The Monuments Men

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 24 Jan 2014 · English

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 20 Nov 2024 · English

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 7 May 2008 · English

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

Uprising

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 4 Nov 2001 · English

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

Alone in Berlin

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 15 Feb 2016 · English

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

The Zone of Interest

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 15 Dec 2023 · English

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.

The Bourne Supremacy

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 23 Jul 2004 · English

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

The Courier

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 24 Jan 2020 · English

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Eye of the Needle

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 24 Jul 1981 · English

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 29 Apr 1930 · English

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

The Sea Wolves

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 3 Jul 1980 · English

A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.

Waiting for Anya

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 7 Feb 2020 · English

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.