The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



Valkyrie(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II.



Australia(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.



The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.



Flammen & Citronen(2008)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.



Brideshead Revisited(2008)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.



Oorlogswinter(2008)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.



Miracle at St. Anna(2008)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 56

Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.



Max Manus(2008)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 30

The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.



Adam Resurrected(2008)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 50

In the aftermath of WWII, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.



Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin(2008)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.



Outpost(2008)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In war-torn Eastern Europe, a world-weary group of mercenaries discover a long-hidden secret in an abandoned WWII bunker.



Les femmes de l'ombre(2008)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In 1944, in London, Lieutenant Pierre Desfontaines assigns his sister Louise Desfontaines to convince three other women to form a five-woman task force under his command to rescue a British...



My iz budushchego(2008)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

My iz budushchego, or We Are from the Future, is a movie about time travel. Four 21st century treasure seekers are transported back into the middle of a WWII battle in Russia. The movie's ...



In Tranzit(2008)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1946, a group of German POWs are mistakenly sent to a Soviet female transit prison camp and must cope with the hostility of the Soviet female inmates and guards, under the orders of cruel camp commander Pavlov.



Supravietuitorul(2008)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After WWII "Comisarul Moldova" (Sergiu Nicolaescu / Petr Falc) spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of ...



U-900(2008)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

It is the year 1944 and World War II is not over yet. The Germans want to send their last available submarine, the U-900, on a secret mission from Toulon to Warnemuende. Atze pretends to be...



Die Entdeckung der Currywurst(2008)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

World War II is grinding to a close, and middle-aged Lena Bruecker (Barbara Sukowa) is caught in the fallout of Germany's crushing defeat. Her husband is missing in action on the Eastern ...



Hotaru no haka(2008)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.



Pokrajina St.2(2008)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The burglars Sergej and Polde steal the valuable painting "Landscape No.2". By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of the World War II. Instructor is ...




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