Film Index
French cinema: War
Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Claude Berri
Lyon, 1943. In Nazi occupied France, Raymond Aubrac is a leading member of the French Resistance. Shortly after blowing up a German supply train, he is arrested, ostensibly for blackmarketeering...
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Claude Berri
Mademoiselle Docteur (1937)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
During the First World War, Anne-Marie Lesser operates as a German spy under the pseudonym Mademoiselle Docteur. Posing as an American journalist, she travels to Salonika in Greece at the request of her superior, Colonel Matthésius, to shore up an important spy ring...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Marthe (1997)
Jean-Loup Hubert
Autumn, 1915. Wounded on a World War I battlefield, a young soldier named Simon is sent to a town on the Brittany coast to convalesce and receive medical treatment...
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Jean-Loup Hubert
Marthe Richard au service de la France (1937)
Raymond Bernard
At the start of the First World War, Marthe Richard sees her parents arrested by German soldiers, taken away and shot. When she loses contact with her fiancé, André, a soldier on the Western Front, the young woman hastens to Paris with one thought in her mind - to take revenge on the Germans by serving her country...
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Raymond Bernard
Mères françaises (1917)
René Hervil
July 1914. Madame Jeanne d'Urbex lives with her husband, a retired army officer, and son Robert at their château in the village of Mercurey in eastern France...
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René Hervil
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Luc Besson
At the time of the 100 years' war between England and France, a young country girl, Jeanne, believes she has a mission from God to rid France of the English... [More...]
Luc Besson
At the time of the 100 years' war between England and France, a young country girl, Jeanne, believes she has a mission from God to rid France of the English... [More...]
Michel Strogoff (1926)
Viktor Tourjansky
As a revolt by the Tartars threatens to tear the Russian Empire in two, the soldier Michel Strogoff is sent to the Siberian town of Irkutsk with a vital message from the Tsar... [More...]
Viktor Tourjansky
As a revolt by the Tartars threatens to tear the Russian Empire in two, the soldier Michel Strogoff is sent to the Siberian town of Irkutsk with a vital message from the Tsar... [More...]
Les Milles (1995)
Sébastien Grall
Early in June 1940, Commandant Charles Perrochon is placed in charge of an interment camp built on the site of a disused tile factory in Les Milles, a small town in the south of France... [More...]
Sébastien Grall
Early in June 1940, Commandant Charles Perrochon is placed in charge of an interment camp built on the site of a disused tile factory in Les Milles, a small town in the south of France... [More...]
Le Miracle des loups (1924)
Raymond Bernard
In 1461, following the One Hundred Years' War, France is a divided nation. King Louis XI is resolved to bring the country together, but his ambitions are threatened by noblemen who are reluctant to give up their power... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
In 1461, following the One Hundred Years' War, France is a divided nation. King Louis XI is resolved to bring the country together, but his ambitions are threatened by noblemen who are reluctant to give up their power... [More...]
Les Misérables (1995)
Claude Lelouch
France, 1900. When his employer shoots himself after a New Year's party, chauffeur Henri Fortin is condemned for murder and sentenced to a term of hard labour... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
France, 1900. When his employer shoots himself after a New Year's party, chauffeur Henri Fortin is condemned for murder and sentenced to a term of hard labour... [More...]
Mission à Tanger (1949)
André Hunebelle
In 1942, the Moroccan city of Tangier is a hotbed of international espionage. It is here that Alexandre Segard runs a spy ring, under the cover of an import-export company... [More...]
André Hunebelle
In 1942, the Moroccan city of Tangier is a hotbed of international espionage. It is here that Alexandre Segard runs a spy ring, under the cover of an import-export company... [More...]
Mission spéciale (1946)
Maurice de Canonge
May 1940. Commissioner Chabrier, a National Security operative, is about to capture a gang of spies who, under a cover of respectability, have been supplying secrets to the German High Command... [More...]
Maurice de Canonge
May 1940. Commissioner Chabrier, a National Security operative, is about to capture a gang of spies who, under a cover of respectability, have been supplying secrets to the German High Command... [More...]
Mon colonel (2006)
Laurent Herbiet
In the mid-1990s, Raoul Duplan, a retired colonel, is found dead at his home in Paris, shot through the head. Not long afterwards, some anonymous letters and pages torn from a diary are sent to the investigators in the police and army who are looking into the murder... [More...]
Laurent Herbiet
In the mid-1990s, Raoul Duplan, a retired colonel, is found dead at his home in Paris, shot through the head. Not long afterwards, some anonymous letters and pages torn from a diary are sent to the investigators in the police and army who are looking into the murder... [More...]
Monsieur Batignole (2002)
Gérard Jugnot
Paris 1942. With the French capital under Nazi control, Edmond Batignole struggles to make an honest living as a butcher... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot
Paris 1942. With the French capital under Nazi control, Edmond Batignole struggles to make an honest living as a butcher... [More...]
Monsieur Klein (1976)
Joseph Losey
Paris, January 1942. Robert Klein is an art dealer who has grown rich by trading in valuable art treasures sold by Jews who are desperate to raise cash to escape deportation to Nazi Germany... [More...]
Joseph Losey
Paris, January 1942. Robert Klein is an art dealer who has grown rich by trading in valuable art treasures sold by Jews who are desperate to raise cash to escape deportation to Nazi Germany... [More...]
