En fordrukken marineveteran har vanskeligheder med at finde sig selv igen efter Anden Verdenkrigs rædsler. Han favnes af Lancaster Dodd, en karismatisk intellektuel, og bliver hans højre hånd i en åndelig organisation kaldet The Cause, som tager hårdt fat i Amerika. Undervejs kommer han dog til at tvivle på sin mentors metoder og spirituelle troværdighed.

Da 10-årige Mary Lennox’ rige, britiske forældre pludseligt dør, bliver hun sendt fra Indien til England for at bo hos sin onkel på hans herregård. Her begynder hun at forstå mange af familiens hemmeligheder, særligt efter mødet med sin syge fætter Colin. Sammen opdager de to børn en fantastisk hemmelig have, der ligger skjult på grunden. Et magisk sted, som vil ændre deres liv for evigt.

Isabella, the daughter of the noble York family, is enrolled in an all-girls academy to be groomed into a dame worthy of nobility. However, she has given up on her future, seeing the prestigious school as nothing more than a prison from the outside world. Her family notices her struggling in her lessons and decides to hire Violet Evergarden to personally tutor her under the guise of a handmaiden. At first, Isabella treats Violet coldly. Violet seems to be able to do everything perfectly, leading Isabella to assume that she was born with a silver spoon. After some time, Isabella begins to realize that Violet has had her own struggles and starts to open up to her. Isabella soon reveals that she has lost contact with her beloved younger sister, whom she yearns to see again. Having experienced the power of words through her past clientele, Violet asks if Isabella wishes to write a letter to Taylor. Will Violet be able to help Isabella convey her feelings to her long-lost sister?

I 1953 bliver Katherine Watson ansat som lærer ved et af USA's mest prestigefulde, men også mest konservative universiteter. De kvindelige studerende er dygtige, men i en tid, hvor det er vigtigere for en kvinde at blive gift end at få en uddannelse, er de ikke vant til at tænke selv. Katherine begynder at udfordre de unge kvinders forventninger til livet, og det skaffer hende både beundrere og fjender.

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.

U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer (Shia LaBeouf) har afsluttet sin militærtjeneste og kommer hjem til USA, men det han engang kaldte hjem er ikke bedre end den krigzone, som han forlod. Sammen med hans bedste ven, Devin (Jai Courtney), leder han desperat efter sin familie, og det skal vise sig, at de skal ud på en lang og farefuld rejse.

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history. Inspired by true events.

Tidligere P.O.W. Jack Calgrove flytter Himmel og Jord for at blive genforenet med sine børn efter borgerkrigen. Efter at være vendt hjem opdager Jack, at hans kone på tragisk vis er død, og at hans børn, der formodes at være forældreløse, er på vej dybt ind i Vesten på et tog, der krydser fjendens linjer med den hensigt at blive anbragt i nye hjem. Calgrove og en anden soldat slår sig sammen med en flok indianske skarpretter og en frigivet slave, mens de forsøger at stoppe toget.

Blood: The Last Vampire fra en af producenterne bag Hero og Tiger på spring, drage i skjul er baseret på kult-animé-serien af samme navn. Jorden er blevet forpestet af dæmoner, og en enkelt kriger står mellem mørket og lyset - Saya, som er halvt menneske og halvt vampyrsamurai, og som jagter dem, der lever af menneskeblod. Saya slår sig sammen med et skyggesamfund med navnet The Council og sendes til en amerikansk militærbase, hvor en række intense sværdkampe fører hende til vampyren over alle vampyrer. Efter 400 år står Saya nu over for sin vanskeligste vampyrjagt.

”Frantz” fortæller om den unge enke Anna Hoffmeister, hvis lidenskaber genvækkes, da en ung franskmand kort efter Første Verdenskrig dukker op i hendes tyske hjemby og lægger blomster ved en tysk soldats grav.

Maj 1945. På den første dag efter afslutningen af Anden Verdenskrig får den unge modstandsmand Maciek til opgave at dræbe en ny kommunistisk distriktsleder. Han overnatter i en sønderbombet landsby, hvor han møder en smuk ung kvinde. Men snart overrumples den ellers så koldblodige Maciek af sine følelser for hende. Efter årevis med missioner i dødens tjeneste øjner han muligheden for et nyt liv, og tvivlen omkring hans forestående opgaver begynder at vokse i ham.

Aske og diamanter blev det internationale gennembrud for instruktøren Andrzej Wajda og skuespilleren Zbigniew Cybulski, der blev kaldt "Polens James Dean" på grund af sin evne til at gengive den sårbare følsomhed, der gemmer sig under det hårde ydre. Ligesom James Dean døde han i en alt for tidlig alder i en ulykke.

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.

Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Córdoba to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.

Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain men.