Six Minutes to Midnight

2020 · 99 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.2 (197 votes)

Dir. Andy Goddard · Starring Suzy Eddie Izzard, Carla Juri, James D'Arcy, Celyn Jones, David Schofield, Jim Broadbent · Music Marc Streitenfeld

“Britain 1939. Hitler's grip is tightening. No-one can be trusted.”

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Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

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A chilling pre-war atmosphere permeates this tense drama. The film builds suspense through quiet unease and mounting dread, set against the backdrop of a picturesque English town hiding dark secrets. It feels like a ticking clock counting down to inevitable conflict.

tensesuspensefuldramaticforebodingsteadyperiod dramathriller elementsBritish realismpolitical intrigueespionagepre-war anxietymoral courage

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