The Vault
The Men
1950 ★ 7.0Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses
Mudbound
2017 ★ 7.4In 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
All My Sons
1948 ★ 6.5During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son
Frantz
2016 ★ 7.3In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers
Stromboli
1950 ★ 7.1After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than
Red Ink
2026 ★ 0.0In post-WWII New York, media propaganda, institutional power, and exploitation are interrogated amid the looming threat of a mysterious global virus. Topic: Fil
War Sailor
2023 ★ 7.7When WWII erupts, two sailors on a Norwegian merchant ship face brutal conditions as they fight to survive a conflict they were never asked to join. Based on tr
Gerta Schnirch
2026 ★ 0.0Gerta grows up in 1930s Brno in a mixed Czech-German family, which brings her into conflict with her father as he embraces Nazi ideology. Despite this, they rem
The East
2021 ★ 6.0A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience
Jadup and Boel
1988 ★ 6.4In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young
Germany, Year Zero
1948 ★ 7.6In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family. Germany, Year Zero is a 1948 German
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 ★ 7.7It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for
Slingboy
1960 ★ 4.9A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Germans. Slingboy is a 1960 Czech drama‑war film directed and w
The Little Thief
1988 ★ 6.2In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a f
The Girl with the Needle
2024 ★ 7.6Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption
Repast
1951 ★ 7.6In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief st
Lemmings
1979 ★ 4.0This two-part drama examines the fate of the generation of Austrians which came of age after World War II. The first part, "Arcadia," depicts the generational g
The 7th Dawn
1964 ★ 6.5Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War. The 7th Dawn is a 1964 adventure, drama, and
The Monuments Men
2014 ★ 6.1Based 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 dire
The Morning
1967 ★ 7.5In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time
Life Flows Slowly By...
1957 ★ 7.5The fortunes of a group of partisans after the triumph of the socialist revolution. Task: Write a factual, original 150-190 word overview of the film "Life Flow
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
1979 ★ 8.6After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb
Joy Division
2006 ★ 5.2A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Co
When Father Was Away on Business
1985 ★ 7.3In a post-WWII Yugoslavia still under Stalinist rule in the 1950s, six-year-old Malik is oblivious as to why his father, Mehmed, has suddenly disappeared. In tr