Film Index
French cinema: War
Le Grand carnaval (1983)
Alexandre Arcady
In November 1942, American troops land in North Africa at the height of World War II to make ready for the liberation of Europe...
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Alexandre Arcady
Le Grand cirque (1950)
Georges Péclet
During WWII, French pilots are assigned to the British squadron at Biggin Hill and take part in a series of dangerous reconnaissance and combat missions...
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Georges Péclet
La Grande illusion (1937)
Jean Renoir
1916. During World War I, two French aviators, Lieutenant Maréchal and Capitaine de Boeldieu, are shot down by German artillery whilst on a reconnaissance mission...
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Jean Renoir
La Grande vadrouille (1966)
Gérard Oury
In 1941, World War II has hardly begun when an English aeroplane is shot down whilst flying over Nazi occupied France. Fortunately, the three airmen who bail out manage to parachute to safety in the heart of Paris...
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Gérard Oury
Guernica (1950)
Alain Resnais
The work of the artist Pablo Picasso and a poem by Paul Eluard are woven into this personal reflection on one of the most heinous of war crimes, the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica at the time of the Spanish Civil War...
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Alain Resnais
La Guerre à Paris (2002)
Yolande Zauberman
Paris 1943. Jules and Thomas are two brothers who couldn't be more different. Whilst Thomas, the younger brother, is eager to participate in his father's resistance adventures against the Nazis, Jules, 19, has no ideals, and no desire to get involved in a lost cause... [More...]
Yolande Zauberman
Paris 1943. Jules and Thomas are two brothers who couldn't be more different. Whilst Thomas, the younger brother, is eager to participate in his father's resistance adventures against the Nazis, Jules, 19, has no ideals, and no desire to get involved in a lost cause... [More...]
La Guerre sans nom (1992)
Bertrand Tavernier
In this documentary, Patrick Rotman interviews around thirty former French combatants of the Algerian War and allows them to tell their own story of a conflict that lasted eight years and ended in a humiliating defeat for France... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
In this documentary, Patrick Rotman interviews around thirty former French combatants of the Algerian War and allows them to tell their own story of a conflict that lasted eight years and ended in a humiliating defeat for France... [More...]
Les Guichets du Louvre (1974)
Michel Mitrani
Paris, 16th July 1942. Paul, a young student, has just been tipped off that the French police are about to begin a massive round up of Jews in the Saint-Paul district of the capital... [More...]
Michel Mitrani
Paris, 16th July 1942. Paul, a young student, has just been tipped off that the French police are about to begin a massive round up of Jews in the Saint-Paul district of the capital... [More...]
Henri 4 (2010)
Jo Baier
In 1563, France is a divided country, a land riven by religious hatred between the predominant Catholic population and increasingly belligerent Protestants... [More...]
Jo Baier
In 1563, France is a divided country, a land riven by religious hatred between the predominant Catholic population and increasingly belligerent Protestants... [More...]
Le Héros de la Marne (1939)
André Hugon
In a small village in Marne in 1914, Lefrançois forbids his son Jean from marrying Hélène. When she finds she is pregnant with Jean's child, Hélène leaves the area and moves to Amiens... [More...]
André Hugon
In a small village in Marne in 1914, Lefrançois forbids his son Jean from marrying Hélène. When she finds she is pregnant with Jean's child, Hélène leaves the area and moves to Amiens... [More...]
L'Homme qui ment (1968)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
A well-dressed man in his early thirties is running through a dense wood, pursued by armed soldiers. It isn't long before the soldiers catch up with their prey and shoot him down... [More...]
Alain Robbe-Grillet
A well-dressed man in his early thirties is running through a dense wood, pursued by armed soldiers. It isn't long before the soldiers catch up with their prey and shoot him down... [More...]
Les Hommes libres (2011)
Ismaël Ferroukhi
1942, Paris under Nazi occupation. Younes is a young Algerian immigrant who makes a living on the black market. Arrested by the police, he agrees to work for them as a spy at the Paris mosque... [More...]
Ismaël Ferroukhi
1942, Paris under Nazi occupation. Younes is a young Algerian immigrant who makes a living on the black market. Arrested by the police, he agrees to work for them as a spy at the Paris mosque... [More...]
L'Honneur d'un capitaine (1982)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
In the course of a television debate on the Algerian War in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounces the use of torture by French troops during the conflict... [More...]
Pierre Schoendoerffer
In the course of a television debate on the Algerian War in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounces the use of torture by French troops during the conflict... [More...]
Les Honneurs de la guerre (1960)
Jean Dewever
One fine sunny morning in August 1944, the inhabitants of a small French town, Nanteuil, are celebrating their liberation from Nazi occupation when a small battalion of German soldiers suddenly shows up... [More...]
Jean Dewever
One fine sunny morning in August 1944, the inhabitants of a small French town, Nanteuil, are celebrating their liberation from Nazi occupation when a small battalion of German soldiers suddenly shows up... [More...]
Les Hussards (1955)
Alex Joffé
Under Bonaparte, the French army begins its campaign in Italy. Two soldiers, Flicot and Le Gouce, are sent on a reconnaissance mission, but they manage to lose their horses when they encounter a pair of Italian lovers... [More...]
