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Criterion Channel
86
8.0
/38244/
78
/673/
75
/704/
4.2
/52258/
97
/36/
93
/731/
88
/18/
cc age 12+

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
poster
86
8.1
/311480/
80
/6519/
78
/3688/
4.3
/799335/
94
/181/
91
/5132/
91
/39/
cc age 16+

Before Sunset (2004)
Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.7
/7595/
73
/156/
73
/193/
4.2
/20854/
94
/35/
91
/96/
89
/18/

The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
poster
84
7.6
/2680/
78
/67/
75
/90/
3.9
/3631/
94
/16/
91
/47/

The Two of Us (1967)
A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.
poster
82
7.9
/22105/
79
/982/
79
/1428/
4.0
/39919/
94
/5020/

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.7
/2273/
78
/60/
74
/61/
4.2
/8388/
83
/6/
84
/16/

Jacquot (1991)
Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary.
poster
78
7.7
/83484/
76
/1996/
75
/1279/
3.8
/44162/
82
/55/
90
/1364/
73
/11/
cc age 14+

The Dirty Dozen (1967)
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.3
/6967/
76
/548/
78
/886/
3.7
/18781/
83
/24/
84
/14/
55
/7/
cc age 13+

A Bag of Marbles (2017)
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
6.9
/1699/
65
/20/
64
/32/
3.5
/806/
76
/37/
79
/7/
82
/15/

Safe Conduct (2002)
During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.1
/6169/
71
/243/
70
/229/
3.5
/3335/
94
/50/
80
/35/
72
/19/

Diplomacy (2014)
On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to destroy the city on Hitler's orders. As the general prepares to detonate explosives throughout the capital, Swedish consul Raoul Nordling uses diplomacy in a desperate bid to convince him to defy the orders and save Paris.
poster
75
7.0
/15552/
69
/299/
67
/391/
3.5
/5873/
83
/88/
79
/719/
82
/25/
cc age 17+

Days of Glory (2006)
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
7.1
/10961/
72
/427/
69
/169/
3.5
/5365/
83
/23/
84
/30/
64
/8/

The King's Choice (2016)
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.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.3
/31915/
74
/1428/
71
/593/
3.6
/11737/
86
/21/
82
/86/
70
/10/

The 12th Man (2017)
After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.
poster
Netflix
72
7.3
/57325/
75
/2323/
74
/1381/
3.5
/76162/
82
/72/
81
/209/
65
/10/
cc age 12+

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
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.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.5
/18607/
74
/444/
72
/704/
3.6
/8681/
72
/113/
82
/624/
59
/30/
cc age 14+

Sarah's Key (2010)
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
poster
70
6.7
/5313/
61
/62/
62
/94/
3.3
/1407/
77
/96/
75
/148/
68
/30/

Bon Voyage (2003)
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
poster
Fandor
69
6.9
/10604/
72
/216/
69
/350/
3.6
/9015/
73
/82/
68
/312/
58
/26/

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
7.0
/30296/
70
/1000/
72
/1131/
3.3
/20133/
75
/44/
69
/88/
63
/9/

Suite Française (2015)
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.
poster
67
6.9
/12763/
70
/310/
67
/227/
3.5
/6943/
55
/22/
75
/206/
61
/15/
cc age 12+

To Be or Not to Be (1983)
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
6.6
/114580/
68
/8507/
67
/3040/
3.2
/146175/
82
/226/
67
/977/
60
/28/
cc age 18+

Overlord (2018)
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.
poster
80
66
7.8
/4727/
77
/76/
72
/89/
4.2
/5869/
87
/15/
82
/26/

The Travelling Players (1975)
A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.
poster
Hulu
66
6.6
/10022/
70
/1030/
69
/456/
3.2
/10101/
57
/96/
78
/60/
53
/19/
cc age 15+

Resistance (2020)
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
poster
72
66
7.1
/9536/
74
/183/
67
/142/
3.5
/3173/
75
/8/
76
/115/
cc age 12+

The Young Lions (1958)
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
poster
66
6.5
/3516/
65
/43/
58
/72/
3.3
/1152/
74
/61/
60
/70/
70
/27/

Strayed (2003)
Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that the family quickly comes to be depending much on his cunning and survival abilities, their cohabitation proves uneasy.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
66
7.1
/9832/
74
/387/
75
/1033/
3.6
/9533/
57
/35/
73
/108/
49
/11/

