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Reunion in France (1942)
, 1h44Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen, Albert Bassermann, John Carradine
1940 in Paris, Michele de la Becque (Joan Crawford) is a career woman in love with industrial designer Robert Cortot (Philip Dorn). Together they enjoy a luxurious lifestyle unfazed by the approach of World War II. After the Battle of France and subsequent German occupation, Michele discovers her lover is socializing with German officers and his plants are manufacturing weapons for them. She confronts him and he does not deny her evidence. She is outraged. She aids a downed American in the Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air Force bomber pilot Pat Talbot (John Wayne) from Pennsylvania and finds herself falling in love with him. Later, she discovers Cortot is turning out defective weapons for the Germans and organizing a French fighting force. Michele is happily reunited with Cortot.
Les Milles (1995)
, 1h43Directed by Sébastien Grall
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes French war films, Prison films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Jean-Pierre Marielle, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ticky Holgado, Philippe Noiret, Rüdiger Vogler, François Berléand
Mai 1940. Juifs, communistes ou opposants au nazisme sont internés au camp des Milles, près d'Aix-en-Provence. Le commandant Perrochon dirige ce camp d'une main de fer. Mais pourtant, quand l'arrivée des nazis est annoncée, il ne peut se résoudre à leur livrer ses prisonniers et affrète secrètement un train pour les évacuer sur Bayonne.
Army of Crime (2009)
, 2h19Directed by Robert Guédiguian
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Virginie Ledoyen, Simon Abkarian, Robinson Stévenin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lola Naymark, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
In Paris during the German occupation, an ill-assorted group of resistance fighters commits disorganized attacks. Missak Manouchian, an Armenian exile, is ready to help but is reluctant to kill; for him, being ready to die but not to kill is an ethical matter. However, circumstances lead him to abandon his reluctance. Under his leadership, the group structures and plans its actions and thus the Manouchian network is born. The film traces the story of this group, from its shaping to the execution of its members in 1944.
Army of Shadows (1969)
, 2h19Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-François Adam
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes French war films, La provence, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Serge Reggiani, Christian Barbier
Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura), the head of a Resistance network, is arrested by Vichy French police, imprisoned in a camp, and transported to Paris for questioning. He makes a daring escape.
Charlotte Gray (2002)
, 2h1Directed by Gillian Armstrong
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Cate Blanchett, Michael Gambon, James Fleet, Billy Crudup, Abigail Cruttenden, Rupert Penry-Jones
In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels to London to take a job in a surgery. On the train, a man enters her compartment and chats with her, asking questions about her life and expressing interest that she is fluent in French. He gives her his card with the date, time and address of a book launch. Social life in London is in full swing and her friends convince her to go. She soon meets RAF Flight Lieutenant Peter Gregory, but is interrupted by Richard Cannerley, the older man from the train, who urges her to meet some of his acquaintances and asks her to contact him when she leaves.
Lucie Aubrac (1997)
, 1h55Directed by Claude Berri, Frédéric Auburtin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes French war films, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Patrice Chéreau, Jean-Roger Milo, Bernard Verley, Heino Ferch
Ce film retrace l'histoire de la vie de Lucie Aubrac pendant la résistance à l'occupation nazie, dont un "coup d'éclat" réussi... l'organisation d'un commando pour faire évader son mari Raymond Aubrac.
Resistance (2020)
Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Documentary, Historical
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Édgar Ramírez, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Bella Ramsey
Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en 1942, Marcel Mangel s'engage, sous le nom de Marcel Marceau, dans la Résistance française, sous l'influence de son frère Simon et de son cousin, Georges Loinger. En partie par le mime, il aidera de nombreux enfants orphelins, dont les parents ont été tués par les nazis.
, 4h27Directed by Marcel Ophuls
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Claude Lanzmann, Marcel Ophuls, Jeanne Moreau, Bertrand Tavernier
Our Patriots (2017)
, 1h47Directed by Gabriel Le Bomin
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Marc Zinga, Alexandra Lamy, Pierre Deladonchamps, Louane, Audrey Bastien, Audrey Bastien
Après la défaite française de l'été 1940, Addi Bâ, un jeune tirailleur sénégalais, est emmené dans un camp de prisonniers. Il s'évade et se cache dans les Vosges.
Free Men (2011)
, 1h39Directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Islam, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Lubna Azabal, Farid Larbi, Stéphane Rideau, Christopher Buchholz
In occupied Paris, the young unemployed Algerian, Younes Ben Daoud, makes a living on the black market. He is arrested by the police, and to avoid prison he agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect that the mosque leadership, including its rector Si Kaddour Benghabrit, is helping resistance fighters and protecting North African Jews by giving them Muslim birth certificates.
Django (2017)
, 1h57Directed by Étienne Comar
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, La culture tzigane, Jazz films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Reda Kateb, Cécile de France, Patrick Mille, Àlex Brendemühl, Xavier Beauvois, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h
En 1943, alors que la France est occupée, le guitariste de jazz Django Reinhardt souhaite échapper aux forces allemandes qui l'invitent à faire une tournée en Allemagne pour récupérer sa notoriété. Il tente de quitter la France en passant par la Suisse. Il séjourne un temps en Savoie et en Haute-Savoie, notamment à Thonon-les-Bains. Là il découvre les dures conditions que les forces d'ordre français et les Allemands font subir aux tsiganes, lui qui fut jusqu'ici un célèbre joueur de jazz insouciant...
Forbidden Games (1952)
, 1h26Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Laurence Badie, Jacques Marin, Madeleine Barbulée, Suzanne Courtal
It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. After five-year-old Paulette's parents and pet dog die in a German air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, the traumatized child meets 10-year-old Michel Dollé whose peasant family takes her in. She quickly becomes attached to Michel. The two attempt to cope with the death and destruction that surrounds them by secretly building a small cemetery among the ruins of an abandoned watermill, where they bury her dog and start to bury other animals, marking their graves with crosses stolen from a local graveyard, including one belonging to Michel's brother. Michel's father first suspects that Michel's brother's cross was stolen from the graveyard by his neighbour. Eventually, the father finds out that Michel has stolen the cross.
This Land Is Mine (1943)
, 1h43Directed by Jean Renoir
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Kent Smith, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Una O'Connor
People in an unnamed Nazi-occupied country face various ethical dilemmas and react in different ways.
L'An 40 (1941)
Directed by Fernand Rivers
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Félicien Tramel, Jules Berry, Josseline Gaël, André Alerme, Simone Berriau, Rivers Cadet
Félix Raffut, un châtelain périgourdin affolé par l'invasion allemande, effectue l'exode de sa famille et de son mobilier vers des lieux supposés hospitaliers.
Joan of Paris (1942)
, 1h31Directed by Robert Stevenson, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cregar, May Robson, Alexander Granach
In German-occupied Paris, an announcer reports during a blackout that the Second Front has begun, with British forces invading the Continent, and that five Royal Air Force fighters have been shot down. The downed pilots split up and make their way to Paris to try to arrange their escape back to England. On the way, they break into a tavern in search of civilian clothes. When a German soldier shows up for a drink, Squadron Leader Paul Lavallier (Paul Henreid), a member of the Free French, knocks him out and takes his money. In Paris, Paul contacts an old teacher of his, Father Antoine (Thomas Mitchell), who agrees to hide the reunited men in the sewers underneath his cathedral.