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page 1Films set in 1945
The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, which chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) and the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.
Life is Beautiful
1997 film by Roberto Benigni
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 film directed by Joe Johnston
The Pianist
2002 film directed by Roman Polanski
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 film by David Fincher
Downfall
2004 film by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Hacksaw Ridge
2016 film directed by Mel Gibson
Eternals
2021 film by Chloé Zhao
Raging Bull
1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese
Grave of the Fireflies
1988 anime film directed by Isao Takahata
Fury
2014 film directed by David Ayer
The Wolverine
2013 film directed by James Mangold
Jojo Rabbit
2019 film directed by Taika Waititi
The Wind Rises
2013 film directed by Hayao Miyazaki
The Others
2001 film by Alejandro Amenábar
1900
1976 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 American film directed by Billy Wilder
Monuments Men
2014 film by George Clooney
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1975 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini
New York, New York
1977 American musical-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese
The Counterfeiters
2007 film by Stefan Ruzowitzky
The Devil All the Time
2020 film directed by António Campos
The Master
2012 film by Paul Thomas Anderson
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955 Film
42
2013 film directed by Brian Helgeland
The Bridge
1959 film directed by Bernhard Wicki
Battle of the Bulge
1965 film by Ken Annakin
Predestination
2014 film directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig
Liberation
1969–1972 war film series about the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 film by Michel Hazanavicius
Pollock
2000 film directed by Ed Harris
Land of Mine
2015 film directed by Martin Zandvliet
Godzilla Minus One
2023 film directed by Takashi Yamazaki
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946 film by Akira Kurosawa
Cool World
1992 film by Ralph Bakshi
White Tiger
2012 film by Karen Shakhnazarov
The Bridge at Remagen
1969 American film by John Guillermin
Europa
1991 film directed by Lars von Trier
The Captain
2017 film directed by Robert Schwentke
The Good German
2006 film directed by Steven Soderbergh
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973 film by Ennio de Concini
Le Bal
1983 film by Ettore Scola
The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954 film by Richard Brooks
A Matter of Life and Death
1946 film by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
The Aftermath
2019 film directed by James Kent
AK-47
2020 film by Konstantin Buslov
Lore
2012 film directed by Cate Shortland
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
1975 film by Don Edmonds
In This Corner of the World
2016 film by Sunao Katabuchi
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1956 film by Daniel Mann
Radioactive
2019 film directed by Marjane Satrapi
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
2016 film by Mario Van Peebles
How I Won the War
1967 film directed by Richard Lester
MacArthur
1977 film by Joseph Sargent
The Children of Huang Shi
2008 film by Roger Spottiswoode
Emperor
2012 film by Peter Webber
Soldiers of Freedom
1977 Soviet miniseries by Yuri Ozerov
Murderers Among Us
1946 film by Wolfgang Staudte
Eureka
1983 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg