1940s Movies

After World War II, more than 85% of the Albanian people were illiterate. Partisan soldier Dritan Shkaba is tasked with opening new schools in north...

Set in 1944, The Farm Boy is a black and white feature film. A love story and adventure, the film is loosely based on the real life story of the...

Four partisans are tasked with delivering a song to the Congress of Përmet.

It is Singapore in the late 1930s. Kai and Fei are childhood friends and aspiring violinists. When Japan invades Malaya in 1941, Kai chooses to forgo...

After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the...

A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s...

The cause of the traffic accident should not be sought at the time of the accident itself, but long before. The motorist who has been drinking a...

After receiving her last care shipment, a storm-battered hermit must brave an infinite blizzard representing her own mind in a coma to reach her...

A bombed city under martial law and powers on the verge of a new war gives home to deceit and uncertainty in 1948 Vienna. The city, divided among the...

Many members of the Dutch Underground were gay and lesbian. This film pays homage to them and recounts their story.

In the summer of 1946, New York City becomes the stage for a tale of concealed emotions. A woman, burdened with a well-kept secret, embarks on a...

Victoria is a prostitute who is defenseless and in danger when Gaston, a serial murderer of prostitutes, hiding under the guise of a police...

An animated documentary about the life of Fredy Hirsch, the German Jewish and gay prisoner who led children’s programming in Terezin and...

A successful writer faces the pressures of finishing her latest novel all while the main character she has written hunts her down, demanding an...

An injured stranger comes to a peasant family that lives in isolation, announcing that he can help them find water, as a drought threatens them.

Six disparate souls are sent on a secret government mission to make propaganda porn films for the boys on the front, each one struggling under the...

Amid the hysteria of World War II, a Chinese-American private investigator meets with a Japanese-American client and must choose between his desire...

This Finlandia Survey compilation ranges from 1949 to 1961, and in it we get to see glimpses of news from both local matches and early international...