Films: Second World War

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
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...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 1946
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In a small town in southwest France during World War II, Edouard Martin leads a double life. His hobby of growing orchids, which the Germans admire, hides the fact that he is a leader of the...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 2012
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August 1957: A famous writer in his forties, Jacques Cormery, visits his mother who lives in Algiers. The city is undergoing the urban warfare of the Battle of Algiers during the Algerian War of...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 2009
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In Nazi-occupied Luxembourg during World War II, a group of men take refuge in underground mines rather than fight their allies. François, the privileged son of a collaborator, leaves university...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 1964
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Friendships unravel in a small French town in World War II. After an attack kills two German soldiers outside a restaurant, the head of the Gestapo orders those there that they must choose who...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 1971
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The Savior is a 1971 French film directed by Michel Mardore, adapted from his own novel. Set in occupied France in 1943, a young girl (Muriel Catala) falls in love with a wounded man (...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 1949
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Le Silence de la mer (English: The Silence of the Sea) is a 1949 film by Jean-Pierre Melville. Based on the 1942 book of the same name by Jean Bruller (published clandestinely...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 2006
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Two childhood friends find themselves on opposite sides in occupied France during World War II. After the Vichy police and SS officers plan to round up foreign Jews in Nancy, police officer ...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 1975
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A fictionalized account of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in 1944, in which a  German Waffen-SS company slaughtered 643 civilians, including non-combatant women and children, and destroyed the...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 1961
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Léon Morin, Priest is a 1961 French drama film directed and scripted by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva. As the Germans take over France during...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 2010
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This film tells the story of forbidden love in occupied France during World War II. Sarah, a young Jewish woman, and Hans, an SS officer, fall in love. He uses his connections to protect her,...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 2010
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This documentary examines how the French national rail system organized the deportation of prisoners, including Jews, Roma, and Communists, to concentration camps during World War II. It also...

Director(s): Camus, Marcel, Clément, René, Gianni Amelio, Steil, Nicolas, Christian-Jaque, Mardore, Michel, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Volson, Patrick, Enrico, Robert, Phélizon, Franck, Delpard, Raphaël, Salomé, Jean-Paul
Year: 2008
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In this tense World War II film, a group of French women carry out top-secret missions to secure the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy. Louise Desfontaines, a spy for the British-backed...

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