The Round Up (2010)
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
poster
73
64
6.9
/2765/
76
/277/
72
/376/
3.7
/10748/

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.
poster
63
6.4
/3817/
62
/40/
60
/77/
3.3
/2568/
65
/63/
50
/53/
67
/24/

The Flower of Evil (2003)
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
63
7.5
/4252/
73
/111/
69
/61/
3.6
/1761/
88
/79/
cc age 11+

The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
poster
77
62
7.6
/4137/
74
/70/
72
/67/
3.8
/2459/
86
/7/
81
/22/

This Land Is Mine (1943)
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
poster
Netflix
69
61
6.8
/7413/
66
/352/
66
/108/
3.4
/10598/
75
/8/
73
/16/
cc age 15+

WILL (2023)
Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
61
7.6
/7478/
74
/326/
73
/146/
3.7
/3243/
94
/7/

Hatred (2016)
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.
poster
73
58
7.5
/3970/
70
/61/
73
/133/
3.8
/12480/

Decalogue VIII (1989)
Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life.
poster
71
58
6.7
/2054/
75
/233/
72
/304/
3.6
/7348/

The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
poster
75
56
7.3
/4204/
71
/65/
69
/56/
3.7
/1961/
88
/32/

The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
56
6.3
/4872/
67
/123/
68
/103/
2.8
/3409/
68
/194/

The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)
An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.
poster
56
6.1
/17074/
61
/230/
60
/256/
2.9
/5732/
35
/69/
59
/751/
40
/22/

The Man Who Cried (2000)
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
poster
55
6.4
/13658/
66
/266/
61
/180/
3.2
/3886/
32
/88/
62
/318/
48
/28/
cc age 15+

Charlotte Gray (2001)
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
poster
55
6.5
/16347/
65
/263/
59
/218/
3.2
/2828/
18
/90/
61
/265/
40
/27/
cc age 18+

Head in the Clouds (2004)
Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.
poster
70
54
6.7
/3724/
71
/233/
68
/426/
3.6
/10159/
74
/10/

Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
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!
poster
YouTube TV
64
49
6.4
/3501/
72
/43/
62
/51/
3.2
/1916/
60
/1010/

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
poster
75
46
7.8
/1874/
72
/32/
74
/35/
3.8
/1969/

Silence of the Sea (2004)
In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by her grandfather. Quite upset, the two "hosts" decide to resist the occupier by never speaking a word to him. Now Werner is a lover of France and its culture, and he tries to persuade them that a rapprochement between Germany and France would be beneficial for the two nations. Quite unexpectedly Jeanne, little by little, falls in love with Werner. At the same time, the Francophile officer loses his illusions, realizing at last that what Nazi Germany actually wants is to thrall France and to stifle its culture...
poster
77
44
7.8
/2828/
77
/37/
69
/51/
4.0
/2814/
82
/2/

Trial on the Road (1986)
Shot in 1971 but banned until 1986, this distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines. A regiment of partisans captures former Red Army lieutenant Lazarev who is dressed in a German uniform. He’s a Nazi defector and collaborator but now desires to switch back and fight with Russian partisans.
poster
72
43
7.0
/1734/
74
/52/
74
/124/
3.6
/1337/

Strange Gardens (2003)
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
poster
Britbox Apple TV Channel
82
42
7.7
/357/
69
/14/
80
/13/
3.7
/390/
98
/134/
97
/22915/

Schindler (1983)
The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II.
poster
57
41
6.4
/1362/
58
/113/
57
/48/
2.7
/2105/
53
/336/

Victory Through Air Power (1943)
Based on the book by Major Alexander de Seversky's about his theories of the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film shows de Seversky illustrating his ideas of how air power could win World War II for the Allies.
poster
Kanopy
65
40
6.6
/1503/
69
/21/
56
/31/
3.4
/552/
76
/34/
65
/25/
58
/10/

Free Men (2011)
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.
poster
71
40
7.0
/2568/
73
/46/
69
/47/
3.4
/648/
77
/20/

Operation: Daybreak (1975)
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
poster
67
39
6.7
/1330/
64
/29/
67
/35/
3.5
/848/
71
/7/

It Happened Here (1966)
World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight.


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