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1. The Godfather Part II (1974)
R | 202 min | Crime, Drama
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Votes: 1,363,491 | Gross: $57.30M
2. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
R | 169 min | Drama, War
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Votes: 1,495,705 | Gross: $216.54M
3. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
TV-MA | 117 min | Drama
In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti
Votes: 65,786
4. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 702,747 | Gross: $37.63M
5. Big Fish (2003)
PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
Votes: 458,752 | Gross: $66.26M
6. Terms of Endearment (1983)
PG | 132 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
Votes: 65,442 | Gross: $108.42M
7. Shadow in the Cloud (2020)
R | 83 min | Action, Horror, War
A female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
Director: Roseanne Liang | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Beulah Koale, Taylor John Smith
Votes: 30,550 | Gross: $0.16M
8. Lust, Caution (2007)
NC-17 | 157 min | Drama, History, Romance
During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Leehom Wang
Votes: 45,495 | Gross: $4.60M
9. Frida (2002)
R | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Mía Maestro
Votes: 95,285 | Gross: $25.89M
10. Overlord (2018)
R | 110 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.
Director: Julius Avery | Stars: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbæk
Votes: 106,518 | Gross: $21.70M
11. Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
R | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David
Votes: 85,362 | Gross: $22.24M
12. A Single Man (2009)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.
Director: Tom Ford | Stars: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult
Votes: 117,727 | Gross: $9.17M
13. Operation Finale (2018)
PG-13 | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
A team of secret agents sets out to track down the Nazi officer who masterminded the Holocaust.
Director: Chris Weitz | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Mélanie Laurent, Lior Raz
Votes: 48,876 | Gross: $17.61M
14. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)
R | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror
The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Kelly Jo Minter, Danny Hassel
Votes: 50,627 | Gross: $22.17M
15. The Prowler (1981)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small California town, bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual graduation dance.
Director: Joseph Zito | Stars: Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Lawrence Tierney, Farley Granger
Votes: 12,995
16. Mudbound (2017)
R | 134 min | Drama, War
Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.
Director: Dee Rees | Stars: Jason Mitchell, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige
Votes: 54,368
17. Angela's Ashes (1999)
R | 145 min | Biography, Drama
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens
Votes: 23,243 | Gross: $13.04M
18. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
R | 123 min | Drama, War
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.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 20,003 | Gross: $2.31M
19. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Director: Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster
Votes: 5,857 | Gross: $15.18M
20. Barefoot Gen (1983)
TV-PG | 83 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
Director: Mori Masaki | Stars: Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone, Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris
Votes: 9,203
21. Bent (1997)
NC-17 | 105 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.
Director: Sean Mathias | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Mick Jagger, Brian Webber
Votes: 8,816 | Gross: $0.37M
22. The Innocents (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History
1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne
Votes: 11,601 | Gross: $1.06M
23. The Beast in Heat (1977)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, War
A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor creates a genetic, mutant human hybrid; the beast is a, squat, mongoloid hyper-sexually-driven fiend which she uses to torture and molest female prisoners while get fellow Nazis watch.
Director: Luigi Batzella | Stars: Macha Magall, Gino Turini, Edilio Kim, Xiro Papas
Votes: 1,947
24. Anzio (1968)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, History, War
Anzio: one of WWII's bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead--four months and 30,000 casualties before the Allies finally march to Rome.
Directors: Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan, Earl Holliman
Votes: 3,774
25. The Last Days (1998)
PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, War
In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary... See full summary »
Director: James Moll | Stars: Bill Basch, Martin Basch, Randolph Braham, Alice Lok Cahana
Votes: 5,753 | Gross: $0.42M
26. Walking with the Enemy (2013)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Drama, History
A young man, separated from his family in World War II, disguises himself as a Nazi S.S. Officer and uncovers more than just his family whereabouts.
Director: Mark Schmidt | Stars: Jonas Armstrong, Ben Kingsley, Hannah Tointon, Simon Kunz
Votes: 2,632 | Gross: $0.36M
27. Married Life (2007)
PG-13 | 91 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife's death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.
Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams, Annabel Kershaw
Votes: 9,750 | Gross: $1.51M
28. SS Experiment Love Camp (1976)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the "Aryan" race.
Director: Sergio Garrone | Stars: Mircha Carven, Paola Corazzi, Giorgio Cerioni, Giovanna Mainardi
Votes: 1,415
29. Hour of Glory (1949)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, Michael Gough, Henry Caine
Votes: 3,103
30. Fateless (2005)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance, War
14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
Director: Lajos Koltai | Stars: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Áron Dimény
Votes: 7,149 | Gross: $0.20M
31. The Soul Keeper (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Seduced by Jung, killed by hate, redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor, ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Iain Glen, Emilia Fox, Craig Ferguson, Caroline Ducey
Votes: 1,811
32. Playing for Time (1980 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, Music
Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.
Directors: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski
Votes: 2,885
33. Three Came Home (1950)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 2,138
34. The Bamboo House of Dolls (1973)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.
Director: Chih-Hung Kuei | Stars: Birte Tove, Lieh Lo, Hsieh Wang, Terry Liu
Votes: 611
35. Stulecie Winnych (2019–2023)
45 min | Drama, History, Romance
Stars: Arkadiusz Janiczek, Weronika Humaj, Jan Wieczorkowski, Patryk Szwichtenberg
Votes: 97
36. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette, Lucienne Bogaert
Votes: 4,832
37. Zelary (2003)
R | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War
A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
Director: Ondrej Trojan | Stars: Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Adamová
Votes: 3,748 | Gross: $0.33M
38. Nathalie: Escape from Hell (1978)
103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A Russian doctor finds herself imprisoned in a lavish and elegant bordello for the high-ranking Nazi officers, at the mercy of a fiendish SS officer. Can she locate a missing British agent under her nose, and escape from hell?
Director: Alain Payet | Stars: Patrizia Gori, Jacqueline Laurent, Jack Taylor, Jacques Marbeuf
Votes: 344
39. Painless (2012)
100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
In the 1930s, a group of children are born with a rare condition: they feel no pain. After being locked away for life for their own safety, the children are subjected to rehabilitation away from society.
Director: Juan Carlos Medina | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Tómas Lemarquis, Ilias Stothart, Mot Harris Dunlop Stothart
Votes: 3,574
40. Innocence (2000)
R | 94 min | Drama
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Cox | Stars: Julia Blake, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Kristine Van Pellicom, Kenny Aernouts
Votes: 1,993 | Gross: $0.29M
41. De tu ventana a la mía (2011)
TV-14 | 98 min | Drama
Interwoven emotions and struggles of three women of different generations aiming to build the lives they desire, their own future, love and dreams. All of them lose the love of their lives ... See full summary »
Director: Paula Ortiz | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Leticia Dolera, Luisa Gavasa, Roberto Álamo
Votes: 1,203
42. Thunder Rock (1942)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
Cynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 808
43. Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)
Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
A documentary on the relationship between curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and musician/poet Patti Smith.
Director: James Crump | Stars: Pierre Apraxine, Dick Cavett, Dominick Dunne, Raymond Foye
Votes: 296
44. Herbstmilch (1989)
111 min | Drama, War
This cinematic adaptation of the autobiography of Anna Wimschneider depicts her life's experiences and workaday routines as a woman born on a farm in lower Bavaria, Germany in the 1920s. ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Dana Vávrová, Werner Stocker, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Eva Mattes
Votes: 476
45. Muddy Shoes
Drama, War | Pre-production
A Jewish teen must choose between saving herself or her brother when the Nazis invade. Decades later, consumed with guilt, she finally opens up to her grown daughter about her horrific experience.
Director: Patrik Krivanek | Stars: Ivan Franek, Jaroslav Plesl, Tip Cullen, Leona
46. My Life Belongs to You (1965)
106 min | Drama, Romance, War
Amid death in Nazi-occupied Lamia, a Greek-Australian army officer has an affair with a compassionate Red Cross nurse, only to get separated during a mission in Cairo. Will the mother and her child ever reunite with the missing father?
Director: Panagiotis Konstadinou | Stars: Gely Mavropoulou, Giorgos Kabanellis, Aggelos Mavropoulos, Giorgos Nezos
47. Laulava sydän (1948)
71 min | Musical, Comedy
Aarno Harjus wife Niina leaves her family for life in the world of crime. Aarno is left alone with his daughter Annika.
Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Tauno Palo, Mirjami Kuosmanen, Eila Peitsalo, Elna Hellman
Votes: 59