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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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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society(2018)

2h 4min | Romance / Love, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 600 votes)

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.

Directed by Mike Newell - With Lily James, Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew Goode, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell, Katherine Parkinson, ...
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The Resistance Banker(2018)

2h 4min | War, Drama
3.4/5 (with 103 votes)

In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

Directed by Joram Lürsen - With Barry Atsma
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The Spy(2019)

1h 50min | Thriller, Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 20 votes)

Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German Reichskommissar Terboven.

Directed by Jens Jonsson - With Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Lassgård, Damien Chapelle, Anders T. Andersen, Alexander Scheer, Gitte Witt, ...

Forgive Us Our Trespasses(2022)

13min | Drama, War
3.2/5 (with 34 votes)

Targeted by Nazis as they hunt down and murder people with disabilities, a boy with a limb difference makes a daring decision while running for his life.

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The King's Choice(2016)

2h 13min | War, Action, Drama
3.4/5 (with 64 votes)

On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.

Directed by Erik Poppe - With Jesper Christensen, Karl Markovics, Tuva Novotny, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Svein Tindberg, Andreas Lust, ...
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Betrayed(2020)

2h 6min | Drama, History, War
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

During World War II, millions of Jews from all over Europe are deported and killed in German concentration camps. When the German troops invade Norway, the Norwegian Jews feel safe and protected. But anti-Semitism knows no borders and as the war escalates in Europe, the situation changes drastically. Suddenly, their radios are taken away; their passports are stamped with a big J and one day, all the men men over the age of 15 are arrested and taken to prisons camps. Many of the women left behind are too frightened to escape and are desperately waiting for their husbands and sons to come back home. On November 26, 1942, hundreds of Jews are picked up by the police in the middle of the night and are transported to the dock in Oslo. Unknowing and frightened men, women, children, sick and old are forced on board the awaiting German cargo ship "SS DONAU". The ship leaves with 532 Norwegian Jews onboard; 302 men, 188 women and 42 children. The end station is Auschwitz.

Directed by Eirik Svensson - With Nicolai Cleve Broch, Jakob Oftebro, Anders Danielsen Lie, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Carl Martin Eggesbø

The Third Part of the Night(1971)

1h 42min | Drama, Horror
3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a Nazi vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were “employed” as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.

Directed by Andrzej Żuławski - With Jan Nowicki, Małgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszyński, Marek Walczewski

Edge of Darkness(1943)

NR
| 1h 59min | Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.

Directed by Lewis Milestone - With Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Helmut Dantine, Judith Anderson, Nancy Coleman, ...

Het Bombardement(2012)

1h 40min | Romance / Love, Drama, War
2.6/5 (with 15 votes)

A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the centre of Rotterdam is bombed and the young lovers lose sight of each other.

Directed by Ate de Jong - With Jan Smit, Monic Hendrickx, Gerard Cox, Roos van Erkel, Mike Weerts, Koos Postema, ...

The Crossing(2020)

1h 36min | Kids & Family, War, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: To help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents.

Directed by Johanne Helgeland - With Anna Sofie Skarholt, Bo Lindquist-Ellingsen, Samson Steine, Bianca Ghilardi-Hellsten, Henrik Siger Woldene, Luke Niete, ...

Adelheid(1970)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family and falls in love with the daughter, now a maid. Their relationship forces him to confront the tension between his love and his conscience.

Directed by František Vláčil - With Petr Čepek, Jan Vostrčil, Pavel Landovský, Miloš Willig, Alžběta Frejková, Bohumil Vávra, ...
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It Happened Here(1966)

1h 33min | War, Drama
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invaders for a quiet life. The protagonist, a nurse, is caught in the middle.

Directed by Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo - With Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Reginald Marsh

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation(2011)

1h 10min | Documentary, History
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexual relations in times of war... and shows how being close to death reinforces the yearning for passion, for pleasure, for transgression, for desire as a last burst of freedom, as an ultimate call to life. Nearly two hundred thousands children are thought to be born of the union of French women with German soldiers. Women weren't the Germans' only conquests; indeed, occupied Paris swarms with all kinds of homosexuals—from Genet to Cocteau—who treated with the occupier. The fate of those women who were shaved at the end of the war for fraternizing with Germans is the punishment of a France that lied down and slept with the enemy.

Cefalonia(2005)

2h 16min | Drama, History
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to put themselves under German command and also refused to surrender their weapons. The local German force, supported by Stuka dive-bombers and additional troops, attacked the Italians and after several days of combat the Italians surrendered, having lost 1,300 men. As punishment, the German High Command ordered that all surviving Italians should be executed. Some 5,000 were executed during a week of killings. A handful were rescued by locals and the Greek guerrilla, while the rest were shipped off as prisoners, whereof 3,000 drowned when their ships hit mines. The film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" is based on a novel about the Italian occupation of Cefalonia, but the massacre was much toned down in the Hollywood version.

