Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "post-world-war-ii"

1. The Fabelmans (2022)

PG-13 | 151 min | Drama

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch

Votes: 117,668

2. The Master (2012)

R | 138 min | Drama, History

A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons

Votes: 186,585 | Gross: $16.38M

3. The Remains of the Day (1993)

PG | 134 min | Drama, Romance

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve

Votes: 84,746 | Gross: $22.95M

4. Notorious (1946)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern

Votes: 107,509 | Gross: $10.46M

5. The Survivor (2021)

R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, History

After World War II, Harry Haft is a boxer who fought against his peers in concentration camps. Haunted by memories, he tries to use fighting legends as a way to find his love.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Ben Foster, Billy Magnussen, Vicky Krieps, Peter Sarsgaard

Votes: 6,227

6. Two Women (1960)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, War

In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown

Votes: 12,470

7. Taking Sides (2001)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Music, War

After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr

Votes: 3,872 | Gross: $0.19M

8. The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Drama

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert

Votes: 3,783

9. Bitter Rice (1949)

Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone

Votes: 4,902

10. Miracle in Milan (1951)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò

Votes: 8,582

11. Carnival Story (1954)

Approved | 95 min | Drama

An American carnival in Germany sets the scene for sin, sex and melodrama.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader

Votes: 700

12. Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

M/PG | 108 min | Comedy, Romance

Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment from three former soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.

Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford

Votes: 1,873

13. Wild Prairie Rose (2016)

TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, Family

In 1952 Rose Miller returns to her rural hometown of Beresford, South Dakota to care for her ailing mother. Once there, she falls in love with a deaf man and must decide if she has the courage to follow her heart.

Director: Deborah LaVine | Stars: Tara Samuel, Troy Kotsur, Suanne Spoke, Betsy Berenson

Votes: 272

14. Harry & Snowman (2015)

Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

The story of immigrant Harry DeLeyer and the plow horse he rescued from slaughter.

Director: Ron Davis | Stars: Harry DeLeyer, Harriet DeLeyer, Andre DeLeyer, Marty DeLeyer

Votes: 778 | Gross: $0.56M

15. Crack-Up (1946)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which may not have actually happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a wicked plot?

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins

Votes: 1,632

16. The Savage Peace (2015 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, History

When the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny. Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter.

Director: Peter Molloy | Stars: Christa Ronke, Marianne Becker, Meda Mládek, Stanislava Zverinova

Votes: 314

17. All My Good Countrymen (1969)

120 min | Comedy, Drama

Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.

Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Mensík, Waldemar Matuska

Votes: 1,097

18. Eva Wants to Sleep (1958)

95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A young female student arrives in a new city, and finds herself in a confusing situation: there is no place for her for sleeping. An incredible odyssey through the endless maze of night streets is ahead.

Director: Tadeusz Chmielewski | Stars: Barbara Lass, Stanislaw Mikulski, Stefan Bartik, Ludwik Benoit

Votes: 533

19. The Vintage (1957)

Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama

Two Italian brothers flee to France and hide out in a vineyard with two sisters and their family.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Pier Angeli, Mel Ferrer, John Kerr, Michèle Morgan

Votes: 155

20. Szabadság tér '56 (2016)

Documentary, History

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Stars: Philip Rákay, Gábor Reviczky, László Tõkéczki, Horváth Attila

Votes: 752

21. The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

Approved | 80 min | Drama

A heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Their story includes a remembrance of their World War II trials.

Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 2,003

22. The Whip Hand (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it,... See full summary »

Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr

Votes: 717

23. Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Mystery

With a ruthless gang terrorizing London, Scotland Yard calls Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond out of retirement. With the help of detective Helen Smith, Drummond infiltrates the gang under an ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson

Votes: 473

24. 1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)

Documentary, History, War

A look back to the end of the second World War, where the world was struggling to recover after the death and destruction caused by the six-year global conflict.

Stars: Curtis Roosevelt, François Kersaudy, André Kaspi, Robert Franck

Votes: 38

25. John Loves Mary (1949)

Approved | 96 min | Comedy

A GI marries the English girlfriend of his best friend to get her into the U.S. for his friend who lost track of her in the war only to find on returning home that he is stuck with the girl because the friend has married someone else.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Jack Carson, Wayne Morris, Edward Arnold

Votes: 503

26. Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975 (1976)

302 min | Documentary

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Winifred Wagner, Gottfried Wagner, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Votes: 89

27. Rzeczpospolita babska (1969)

96 min | Comedy, War

After II WW, female demobilized soldiers come to a little town to settle down. The initial fierce competition between female and male group turns into cooperation, and the final result is surprising.

Director: Hieronim Przybyl | Stars: Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Zofia Merle, Jan Machulski, Krystyna Chimanienko

Votes: 226

28. Passport to Nowhere (1947)

19 min | Documentary, Short

Concerning the plight of Europe's six million displaced persons. Al but 850,000 who have not yet returned home after the war for fear of reprisals for their political or religious beliefs.

Star: Dwight Weist

Votes: 16

29. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Reckoning: 1945... and after (1974)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

As wretched survivours suffer deprivations amongst the ruins, half of Germany and eastern Europe trade one socialist tyranny for another as the Soviets take power. Japan is occupied by the U. S., but the colonial empires disintegrate.

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Stephen Ambrose, William Robertson, Kay Summersby

Votes: 339

30. Detective De Luca (2008)
Episode: Via delle Oche (2008)

99 min | Drama, War

The time frame moves to 1948. The war is over and Italy is preparing for its first elections since Mussolini. De Luca is assigned the lowly task of policing the notorious red light district... See full summary »

Director: Antonio Frazzi | Stars: Alessandro Preziosi, Raffaella Rea, Corrado Fortuna, Carlo Cartier

Votes: 33

31. Bookmark (1983–1999)
Episode: Stanislaw Lem: Science and Fiction (1990)

75 min | Biography

A multifaceted portrait of science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem.

Director: Adam Ustynowicz | Stars: Stanislaw Lem, Katarzyna Piotrowska-Ornatkiewicz

32. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: Victory in Europe (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

In 1945, Germany is crumbly on both fronts. The Western Allies cross the Rhine and take most of Germany, while the Red Army quickly advances into Berlin. After Hitler's suicide, Germany surrenders and is divided among the allied powers.

Stars: Adolf Hitler, Gerd von Rundstedt, Albert Kesselring, Bernard L. Montgomery

Votes: 213

33. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: Unrepentant: The SS and its Myth After 1945 (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Drawing a line to the present, the atrocities of the SS are beyond all doubt, yet, there is a cult surrounding 'old comrades' today.

Director: Carsten Binsack | Stars: James Milano, Peter Hammerschmidt, Benjamin Ferencz, Bastian Hein

34. Vegas: The City the Mob Made (2009)
Episode: Las Vegas' Golden Age (2009)

Documentary, Crime, History

Las Vegas hit the jackpot post-WWII through 1960.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Michael Green, Eugene Moehring, Steve Miller, Bob Faiss

35. Vegas: The City the Mob Made (2009)
Episode: The Mob Comes to Las Vegas (2009)

Documentary, Crime, History

The Mob's influence started growing during the 1920s and 1930s.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Eugene Moehring, Steve Miller, Anthony Curtis, Kirk Gill