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1. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, Romance

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley, Victor Slezak

Votes: 89,064 | Gross: $71.52M

2. Until They Sail (1957)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War

During WWII, unmarried New Zealand women meet and marry American soldiers who are fighting in the Pacific theater.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Jean Simmons, Paul Newman, Joan Fontaine, Piper Laurie

Votes: 1,559

3. Homefront (1991–1993)

60 min | Drama, History, Romance

World War II is over and the boys from the town of River Run, Ohio, are coming home. It seems that life is slowly going back to normal, but war has changed everything and they will never be the same again.

Stars: Kyle Chandler, Sammi Davis, Ken Jenkins, Mimi Kennedy

Votes: 1,411

4. Adam Had Four Sons (1941)

Passed | 81 min | Drama

A governess becomes the center of a wealthy family after her employer's wife dies.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward, Fay Wray

Votes: 1,284

5. Citizen Gangster (2011)

Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama

WWII vet Eddie Boyd is torn between providing for his young family and an unfulfilled dream of becoming a Hollywood star. He discovers a way to do both, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.

Director: Nathan Morlando | Stars: Scott Speedman, Kelly Reilly, Kevin Durand, Joseph Cross

Votes: 4,600

6. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Romance, War

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart

Votes: 9,220

7. Tender Comrade (1943)

Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War

Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge

Votes: 975

8. The Good Die Young (1954)

Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In London, three otherwise law-abiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins

Votes: 1,512

9. Teresa (1951)

Approved | 102 min | Drama

A reluctant soldier, Peter, serves in Italy during WWII. He marries a local girl named Teresa and brings her to the US.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Richard Bishop

Votes: 743

10. War Bride (2001)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance

In London during World War II, Lily marries a Canadian soldier who immediately goes off to war. She and her newborn daughter are invited to come and live with his family in Canada, where ... See full summary »

Director: Lyndon Chubbuck | Stars: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Aden Young, Loren Dean

Votes: 1,549

11. Julia Misbehaves (1948)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Romance

A London chorus girl tries to rekindle her relationships with her daughter, whom she gave up as an infant, and her estranged husband, when the former becomes engaged.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor

Votes: 1,194

12. The Very Thought of You (1944)

Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance, War

Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson

Votes: 703

13. Frieda (1947)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, War

A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling, Flora Robson

Votes: 538

14. Suddenly It's Spring (1947)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

Fred wants to start a new life with a new wife, but it isn't easy to give Paulette the gate for another mate.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey, Arleen Whelan

Votes: 295

15. Japanese War Bride (1952)

Approved | 91 min | Drama

Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes subtle, sometimes ... See full summary »

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor, Cameron Mitchell, Marie Windsor

Votes: 166

16. Woundings (1998)

102 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A government program is trying to entice women to go to a remote island and become companions to war-scarred soldiers.

Director: Roberta Hanley | Stars: Julie Cox, Sammi Davis, Emily Lloyd, Charlie Creed-Miles

Votes: 388

17. Johnny Bull (1986 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new mother-in-law, a former Hungarian with different ... See full summary »

Director: Claudia Weill | Stars: Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Peter MacNicol, Kathy Bates

Votes: 54

18. Janie Gets Married (1946)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

Married life isn't as blissful as either Dick or Janie had hoped. Dick is hired to write filler for his father-in-law's newspaper, but is never allowed to prove his real worth. Janie has to... See full summary »

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding

Votes: 275

19. Janie (1944)

Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Romance, War

Janie is a scatterbrained, high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. World War II causes the establishment of an Army camp just outside town. Janie and her ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Alan Hale

Votes: 490

20. And a Nightingale Sang (1989 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama, Romance

Romance lifts a sister from a lively family in working-class Newcastle during World War II.

Director: Robert Knights | Stars: Phyllis Logan, Tom Watt, Joan Plowright, John Woodvine

Votes: 75

21. John Loves Mary (1949)

Approved | 96 min | Comedy

A GI marries the English girlfriend of his best friend to get her into the U.S. for his friend who lost track of her in the war only to find on returning home that he is stuck with the girl because the friend has married someone else.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Jack Carson, Wayne Morris, Edward Arnold

Votes: 503

22. War Brides of Japan (2018)

Documentary

WWII Japanese war brides share their stories of struggle and triumph. Arriving in the US alongside husbands who were their former enemies, they experienced being disowned by their Japanese families and rejection by their American in-laws.

Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: Fumiko Kiyamura Caine Alderman, Elaine Ambrose, Myokei Caine-Barrett, Andy Campbell

23. Rama Dama (1991)

107 min | Drama, Romance

Felix Zeiler doesn't return after the end of World War II. His wife - alone with 2 little children - meets Hans and they are slowly getting closer.

