Movies Set in the 1940s

Kinora's catalogue lists 76 films set in the 1940s, spanning 1943–2024. 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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• 1983

  A Christmas Story

  Indiana — 1940s
  Suburbandir. Bob Clark
• 1992

  A League of Their Own

  Chicago · Rockford · Racine · Cooperstown — 1940s · 1980s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Penny Marshall
• 1950

  All About Eve

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

  Army of Shadows

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

  Atonement

  London — 1930s · 1940s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Joe Wright
• 1987

  Au Revoir les Enfants

  France — 1940s
  Ruraldir. Louis Malle
• 1991

  Barton Fink

  Los Angeles — 1940s
  Urbandir. Joel Coen
• 2019

  Beanpole

  Saint Petersburg — 1940s
  Urbandir. Kantemir Balagov
• 1948

  Bicycle Thieves

  Rome — 1940s
  Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
• 1945

  Brief Encounter

  England — 1940s
  Suburbandir. David Lean
• 1943

  Casablanca

  Casablanca — 1940s
  Urbandir. Michael Curtiz
• 1988

  Cinema Paradiso

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

  Coal Miner's Daughter

  Kentucky · Nashville · Los Angeles — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Michael Apted
• 2018

  Cold War

  Poland · Berlin · Paris · Yugoslavia — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Paweł Pawlikowski
• 1985

  Come and See

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

  Das Boot

  La Rochelle · Gibraltar — 1940s
  Off Worlddir. Wolfgang Petersen
• 2004

  Downfall

  Berlin — 1940s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Oliver Hirschbiegel
• 1990

  Dreams

  Japan — 1800s · 1940s · Near Future · Timeless
  Rural · Mountain · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Akira Kurosawa
• 1989

  Driving Miss Daisy

  Atlanta — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Bruce Beresford
• 2017

  Dunkirk

  Dunkirk — 1940s
  Coastal Seadir. Christopher Nolan
• 2015

  Embrace of the Serpent

  Colombia — 1900s · 1910s · 1940s
  Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Ciro Guerra
• 1993

  Farewell My Concubine

  Beijing — 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Chen Kaige
• 2016

  Free State of Jones

  Mississippi — 1800s · 1940s
  Ruraldir. Gary Ross
• 1982

  Gandhi

  India · South Africa — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Richard Attenborough
• 2012

  Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1

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

  Grave of the Fireflies

  Kobe — 1940s
  Urbandir. Isao Takahata
• 2020

  Greyhound

  1940s
  Coastal Seadir. Aaron Schneider
• 2022

  Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

  Italy — 1910s · 1930s · 1940s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Mark Gustafson
• 2004

  Hellboy

  1940s · 2000s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro
• 2016

  In This Corner of the World

  Hiroshima · Kure — 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sunao Katabuchi
• 2009

  Inglourious Basterds

  Paris — 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino
• 2008

  Ip Man

  Foshan — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Wilson Yip
• 2019

  Jojo Rabbit

  Germany — 1940s
  Urbandir. Taika Waititi
• 1961

  Judgment at Nuremberg

  Nuremberg — 1940s
  Urbandir. Stanley Kramer
• 2004

  Kung Fu Hustle

  Shanghai — 1940s
  Urbandir. Stephen Chow
• 1949

  Late Spring

  Tokyo · Kyoto — 1940s
  Urbandir. Yasujirō Ozu
• 1997

  Life Is Beautiful

  Italy — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Roberto Benigni
• 1992

  Malcolm X

  New York City · Boston · Mecca — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 2016

  Maudie

  Nova Scotia — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aisling Walsh
• 2002

  Millennium Actress

  Japan · Manchuria — 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 2000s
  Urbandir. Satoshi Kon
• 1975

  Mirror

  Russia — 1930s · 1940s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 2021

  Nightmare Alley

  Buffalo — 1930s · 1940s
  Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro
• 1946

  Notorious

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

  Oppenheimer

  Los Alamos · Princeton — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
  Desert · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan
• 2006

  Pan's Labyrinth

  Spain — 1940s
  Rural · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro
• 1973

  Papillon

  French Guiana — 1930s · 1940s
  Island · Wildernessdir. Franklin J. Schaffner
• 1982

  Pink Floyd: The Wall

  London — 1940s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Alan Parker
• 1980

  Raging Bull

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

  Rome, Open City

  Rome — 1940s
  Urbandir. Roberto Rossellini
• 1948

  Rope

  New York City — 1940s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 2002

  Russian Ark

  Saint Petersburg — 1800s · 1900s · 1910s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Aleksandr Sokurov
• 1998

  Saving Private Ryan

  Normandy — 1940s
  Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg
• 1993

  Schindler's List

  Kraków · Auschwitz — 1940s
  Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 2015

  Son of Saul

  Auschwitz — 1940s
  Undergrounddir. László Nemes
• 2023

  The Boy and the Heron

  Tokyo — 1940s
  Rural · Undergrounddir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 1957

  The Bridge on the River Kwai

  Thailand — 1940s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lean
• 2024

  The Brutalist

  Philadelphia · New York City · Venice — 1940s · 1950s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Brady Corbet
• 1971

  The Conformist

  Paris · Rome — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci
• 1972

  The Godfather

  New York City · Sicily · Las Vegas — 1940s · 1950s
  Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola
• 1974

  The Godfather Part II

  New York City · Sicily · Las Vegas · Havana — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola
• 2001

  The Man Who Wasn't There

  Santa Rosa — 1940s
  Suburbandir. Joel Coen
• 1979

  The Marriage of Maria Braun

  Germany — 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 2004

  The Notebook

  South Carolina — 1940s · 2000s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Nick Cassavetes
• 2001

  The Others

  1940s
  Rural · Islanddir. Alejandro Amenábar
• 2002

  The Pianist

  Warsaw — 1940s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 1983

  The Right Stuff

  California · Space — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Desert · Off Worlddir. Philip Kaufman
• 1994

  The Shawshank Redemption

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

  The Thin Red Line

  Guadalcanal — 1940s
  Wilderness · Island · Coastal Seadir. Terrence Malick
• 1949

  The Third Man

  Vienna — 1940s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Carol Reed
• 2013

  The Wind Rises

  Japan · Germany — 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 2023

  The Zone of Interest

  Auschwitz — 1940s
  Urbandir. Jonathan Glazer
• 1994

  To Live

  China — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Zhang Yimou
• 2018

  Tumbbad

  India — 1900s · 1910s · 1940s
  Ruraldir. Rahi Anil Barve
• 1983

  Twilight Zone: The Movie

  France · Vietnam — 1940s · 1960s · 1980s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. John Landis
• 2005

  Walk the Line

  Arkansas · Memphis · Nashville — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Rural · Urbandir. James Mangold
• 1988

  Who Framed Roger Rabbit

  Los Angeles — 1940s
  Urbandir. Robert Zemeckis