Year 1943 movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1943 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, tense, realistic, suspense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with world war two, world war, nazi, death, military, war, cigarette smoking, holocaust, soldier and idealism plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in USA, UK, Poland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1943: Hatred (2016), Come and See (1985), Convoy 48 (2019), The Zone of Interest (2023), Operation Mincemeat (2021), Phoenix (2014), The Big Red One (1980), The White Rose (1982), Stalingrad (1993), Patton (1970).
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List of year 1943 movies
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her ...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
genocide, world war two, war atrocity, murder, massacre, brutality, wedding, cheating wife, homicide, hanged woman, childbirth, nazi occupation ...
Time:
year 1943, year 1939, 1940s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
Style:
dark fantasy, fairy tale, gothic, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
time travel, fantasy world, time loop, magic, children, monster, imaginary, youth, superhuman powers, beautiful scenery, supernatural power, orphan ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1943, year 2016, 2010s, 1940s ...
Place:
england, wales, florida, europe
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121K
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, thought provoking, rough, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, genocide, war crime, against humanity, brutality, holocaust, nazi, atrocity, occupation, children in wartime, massacre, teenage girl ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1985, near future ...
Place:
germany, persia, europe, soviet union, russia ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Yesterday's Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to the construction of the Shlisselburg highway, ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak
Plot:
girl heroine, danger, world war two, life is a bitch, construction, historical event, adaptation, friendship, hopes, death, redemption, youth ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Poland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Style:
captivating, psychological, experimental, crying, period drama
Plot:
garden, auschwitz, holocaust, world war two, ss officer, nazi germany, husband wife relationship, concentration camp, swimming pool, nazi, genocide, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1944, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, berlin germany, hungary
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, british secret service, military, world war, army, secret mission, prospector, life is a bitch, mission, wartime life, reconnaissance, wartime ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s
Place:
sicily, spain, greece, london, berlin germany
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22K
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, noir, neo noir, social ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, world war two, nazi, hospital, brutality, holocaust, haunted by the past, genocide, surgery, survivor, violence against women, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1938, year 1944 ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, west germany, switzerland, tel aviv israel ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A veteran sergeant of the World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, semi autobiographical, cynical, political ...
Plot:
world war two, military, infantry, war, hospital, soldier, nazi soldier, world war, desert, great war, sniper, sergeant ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1942, year 1980, 1910s ...
Place:
africa, america, sicily, europe, normandy ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi, anti fascist, fascism, death sentence, resistance movement, nude girl, dying young, german history, intrigue, world war ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s, 20th century, year 1982, 1920s
Place:
germany, europe, munich germany, california, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, nazism, eastern front, soldier, german soldier, starvation, survival, military life, holocaust, winter ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
russia, germany, europe, italy, berlin germany ...
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114K
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side ...
Style:
dramatic, realistic, epic, historical drama, aesthetic ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
world war two, world war, u.s. army, biopic, business, wartime, tank, military, u.s. military, allies, battle of the bulge, ego ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1970, year 1942 ...
Place:
london, italy, africa, north africa, america ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
This film is set in 1943 when the whole of Europe was embroiled in WWII. It deals with attraction of a 15 year old boy Stig to his teacher Viola. The whole movie revolves around the sexual encounters between Stig and Viola and how he eventually ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, erotic, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, teacher student sex, older woman younger man sex, forbidden love, erotica, cheating wife, love affair, female teacher, older woman teenage boy relationship, teachers and students, defloration, sex with teenager ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, stockholm sweden
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, sweet, touching, teen ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick, teens
Plot:
baseball, world war two, feminist, sister sister relationship, friendship, sibling rivalry, alcoholic, coach, female friendship, female athlete, happy ending, female protagonist ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, 90s
Place:
oregon, chicago, indiana, usa, midwest ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style:
freeze frame, political, cult classic, brutal, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, eastern front, military, soldier, war, battlefield, german army, anti war, wehrmacht, nazi, blood ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
bolivia, germany, siberia, france, russia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style:
period piece, epic, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear, scientist, world war two, atomic bomb, american politics, physics, laboratory, arizona desert, top secret, husband wife relationship, moral dilemma, desert ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 1950s, year 1954, year 1943 ...
