Entre Nous
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
Run time: 110m
Release: 1983-04-06
Stars: Denis Lavant François Cluzet Guy Marchand Isabelle Huppert Jacqueline Doyen Jacques Alric Jean-Pierre Bacri Miou-Miou Patrick Bauchau Robin Renucci
The Night Watch
Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters' bestselling novel, The Night Watch, follows four young Londoners inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexual morality and social convention have been broken down, Kay, Helen, Viv and Duncan enjoy a freedom never experienced before. Moving back in time through the 1940s into the maelstrom of the Blitz, the lives, loves and losses of these four central characters are unravelled. For them, the post-war victory is bittersweet, for it returns them to the margins of society, from which they hoped they had been liberated. In order to build their future they must each make peace with their past.
Run time: 89m
Tagline: Love and liberation in wartime
Release: 2011-07-12
Stars: Anna Maxwell Martin Anna Wilson-Jones Claire Foy Claudie Blakley Harry Treadaway Jenna Augen Jodie Whittaker Kenneth Cranham Neal Barry Richard Cambridge
In Hiding
In the spring of 1944 in Poland, near the end of WWII, Janina faces a huge change in her life when her father decides to offer a shelter to his Jewish friend’s daughter Ester. One day, her father is arrested and Janina starts to take care of Ester by herself and in doing so secret emotions rise between them.
Run time: 98m
Release: 2013-10-14
Stars: Agata Kulesza Jacek Braciak Julia Pogrebinska Krzysztof Stroiński Magdalena Boczarska Tomasz Kot
Summerland
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Run time: 100m
Tagline: Love. Magic. Hope.
Release: 2020-07-24
Stars: Amanda Lawrence Amanda Root Dixie Egerickx Gemma Arterton Gugu Mbatha-Raw Jessica Gunning Lucas Bond Penelope Wilton Siân Phillips Tom Courtenay
Their Finest
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Run time: 117m
Tagline: In the fight for freedom everyone played a part.
Release: 2017-04-06
Stars: Rachael Stirling
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.
Run time: 88m
Tagline: Fear gets you killed. Anger keeps you alive.
Release: 2007-11-12
Stars: Michelle Forbes Tricia Helfer