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Subgenre Sampler

 
Bunker, TheBunker, The (2001)
Dir. Rob Green
Feat. Jason Flemyng
Unpretentious and mostly effective horror, unusually set around a Nazi platoon during WW2, who are retreating across the Ardennes in 1944. Taking…
Captain Corelli's MandolinCaptain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Dir. John Madden
Feat. Penelope Cruz, Christian Bale, Nicolas Cage
A melodiously played costume–drama, that unfolds on the Greek island of Cephalonia during WWII. Occupation by Italian and later German…
ConspiracyConspiracy (2001)
Dir. Frank Pierson
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth
Presenting the planning of the Nazi’s ‘Final Solution’ of the jews as the matter of a simple business luncheon in 1942 of fifteen men, presided…
Dark Blue WorldDark Blue World (Tmavomodry Svet) (2001) Recommended
Dir. Jan Sverak
Feat. Krystof Hadek, Ondrej Vetchy, Charles Dance
From the dir. of KOLYA and based on the story of Czech pilots who fled the Nazis in WW2 to fly alongside the RAF, this is an unsentimental, yet…
Divided We FallDivided We Fall (2001) Recommended
Dir. Jan Hrebejk
Feat. Boleslav Polivka, Anna Siskova, Jaroslav Dusek
In WW2 Czechoslovakia, couple Bolek Polívka and Anna Sisková shelter their Jewish neighbour during the Nazi Occupation, with much absurd comedy…
Enemy at the GatesEnemy at the Gates (2001) Recommended
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz
A big–budget recreation of the crucial WWII battle of Stalingrad, in which Germans and Russians fought it out till there was a toll of over 1…
EnigmaEnigma (2001) Recommended
Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Kate Winslet, Dougray Scott, Jeremy Northam
Superior period–thriller, loosely set around the dedicated cryptanalysts of Bletchley Park who led the race to crack the Nazi’s Enigma code…
Hart's WarHart's War (2001)
Dir. Gregory Hoblit
Feat. Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Bruce Willis
Deserving invigoration of the POW–film, set amongst a troop of American soldiers incarcerated behind Nazi barbed–wire in WWII. When a…
In Shifting Sands (2001)
Dir. Scott Ritter
Feat. Scott Ritter
A pertinent, compelling though rather schizophrenic film–diary directed by the former Chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq. Exploring the…
No Man's LandNo Man's Land (2001) Recommended
Dir. Danis Tanovic
Feat. Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Katrin Cartlidge
Snaring the 2002 Best Foreign Film Oscar, this black comedy set in the wartime trenches of mid–1990s Bosnia plays like a satirical diagram of…

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