicolas Vanier - With Tchéky Karyo, Dimitri Storoge, Félix Bossuet, Urbain Cancelier, Jan Oliver Schroeder, Andreas Pietschmann, ...
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Innocent Voices(2005)

2h | Drama, War
4.1/5 (with 197 votes)

A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.

Directed by Luis Mandoki - With Leonor Varela, Ofelia Medina, José María Yazpik, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Paulina Gaitán, Adrian Alonso, ...

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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Beasts of No Nation(2015)

2h 17min | Drama, War
3.8/5 (with 764 votes)

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga - With Idris Elba, Abraham Attah
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Europa Europa(1990)

R
| 1h 52min | History, Drama, War
3.7/5 (with 99 votes)

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland - With Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Delphine Forest, Artur Barcis, André Wilms, ...

Before the Fall(2004)

NR
| 1h 57min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 126 votes)

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column,Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.

Directed by Dennis Gansel - With Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Florian Stetter, Alexander Held, Sissy Höfferer, Thomas Drechsel, ...

Barefoot Gen(1983)

1h 23min | Animation, Drama, War
3.7/5 (with 80 votes)

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Directed by Mori Masaki - With Issei Miyazaki, Katsuji Mori, Kōichi Kitamura, Taeko Nakanishi, Takeshi Aono, Barbara Goodson, ...

Zoo(2018)

PG
| 1h 36min | Kids & Family, War, History
3.4/5 (with 46 votes)

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.

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Forbidden Games(1952)

1h 27min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 127 votes)

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.

Directed by René Clément - With Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Philippe de Chérisey, Jacques Marin, Lucien Hubert, Laurence Badie, ...

The Diary Of Anne Frank(2016)

2h 8min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 49 votes)

The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.

Directed by Hans Steinbichler - With Lea van Acken, Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Noethen, Stella Kunkat, Margarita Broich, André Jung, ...

Turtles Can Fly(2005)

1h 38min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 92 votes)

Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
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The Bridge(1959)

1h 43min | Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 66 votes)

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Directed by Bernhard Wicki - With Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Folker Bohnet, Cordula Trantow, Frank Glaubrecht, Volker Lechtenbrink, ...
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Lore(2012)

NR
| 1h 45min | Drama, War, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 124 votes)

Lore leads her four younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos she encounters a mysterious refugee who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire.

Directed by Cate Shortland - With Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Eva-Maria Hagen, ...
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Winter in Wartime(2008)

R
| 1h 43min | Drama, History, War
3.4/5 (with 77 votes)

During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to the dismay of his father, who, as mayor, works to prevent escalations in the village.

Directed by Martin Koolhoven - With Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Dan van Husen, Melody Klaver, Tygo Gernandt, ...
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Secrets of War(2014)

1h 35min | War, Kids & Family, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 31 votes)

Tuur and Lambert are best friends. But the war is closing in and is about to change their lives forever. Tuurs dad joined the resistance and even his big brother seems so be part of it. Lamberts family on the other hand choose to obey the Germans. Then a new girls from the city shows up, befriending the boys but telling her secret to only one of them. A choice that separates the boys and ultimately gets her in trouble.

Directed by Dennis Bots - With Maas Bronkhuyzen, Joes Brauers, Loek Peters, Pippa Allen, Luc Feit, Ad van Kempen, ...
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Lacombe, Lucien(1974)

2h 18min | Drama, War, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 52 votes)

In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.

Directed by Louis Malle - With Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Ave Ninchi, Therese Giehse, Holger Löwenadler, Jacqueline Staup, ...

The Island on Bird Street(1997)

1h 47min | Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.

Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen - With Patrick Bergin, Jack Warden, Suzanna Hamilton, Michael Byrne, Stefan Sauk, James Bolam, ...

For a Lost Soldier(1992)

1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

The story of a romantic relationship between a Canadian soldier and a child set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII. Told in flashback from the present day, the child, now a man, is still seeking his lost soldier.

Directed by Roeland Kerbosch - With Jeroen Krabbé, Elsje de Wijn, Tatum Dagelet, Moniek Kramer, Antoinette van Belle

War of the Buttons(2011)

1h 40min | Adventure, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 218 votes)

Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.

Directed by Christophe Barratier - With Guillaume Canet, Éric Naggar, François Morel, Gérard Jugnot, Grégory Gatignol, Ilona Bachelier, ...
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