1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.

An experimental film about a peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into ...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of th...

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
Jimmy McNamara is an ex-writer and WWII vet turned accountant who receives a call from Vivian, his e...