Movies Set in the 1940s

Kinora's catalogue lists 38 films set in the 1940s, spanning 1940–2023. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 1950

  All About Eve

  New York City — 1940s · 1950s
  Urbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 1969

  Army of Shadows

  Paris · Marseille · London — 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Jean-Pierre Melville
• 2007

  Atonement

  London — 1930s · 1940s · 2000s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Sea · Undergrounddir. Joe Wright
• 1948

  Bicycle Thieves

  Rome — 1940s
  Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
• 1945

  Brief Encounter

  England — 1940s
  Urban · Suburbandir. David Lean
• 1943

  Casablanca

  Casablanca — 1940s
  Urbandir. Michael Curtiz
• 1988

  Cinema Paradiso

  Sicily · Rome — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s
  Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore
• 1941

  Citizen Kane

  Florida · New York City · Colorado — 1800s · 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Orson Welles
• 1985

  Come and See

  Belarus — 1940s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Elem Klimov
• 1981

  Das Boot

  La Rochelle — 1940s
  Coastal Sea · Undergrounddir. Wolfgang Petersen
• 2017

  Dunkirk

  Dunkirk — 1940s
  Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan
• 1993

  Farewell My Concubine

  Beijing — 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Chen Kaige
• 2012

  Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1

  Dhanbad — 1940s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Anurag Kashyap
• 1988

  Grave of the Fireflies

  Kobe — 1940s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Isao Takahata
• 1959

  Hiroshima Mon Amour

  Hiroshima — 1950s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Alain Resnais
• 1949

  Late Spring

  Tokyo · Kyoto — 1940s
  Urbandir. Yasujirō Ozu
• 1992

  Malcolm X

  Omaha · Boston · New York City · Chicago — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 1975

  Mirror

  Russia — 1930s · 1940s · 1960s · 1970s
  Rural · Urbandir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 1946

  Notorious

  Rio de Janeiro — 1940s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 2023

  Oppenheimer

  Los Alamos · New Mexico — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Christopher Nolan
• 2006

  Pan's Labyrinth

  Spain — 1940s
  Rural · Wilderness · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro
• 1980

  Raging Bull

  New York City · Florida — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1945

  Rome, Open City

  Rome — 1940s
  Urbandir. Roberto Rossellini
• 1998

  Saving Private Ryan

  Normandy — 1940s
  Rural · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 1993

  Schindler's List

  Kraków — 1940s
  Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 1950

  Sunset Boulevard

  Los Angeles — 1940s
  Urbandir. Billy Wilder
• 1957

  The Bridge on the River Kwai

  Thailand — 1940s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lean
• 1971

  The Conformist

  Paris · Rome — 1910s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Rural · Mountaindir. Bernardo Bertolucci
• 1972

  The Godfather

  New York City · Sicily · Las Vegas — 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola
• 1979

  The Marriage of Maria Braun

  Germany — 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 2012

  The Master

  San Francisco · New York City · London — 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Coastal Sea · Desertdir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 1940

  The Philadelphia Story

  Philadelphia — 1940s
  Urban · Suburbandir. George Cukor
• 2002

  The Pianist

  Warsaw — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 1994

  The Shawshank Redemption

  Maine — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Frank Darabont
• 1998

  The Thin Red Line

  Guadalcanal — 1940s
  Wilderness · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Terrence Malick
• 1949

  The Third Man

  Vienna — 1940s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Carol Reed
• 2011

  The Tree of Life

  Waco · Dallas — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 2010s · Far Future
  Suburban · Urban · Off Worlddir. Terrence Malick
• 2023

  The Zone of Interest

  Auschwitz — 1940s
  Ruraldir. Jonathan Glazer