An Awfully Big Adventure(1995)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth...



The Land Girls(1998)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Three young women from very different walks of life join the women's land army during World War II and are sent to work together on a farm in Dorset and the experience changes their lives forever.



Come See the Paradise(1990)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.



Lust och fägring stor(1995)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Malmö, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity. She is ...



The Hi-Lo Country(1998)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy ...



Rukajärven tie(1999)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Set during the World War 2. In the summer of 1941 the Finnish army crosses the border of Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola goes through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to ...



Map of the Human Heart(1992)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his ...



Household Saints(1993)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.



Un héros très discret(1996)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he ...



Frankie Starlight(1995)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

This is a story of a man (Walker), suffering from dwarfism, who writes an autobiographical account of his life. In flashbacks, we see how he was conceived to a woman (Parillaud) at the end ...



Delta of Venus(1995)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A struggling American writer (England) and a fellow American expatriate (Mandylor) begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.



The Innocent(1993)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young engineer is sent to post World War II Berlin to help the Americans, in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man's best friend, he falls in love ...



Xi meng ren sheng(1993)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joines a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers. During World War II the Japanese...



The Island on Bird Street(1997)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through ...



Kanzô sensei(1998)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.



God afton, Herr Wallenberg(1990)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Swedish national Raoul Wallenberg, newcomer to politics and international machinations, travels to German-occupied Budapest during WWII in order to effectively intervene in the fate of ...



Uranus(1990)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who ...



For the Moment(1993)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of airmen training in rural Manitoba in the summer of 1942 to go overseas and become bomber pilots in World War II, as well as the romantic entanglements which overcome them while they contemplate life and love in a world at war.



Djöflaeyjan(1996)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of families living in barracks, left by the US Army in Reykjavik at the conclusion of World War II.



Salkim Hanim'in Taneleri(1999)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A tax causes lots of pains in Turkey at the second world war times. This movie tells the problems of non muslim people in Turkey. Halit Bey who is a rich man has a mentally retarted wife ...




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