Films set in the 1940s

1994 American drama film directed by Frank Darabont

1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2019 film by Anthony and Joe Russo

2001 film by Ron Howard

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

1997 film by Roberto Benigni

1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella

1982 film directed by Richard Attenborough

Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.

2004 film directed by Martin Scorsese

1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

2008 film by David Fincher

2014 film directed by Morten Tyldum

1965 film directed by David Lean

2004 film directed by Nick Cassavetes

1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2007 film directed by Joe Wright

1988 film by Giuseppe Tornatore

1970 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1989 film directed by Bruce Beresford

2006 film by Clint Eastwood

1981 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

2008 film directed by Andrew Adamson

2019 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2003 film by Tim Burton

1962 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

1942 film by William Wyler

1986 film by Russell Mulcahy

2011 film directed by Phyllida Lloyd

2017 film directed by Joe Wright

2007 film directed by Olivier Dahan

2005 film directed by Rob Marshall

2005 film by James Mangold

2008 film by Baz Luhrmann

1975 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

2002 film directed by Julie Taymor

2008 film directed by Sam Mendes

1996 film directed by Alan Parker

2008 Hong Kong film directed by Wilson Yip

1999 film directed by Lasse Hallström

1976 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

1973 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

1956 American epic Western drama film

2009 film by Nora Ephron

2011 film by Clint Eastwood

2010 film directed by Michael Apted

2013 film by Ruben Fleischer

2023 historical drama film by Jonathan Glazer

2004 American biographical musical drama film

2024 film directed by Brady Corbet

1959 film by Fred Zinnemann

1957 film by Mikhail Kalatozov

2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood

2016 film directed by Tim Burton

1979 film directed by Volker Schlöndorff

Mediterraneo is a 1991 Italian war comedy-drama film directed by Gabriele Salvatores and written by Enzo Monteleone. The film is set during World War II and concerns a group of Italian soldiers who become stranded on an island of the Italian Dodecanese in the Aegean Sea, and are left behind by the war. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992.

2018 film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

2004 Hong Kong film directed by Stephen Chow

2014 film by Brian Percival