Directed by Lars von Trier. With Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr. Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.

Source: Breaking the Waves (1996) – IMDb

Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow. In November 1939, Georg Elser’s attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.

Source: 13 Minutes (2015) – IMDb

Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli. With André Szymanski, Alexander Fehling, Friederike Becht, Johannes Krisch. A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.

Source: Labyrinth of Lies (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider. Set in the 1930s, a former veterinary student takes a job in a traveling circus and falls in love with the ringmaster’s wife.

Source: Water for Elephants (2011) – IMDb

Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch. Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert’s hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.

Source: War Horse (2011) – IMDb

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore. A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend’s wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Source: Vertigo (1958) – IMDb

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. With Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn. A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

Source: Unknown (2011) – IMDb

Directed by George Roy Hill. With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning. In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Source: The Sting (1973) – IMDb

Directed by Tom Hooper. With Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi. The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.

Source: The King’s Speech (2010) – IMDb

Directed by Anthony Mann. With James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake. Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.

Source: The Glenn Miller Story (1954) – IMDb

Directed by David Fincher. With Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.

Source: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) – IMDb

Directed by Oliver Stone. With Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley. The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.

Source: The Doors (1991) – IMDb