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poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.5
/6184/
75
/113/
70
/156/
4.0
/12208/
96
/24/
85
/34/

Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.
poster
82
7.9
/22114/
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
/2274/
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
Kanopy
76
7.3
/6971/
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
7.5
/6297/
74
/133/
73
/177/
4.0
/15024/
85
/13/
78
/52/

Story of Women (1988)
France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
70
7.6
/6133/
75
/126/
75
/138/
3.9
/10987/
100
/10/
90
/28/

Le Silence de la mer (1949)
In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he speaks to them candidly about his life and hopes for the future of France and Germany.
poster
66
6.6
/1562/
71
/40/
64
/71/
3.3
/1892/
74
/23/
64
/12/
61
/22/

Lucie Aubrac (1997)
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...
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
/9834/
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
70
63
6.8
/5539/
68
/138/
72
/218/
3.5
/3461/
75
/8/
71
/42/

Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
poster
71
60
7.0
/3594/
71
/105/
70
/239/
3.4
/3153/
80
/43/

Monsieur Batignole (2002)
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.
poster
75
54
7.6
/3271/
71
/38/
70
/72/
3.8
/3202/
88
/22/

Le Bal (1983)
In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative. They tell the story of Parisian culture and politics from the 1920s—1980s. A disparate, anachronistic series of characters, including an ordinary waiter, a Nazi collaborator, resistance fighters, and 1960s student protestors gather to celebrate and satirize 20th century France's icons, demons, and social changes.
poster
Plex
51
41
6.2
/2496/
66
/130/
59
/473/
3.2
/5675/
25
/24/
42
/29/
41
/14/
cc age 12+

War of the Buttons (2011)
Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.
poster
Plex
51
31
6.1
/2129/
55
/42/
55
/69/
3.0
/1928/
26
/5/

Bon Voyage (1944)
After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with the help of the Resistance. During his debriefing in London, French intelligence officers press him for details—especially about one companion whose true loyalties may not be what they seemed.
poster
67
28
5.8
/143/
66
/108/
74
/30/
3.2
/1342/
Popcorn
73
/5/

The Future Awaits (2025)
In July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbaum and her parents, who are Polish Jews, find refuge in a tiny room for the next 765 days. Living conditions are tough and they fear being discovered at any moment. But while her parents sink further into despair, Tauba’s fighting spirit shines through. She finds joy in every little thing, from a piano drawn on the floor, to the views of Paris through an open window. Despite extreme circumstances, she will keep hope until the liberation of Paris, and take back control of her life.
poster
66
22
6.8
/1007/
68
/5/
65
/12/
3.4
/276/
60
/83/

Joan of Paris (1942)
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.
poster
64
12
6.9
/304/
57
/8/
62
/16/
3.5
/315/

A Child in the Crowd (1976)
Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul is a boy who wants affection and attention and cannot find it at home. For a while, he becomes the pet of some German soldiers, running errands for them. Later, he helps the Resistance, and when the Americans come to stay, he is really in his element with them.
poster
54
10
5.2
/789/
64
/15/
43
/16/
57
/4/

Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)
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.
poster
70
?
8.2
/4441/
45
/2/
4.2
/3840/

The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution.
poster
?
70
/1/

L'Echo du silence (2024)
N/A
poster
?
82
/2/

Nous étions soldats - Les oubliés de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (2024)
N/A
poster
?
73
/2/

La Rafle des enfants d'Izieu : 6 avril 1944 (2024)
N/A
poster
?
80
/1/
60
/1/

Ascq 44 (2025)
Witnesses discuss the Ascq massacre by the Waffen-SS during the Second World War 80 years later.
poster
?
90
/1/

The Forgotten Roundup (2023)
80 years ago, Marseille's Old Port was the scene of a tragic event that is still largely unknown today: the roundup and total destruction of the Saint-Jean district, on Hitler's own orders. "The Forgotten Round-up" draws on the memories of some of the last direct witnesses to the tragedy, and follows the investigation of Marseille lawyer Pascal Luongo, grandson of one of the victims.
poster
?
80
/2/

State Owned Children (2021)
Following in the footsteps of two women in search of their origins, this documentary lifts the veil on a little-known page of the post-war era: the adoption, as part of a cross-border program, of thousands of children born during the French occupation of Germany.
poster
?
60
/2/

Le trésor de guerre de Napoléon (2021)
N/A
poster
?
6.4
/6/
80
/1/

Paris : Les Lieux secrets de l'occupation (2017)
N/A
poster
?
70
/2/

De Gaulle, l'homme à abattre (2020)
N/A
poster
?
80
/1/

La Ligne de démarcation, une France coupée en deux (1940-1943) (2021)
Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For almost three years she controlled the daily newspaper of 40 million French people. In the north the zone occupied by Hitler's soldiers, in the south the zone administered by Marshal Pétain's Vichy regime. This film lifts the veil in this theater on the shameful mistakes of the collaboration, but also on the most courageous and noble deeds. Archive images and film recordings at places where the border used to be crossed are alternated with interviews with the last witnesses of this time.
poster
?
70
/1/
78
/4/

Vivre dans l'Allemagne en guerre (2020)
N/A
poster
57
?
6.1
/149/
66
/3/
54
/5/

Paris Calling (1941)
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...
poster
?
8.2
/9/
80
/2/

When Paris was German (2020)
Discovering Paris under the German occupation through the story of an SS soldier and more generally of Wehrmacht soldiers allows us to follow the daily life on the German side. These soldiers enjoyed privileged status, during their stay, they were led to believe that they belong to a social elite, a status unreachable back in Germany during peacetime. And who better than a German who has led such lifestyle to serve as a common thread and tell this story?
poster
?
55
/4/

39-45 : Les policiers dans la résistance (2020)
N/A
poster
?
7.0
/12/
70
/1/
80
/1/

Pétain, such a popular hero (2010)
On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaboration with the Nazis. A black page in the history of France, written by a man whom many then considered a hero: the winner of Verdun.
poster
59
?
6.3
/337/
60
/5/
54
/5/

Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission.
poster
?
70
/2/

Quand la gauche collaborait, 1939-1945 (2017)
N/A
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
?
5.2
/366/
48
/5/
53
/6/

Battle of the Commandos (1969)
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.
poster
50
?
6.4
/321/
49
/11/
34
/8/

The Savior (1971)
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.
poster
54
?
5.3
/229/
46
/3/
64
/8/

Our Miss Fred (1972)
Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues in his female costume, Fred is certain to be shot as a spy. The risque gags and double entendres fly as he attempts to make his escape in the company of a troupe of Girl Guides.
poster
?

L'Incroyable Histoire du maquis de Glières (2018)
N/A
poster
?

Résistance : Le Maquis de l'Ain (2020)
N/A


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