Place:
new mexico, england, zurich switzerland, north america, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the ...
Style:
psychological, rough, thought provoking, touching, suspense
Audience:
kids
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, little girl, children, border crossing, german soldier, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, world war, nazi, woman, youth ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In war torn Calcutta during the 1940's, Byomkesh Bakshy, fresh out of college, pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world.
Style:
suspense, exciting, semi serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, world war two, conspiracy, amateur detective, femme fatale, blackmail, missing person, escapades, murder, evil genius, organized crime ...
Time:
year 1943, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
india, asia, shanghai
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.
Style:
sincere, psychological, touching, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
world war two, aviation, raf, secret, camaraderie, killed in action, teamwork, trust, world war, friendship between men, british army, bombing ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s
Place:
berlin germany, england, germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, historical drama, captivating ...
Plot:
painter, painting, world war two, historical event, sculptor, japanese occupation, death, tragic event, female protagonist, tragic love, art history, colonialism ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s
Place:
japan, china, taiwan
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1943 year. Alma-Ata. The hero of the film is a young Michurin fruit grower who revives a medicinal apple variety and investigates a strange crime. The script was written based on the book by Mikhail Zoshchenko "Before the Sunrise".
Style:
psychological, philosophical, surreal, tricky, thought provoking ...
Plot:
evacuation, director, childhood trauma, mysterious disappearance, uncover truth, society, scientist, young girl, flashback, russian history, literary, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
ussr, soviet union, kazakhstan
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
magic, world war two, death, loss of mother, ghost, poverty, spirituality, courage, education, coming of age, grief, teenage life ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1947, year 1944
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Algeria, France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Style:
emotional, realistic, rough, serious, political ...
Plot:
battles, war, world war two, politics, brutality, justice, military, muslim, survival, racism, self esteem, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
year 1944, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2006 ...
Place:
africa, algeria, morocco, italy, europe ...
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10K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a ...
Style:
clever, serious, realistic, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
atomic bomb, world war two, laboratory, scientist, ambition, inventions and discoveries, military, power relations, relationship vs career, workplace, unhappy wife, top secret ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
new mexico, usa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German ...
Style:
road movie
Plot:
world war two, partisan, landowner, rural setting, nudity, horse, priest, death, murder, fear, soldier, celebration ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1944
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia, balkan, europe
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Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of the Battle of Sutjeska which occurred in Nazi-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1943.
Style:
mythical, crying, epic
Plot:
world war two, partisan, child, murder, nazi soldier, wound, mountain, parachutist, revolutionary war, rock climbing, balkan war, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life ...
Style:
crying, neurotic
Plot:
world war two, female pubic hair, revenge, older man younger woman relationship, older man younger woman romance, love hate relationship, french resistance, parachutist, rural setting, male pubic hair, bare chested male, public nudity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
germany, france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Nuori nainen on saanut kutsun saapua poliisin kuultavaksi. Hän pelkää joutuvansa ansaan. Hän on täydellistä suomenkieltä puhuva Neuvosto-desantti, joka on varomattomuuttaan jättänyt vakoiluradionsa pesulaan säilytettäväksi.
Plot:
russo finnish war, police interrogation, humanist, spying, russian spy, confession, world war two, communism, socialist, communist, humanism, breakdown ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
finland, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Newlywed Suzu Urano moves to her new life in Kure City on the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture, where she perseveres through World War II with pluck and determination.
Style:
anime, adult animation, thought provoking, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
wedding, world war two, bombing, female protagonist, military, anniversary, evacuation, danger, society, couples, teenager, bomber ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 2010s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan, east asia, asia
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are ...
Style:
harsh, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, pow, war, military, prisoner of war camp, escape, hopes, jungle, christian, soldier, war crime, human spirit ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
japan, asia, scotland, hawaii, india ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Style:
suspense, exciting, tense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, military, behind enemy lines, island, resistance, nazi, mercenary, spy, wartime, gunfight, mountain, fortress ...
Time:
1940s, year 1961, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
greece, fictional island, germany, hellas, balkan ...
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