Les Morfalous (1984)
Henri Verneuil
In 1943, a detachment of the French Foreign Legion is tasked with an usual but extremely hazardous mission during the Second World War - to salvage a fortune in gold bullion from the vault of a bank in a North African town... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
In 1943, a detachment of the French Foreign Legion is tasked with an usual but extremely hazardous mission during the Second World War - to salvage a fortune in gold bullion from the vault of a bank in a North African town... [More...]
Le Mur de l'Atlantique (1970)
Marcel Camus
In 1943, Léon Duchemin is leading a peaceful life in Nazi occupied France. Twenty years after his wife walked out on him, he now lives in a small Normandy town with his sister Marie and daughter Juliette, and together they run a restaurant that is popular with German officers and black marketeers, as well as members of the French Resistance... [More...]
Marcel Camus
In 1943, Léon Duchemin is leading a peaceful life in Nazi occupied France. Twenty years after his wife walked out on him, he now lives in a small Normandy town with his sister Marie and daughter Juliette, and together they run a restaurant that is popular with German officers and black marketeers, as well as members of the French Resistance... [More...]
Napoléon (1955)
Sacha Guitry
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... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
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... [More...]
Noirs et blancs en couleur (1976)
Jean-Jacques Annaud
January, 1915. Far from the battlefields of Europe, a small group of French nationals live an uneventful life in a village on the Ivory Coast... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Annaud
January, 1915. Far from the battlefields of Europe, a small group of French nationals live an uneventful life in a village on the Ivory Coast... [More...]
L'Oeil de Vichy (1993)
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol assembles a montage of newsreel clips from the time of the Nazi Occupation to show France not how he saw it, but how the Vichy government wanted it to be seen... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol assembles a montage of newsreel clips from the time of the Nazi Occupation to show France not how he saw it, but how the Vichy government wanted it to be seen... [More...]
Les Otages (1938)
Raymond Bernard
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... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
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... [More...]
Papy fait de la résistance (1983)
Jean-Marie Poiré
France, 1940. The Bourdelles are a family of gifted musicians who are so patriotic that they refuse to give any more public recitals until their country, now under Nazi occupation, has been liberated... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
France, 1940. The Bourdelles are a family of gifted musicians who are so patriotic that they refuse to give any more public recitals until their country, now under Nazi occupation, has been liberated... [More...]
Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)
René Clément
Paris, August 1944. Now that the Allied forces are sweeping en masse towards the French capital, confident of victory, the German armies are in retreat... [More...]
René Clément
Paris, August 1944. Now that the Allied forces are sweeping en masse towards the French capital, confident of victory, the German armies are in retreat... [More...]
Le Passage du Rhin (1960)
André Cayatte
Paris, 1939. War is about to be declared any day. Roger works in a bakery and Jean is a reporter for the magazine L'Espoir... [More...]
André Cayatte
Paris, 1939. War is about to be declared any day. Roger works in a bakery and Jean is a reporter for the magazine L'Espoir... [More...]
Les Patates (1969)
Claude Autant-Lara
In 1942, France is under Nazi Occupation and the country is divided in two, with the north controlled by the Germans and the south governed by the Vichy administration... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
In 1942, France is under Nazi Occupation and the country is divided in two, with the north controlled by the Germans and the south governed by the Vichy administration... [More...]
Patrouille de choc (1957)
Claude Bernard-Aubert
During the Indochina War in the late 1940s, Lieutenant Perrin is in charge of a small battalion of French troops at a remote outpost in Vietnam... [More...]
Claude Bernard-Aubert
During the Indochina War in the late 1940s, Lieutenant Perrin is in charge of a small battalion of French troops at a remote outpost in Vietnam... [More...]
Le Père tranquille (1946)
René Clément
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... [More...]
René Clément
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... [More...]
La Peur (2015)
Damien Odoul
The First World War has barely started when Gabriel, a young French conscript, is sent to the Front in 1914. Here, amidst the bombs, the bullets and the endless mud, he will have more than his share of the horror of trench warfare, but his greatest enemy is the fear he must learn to tame in order to do his duty and stay alive... [More...]
Damien Odoul
The First World War has barely started when Gabriel, a young French conscript, is sent to the Front in 1914. Here, amidst the bombs, the bullets and the endless mud, he will have more than his share of the horror of trench warfare, but his greatest enemy is the fear he must learn to tame in order to do his duty and stay alive... [More...]
Quatre-vingt-treize (1921)
Albert Capellani
France, 1793. The French Revolution has entered its bloodiest phase with the Republican Army authorised by the Committee of Public Safety to crush opposition to the new régime wherever it shows itself, and with utter ruthlessness... [More...]
Albert Capellani
France, 1793. The French Revolution has entered its bloodiest phase with the Republican Army authorised by the Committee of Public Safety to crush opposition to the new régime wherever it shows itself, and with utter ruthlessness... [More...]
La Question (1977)
Laurent Heynemann
Algiers, 1957. Henri Charlegue is the editor of a newspaper that is sympathetic to the cause of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front)... [More...]
Laurent Heynemann
Algiers, 1957. Henri Charlegue is the editor of a newspaper that is sympathetic to the cause of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front)... [More...]