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Films set in 1940

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1942 film directed by Michael Curtiz

2002 film directed by Roman Polanski

2017 film by Christopher Nolan

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2005 film directed by Andrew Adamson

2017 film directed by Joe Wright

2000 film by Giuseppe Tornatore

2007 film by Andrzej Wajda

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971 film directed by Robert Stevenson

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970 American-Japanese war film

Return to Never Land

2002 American animated film

To Have and Have Not

1944 film by Howard Hawks

Forbidden Games

1952 French film by René Clément

To Be or Not to Be

1942 film by Ernst Lubitsch

Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane. It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossman, and Charles Dance.

Embrace of the Serpent

2015 film directed by Ciro Guerra

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

2001 film by Woody Allen

1987 film by Woody Allen

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

1970 film by Vittorio De Sica

Battle of Britain

1969 British film by Guy Hamilton

The Spirit of the Beehive

1973 film by Víctor Erice

The Time Machine

1960 film by George Pal

1987 film by John Boorman

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

1941 film by Alfred Hitchcock

Watch on the Rhine

1943 film by Hal Mohr, Herman Shumlin

1983 film by Ettore Scola

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters. It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley, and follows a young boy and his family's misadventures during Christmastime in 1940. It is the first installment in the Parker Family Saga.

1989 film directed by Pekka Parikka

The Assassination of Trotsky

1972 film by Joseph Losey

In Which We Serve

1942 film by David Lean, Noël Coward

Arch of Triumph

1948 American film

1936 film by William Cameron Menzies

Psycho IV: The Beginning

1990 TV film directed by Mick Garris

The Shield and the Sword

1968 mini series by Vladimir Basov

2003 film by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

How I Unleashed World War II

1970 film by Tadeusz Chmielewski

1983 film directed by Tinto Brass

1969 film by Juraj Herz

Weekend at Dunkirk

1964 film by Henri Verneuil

1966 film by Sidney Lumet

The Ghost Breakers

1940 comedy film directed by George Marshall

2016 film by Lone Scherfig

1973 Franco–Italian film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre

1958 film directed by Carol Reed

Alone in Berlin

2016 film by Vincent Pérez

1942 film by Anatole Litvak

1994 film by Zalman King

Islands in the Stream

1977 film by Franklin J. Schaffner

2015 film directed by Roni Ezra

2020 film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

2016 film directed by David Leveaux

Jew Suss: Rise and Fall

2010 film directed by Oskar Roehler

2015 film by Christian Carion

Operation Amsterdam

1959 film by Michael McCarthy

Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision

2003 film by Steve Boyum

2003 film by André Téchiné

In the Light of the Moon

2001 film directed by Chuck Parello

Blubberella is a 2011 German-American-Canadian exploitation comedy film written and directed by Uwe Boll. The plot is about an obese dhampir superhero, set in German-occupied Europe. The entire film is a scene-for-scene spoof of BloodRayne: The Third Reich (directed by Boll himself the previous year) with most of the same cast and crew. The film received negative reviews.

The One That Got Away

1957 British film directed by Roy Ward Baker

I Love You Again

1940 film by W. S. Van Dyke