The Vault
The Trip to Bountiful
1985 ★ 7.2Carrie 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
Garden Store - Part 2: Deserter
2017 ★ 6.1In 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
The Baby in the Basket
2025 ★ 4.1In 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
Remember WENN
1996 ★ 7.8The 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"
A Is for Acid
2002 ★ 6.9Dramatisation 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.
City Without Nights
1957 ★ 5.7Set 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
Éramos Seis
1994 ★ 9.3Éramos Seis is a Brazilian period drama telenovela produced by SBT and originally broadcast from May 9 to December 5, 1994. Based on the 1943 novel of the same
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
1982 ★ 6.8Summer, 1948. 14-year-old Alan has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes, and that he will finally kiss classmate
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983 ★ 6.9It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know
Closing the Ring
2007 ★ 6.2During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy
The Chorus
2004 ★ 7.7In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration. The film The Chorus is set in France. It takes place during a specifi
Fallen Angels
1993 ★ 6.6A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The ep
The Shawshank Redemption
1994 ★ 8.7Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he put
The Chinese Widow
2017 ★ 7.2It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing
Invisible Life
2019 ★ 7.8Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida
The Island on Bird Street
1997 ★ 7.3Alex 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 p
The Aryan Papers
2026 ★ 8.0Stuttgart, 1942: Nazis have cleared Jewish communities from towns and Villages. Two German-born Jewish children flee Nazis who have killed their family, escorte
Sophie and the Rising Sun
2016 ★ 6.7In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair
Karmouz War
2018 ★ 5.9Alexandria, Egypt, 1940. Three young Egyptians come to the aid of a woman being attacked by three British soldiers. One of them is arrested and thrown in jail.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 ★ 8.0During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations. Guillermo del Toro's
Breakthrough
1979 ★ 5.8Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a
The Westerner
1940 ★ 7.1Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming
Liar's Moon
1982 ★ 5.5In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's bee
The Sting II
1983 ★ 4.7Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is