Movies set in the World War II period

Setting: Germany during the russian occupation of Berlin
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Setting:Britain
The adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II

Setting:Poland
This is probably the most famous WW II movie ever made, and the iconic screenshot of the girl in the red coat.
In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

Setting: Poland
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Oscar winning performance by Adrien Brody

Setting:China (Nanjing)
A little hard to watch at times but nevertheless beautiful cinematography.
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety

Setting:China
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

Setting:France
I know lots of people have issues with this one, but I like the fact that the bad guys get what they deserve

Setting: U.S (Hawaii)
Again,strong romantic element (a teensy bit too melodramatic perhaps, but it has its moments)

Setting:France
The women of the french resistance.

A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder.

Setting: Denmark
A story of loss but most of all of revenge.
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Setting: China
Strong romantic element, though it may not seem so.
During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi part of an idealistic group of young revulutionaries set their sights on a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee and enter a dangerous game.

During the heart of World War II, in March of 1943, cryptoanalysts at Britain's code-breaking center have discovered to their horror that Nazi U-boats have changed their Enigma Code. Authorities enlist the help of a brilliant young man named Tom Jericho to help them break the code again. The possibility of a spy within the British code-breakers' ranks looms and Tom's love, Claire, has disappeared. To solve the mysteries, Tom recruits Claire's best friend, Hester Wallace.

Setting:China
Strong romantinc element

Setting:Britain
Strong romantic element. A story of what should have been.
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.

Also, that green dress

Setting: Britain

Setting: Poland
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Setting: Germany
In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convinced he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan.

Setting: China
Movie about the Rape of Nanjing

Setting: Japan

Setting:Japan
Strong romantic element

Setting: China
This was a beautiful movie. More than a piece of chinese history this is the heartbreaking story of a man whose life was from the very beginning not his own.

Setting: China
I watched this as a kid actually, but I do remember it leaving quite a lasting impression.
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation in China during World War II.

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.

During World War II when the Americans needed to find a secure method of communicating they devised a code using the Navajo language. So Navajos were recruited to become what they call code talkers.

Setting: Germany
The story of Germany's unknown heroes.
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.

A group of jews are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945

The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936.

Setting: Denmark
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron")are assassins in the Danish resistance.

Setting:China (Nanjing)
A group of international expats led by Siemens director John Rabe stand up for the chinese people of Nanjing, against the japanese occupation.

La Vita e Bella
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) - high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of factory life to university and a good salary. During his year in seventh column (fifth form), this innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code.

Setting: Italy
The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.