Pre war movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant pre war movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out pre war, realistic, crying, serious, touching and period drama films and TV shows about / with world war two, death, love, murder, male nudity, friendship, nazi, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship and kiss plots mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres shot in France, UK, Poland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as pre war: In the Realm of the Senses (1976), The Man Who Cried (2000), The Moon and the Stars (2007), The Summoning (2016), Venice (2010), Tea with Mussolini (1999), 1900 (1976), Blithe Spirit (2020), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), When Unku was Ede's Girlfriend (1981).

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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, sex, sex scene, erotica, sexual perversion, bdsm, jealousy, sexual relations, passion, lust, explicit sex, unsimulated sex ...
Time: 1930s, pre world war two, year 1976, 20th century, year 1936
Place: japan, asia, east asia
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The Man Who Cried (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Style: lyrical, intense, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, gypsy, world war two, love story, anti semitism, adaptation, wartime, secrets, adoption, family relations, holocaust, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: russia, england, paris france, france, poland ...
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min.
Story: The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, survival, gulag, human spirit, pow, confined, getting home, captivity, wehrmacht, danger, jail, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, year 1939, year 1952, year 1947 ...
Place: ussr, germany, soviet union, siberia, baltics ...
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The Moon and the Stars (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, Hungary
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta is making a major film. The two lead actors, the German woman Kristina Baumgarten and the English man James Clavel ace each ...
Style: touching, psychological, captivating, sexy, light ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, aristocrat, nazi officer, unrequited love, betrayal, war hero, movie star, dancing, anti fascist, war, filmmaking ...
Time: year 1939
Place: rome italy
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The Summoning (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Follows the journey of sisters who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. They cross paths with a visionary French producer while performing in Paris.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, enigmatic, disturbing, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, seance, ghost, decadence, seeing dead people, anti semitism, dream, filmmaking, actress, promoter, luxury, film producer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1943
Place: paris france, france
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Venice (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An atmospheric coming-of-age story featuring an imaginative young boy named Marek who dreams of escaping an increasingly dangerous Poland on the eve of war for beautiful Venice.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, captivating, inspirational, pre war
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, longing, imagination, journey, provincial life, boy, dream, conscription, society, magic realism, boyhood ...
Place: poland, venice
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Tomorrow, We're Going To The Movies (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Just as three high-school graduates get to the brink of adulthood, the outbreak of World War Two destroys all their dreams and plans forever.
Style: sexy, sincere, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, first love, holiday, teenage boy, army, university student, social differences, love at first sight, high school prom, best friend, dating ...
Time: 1930s
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Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.
Style: period piece, light, costume drama, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, women, stepmother stepson relationship, nazi, fascism, friendship, coming of age, lesbian, world war, youth, british, art ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1935
Place: italy, florence, germany, europe, paris france ...
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1900 (1976)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story: Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style: epic, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fascism, world war two, revolution, italian history, politics, communism, class struggle, friendship, peasant, socialist, worker, resistance ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
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Blithe Spirit (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
Style: light, dark comedy, period piece, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: comedy of manners, love, supernatural, ghost, afterlife, true love, power of love, resurrection, loss of loved one, writer's life, writers, love story ...
Time: 20th century, future, 2020s, year 1937
Place: dover england, england
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style: sentimental, romantic, stylized, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, love and romance, orphan, young woman, mentor ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place: japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings, Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, though he's unaware of the dangers that lie ...
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, exciting, breathtaking, dark fantasy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: magic, wizard, magical creature, fantasy world, good versus evil, magic wand, witch, magical, animal cruelty, wizards and magicians, harry potter, wizarding world ...
Time: 2020s, year 1939, year 1932, 1930s
Place: berlin germany, germany, new york, rio de janeiro, london ...
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When Unku was Ede's Girlfriend (1981)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: East Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Ede falls in love with Unku, a girl from a travelling circus. Love cannot run smoothly however because Unku is a Gypsy. Various adventures take place before love is finally allowed to run its natural course.
Style: pre war
Audience: kids
Plot: kids and family, prejudice, courage, strike, tolerance, friendship, intolerance, moral dilemma, girl
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Whoops Apocalypse (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
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Story: Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost ...
Style: sitcom, dark comedy, apocalyptic, surreal, slapstick comedy ...
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, end of the world, satire, political humor, distopia, epidemic, fictional game show, absurdism, fanatic, religion ...
Time: 80s
Place: russia, iran, britain, israel, middle east ...
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Mommilan veriteot 1917 (1973)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 76 min.
Story: On the eve of a civil war, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland.