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Dana Vávrová, Werner Stocker, Ivana Chýlková, Johann Schuler

Votes: 180

24. Chooriyan (2015)

Drama, Musical, Romance

Chooriyan is the story of Simran (Gracy Singh), an orphan who has always dreamt of being a part of a family. Her dream finally comes true when Army Office Aman (Sudanshu Pandde) asks her to... See full summary »

Director: Sukhwant Dhadda | Stars: Vinod Khanna, Sudhanshu Pandey, Mohnish Behl, Vikas Bhalla

Votes: 15

25. Across the Atlantic (2003)

54 min | Documentary, History

Across the Atlantic traces the experiences of Dutch immigrants who came to Canada in post-World War II. Through interviews with three generations of Dutch immigrants, this film explores the... See full summary »

Director: Paul van den Boom | Stars: Lea Jacobs-Van der Muren, Rimmer Tjalsma, Arnold Rovers, Joan Corsten-Rovers

Votes: 67

26. Spook Busters (1946)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy

Newly graduated from exterminator college, Slip and the boys open a pest control business. Their first job leads to a doctor who wants to transplant Sach's brain.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Douglass Dumbrille, Bobby Jordan

Votes: 560

27. Eito Prem (2015)

135 min | Drama, Romance, War

This is a love story of a couple during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

Director: Sohel Arman | Stars: Shakib Khan, Afsana Ara Bindu, Shahiduzzaman Selim, Amit Hasan

Votes: 62

28. G.I. Honeymoon (1945)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy

The efforts of a young soldier and his new bride to make their marriage "official" are continually thwarted by a string of army "emergencies".

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Gale Storm, Peter Cookson, Arline Judge, Frank Jenks

Votes: 84

29. Auf Wiedersehen Finnland (2010)

78 min | Documentary

A fascinating film that uncovers an overlooked area in Finnish history; When German soldiers withdrew from Lapland in 1944, about a thousand Finnish women for various reasons left the ... See full summary »

Director: Virpi Suutari | Stars: Elma Rantanen, Frans Kantola, Roosa, Terttu

Votes: 51

30. The Women Outside: Korean Women and the U.S. Military (1995)

Documentary, History

Documentary on young South Korean women who work in sex related enterprises adjacent to American military bases in South Korea. Also explores the lives of Korean American women who came to the United States as wives of American servicemen.

Directors: Hye Jung Park, J.T. Takagi | Star: Ninotchka Rosca

31. Clara (1999)

27 min | Short, Drama, History

When abandoned by her G.I. husband in a remote part of southern Utah, a young German war bride must come to terms with the hostility that surrounds her and make peace not only with her past... See full summary »

Director: Helga Oswald | Stars: Claudia Michelsen, Scott Haven, Elinor Baggett, Tony Bacon

Votes: 18

32. Demons, Well-Seasoned: Book III of the Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy Official Book Trailer (2019 Video)

4 min | Short

In 1950s New Orleans, a young Vodou priestess contemplates her eerie connection to the RMS Queen Mary, an historic British ocean liner. Sixty years into the future, she will find herself ... See full summary »

Director: Niko Volonakis | Stars: June Allen, Kaitlyn Audley, Joe Bertoldo, Patricia V. Davis

33. Friendly Fire (II) (2008 Video)

9 min | Short, Drama

Timeless yet timely, 'Friendly Fire' presents a scene that may be playing out in many soldiers', and soldier's families' lives right now. Can love survive or does it become just another ... See full summary »

Director: Carl Jameson | Star: Elle Poindexter

34. Universal Newsreel (IX) (1945)

8 min | Documentary, Short

Newsreel in five segments shows ongoing American combat activities in the Philippines, ongoing Allied combat in Europe, the latest in American teenage fashion for girls, the proliferation ... See full summary »

Stars: Ed Herlihy, Albert Grobe, Vicky Vola, Walter Krueger

35. We'll Meet Again (1982)
Episode: A Wing and a Prayer (1982)

51 min | Drama, Romance, War

Vi marries Chuck and Letty hopes Mario will propose though he is scared that the imprisoned Sid may drop him in it. However, during an abortive bombing raid Chuck has to bale out after ... See full summary »

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Susannah York, Michael Shannon, Ronald Hines, Lise Ann McLaughlin

Votes: 10

36. City Detective (1953–1955)
Episode: Girl from Nowhere (1953)

30 min | Drama

A timid immigrant girl is taken from police custody by a woman pretending to be her sister-in-law, and then a man posing as her husband also comes looking for her. Grant discovers a ring smuggling girls from Europe into the country.

Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Rod Cameron, Birgit Nielsen, Stephen Bekassy, Marilee Phelps

37. Tony Robinson's History of Britain (2020–2022)
Episode: The Second World War (2020)

Documentary, History

Bethnal Green station was hit during the Blitz. Grocer's daughter Eileen worked with Princess Elizabeth in the ATS. Maisie's father was punished for his resistance in Guernsey. Joy married an American GI. Ch. 5 description.

Stars: Tony Robinson, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Votes: 11

38. Saga (2020)
Episode: Seriya 3 (2020)

45 min | Drama

The brothers compete for Maryana's love while several suitors pursue Bohdana. Her fiance is arrested by the KGB. As the Nazis invade, the Kozaks come to the aid of a Jewish family.

Stars: Aleksandra Liutaya, Liliya Tsvelikova, Hryhorii Baklanov, Oleksandr Sokolov

39. Upstairs Downstairs (2010–2012)
Episode: Somewhere Over the Rainbow (2012)

TV-PG | 59 min | Drama

Suspecting Persie of passing on information to the Germans, Sir Hallam ends their affair and joins his wife in trying to sober up Pritchard, who soon afterwards goes missing. Rose tells ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Byrne | Stars: Adrian Scarborough, Keeley Hawes, Michael Landes, Ed Stoppard

Votes: 144

40. The Spoils of Babylon (2014)
Episode: The War Within (2014)

TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy

Eric Jonrosh (Will Ferrell) returns with his epic mini-series. War breaks out & Devon (Tobey Maguire) joins the struggle, leaving Cynthia (Kristen Wiig) behind. Another woman threatens to come between the star-crossed lovers.

Director: Matt Piedmont | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Carey Mulligan

Votes: 169