Directed by Riccardo Milani

Free Men(2011)

1h 39min | Drama, History
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.

Directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi - With Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Lubna Azabal, Stéphane Rideau, Blandine Pélissier, Bruno Fleury, ...

The Bride and the Curfew(1978)

50min | War, Drama

Shpresa goes to the house of fascist collaborators to commit an assassination. After that, dressed as a bride, she becomes an illegal.

Directed by Kristaq Mitro, Ibrahim Muçaj

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, ...

L'Occupation intime(2011)

1h 21min | Documentary, History
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

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Les Yeux de l'Amour(1959)

1h 40min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Denys de La Patellière - With Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Rosay, André Reybaz, Bernard Blier, Eva Damien, ...

The Cannon and the Nightingale(1968)

1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, War

A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2.

Directed by Iakovos Kambanelis, Yórgos Kambanéllis - With Manos Katrakis, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Niki Triantafyllidi, Yórgos Kambanéllis, Giorgos Tzortzis, Vangelis Kazan, ...

SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich(1992)

54min | Documentary

Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Nazi Germany after Hitler himself. The plot to kill him masterminded in England and carried through to finality in Prague in 1942, is told in this gripping dramatised documentary special. Featuring meticulous reconstructions, coupled with authentic historical film, some of it never shown before the film powerfully presents a vivid account of the only successful assassination of a leading Nazi in World War II. It also chillingly recreates the terrible human cost of SS savagery against the Resistance and the total obliteration of the village of Lidice.

Hear the Silence(2016)

1h 34min | Drama, War, Action
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

1941, Ukraine. A group of German soldiers occupy a small town populated exclusively by women and children of German descent, way behind enemy lines. There's tension from the beginning, that always threatens to erupt in violence from both sides.

Directed by Ed Ehrenberg

1940: Taking over French Cinema(2019)

55min | Documentary, History
4.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge. During the occupation, under Joseph Goebbels’s orders, Greven hires the best artists and technicians of French cinema to produce successful, highly entertaining films, which are also strategically devoid of propaganda. Simultaneously, he takes advantage of the confiscation of Jewish property to purchase film theaters, studios and laboratories, in order to control the whole production line. His goal: to create a European Hollywood. Among the thirty feature films thus produced under the auspices of Continental, several are, to this day, considered classics of French cinema.

Hitler from Our Street(1975)

1h 34min | War
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Before and during WW II and the German occupation of Serbia, in a village in Vojvodina, inhabitants are separated based on their nationality. Local Volksdeutschers (ethnic Germans) enlist with the Nazi occupiers. The village bum, Leksi, jumps at the opportunity to put on a uniform and parade around with a gun. Leksi gets into an argument with villagers Marko and Joca, who devise a plan to get rid of him. At the same time, Marko tries to seduce Leksi's wife, Anika.

Directed by Vladimir Tadej - With Nikola Simić, Ružica Sokić, Dušan Bulajić, Ivan Hajtl, Tihomir Pleskonjić, Aljoša Vučković, ...

They Were Four(1977)

46min | Drama, War

Four partisans are tasked with delivering a song to the Congress of Përmet.

Directed by Kujtim Çashku

Mamma(1982)

1h 31min | Drama

About the young film critic Gerd, who dream of interviewing actors like Jean Gabin and Jean-Louis Barrault and to one day direct a movie.

Directed by Suzanne Osten - With Malin Ek, Iwa Boman, Hans V. Engström, Anne-Lise Gabold, Ida-Lotta Backman, Etienne Glaser, ...

Research and Crime: the Reich University of Strasbourg(2018)

54min | Documentary, TV Movie
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Strasbourg was home to one of three Reich Universities founded by the Nazis, known as a project close to Hitler's heart. The university, founded in 1941, is infamous for the human experiments performed on KZ prisoners by the professors of the medical faculty. What did its dean, Johannes Stein, grandfather of documentarian Kirsten Esch, know of these crimes?

Ein Lied für Argyris(2006)

1h 45min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Stefan Haupt

On Our Own Land(1948)

1h 50min | War
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Set in a Slovenian coastal town in WW2, the film tells a story about villagers who help partisans to get rid of Italian, and later German authorities that ruled the town in the last years of occupation.

Directed by France Štiglic - With Stane Sever, Boris Sešek