Films: Second World War

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 1959
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In 1943, a group of French high school students decided to take action against the occupying Nazi troops. Showing imagination and courage, they succeed in blowing up a Nazi garrison and in...

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 1997
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In 1939, Guido Orefice a young Jewish man arrives in Arezzo, Tuscany, where his uncle Eliseo works in a restaurant. He falls in love with Dora who is set to be engaged with another man. Dora...

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 1974
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A young French man eager to participate in World War II reveals how easily the French capitulated to the Germans. Denied permission to join the Resistance because of his young age, Lucien turns to...

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 2009
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Land Girls is a BBC television period drama series, created by Roland Moore and commissioned to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. The series...

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 1960
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Herta von Stauffen, wife of a captain in the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II, goes to Brittany, France, to spend Christmas with her husband. Since he is...

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 1969
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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...

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 1965
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A former Gestapo collaborator, Capri/Bruno (Michel Piccoli), having undergone cosmetic surgery to change his appearance, finds himself, twenty-five years after the end of World War II, face to...

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 1980
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Director François Truffaut provides an entertaining tale of everyday life in Paris during World War II. Opening in 1942 during the German occupation of France, the film follows the fortunes of a...

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 1972
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Shot in 1972, and released 30 years later, this film tells the story of Michel Perrat who is neither a collaborationist – although his new mates hints at it – nor a Resistance fighter. He's like...

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 1963
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In the early summer of 1944, a French woman and an American pilot form an unexpected relationship. On her way back to Paris, Thérèse (Simone Signoret), a mother of two whose husband is in a prison...

Director(s): Villiers, François, Benigni, Roberto, Malle, Louis, Roland Moore, Claude Autant-Lara, Ophüls, Marcel, Cayrol, Jean, Durand, Claude, Truffaut, François, Causse, Jean-Max, Taverne, Roger, Clément, René, Camus, Marcel
Year: 1970
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A comedy of errors loosely based on a true story, Le Mur de l'Atlantique traces the adventures of Léon Duchemin, a restaurateur in Normandy during World War II. Captured during a bomb...

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