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Hannibal Brooks (1969), Jakob the Liar (1999), Seven Beauties (1976), The Elusive Corporal (1962), Schindler's List (1993), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Cuckoo (2002) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Hannibal Brooks (1969)

Hannibal Brooks (1969)

6.6/10 Comedy, War, Drama

A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.

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Jakob the Liar (1999)

Jakob the Liar (1999)

6.6/10 Drama, War

During World War II, an ordinary inhabitant of a ghetto fakes news about Allied offensives to inspire hope for other victims of the Nazi regime.

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Seven Beauties (1976)

Seven Beauties (1976)

7.8/10 Comedy, Drama

The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.

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The Elusive Corporal (1962)

The Elusive Corporal (1962)

7.1/10 Comedy, Drama

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the Frenc...Read all

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Schindler's List (1993)

Schindler's List (1993)

8.9/10 War, Drama

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.

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Voyage of the Damned (1976)

Voyage of the Damned (1976)

6.5/10 War, Drama

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

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The Cuckoo (2002)

The Cuckoo (2002)

8.7/10 Drama, War, Comedy

At the close of Axis-aligned Finland's involvement in World War II, pacifist Finnish soldier Veikko (Ville Haapasalo) is trussed to a wilderness rock formation as punishment for desertion. Nearby, Soviet Capt. Ivan (Viktor Bychkov), en route to his trial for treason, survives the bombing of his transport. Anni (Anni-Kristiina Juuso), a local Sami woman, comes to the aid of both men, and an unlikely relationship is forged as three lonely souls attempt to survive the long winter.

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Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

6.8/10 Drama

In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, meets regularly with girlfriend Allegra until they and their families are sent to Auschwitz. When the Nazis learn of his boxing, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matches.

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

7.8/10 War, Drama

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

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Conspiracy (2001)

Conspiracy (2001)

10.0/10 Drama

In 1942, officials of the Third Reich gather in Wannsee, near Berlin, Germany to plan the extermination of an entire race.

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John Rabe (2009)

John Rabe (2009)

7.2/10 War, Biography, Drama, History

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)

The Scarlet and the Black (1983)

4.9/10 Drama, Comedy

A team of cons is planning a new scam involving betting on a boxing match but one of its past victims aims to exact revenge by eliminating the whole group.

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Hope and Glory (1987)

Hope and Glory (1987)

7.3/10 Comedy, Drama, Romance

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War II. For a young boy, this time in history was ...

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The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)

The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)

7.1/10 Comedy, Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.

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The Round Up (2010)

The Round Up (2010)

5.6/10 Drama, History

During World War II, France's Vichy government takes part in the collection of 13,000 French Jews and holds them in various venues, including an indoor cycling stadium, before shipping them off to their deaths.

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The Killing Fields (1984)

The Killing Fields (1984)

7.8/10 War, Drama, Biography, History

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

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Divided We Fall (2000)

Divided We Fall (2000)

9.0/10 Drama, Comedy

This dramatic story of a hero against his will is set in a small Czech town occupied by German forces during the last years of the Second World War. Josef and Marie are a childless couple who yearn for a baby; unfortunately, he is sterile. One day they meet David, a young Jewish man and former neighbor recently escaped from a concentration camp, to whom they give refuge in their home.

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Paradise Road (1997)

Paradise Road (1997)

6.8/10 Drama

A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery.

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