Lacombe Lucien (1974)

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.

Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.

Em 1944, uma companhia de soldados alemães na frente russa está entorpecida pelos horrores e dificuldades da guerra quando chega o período de licença esperado pelo soldado Ernst Graeber (John Gavin). Na volta para a Alemanha, ele encontra sua casa bombardeada. Enquanto busca desesperadamente por seus pais, ele conhece a adorável Elizabeth Kruse (Lilo Pulver), filha de um prisioneiro político; Juntos, eles tentam resgatar alguma sanidade e chance de sobrevivência desse mundo cheio de ódio.

In the wake of World War II, most Germans have been raised with the mistaken belief that the Holocaust had been planned and executed by just a tiny minority of Nazis, namely, the Gestapo and the SS. The sad truth, however, is that Hitler's philosophy of ethnic cleansing, as the Fuhrer so brazenly espoused in his frightening manifesto, "Mein Kampf," had been enthusiastically embraced not only by the entire military but also by most of the civilian population. The long-suppressed proof of their widespread collaboration and participation was unveiled in The Wehrmacht Exhibition, a damning collection of photographs and film footage that toured Deutschland between 1999 and 2004. The show shook the country to its core because it forced folks to face up to the fact that it took much more than a madman and his henchmen to wipe out six million.

María León interpreta a Pepita, uma jovem cordobesa de origem rural, que vai a Madrid no pós guerra para estar perto de sua irmã Hortensia (Inma Cuesta) que está grávida e na prisão. Pepita conhece Paulino (Marc Clotet), um valenciano de família burguesa, que luta junto a seu cunhado na guerra de Madrid. Apesar da dificuldade de sua relação, se apaixonam. Hortensia é julgada e condenada a morte. A execução será feita somente após o parto. Pepita tenta por todos os meios e em todas as instâncias que cancelem a execução. Vai todos os dias a prisão com o objetivo de que lhe entreguem o futuro filho de Hortensia, suplicando que não o entreguem para adoção, ou o internem num orfanato.

A tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.

Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.

Komona é uma garota de 14 anos de idade que vive no lado mais cruel da guerra na África. A menina foi sequestrada aos doze anos por um grupo de rebeldes e consegue sobreviver graças à sua criatividade.

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy's childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old veteran of the New Guinea campaign in World War II, sets out to conduct interviews with survivors and relatives to find the truth behind atrocities committed while the Japanese garrison was surrounded, in particular the unexplained killing of two Japanese privates in his unit.

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This powerful and disturbing documentary, narrated by Rupert Everett, presents for the first time the largely untold testimonies of some of those who survived.

Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre depicts the brutal events behind the Nanking Massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese army against the Chinese people during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace. It's up to the loyal young Prince Azim (Sabu) to warn the troops of Guhl's treachery by tapping out a message on his drum.

Baseado em fatos reais, o filme conta a história de um jornalista americano, seu cinegrafista e uma garota da Geórgia que acabam presos atrás das linhas inimigas, quando a Rússia invade o território, em agosto de 2008. Eles conseguem registrar terríveis crimes de guerra e vivem momentos importantes da história daquela região. Entre a verdade e a justiça, a guerra se alastra e transforma a tudo e a todos.

Ao perder a mãe, garoto é obrigado a se separar do pai para também não ser levado pelos nazistas. Sozinho, aprende a usar a coragem e astúcia para sobreviver.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle. All hopes, from the villagers and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant's wife. She must honor the Emperor and the country in setting an example for all by fulfilling her duty and taking care of the 'god soldier'. Kurokawa prior to leaving to fight in the war regularly beat and berated his wife for her barrenness and inability to bring him a son. When he returns home as an amputee with no hearing and no speech, his wife dutifully attends to him, even though he shows little appreciation for her dedicated care. His main concerns are getting fed and getting sex. Even in his own degraded condition, he manages to berate his wife. Eventually, though, his own memories infiltrate and he is haunted by his horrible, sadistic deeds, performed while in the duty of the Japanese military.

Londres. Todo o horror da II Guerra Mundial é transformado, em uma grande aventura, pela sensibilidade e imaginação de um garoto de nove anos de idade. A mudança para a casa da avó, no interior, causada pela destruição de sua casa durante um dos bombardeios alemães, o levará a desenvolver uma perspectiva completamente nova sobre a vida. Um projeto semi-autobiográfico de John Boorman. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.

O Coronel Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson) e seus amigos mercenários são acionados para fazer um serviço secreto para um agente do Governo americano, mas uma militar de alta patente, a Tenente Sosa (Jessica Biel), antigo caso de Cara de Pau (Bradley Cooper), os proíbe de prosseguir na missão, que envolve falsificação de dólares em Bagdá e uma provável conspiração.

Uma história comovente de amizade e perda devastadora sobre dois meninos que vivem na França ocupada pelos nazistas. Em um internato católico provincial, os jovens precoces conhecem a verdadeira camaradagem – até que um segredo é revelado.