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The Train(1964)

NR
| 2h 13min | Thriller, War, Action
3.8/5 (with 129 votes)

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

Directed by John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn - With Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Wolfgang Preiss, Howard Vernon, ...
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Army of Shadows(1969)

2h 25min | War, Drama, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 260 votes)

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville - With Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Serge Reggiani, Paul Crauchet, ...
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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!(1966)

G
| 2h 12min | Comedy, War
4.0/5 (with 571 votes)

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops - and the consequences of their own blunders.

Directed by Gérard Oury - With Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Terry-Thomas, Helmuth Schneider, Claudio Brook, Mike Marshall, ...

Suite Française(2015)

1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.6/5 (with 531 votes)

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

Directed by Saul Dibb - With Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas, Eileen Atkins, Lambert Wilson, Margot Robbie, ...

To Have and Have Not(1945)

NR
| 1h 40min | Adventure, Romance / Love, War
3.7/5 (with 208 votes)

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

Directed by Howard Hawks - With Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Marcel Dalio, ...
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Gramps Is in the Resistance(1983)

1h 42min | Comedy, War
3.5/5 (with 166 votes)

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré - With Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Roland Giraud, Gérard Jugnot, Martin Lamotte, Dominique Lavanant, ...

Memoir of War(2017)

PG-13
| 2h 2min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 63 votes)

In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a Resistance fighter and then deported, while she maintains a tense relationship with her ambiguous lover and a dangerous game with a French collaborationist. Even when the Liberation arrives, she must still endure the unbearable pain of waiting.

Directed by Emmanuel Finkiel - With Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Anne-Lise Heimburger, Elsa Amiel, ...
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Manon(1949)

1h 40min | Drama, Adventure, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot - With Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry, André Valmy, Andrex, Charles Camus, ...

Lucie Aubrac(1997)

R
| 1h 55min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...

Directed by Claude Berri - With Carole Bouquet, Bernard Verley, Daniel Auteuil, Franck de Lapersonne, Heino Ferch, Jacques Bonnaffé, ...

Chinese In Paris(1974)

1h 55min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists.

Directed by Jean Yanne - With Jean Yanne, Michel Serrault, Nicole Calfan, Daniel Prévost, Macha Méril, Jacques François, ...

Carve Her Name with Pride(1958)

1h 59min | Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Virginia Anne McKenna, Paul Scofield, Denise Grey, Maurice Ronet, Billie Whitelaw, Alain Saury, ...

Secret Mission(1942)

1h 34min | Drama, War
2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.

Directed by Harold French - With Hugh Williams, James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Roland Culver, Fritz Wendhausen, Karel Štěpánek, ...
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Marie-Octobre(1959)

1h 35min | Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 31 votes)

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Danielle Darrieux, Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier, Lino Ventura, Serge Reggiani, Daniel Ivernel, ...

Line of Demarcation(1966)

2h | History, Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

Line of Demarcation. is a 1966 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is La Ligne de démarcation. It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre (Ronet), is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German command centre. Whilst he is obliged to co-operate with the enemy, his wife Mary (Seberg) supports the resistance movement and is willing to risk her life for it. The Nazis step up their activity against the resistance, insisting that any who attempt to cross the line of demarcation will be shot. When his wife is arrested, Pierre decides to switch his allegiance.

Directed by Claude Chabrol - With Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Perrin, Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, ...

We Go in at Dawn(2020)

1h 25min | History, War, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him out. Trouble is, he doesn't want to be rescued.

Plenty(1985)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 18 votes)

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Directed by Fred Schepisi - With Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Ian McKellen, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting, ...

The Cross of Lorraine(1943)

1h 30min | War, Drama
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.

Directed by Tay Garnett - With Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Hume Cronyn, Jack Lambert, John Abbott, ...
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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission(1987)

1h 30min | Action, Adventure, War, TV Movie
2.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.

Directed by Lee H. Katzin - With Telly Savalas

Soft Beds, Hard Battles(1974)

R
| 1h 47min | Comedy
2.0/5 (with 6 votes)

In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.

Directed by Roy Boulting, John Boulting - With Peter Sellers, Lila Kedrova, Curd Jürgens, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Pascal, Philip Madoc, ...

Black Thursday(1974)

1h 35min | History, Drama
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.

Directed by Michel Mitrani - With Albert Michel, Alice Sapritch, Christian Rist, Christine Pascal, Fanny Robiane, Françoise Bertin, ...

The Battle of the Rails(1946)

NR
| 1h 25min | History, Drama, Action, War
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A 1946 war movie which tells the courageous efforts by French railway workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains.

Directed by René Clément - With Charles Boyer, Fernand Rauzena, François Joux, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Léon Pauléon, ...

The Savior(1971)

1h 30min | Drama
1.9/5 (with 3 votes)

This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life is about to change forever.

Directed by Michel Mardore - With Horst Buchholz, Muriel Catala, Hélène Vallier, Roger Lumont, Danièle Ajoret, Frédéric Norbert, ...

Shadow of Victory(1986)

1h 43min | War, Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Ate de Jong - With Jeroen Krabbé, Rijk de Gooyer, Martin Schwab, Theo Pont, Linda van Dyck, Huub Scholten, ...

La colline aux mille enfants(1994)

1h 58min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

During the Nazi regime in France in World War II, Pastor Fontaine and the town of Chambon undertake a mission to protect and shelter the children of many of the Jews sent to concentration camps.

Directed by Jean-Louis Lorenzi

Here Below(2012)

1h 40min | Drama, History
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Denis - With Adeline d'Hermy, Aladin Reibel, Céline Sallette, Éric Caravaca, François Loriquet, Jacques Spiesser, ...

Somewhere In France(1942)

1h 27min | War, Drama
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

Directed by Charles Frend - With Clifford Evans, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings, Gordon Jackson, Robert Morley, John Williams, ...

La sociale(2016)

1h 24min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Documentary about the French public welfare system.

Directed by Gilles Perret

De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile(2012)

1h 24min | Documentary, TV Movie, History
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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The Network of Freedom(2017)

1h 50min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orphans and the abandoned people. But the times have changed, the people are living a whole revolt, the Germansoldiers have entered their city and the reality that now faces far exceeds the harshness to which they are accustomed: Hélène discovers that near her locality, the Nazis have installed a concentration camp. Along with some people of the city, several of her Sisters Daughters of Charity plot a whole plan to free the captives from their tragic end.

Directed by Pablo Moreno Hernández

De Gaulle, histoire d'un géant(2020)

1h 52min | Documentary, History, TV Movie
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970.

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