Best World War II movies of 1997

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand, Glenn Close, Pauline Collins,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.

Actors : Patrick Bergin, James Bolam, Jack Warden, Jordan Kiziuk,
Directors : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen,

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through ...

Actors : Caio Junqueira, Paulo Gorgulho, Betty Faria, José Wilker,

During the Second World War, the U.S.A. established a military base in Natal, Brazil, changing in many ways people's lives and behavior.

Actors : Hans Kremer, Martin Meingast, Teresa Harder, Thomas Jüngling Sørensen,
Directors : Alexander Røsler,

A Jewish family leaves Germany after surviving the Holocaust and heads to Norway. Mendel, their youngest son, is too young to make sense of the Holocaust but tries to comprehend his ...

Actors : Coralie Tetard, Pierre Berriau, Élisabeth Commelin, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Manuel Poirier,

Marion is a 10 year old schoolgirl, her family just moved into a Normandy village : the father is a mason, the mother takes care of their four children. She meets "the Parisians", a wealthy...

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Marianne Sägebrecht, Roger Hanin, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Roger Hanin,

Algiers, 1940. MAMAN TITINE has lived alone with her five children ever since her husband JOSEPH, a Jewish post office employee, set off for Paris with forged papers to find work. Maman ...

Actors : Hideyuki Kasahara, Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Shima Iwashita, Jun Toba,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ...

Actors : David Ben-Gurion, Eli Bergman, Murray Aronoff, Ike Aronowitz,

After World War II, a group of private American citizens banded together in a clandestine effort to transport Holocaust survivors to Palestine. On July 11... See full synopsis »

Actors : Boris Cavazza, Marko Mandic, Janez Hocevar, Natasa Barbara Gracner,
Directors : Mitja Milavec,

Zlobec lost a woman of his life in WWII when a plane named Herzog crashed over Adriatic sea. From then on, he obsessively tried to put up an altar for her. Therefore, he was blind to many ...

Actors : Kamal Abderrahmane, Samira Abtout, Mohammed Abbes, Said Amrane,
Directors : Abderrahmane Bouguermouh,

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their studies and return to their remote native Kabylian village of Tagsa. While waiting to be ...