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Still Shining

2026 ★ 10.0

In the 1940s, Soon-ok and Jeong-eem dream of leaving home to chase music and freedom. But a sudden tragedy in the community shatters innocence, forcing Soon-ok

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The Trip to Bountiful

1985 ★ 7.2

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fon

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Kung Fu Hustle

2004 ★ 7.5

It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dange

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Perfect Love

2023 ★ 6.1

A story about love and its different manifestations, told through the little boy Marcelino in search of his biggest dream: to meet his mother. Inspired by a fam

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Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!

1975 ★ 5.6

Spain, 1940s. While returning to Madrid by train, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to join a prestigious company, meets Luis, a young man of helpless appearance.

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The Grass Harp

1996 ★ 5.9

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.

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The Cheap Detective

1978 ★ 6.4

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistr

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The Glenn Miller Story

1954 ★ 7.0

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s. The

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City Without Nights

1957 ★ 5.7

Set in the 1940s, City without Night follows the fortunes of Zhang Bohan who returns from studies in England to put his father-in-law’s textile factory back on

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Imitation of Life

1959 ★ 7.5

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid. Imitation of Life is a

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The United States vs. Billie Holiday

2021 ★ 6.5

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, u

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A Is for Acid

2002 ★ 6.9

Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s.

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Garden Store - Part 2: Deserter

2017 ★ 6.1

In 1940s Prague, a former Nazi prisoner returns to run his posh hair salon and struggles with family, the rise of communism and his past. Topic: Film "Garden St

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Gray Matters

2007 ★ 5.8

Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 19

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Shrieker

1998 ★ 4.5

Clark, a young Mathematics major, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters residing in an abandoned hospital secretly. The qui

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I Saw the Light

2016 ★ 6.2

Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audre

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Remember WENN

1996 ★ 7.8

The personal and professional lives of the staff of fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, before and during World War II. "Remember WENN"

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The Baby in the Basket

2025 ★ 4.1

In 1940s, the nuns of a remote Scottish island convent ready for an impending storm, but when a baby is left on their doorstep, Sister Agnes becomes convinced h

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The Power of Silence

2017 ★ 7.0

Prades, France, 1940s. The exiled Catalan cellist Pau Casals decides not to perform any more in public until the fall of the dictatorship that oppresses Spain.

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Saboteur

1942 ★ 6.9

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend. Saboteur is a 19

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The Children's Train

2024 ★ 7.4

In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty. Drama histor

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Trumbo

2015 ★ 7.2

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted. Drama

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A Christmas Story

1983 ★ 7.2

The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect

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Devil in a Blue Dress

1995 ★ 6.5

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious w

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