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Added by Anautix on 9 Sep 2014 10:03
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Movies set in the 1940s

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Decade: Rating: List Type:
People who added this item 897 Average listal rating (526 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.7
Year: 1949
Location: L.A., USA
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People who added this item 6366 Average listal rating (4348 ratings) 8.7 IMDB Rating 9.2
The Godfather (1972)
Years: 1945-55
Locations: New York (USA), Corleone, Sicily (Italy)
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Years: 1947-1966 (the most happens in the 40s)
Location: Shawshank, Maine (USA)
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People who added this item 3565 Average listal rating (2295 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.8
Years: 1936-1946 (as flashbacks from the present)
Location: South Carolina (Seabrook Island, Charleston), USA
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People who added this item 907 Average listal rating (504 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 6.9
Lolita (1997)
Years: 1947-1950
Locations: New Hampshire, Beardsley, Parkington, ... (USA)
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People who added this item 798 Average listal rating (501 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.4
Years: 1940-44
Location: Castelcutò (fictitious), Sicily (Italy)
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People who added this item 69 Average listal rating (51 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 6.4
Year: 1940
Locations: New York (USA), Germany

It's more a drama/thriller than a war movie.
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People who added this item 783 Average listal rating (490 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7.4
Years: 1939-1945
Locations: an orphanage, an apple orchard (USA)
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People who added this item 136 Average listal rating (78 ratings) 5.9 IMDB Rating 6.2
The Two Jakes (1990)
Year: 1948
Location: L.A., USA
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People who added this item 1381 Average listal rating (830 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.6
Australia (2008)
Years: 1939-1941
Locations: Australia
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People who added this item 305 Average listal rating (221 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 8.4
Oppenheimer (2023)
Years: 1926, 1938-47+, 1953-54, 1959, 1963
Locations: Los Alamos (NM, USA); Oakland, Berkeley (Cal., USA), Washington D.C. (USA); Cambridge (UK), Göttingen (Germany), Netherlands
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People who added this item 62 Average listal rating (39 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 5.9
Swing Shift (1984)
Years: 1941-45
Location: California (USA)
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People who added this item 167 Average listal rating (73 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.2
Years: 1943-44
Location: Berlin (Germany)
People who added this item 3 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 3 IMDB Rating 6.6
Years: 1929-1960s
Locations: France, USA

This movie spans a very long period of time and thus is difficult to assign to a single decade. The 1930s to 1950s are the main periods in this movie, so the 40s lie in between. :-)
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People who added this item 407 Average listal rating (177 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.3
Years: 1940s (during WW2)
Locations: London, England
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People who added this item 3 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 3 IMDB Rating 6.6
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People who added this item 3 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 3 IMDB Rating 6.6
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People who added this item 11 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 7.2
Years: 1924, 1928, 1938, 1940s, 1960
Locations: Vilnius (Poland); Nice, Paris (France); England, Africa, Mexico
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Years: 1928+, 1934, 1940-1946
Locations: Cambridge, MA; Rye, NY; New York City (USA)
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People who added this item 45 Average listal rating (27 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 6.5
Date: 08./09.05.1945
Location: London, UK

Very nice (fictional) story about young princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret who spent a night out more or less incognito during VE day.
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People who added this item 218 Average listal rating (139 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7.1
Kon-Tiki (2012)
Year: 1947
Locations: Peru, Pacific Ocean, Polynesia, Norway, USA
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People who added this item 628 Average listal rating (363 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.6
Years: 1938-1945(?) / (2019)
Locations: Germany / (USA?)
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Year: 1946 (with flashbacks to wartime)
Locations: London, Guernsey Island
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People who added this item 1032 Average listal rating (635 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.2
The Master (2012)
Years: 1940s shortly after WW2
Locations: California, USA
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Years: 1918-2005
Locations (in the 1940s): Murmansk (Russia), New Orleans, New York

This movie has a very large time span. I could put it as well in many other of my historical movie lists. The 1940s are one of the most important periods here. It's the middle part of the movie lasting appr. 50 minutes.
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People who added this item 160 Average listal rating (106 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7
Years: 1939-41
Locations: Buffalo (New York), others (USA)
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People who added this item 77 Average listal rating (34 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.4
Year: 1942
Locations: Brazil
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People who added this item 3914 Average listal rating (2609 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.6
The Others (2001)
Year: 1945
Location: Jersey (England)
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People who added this item 237 Average listal rating (128 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 6.4
Lonely Hearts (2006)
Years: late 1940s
Locations: USA
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People who added this item 1394 Average listal rating (802 ratings) 5.5 IMDB Rating 5.6
Year: 1947
Location: L.A., USA
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People who added this item 872 Average listal rating (578 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 7.2
Men of Honor (2000)
Years: 1948 (most of the time), 1966
Locations: Bayonne, New Jersey (USA)
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People who added this item 106 Average listal rating (41 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 6.9
Year: 1943
Location: Malmö (Sweden)
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People who added this item 196 Average listal rating (134 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 6.7
Year: 1948
Location: L.A. (USA)
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People who added this item 69 Average listal rating (38 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.8
Neruda (2016)
Year: 1948
Locations: Chile, Argentina
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Year: 1940s
Location: Monterey, California (USA)
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People who added this item 101 Average listal rating (64 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.3
Phoenix (2014)
Year: 1945
Location: Germany
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People who added this item 42 Average listal rating (20 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.3
The Aftermath (2019)
Year: 1946
Location: Hamburg (Germany)
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People who added this item 24 Average listal rating (15 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.6
Year: 1947
Location: India
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People who added this item 306 Average listal rating (219 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7.4
Darkest Hour (2017)
Year: 1940
Locations: London (England), France
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People who added this item 231 Average listal rating (143 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 6.9
Mr. Holmes (2015)
Years: 1947 (main plot), (flashbacks: 1912, 1947)
Locations: England, Japan
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People who added this item 290 Average listal rating (161 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.1
Years: 1937, 1940s, 1950s
Locations: L.A., New York City (USA)
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People who added this item 241 Average listal rating (167 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.5
42 (2013)
Years: 1945-1947
Location: USA
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TV-Series / Mini-Series

People who added this item 18 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 8.4
Years: present-day (plot 1), 1946-48 (plot 2)
Locations: Israel/Palestine
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Years: 1939-1945
Locations: Norway, London, Scotland, USA (Washington D.C., New York City, others)
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People who added this item 37 Average listal rating (18 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.6
Year: 1947
Location: L.A. (USA)
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People who added this item 284 Average listal rating (176 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.9
Years: 1946 (season 1), 1947 (season 2), and flashbacks
Locations: New York City, L.A. (USA); Russia (only 1 episode)
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StehakoPeakpashaHelencorsairacqua gassataiknowthatsteven2185
My favourite movies and TV-Series set in the 1940s that were not made in that time.

(WW2 movies are usually not included, they are on seperate lists.)

⟸ 1930s   |   1950s ⟹

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