1940s Movies

We meet the young violinist Erik Smith in the lap of his family with his wife Lise and his little daughter Lone. Erik is a young, aspiring musician...

As John Barrymore reckons with the ravages of his life of excess, he rents an old theatre to rehearse for a backer's audition to raise money for a...

Film set in a remote mountainous area where work and living conditions are harsh.

World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe, and the boots of the Third Reich echo through the streets. But on a quiet city corner in the...

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

Knatten and Janne, just released from the prison of Långholmen, meet a romantic Stockholm in the 40s. Knatten tries to earn money while Janne...

The Pearl Harbor Attack by Japan in 1941 and the nuclear bomb explosion in 1945 together led to the independence of Chosun (Korea). Behind these...

Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his...

The Second World War is experienced through the journey of Private Cole, a dramatic study of the contrasting nature between the innocence of...

After Mato Gruda, a man living in a remote village in the mountains of Albania, steals a cannon abandoned by the German invaders he has to decide...

Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic...

4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are killing each other. Theodoros, a quiet and modest...

Year 1943. A group of soldiers, carrying an injured comrade, are trying to reach the hospital.

World War II. Albania is under the Nazi occupation. The Germans capture two young girls and torture them to learn more about the communist movement.

In a quaint Punjab Village in North India, events unfold upon the arrival of an American man seeking to redeem his own failures in life. He ends up...

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.

Between 1944 and 1953, 170,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians put up fierce resistance to the Soviet invasion, hiding deep in the vast Baltic...