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1. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 605,699 | Gross: $1.02M
2. Suite Française (2014)
107 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
During the early years of German occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), a French villager, and Lieutenant Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), a German soldier.
Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Margot Robbie, Eric Godon
Votes: 28,522
3. The Train (1964)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Thriller, War
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Directors: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Votes: 18,853 | Gross: $7.41M
4. A Man Escaped (1956)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
Votes: 24,969
5. Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2021)
TV-14 | 115 min | Drama
After the Germans occupy Paris, a talented jeweler, Joseph Haffmann, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers one of his employees the opportunity to take over his store until the conflict subsides.
Director: Fred Cavayé | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Gilles Lellouche, Sara Giraudeau, Nikolai Kinski
Votes: 2,895
6. Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told (2013)
350 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau, a man who will forever change the history of the world.
Director: Dennis Wise | Stars: Eva Braun, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Galland
Votes: 6,236
7. The Last Metro (1980)
PG | 131 min | Drama, Romance, War
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol
Votes: 15,813
8. Waiting for Anya (2020)
109 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Director: Ben Cookson | Stars: Noah Schnapp, Thomas Kretschmann, Frederick Schmidt, Tómas Lemarquis
Votes: 1,872
9. What War May Bring (2010)
120 min | Drama
Ilva runs her stepfather's Eden Palace cinema in wartime Paris against a background of Resistance activities, the frequent sight of less fortunate Parisians being shipped east in ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Audrey Dana, Dominique Pinon, Raphaël Haroche, Samuel Labarthe
Votes: 752
10. Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
R | 138 min | Drama, War
In 1944, an 18-year-old boy from small-town France collaborates with the Gestapo and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler, Therese Giehse
Votes: 7,711
11. Jacquot of Nantes (1991)
PG | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix
Votes: 1,995 | Gross: $0.15M
12. Hitler: A Career (1977)
Not Rated | 150 min | Documentary, History
This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with an analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of crowd psychology and his consummate skill in exploiting others' weaknesses.
Directors: Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer | Stars: Gert Westphal, Stephen Murray, Artur Axmann, General Bergeret
Votes: 3,031
13. Passage to Marseille (1944)
Passed | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn
Votes: 5,035
14. De Gaulle (2020)
108 min | Biography, Drama, History
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Director: Gabriel Le Bomin | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Isabelle Carré, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Mouchet
Votes: 1,999
15. The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
88 min | Biography, Comedy
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. One day he is ... See full summary »
Director: Tage Danielsson | Stars: Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredson, Margaretha Krook, Lena Olin
Votes: 3,925
16. Kings Go Forth (1958)
Approved | 109 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Leora Dana
Votes: 1,809
17. The Saviour (1971)
105 min | Drama, War
In 1943, rural French teenager Nanette meets an injured British airman and decides to give him shelter at her family's farm after falling in-love with him.
Director: Michel Mardore | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Muriel Catalá, Hélène Vallier, Roger Lumont
Votes: 277
18. Arise, My Love (1940)
Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 1,037
19. War of the Buttons (2011)
PG-13 | 109 min | Adventure, Family
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.
Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Guillaume Canet, Jean Texier, Ilona Bachelier
Votes: 2,358 | Gross: $0.05M
20. Memoir of War (2017)
127 min | Biography, Drama, War
Marguerite must navigate through the hardships of the Liberation after losing her husband and starting a relationship with the enemy during the War.
Director: Emmanuel Finkiel | Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Votes: 1,383 | Gross: $0.10M
21. Francofonia (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History
A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes
Votes: 3,002 | Gross: $0.30M
22. Résistance (2014)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History, War
Paris. 1940. Lili is 17 years old. In occupied France, she encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance. Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance ... See full summary »
Stars: Pauline Burlet, Tom Hudson, Jérémie Petrus, Cristina Flutur
Votes: 460
23. The Beasts of Marseilles (1957)
70 min | Drama, Romance, War
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German-occupied France.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice, Kathleen Harrison, Tony Wright
Votes: 370
24. A Matter of Resistance (1966)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
During World War II, just before the liberation of France, a beautiful lady finds herself in the midst of bizarre doings from her admirers.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Brasseur, Philippe Noiret, Henri Garcin
Votes: 1,136
25. House of Time (2015)
86 min | Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Robert d'Eglantine invites five of his friends to spend a week-end in his castle, lost in the woods. He explains to them that he studied secret documents on nazi scientific research during ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Helpert | Stars: David Atrakchi, Laura Boujenah, Esther Comar, Maxime Dambrin
Votes: 124
26. We Are All Murderers (1952)
115 min | Crime, Drama
The problem of the reasonableness of capital punishment.