Alex Joffé
Under Bonaparte, the French army begins its campaign in Italy. Two soldiers, Flicot and Le Gouce, are sent on a reconnaissance mission, but they manage to lose their horses when they encounter a pair of Italian lovers... [More...]
Ici-bas (2012)
Jean-Pierre Denis
In 1943, when France is under Nazi occupation, Sister Luce is a devout nun who occupies herself tending to the sick at a hospital in Périgueux... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Denis
In 1943, when France is under Nazi occupation, Sister Luce is a devout nun who occupies herself tending to the sick at a hospital in Périgueux... [More...]
Indigènes (2006)
Rachid Bouchareb
In 1943, at the height of the Second World War, around 200 thousand natives from French colonial Africa are recruited into the French First Army of the Free French Forces... [More...]
Rachid Bouchareb
In 1943, at the height of the Second World War, around 200 thousand natives from French colonial Africa are recruited into the French First Army of the Free French Forces... [More...]
J'accuse (1919)
Abel Gance
In a village in the south of France, Jean Diaz, a sensitive young poet, is in love with Édith, the wife of the brutal and unforgiving François Laurin... [More...]
Abel Gance
In a village in the south of France, Jean Diaz, a sensitive young poet, is in love with Édith, the wife of the brutal and unforgiving François Laurin... [More...]
J'accuse! (1938)
Abel Gance
After serving in the First World War, Jean Diaz returns to his home town but cannot bring himself to continue his affair with Edith, the wife of one of his fallen comrades... [More...]
Abel Gance
After serving in the First World War, Jean Diaz returns to his home town but cannot bring himself to continue his affair with Edith, the wife of one of his fallen comrades... [More...]
Je suis vivante et je vous aime (1998)
Roger Kahane
In the spring of 1944, a railway worker Julien is checking over a train carrying deportees, when he is handed a piece of paper bearing an address and a simple message: “I'm alive and I love you.” All that Julien can do is to take this message to the address, a farmhouse where two elderly Hungarian Jews are living... [More...]
Roger Kahane
In the spring of 1944, a railway worker Julien is checking over a train carrying deportees, when he is handed a piece of paper bearing an address and a simple message: “I'm alive and I love you.” All that Julien can do is to take this message to the address, a farmhouse where two elderly Hungarian Jews are living... [More...]
Jericho (1946)
Henri Calef
In February 1944, the Germans still occupy the town of Amiens in northern France. The tide of the war is rapidly turning but the town's inhabitants continue to live in fear of what Fate has in store for them... [More...]
Henri Calef
In February 1944, the Germans still occupy the town of Amiens in northern France. The tide of the war is rapidly turning but the town's inhabitants continue to live in fear of what Fate has in store for them... [More...]
La Jeune folle (1952)
Yves Allégret
Ireland 1922. A nationalist uprising against England has claimed its first victims. As she performs her domestic chores at a Dublin convent, orphan Catherine thinks only of her brother Kevin, a Republican who is on the run from the government forces... [More...]
Yves Allégret
Ireland 1922. A nationalist uprising against England has claimed its first victims. As she performs her domestic chores at a Dublin convent, orphan Catherine thinks only of her brother Kevin, a Republican who is on the run from the government forces... [More...]
Jeux interdits (1952)
René Clément
June 1940. Whilst fleeing from the Nazis during World War II, a convoy of French refugees is attacked from the air by German planes... [More...]
René Clément
June 1940. Whilst fleeing from the Nazis during World War II, a convoy of French refugees is attacked from the air by German planes... [More...]
Le Jour et l'heure (1963)
René Clément
During WWII, Thérèse Dutheil refuses to have any interest in politics, even though her husband is being held a prisoner-of-war in Germany... [More...]
René Clément
During WWII, Thérèse Dutheil refuses to have any interest in politics, even though her husband is being held a prisoner-of-war in Germany... [More...]
Joyeux Noël (2005)
Christian Carion
24th December 1914. Five months into World War I, regiments of French and Scottish troops face off their German opponents in the muddy, snow-covered wastes of No Man's Land... [More...]
Christian Carion
24th December 1914. Five months into World War I, regiments of French and Scottish troops face off their German opponents in the muddy, snow-covered wastes of No Man's Land... [More...]
La Kermesse héroïque (1935)
Jacques Feyder
1616. In the small Flemish village of Boom, the burgomaster is preparing a banquet for his daughter's wedding to the local butcher... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
1616. In the small Flemish village of Boom, the burgomaster is preparing a banquet for his daughter's wedding to the local butcher... [More...]
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
Louis Malle
The location is a small provincial town in south-west France. It is June 1944 and the country is still under Nazi occupation... [More...]
Louis Malle
The location is a small provincial town in south-west France. It is June 1944 and the country is still under Nazi occupation... [More...]
Laissez-passer (2002)
Bertrand Tavernier
In the 1940s, with France under Nazi occupation, the Germans continue to allow the French to make their own films, but under their supervision... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
In the 1940s, with France under Nazi occupation, the Germans continue to allow the French to make their own films, but under their supervision... [More...]
Liberté (2010)
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
La Ligne de démarcation (1966)
Claude Chabrol
During the Second World War, a small village in the Jura is split in two by the river Loue, which marks the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and the Free Zone... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
During the Second World War, a small village in the Jura is split in two by the river Loue, which marks the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and the Free Zone... [More...]