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- DirectorErwin C. DietrichStarsElisabeth FelchnerKarin HeskeRenate KaschéIn the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with Nazi soldiers.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsHelmut BergerIngrid ThulinTeresa Ann SavoyAfter an SS officer wiretaps a brothel and replaces its prostitutes with spies to obtain blackmail on the clientele, the Madam and a vengeful young hooker seek to bring about his downfall.
- DirectorSalvatore SamperiStarsFranco NeroLisa GastoniRaymond PellegrinIn wartime France, pharmacist Eliane begins an affair with her shop assistant Armand, but she soon becomes dominated by him. He demands more and more from her, humiliating her and putting her family at risk.
- DirectorIvan ReitmanStarsBill MurrayJohn CandyHarold RamisTwo friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsMonica BellucciGiuseppe SulfaroLuciano FedericoAs Italy enters WWII, a teenage boy in a small, narrow-minded Sicilian town becomes obsessed with a young woman.
- DirectorFernando ArrabalStarsAnouk FerjacNúria EspertMahdi ChaouchDuring Spanish Civil War, young Fando navigates parents' clashing ideologies after father's arrest. Explores his imagination, friendships, views on sex and death amid family upheaval. Questions mother, seeks father's fate.
- DirectorMichel MardoreStarsHorst BuchholzMuriel CataláHélène VallierIn 1943, rural French teenager Nanette meets an injured British airman and decides to give him shelter at her family's farm after falling in-love with him.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDavid BennentMario AdorfAngela WinklerIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsBruno GanzHanna SchygullaJean CarmetA German journalist, escaping from broken marriage, goes to Lebanon to cover the civil war. Soon, he realizes that he can't handle the truth.
- DirectorPasquale Festa CampanileStarsRenato PozzettoLaura AntonelliAldo MaccioneWhen a stage artist is sent to fight he meets a lovely girl.
- DirectorAntun VrdoljakStarsFrano LasicLjuba TadicRade SerbedzijaMelkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsHanna SchygullaPiotr LysakArmin Mueller-StahlA foreigner and his son arrive in a small German village and evoke a story that the villagers do not want to remember.
- DirectorMichael RadfordStarsPhyllis LoganGiovanni MaurielloGianluca FavillaSet in 1943 Scotland during World War II, Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian P.O.W.'s to work on their farm and Janie soon falls in love and enters into a doomed affair with one of the Italians named Luigi.
- DirectorRiki Shelach NissimoffStarsYona ElianKathleen QuinlanStephen MachtTells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsEmmanuelle RivaMaurice GarrelChristine BoissonIn the midst of the Algerian events, a man finds happiness beside a local woman.
- DirectorAlexandra von GroteStarsGabriele OsburgChristiane MilletDanièle DelormeTwo women fall in love in nazi-occupied France, and must fight to survive the war. A task made more difficult as one is a jew on the run from Germany.
- DirectorRobert EnricoStarsNathalie BayeChristophe MalavoyPierre ArditiThe border between collaboration and resistance may be thin ,and that's Charles's dilemma.
- DirectorGérard MordillatStarsThierry LhermitteJean YanneMarie LaforêtA bombing raid makes travelling companions of a blind man, Fernand, and Antoine, a criminal. Fernand is a virgin and is depending on his new friend to find him a woman. But to Antoine, on the run, his fellow victim is more a burden than a boon.
- DirectorPierre B. ReinhardStarsRoger CarelPierre DorisBrigitte LahaieDouble-agent Brigitte Lahaie is the star attraction at a strip-joint/brothel called "Le Diable Rose" in Nazi occupied France which is frequented by both Nazis and Partisans alike.
- DirectorClaude PinoteauStarsVincent PerezGéraldine PailhasMatthieu RozéBetween the Liberation of Paris at the end of August 1944 and the end of the Second World War in May 1945, 9 months passed. Nurse Christiane Mercier and F.F.I. Michel Fournier falls in love each during the Liberation.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoClaudio BigagliGiuseppe CedernaIn WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
- DirectorJanusz KijowskiStarsLambert WilsonHanna SchygullaJulie DelpyIn the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and proceeds to sabotage the trio's safety in insidious ways.
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsKristin Scott ThomasClaudiu BleontOlga TudoracheRomania in the 1920s. Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) refuses the advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a dark and dangerous outpost on the frontier between Bulgaria and Romania where their relationship and humanity are severely tested.
- DirectorRyszard BrylskiStarsOlgierd LukaszewiczRenata DancewiczMaria PakulnisPoland, 1939. Painter Marek Wawrowski lives in a small town with his wife and son. He meets young, beautiful Jewish girl, Deborah, immediately falls in love with her and they start a passionate affair. Then the World War II breaks out.
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsSonia BragaPatrick MalahideIon CaramitruA tale of power, passion, and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.