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoine Balpêtré, Julien Verdier
Votes: 404
27. Der Stern von Afrika (1957)
88 min | Drama, War
Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Joachim Hansen, Marianne Koch, Hansjörg Felmy, Horst Frank
Votes: 348
28. Mr. Orchid (1946)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In the Charente, during the Nazi occupation, Edouard Martin, a fifty-year-old man with apparently peaceful life is in fact the leader of a resistance network.
Directors: René Clément, Noël-Noël | Stars: Noël-Noël, Maurice Chevit, Alice Leitner, Georges Questau
Votes: 314
29. Angel and Sinner (1945)
Approved | 85 min | Drama
Ten people fleeing Rouen invaded by the Prussians, Rousset nicknamed ball of tallow among them, give to a Prussian to save other passengers who still despise. However, on later nobody could underestimate her being how brave .
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Micheline Presle, Berthe Bovy, Louise Conte, Mona Dol
Votes: 221
30. The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell (2019 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary, History, War
An unprecedented look at the vicious three-month Battle of Normandy that took place after the D-Day invasion.
Director: Guilain Depardieu | Stars: John McManus, Anthony Beevor, Tim Cook, Geoffrey Bateman
Votes: 53
31. Le café du pont (2010)
95 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Ten-year-old Pierrot is just another kid. For the time being, he grows with his younger brother Jeannot in a flat above "Le Café du Pont", run by his loving parents, a place that attracts ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Poirier | Stars: Bernard Campan, Cécile Rebboah, Thomas Durastel, Julien Demarty
Votes: 122
32. Le jour de gloire (1976)
94 min | Comedy, War
In 1944, a retired German detachment found itself stranded in a French town. The inhabitants try to live in good harmony with the occupants. But one day kids, playing with a grenade, accidentally cause the death of an SS lieutenant.
Director: Jacques Besnard | Stars: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Tornade, Darry Cowl, Jacques Marin
Votes: 225
33. Blitz on Berlin (2014 Video)
56 min | Documentary, History, War
A detailed account of the allied bombing raids on the city of Berlin in World War Two.
Director: Stanley Joseph | Stars: Barbara Von Rimscha, Anne-Marie Von Mutius, Adolf Hitler, Kaiser Wilhelm II
Votes: 6
34. The Most Courageous Raid of WWII (2011 TV Movie)
49 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of the Cockleshell Heroes, who raided Nazi-occupied Bordeaux in 1942.
Director: Francis Whately | Stars: Paddy Ashdown, M.R.D. Foot, Norman Colley, Jeanne Baudray
Votes: 28
35. A Wonderful Spell (2004)
110 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, ... See full summary »
Director: Dominique Cabrera | Stars: Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Morgan Marinne, Marilyne Canto
Votes: 90
36. Pingouin & Goéland et leurs 500 petits (2020)
108 min | Documentary
Director: Michel Leclerc | Stars: Roger Hagnauer, Yvonne Hagnauer, Michel Leclerc, Marcel Marceau
Votes: 18
37. La trahison (1974 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, War
Director: Alain Boudet | Stars: René Alone, Jerry Brouer, Lucien Camiret, Cadine Constan
38. Hermann mein Vater (1987 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
"Hermann mein Vater" is a companion piece by director Helma Sanders-Brahms to her 1980 film "Germany Pale Mother". The latter work was focused on the impact of war on a German family. This ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Maurice Bazin, Philippe Collin, Herman Sander, Helma Sanders-Brahms
Votes: 15
39. The West Wall (2014 Video)
60 min | History, War
A documentary charting the construction and strategic development of the German Siegfried Line, which stretched from the Netherlands to Switzerland.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Jeremy Anthony, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler
40.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
The Killing Game
(1998)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After Voyager is captured by the Hirogens, the ship is turned into a massive holodeck so that the Hirogens can hunt members of the crew who have been fitted with new identities in various scenarios based upon Federation history.