Style: pre war
Plot: finnish civil war, birthday, murder, blood, self made man, businessman, master servant relationship, confusion, hate, autumn, bourgeoisie, rich man ...
Time: year 1917
Place: finland, russia
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The Olympic Summer (1993)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In 1936 Nazi Germany, a young,innocent apprentice, full of Olympic fever, leaves his rural village to see the ceremonies in Berlin. Upon arriving in the capitol, he meets a widow and a relationship blossoms. They spend an idyllic summer at her ...
Style: experimental, allegory, pre war
Plot: nazi, urban setting, friendship, prison, innocence, politics, radio, death, friend, world war two, horse, german politics ...
Time: 1930s
Place: berlin germany
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Unloved (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
Style: neurotic, pre war
Plot: wartime life, madness, student, desperation, insanity, suffering, boy, rain, girl, obsession, flashback, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1939
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Black Journal (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".
Style: freeze frame, entertaining, dark comedy, black comedy, crying ...
Plot: true crime, serial killer, female villain, biopic, mother issues, mute character, suspicious man, delusional woman, serial killer as protagonist, puritanism, dual role, predicting the future ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
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Daimler-Benz Limousine (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive brother who likes literature, Andrzej is the daredevil with no intellectual bent, and between the two of them, they steal the German consul's ...
Style: pre war
Audience: teens
Plot: disciple, consul, nazism, murder, limousine, high school, theft, fascism, writing
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Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story follows the life of a regular German women Leni Gruyten during the 1930s and 1940s. Through her interactions with friends, family and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown. (IMDb)
Style: epic, pre war
Plot: love, nazi, prisoner, grave, women, family relations, guilt, flashback, death, father daughter relationship, soldier, female nudity ...
Place: germany, berlin germany
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God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make ...
Style: pre war
Plot: world war two, national socialism, rabbi, jewish life, torah, suicide, death of father, police, concentration camp, accusation, border crossing, visa ...
Time: year 1982, year 1938, year 1940
Place: vienna, paris france, prague, marseille
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Wherever You Are... (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, UK, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Style: pre war
Plot: world war two, renaissance, wife, factory, riding accident, insanity, doomed love, nun, businessman, post war, holocaust, death of wife ...
Place: eastern europe, uruguay, poland
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Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship, between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store ...
Style: black and white, pre war
Plot: world war two, children, black, bare breasts, friendship, female nudity, worker, big breasts, violence, controversy, massacre, prisoner ...
Time: 1940s
Place: croatia, eastern europe, balkan, former yugoslavia
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Akseli and Elina (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
Style: family saga, epic, pre war
Plot: family relations, progress, countryside, farm, car, society, socialist, farmer, village, family history, communism, death of son ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 1930s
Place: finland
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Crystal Nights (1992)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Switzerland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In this supernatural-themed romance, a German woman in the between-wars period is being initiated into some kind of esoteric/psychic order and learns at that time that her ideal mate won't even be born for quite a few years. By 1936, she has ...
Style: pre war
Plot: betrayal, symbolism, swastika, anti semitism, age-gap relationship, divorce, surrealism, suicide, marriage, death, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1930s
Place: greece
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Who Is That Man? (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge ...
Style: pre war
Plot: spy, female nudity, nazi occupation, counter intelligence, agent, innocence, world war two, murder, death, prison, prisoner, linguist ...
Time: year 1939
Place: poland, paris france
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Gardens of Semiramide (1970)
Genre: Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Style: pre war
Plot: world war two, friendship, party, death of son, farmer, young man, lieutenant, farm, young woman, son, love, wedding party ...
Place: georgia, ukraine, soviet union
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A Slave of Love (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she ...
Style: silent, realistic, serious, talky, vintage ...
Plot: russian revolution, russian civil war, dictator, actor, women, cinema, european, summer, revolution, filmmaking, movie star, actress ...
Time: 1910s
Place: russia, crimea, odessa ukraine
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Bright Young Things (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: in the 1930’s a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things.” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is ...
Style: witty, stylized, melancholic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: love triangle, writers, love and romance, love affair, flapper, social commentary, husband wife relationship, world war two, bittersweet, honest, male nudity, drinking ...
Time: 1930s, year 2003, 20th century, 1920s
Place: england, london, europe, dover england, cannes
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25 Fireman's Street (1973)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and ...
Style: serious, realistic, surreal, talky, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, world war, age-gap relationship, immigrant, family relations, attic, bride and groom, life is a bitch, confined, introspection, soldier, against humanity ...
Place: hungary, former yugoslavia, central europe, eastern europe
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