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A Haunting in Venice(2023)

PG-13
| 1h 43min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 574 votes)

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

The Third Man(1949)

NR
| 1h 45min | Thriller, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 775 votes)

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

The French Dispatch(2021)

R
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 1,016 votes)

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

The Devil All the Time(2020)

R
| 2h 18min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 1,440 votes)

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

Mona Lisa Smile(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 748 votes)

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.

The Aftermath(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | War, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 280 votes)

In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.

Living(2022)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 146 votes)

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

Land of Mine(2015)

1h 40min | War, Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 620 votes)

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues(2015)

3.5/5 (with 157 votes)

September, 1945. Sebastian impatiently waits for the return of his friend Angelina, whom he has not seen for two years. When the plane carrying the young woman to her small village in the Alps is reported to have crashed in the mountains, Sebastian is convinced that Angelina is still alive. Along with his faithful dog Belle, Sebastian embarks on the most dangerous adventure of his life.

Late Spring(1949)

1h 50min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 155 votes)

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

The Monuments Men(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | War, Drama, History, Action
3.0/5 (with 1,617 votes)

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

Early Summer(1951)

NR
| 2h 15min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 65 votes)

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

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White Christmas(1954)

3.6/5 (with 225 votes)

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

The Outsider(2018)

3.1/5 (with 266 votes)

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

Directed by Martin Zandvliet - With Jared Leto

The Last Vermeer(2020)

R
| 1h 58min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 37 votes)

A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.

Directed by Dan Friedkin - With Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps

Mudbound(2017)

R
| 2h 15min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 547 votes)

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

Bad Day at Black Rock(1955)

1h 21min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 147 votes)

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

Beanpole(2019)

2h 14min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 136 votes)

Set in post-WWII Leningrad as two female soldiers return from war and attempt to rebuild their lives in the ravaged city.

The Secrets We Keep(2020)

R
| 1h 37min | Thriller, History, Drama
3.0/5 (with 101 votes)

In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.

From the Land of the Moon(2016)

3.3/5 (with 138 votes)

An adaptation of Milena Agus' eponymous novel set after WWII, "Mal de Pierres" ("Mal di Pietre") spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man.

The Best of Youth(2003)

R
| 6h 6min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 241 votes)

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lives of two brothers from a middle-class family take different directions, crossing some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

Riphagen the Untouchable(2016)

2h 12min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 74 votes)

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers.

Shoeshine(1946)

1h 27min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 101 votes)

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...

The Conversation(2022)

1h 48min | History, Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Based on a true story of a meeting in June 1945 between two powerful men with very opposite philosophies and perspectives on the future of their country.

The Deep Blue Sea(2011)

R
| 1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 120 votes)

The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

Ashes and Diamonds(1958)

1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.8/5 (with 94 votes)

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

Europa(1991)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 123 votes)

Postwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he meets Katharina Hartmann, the railroad owner's daughter, and they fall in love, his life intersects with the dark and violent path of a mysterious organization opposed to the United States army military occupation.

The Messenger(2019)

1h 54min | War, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 33 votes)

Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.

Directed by Władysław Pasikowski - With Philippe Tłokiński, Julie Engelbrecht, Bradley James, Patrycja Volny, Grzegorz Małecki, Rafał Królikowski, ...

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.

In Tranzit(2008)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
2.9/5 (with 24 votes)

Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this drama stars Thomas Kretschmann, John Malkovich and Vera Farmiga in a bitter game of cat and mouse and a battle between hate and humanity, mercy and revenge.

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