Dance First(2023)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Many parts of the literary Samuel Beckett giant's life: Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse.



USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage(2016)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 24

During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 300 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters.



Past Life(2016)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Past Life tracks the daring late 1970s odyssey of two sisters - an introverted classical musician and a rambunctious scandal sheet journalist - as they unravel a shocking wartime mystery that has cast a dark shadow on their entire lives.



Tenet(2020)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

An action epic revolving around international espionage, time travel, and evolution. Possibly about a man trying to prevent World War 3 through time travel and rebirth.



Blood: The Last Vampire(2009)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise.



Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence(1983)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 14

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.



Against the Sun(2014)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.



Force 10 from Navarone(1978)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 13

During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.



Hope and Glory(1987)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...



Von Ryan's Express(1965)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 14

An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.



La nouvelle guerre des boutons(2011)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.



Midway(1976)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.



Waiting for Anya(2020)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 36

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.



The Good Traitor(2020)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Kauffmann, who was the Danish ambassador to Washington in 1939 when World War II started and who declared himself to be the only true representative of a free Denmark in opposition to the Nazis.



Into the White(2012)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Norway, WWII: A group of British and German soldiers find themselves stranded in the wilderness after an aircraft battle. Finding shelter in the same cabin, they realize the only way to survive the winter is to place the rules of war aside.



Simon och ekarna(2011)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Two boys come of age in Sweden during World War II.



Mai wei(2011)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 15

In World War II-era Korea, rival runners, one Korean (Jang Dong-gun) and one Japanese (Joe Odagiri), go to war together against the Soviets.



Battle of Britain(1969)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 7

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the UK.



The Railway Children Return(2022)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 40

Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.



Mephisto(1981)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ...




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