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Movies: Best "eve of world war ii" Movies


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The Dig(2021)

PG-13
| 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.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day(2008)

PG-13
| 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.

The Tobacconist(2018)

1h 49min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.

The Day of the Locust(1975)

R
| 2h 25min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

Night Train to Munich(1940)

NR
| 1h 36min | Drama, Thriller, War
3.7/5 (with 32 votes)

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.

Above Suspicion(1943)

NR
| 1h 30min | Thriller
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre(2020)

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.

City in Darkness(1939)

NR
| 1h 15min | Crime, Thriller, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..

The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill(2017)

4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.

St. Louis(2019)

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.

Days of Betrayal(1973)

3h 47min | History, Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.

The Stolen Border(1947)

1h 29min | Drama, War
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemies.

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Prague at Zero Hour(1963)

1h 19min | Drama

Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.

I Betrayed Hitler(2016)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma encryption machine, an impossible task to accomplish without the invaluable information that Hans-Thilo Schmidt, a disenchanted but greedy German citizen, had been handing over to the French secret services since 1931.

Crisis(1939)

1h 35min | Documentary

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

The World at War(1942)

1h 6min | Documentary, War
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War.

Directed by Lowell Mellett

Neporažená armáda(1938)

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Directed by Jan Bor - With Ladislav Boháč, Jan Pivec, Marie Blažková, František Dibarbora, Oľga Borodáčová, Andrej Bagar, ...

We Will Remain Faithful(1945)

1h 20min | Documentary

The compilation documentary We Will Remain Faithful is a testimony to the Czechoslovak resistance during the Second World War. The film covers the period from the end of the First Czechoslovak Republic to the victorious Allied advance in 1944. Director Jiří Weiss compiled it from archival footage, his own authentic and subsequently staged war footage, and material from both Allied and enemy newsreels.

One Day in Soviet Russia(1941)

56min | Documentary

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