Director: David Livingston | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 2,032
41.
Secret Army (1977–1979)
Episode:
A Matter of Life and Death
(1978)
Drama, History, War
Francois is determined to retrieve an airman from the Communist resistance while Max plots his betrayal.
Director: Roger Jenkins | Stars: Bernard Hepton, Angela Richards, Michael Culver, Clifford Rose
Votes: 49
42.
Secret Army (1977–1979)
Episode:
A Question of Loyalty
(1977)
55 min | Drama, History, War
The Gestapo infiltrate the Lifeline organization with German officer Ernst Stoller posing as an escaped airman. Monique falls for the infiltrator.
Director: Kenneth Ives | Stars: Angela Richards, Clive Arrindell, Bernard Hepton, Jan Francis
Votes: 64
43.
Secret Army (1977–1979)
Episode:
A Safe Place
(1979)
Drama, History, War
With Albert on a murder charge trumped up by the Communist resistance, Monique has to cope with a British air ace who has been down the line and has now been captured by a fake escape-line set up by Reinhardt.
Director: Tristan de Vere Cole | Stars: Bernard Hepton, Angela Richards, Juliet Hammond, Clifford Rose
Votes: 46
44.
Secret Army (1977–1979)
Episode:
Ambush
(1979)
Drama, History, War
Bradley recruits an escaping airman to help a resistance ambush. Meanwhile, Reinhardt pursues Brandt's interest in the Café Candide.
Director: Michael E. Briant | Stars: Bernard Hepton, Angela Richards, Clifford Rose, Juliet Hammond
Votes: 46
45.
Secret Army (1977–1979)
Episode:
Bait
(1977)
55 min | Drama, History, War
A downed British airman approaches Madame Bidout, an elderly Englishwoman and asks her for help. She hides him, but is so frightened that she calls Major Brandt, a childhood friend of her ... See full summary »
Director: Viktors Ritelis | Stars: Bernard Hepton, Jan Francis, Angela Richards, Christopher Neame
Votes: 64
46.
Secret Army (1977–1979)
Episode:
Be the First Kid in Your Block to Rule the World
(1977)
54 min | Drama, History, War
Curtis's cover is blown and Kessler orders a security ring around Brussels and a massive search to trap Curtis. Curtis poses as a bus driver for a Hitler Youth day trip in a desperate attempt to flee the city.
Director: Viktors Ritelis | Stars: Bernard Hepton, Jan Francis, Angela Richards, Christopher Neame
Votes: 68
47.
Secret Army (1977–1979)
Episode:
Bridgehead
(1979)
Drama, History, War
Monique is about to face punishment for unfounded claims of collaboration, when Captain Stephen Durnford arrives on the scene. She goes to stay with Natalie at her flat, where Durnford pays... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Morgan | Stars: Bernard Hepton, Angela Richards, Juliet Hammond, Clifford Rose
Votes: 46
48.
Secret Army (1977–1979)
Episode:
Child's Play
(1977)
54 min | Drama, History, War
Brandt receives an article by an escaped American airman. Thinking it contains useful intelligence, he uses it to team up with a French gendarme and identify an escape route over the Pyrenees - and almost captures Lisa.
Director: Viktors Ritelis | Stars: Bernard Hepton, Jan Francis, Angela Richards, Michael Culver
Votes: 75
49.
Secret Army (1977–1979)
Episode:
Collaborator
(1979)
Drama, History, War
Albert finally gets released from prison and returns to find 'Collaborator' graffiti on the restaurant. Locals are making open threats to the Candide staff, assuming they have collaborated ... See full summary »
Director: Michael E. Briant | Stars: Bernard Hepton, Angela Richards, Clifford Rose, Juliet Hammond
Votes: 47
50.
Secret Army (1977–1979)
Episode:
Day of Wrath
(1978)
Drama, History, War
Lifeline helps a Belgian pilot who has escaped from the Gestapo headquarters, while Kessler learns of Brandt's involvement in the failed plot to assassinate Hitler.
Director: Terence Dudley | Stars: Bernard Hepton, Angela Richards, Michael Culver, Clifford Rose
Votes: 51