1940S Movies
- 2020
Wife of a Spy
Wife of a Spy6.6062020HD
It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband b...
- 1991
Europa
Europa7.3411991HD
A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try t...
- 1977
Hitler: A Career
Hitler: A Career7.31977HD
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945),but also an analysis of ma...
- 1997
The Island on Bird Street
The Island on Bird Street7.1671997HD
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. T...
- 1988
Red Sorghum
Red Sorghum7.2031988HD
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narra...
- 1949
Twelve O'Clock High
Twelve O'Clock High7.0851949HD
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deal...
- 1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid6.6331982HD
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist...
- 2016
I Saw the Light
I Saw the Light6.32016HD
Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musi...
- 1985
The Time to Live and the Time to Die
The Time to Live and the Time to Die7.331985HD
An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China...
- 2018
To the Ends of the World
To the Ends of the World62018HD
Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a t...
- 2000
RKO 281
RKO 2816.3432000HD
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the...
- 1945
They Were Expendable
They Were Expendable6.51945HD
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title...
- 2008
Winter in Wartime
Winter in Wartime6.7182008HD
During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their...
- 2000
Pollock
Pollock6.662000HD
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...
- 1984
Swing Shift
Swing Shift5.81984HD
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircr...
- 1959
Fires on the Plain
Fires on the Plain7.6041959HD
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Le...
- 1983
Never Cry Wolf
Never Cry Wolf6.9541983HD
A scientific researcher, sent on a government study: The Lupus Project, must investigate the possible "menace" of wolves in the north. To do so, he mu...
- 1983
The Sting II
The Sting II4.5951983HD
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that...
- 2008
In Tranzit
In Tranzit5.5452008HD
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must...
- 2016
Alone in Berlin
Alone in Berlin6.72016HD
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with...