French films War
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By an odd stroke of fate, the bourgeois Jean Dubois d’Ombelles and his valet Joseph Turlot end up having to serve their military service at the same time, in the same barracks. Neither man is particularly well-suited for army life and a series of disasters naturally ensues. Jean, who sees himself as a poet, is as inept at becoming a soldier as he has been in his attempts to court his...
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Early in 1916, a young French soldier returns home to break the news to his mother that he is soon to be sent to the front near Verdun, an area that has so far been untouched by the conflict. Shortly after his arrival, the German offensive begins. Under the orders of the German Crown Prince, Verdun must be taken in a relentless assault...
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At the outbreak of World War I, Gilbert Demachy, an idealistic young student, enlists and is sent to the front to fight for his motherland, France. It is not long before he experiences his first taste of battle, in the muddy wastes of no man’s land. Amidst the blazing gunfire and cacophony of exploding shells, he sees his comrades obliterated...
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1616. In the small Flemish village of Boom, the burgomaster is preparing a banquet for his daughter’s wedding to the local butcher. She, however, is in love with the painter Jean Breughel. A messenger suddenly announce the arrival of a Spanish army unit, led by the Duke of Olivarès, passing through on their way to Holland...
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1916, during World War I. Lieutenant Maréchal and Capitaine de Boeldieu are two combat pilots who are shot down by the Germans. They are taken to a prisoner of war camp where they strike up a friendship with Lieutenant Rosenthal, a wealthy Jew who shares lavish food parcels sent by his family with his fellow prisoners...
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Sickened by the experience of war, having served in the trenches during World War I, Jean Diaz dedicates his life to perfecting a machine that will prevent future wars. Although he thinks he has succeeded, his invention is used by the government as a weapon. In a last desperate measure of retaliation, Diaz conjures up the buried dead of World War I from their graves......
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For many years, the tranquillity of a rural French town has been disturbed by the on-going feud between the mayor Beaumont and the country gentleman Rossignol. Unbeknown to either of them, the mayor’s daughter Annie is being courted by Rossignol’s son, Pierre. It is August 1914 and war is suddenly declared. The young men of the town...
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Normandy, 1870. A prostitute, Boule de suif, decides to leave France to escape from the occupying Prussian army. She leaves Rouen and sets off for Le Havre in a stagecoach, which she shares with a group of bourgeois men and women. When the coach stops at an inn, a Prussian officer forbids the travellers from continuing their journey until Boule de suif has spent the night with him...
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This film relates the exploits of French railway workers supporting the activities of the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of the Second World War. The film begins with the start of the occupation and ends triumphantly with the Liberation, demonstrating the invaluable part played by the railway workers in opposing the Germans...
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Monsieur Martin is a contented man who lives a peaceful existence in the small French town of Moisson with his wife and two children, Monique and Pierre. So calm is Martin that, even in this period of German occupation, his neighbours have nicknamed him "the quiet father". He spends much of his time attending to his fabulous collection of orchids...
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August 1944. On the outskirts of a small village in the French Alps, Dr Lestrade manages an asylum for the mentally deranged. His patients include Hélène, a young blonde who lives in her dreams, Lemaret, who imagines he is the president of the Land of Innocence, Prunier, who walks around with his chest bared because he burns with an inner fire...
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At Oslo in 1945, a French doctor, Guilbert, is abducted by a group of Nazis and taken aboard their submarine. The Germans plan to evade capture by the Allies by steering a course for South America. Guilbert finds himself in the company of several unsavoury fugitives, including a Gestapo chief, a German general, an Italian industrialist and a French journalist who collaborated with the Nazis...
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During World War II, a German officer Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted to a house in a small town in Nazi occupied France. He stays with a young woman and her niece who, to show their contempt for him, refuse ever to speak to him. Each evening, when they are together, Von Ebrennac attempts to break the silence with idealistic tales of his own life and country...
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Whilst fleeing from the Nazis during World War II, a party of refugees are attacked by German planes. Among the survivors is 5 year old Paulette, who has just seen her parents shot dead, along with her small dog. Paulette hurries after her dead dog when someone throws it into the river, and manages to recover it. She is caressing the dead puppy when a young boy named Michel...
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This film recounts the life of one of the most important figures in the history of France, Napoléon Bonaparte. Beginning with his arrival at a military academy, the film moves swiftly through Bonaparte’s rise to power as a great general and ultimately Emperor of France. We follow his great battle campaigns...
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At the time of the Nazi occupation of France, Marcel Martin earns a living by transporting black market products across Paris during the night curfew. He meets up with Grandgil, a man who appears to be in the same line of work, and suggests that he helps him in his latest job, to carry several suitcases stuffed with pig meat across the city...
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A French resistance fighter, Fontaine, is arrested and sent to a German prison. He is determined to escape, even though his chance of success is remote. After meticulous preparations, Fontaine is ready to make his break-out when he is taken to a court marshal and found guilty of sabotage. He will be shot the following day…...
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Paris during the Nazi Occupation. A patrol of German soldiers raid a house from which illicit radio transmissions are being sent. The man inside is killed whilst trying to escape but his wife, Cora, manages to get to safety. Cora decides to have her revenge by taking her husband’s place in the French Resistance. Her first assignment...
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It is June 1940. France has fallen and the Germans are posed to invade England. In this desperate hour, British Intelligence has recruited Babette, a pea-brained young woman who has just been evacuated from France. The dim blonde bears a striking resemblance to a former mistress of General von Arenberg, the man responsible for the feared invasion...
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Charles Bailly is a French prisoner of war during the Second World War, billeted to work on a farm in Germany. With the support of his benign German tenants, he plans to escape to France, by crossing the German countryside with a cow. Bailly’s plan appears to go well at first, but he soon runs into difficulty…...
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