Movie List for "1940"

Soegija (2012) Biography Drama History Movie

This movie follows the story of Dutch East Indies’ (now Indonesia) first indigenous bishop, Albertus Soegijapranata SJ, from his inauguration until the end of Indonesia’s independence war (1940-1949). Year 2012.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Garin Nugroho
Writer: Aramantono, Garin Nugroho
Actors: Nirwan Dewanto, Annisa Hertami Kusumastuti, Wouter Braaf

Gidam (2007) Drama Horror Movie

A series of horrifying events plague a Korean hospital in the 1940s. Year 2007.

Generes: Drama, Horror
Director: Beom-sik Jeong, Sik Jung
Writer: Beom-sik Jeong, Sik Jung
Actors: Jae-Hwan Choi, Jin Goo, Moo-Song Jeon

Huo zhe (1994) Drama War Movie

After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China. Year 1994.

Generes: Drama, War
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Wei Lu, Hua Yu
Actors: You Ge, Gong Li, Ben Niu

El espíritu de la colmena (1973) Drama Fantasy Movie

In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world. Year 1973.

Generes: Drama, Fantasy
Director: Víctor Erice
Writer: Ángel Fernández Santos, Víctor Erice
Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent

The Key (1983) Drama History Romance Movie

In 1940s Venice, after twenty years of marriage, a Professor and his younger wife witness the passion wane. Now, all that remains is to confess the rousing thoughts to an elaborate diary hoping to break free from ties and inhibitions. Year 1983.

Generes: Drama, History, Romance
Director: Tinto Brass
Writer: Jun’ichirô Tanizaki (novel), Tinto Brass
Actors: Frank Finlay, Stefania Sandrelli, Franco Branciaroli, Barbara Cupisti

Delta of Venus (1995) Drama Movie

A struggling American writer (England) and a fellow American expatriate (Mandylor) begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II. Year 1995.

Generes: Drama
Director: Zalman King
Writer: Anaïs Nin (novel), Elisa M. Rothstein (screenplay), Patricia Louisianna Knop (screenplay)
Actors: Audie England, Costas Mandylor, Eric da Silva, Raven Snow

Belyy tigr (2012) Action Adventure Fantasy War Movie

Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction. Year 2012.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, War
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Writer: Aleksandr Borodyanskiy (screenplay), Ilya Boyashov (novel), Karen Shakhnazarov (screenplay)
Actors: Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov

Cow (2009) Drama Movie

A Chinese peasant is given the responsibility of protecting his village’s special dairy cow during a particularly harsh winter in 1940. Year 2009.

Generes: Drama
Director: Hu Guan
Writer: Hu Guan (screenplay)
Actors: Bo Huang, Ni Yan, Hu Gao, Tsukagoshi Hirotaka

Underwater Flights (2012)

Underwater Flights is comprised of ten film short stories that depict events occurring between 1820 and 1940. This was a time when clever men invented flying machines, submarines started …

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Captain America Trilogy (2016)

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Manto (2018)

The film is a biographical account of writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s life and is set in 1940s India. Year 2018.

Generes: Biography, Drama
Director: Nandita Das
Writer: Nandita Das
Actors: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Dugal, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Nazma Ali Shaikh

Air Strike (2018)

During World War II, five different Chinese people fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940. Year 2018.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Director: Xiao Feng
Writer: Ping Chen
Actors: Ye Liu, Bruce Willis, Seung-heon Song, William Wai-Ting Chan

Darkest Hour (2017)

In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire. Year 2017.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, War
Director: Joe Wright
Writer: Anthony McCarten
Actors: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily James

Trotsky (2017)

In May 1940, on the outskirts of Mexico City, a detachment of Mexican Communists dressed as policemen attack the house of the former leader of the Russian revolution, Leon Trotsky. By an … Year 2017.

Generes: Biography
Director: Aleksandr Kott, Konstantin Statskiy
Writer: N/A
Actors: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mikhail Porechenkov, Maksim Matveev, Evgeniy Stychkin

Kalank (2019)

Drama set in the 1940s during the partition of India. Year 2019.

Generes: Action, Drama, History, Romance
Director: Abhishek Varman
Writer: Shibani Bathija, Abhishek Varman
Actors: Alia Bhatt, Kriti Sanon, Kiara Advani, Sanjay Dutt