Post World War Ii Movies

An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the...

How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic...

A film that relates the trial in Bordeaux in January 1953 of some of the participants in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of June 10, 1944.

An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now...

A documentary about the problems of post-war reconstruction and the beginnings of socialism in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

This story actually happened in the region around the city of Sumperk in Jeseniky Mountains in May 1945. The disappearance of Agnes, the German wife...

A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles...

In 1945 a group of victorious American officers discover a stash of German jewels and try to fence them in New York.

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.

In post-WWII Japan, two detectives hunt down a serial killer who took the lives of the women that each of them loved.

Based on a true story of a meeting in June 1945 between two powerful men with very opposite philosophies and perspectives on the future of their...

The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.

An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.

Two young intellectuals of the PCI, former partisans, enter into a deep ideological crisis after the fall of Stalin. One will volunteer for Vietnam....

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Prades, France, 1940s. The exiled Catalan cellist Pau Casals decides not to perform any more in public until the fall of the dictatorship that...

50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970.