German occupation in Paris
Historical period during World War II when Paris was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944 following the defeat of France. The occupation affected daily life, culture, and the film industry, with censorship, propaganda, and resistance activities shaping the era.
Many films from French, European, Soviet, and American cinema depict this period through stories of resistance, collaboration, espionage, and life under occupation.
A Man Escaped | A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth...
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Captured French Resistance fighter Lieutenant Fontaine awaits a certain death sentence for espionage in a stark Nazi prison in Lyon, France. Facing malnourishment and paralyzing fear, he must plot an extraordinary escape, complicated by the questions of whom to trust, and what lies beyond the small ..
A Matter of Resistance | Chateau Life | The Good L...
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In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1944, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's cr..
Anjos da Guerra - 2003
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Junho de 1940. As tropas alemãs avançam para Paris. Odile, uma jovem e bela professora entra em pânico e resolve sair da cidade acompanhada do filhos Philippe e da pequena Cathy, partindo para o sul, num verdadeiro êxodo rural. Na estrada, ataques aéreos alemães dizimam os refugiados cruelmente. Odi..
Arch of Triumph | Erich Maria Remarque's Arch of T...
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In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woma..
Army of Shadows | The Army in the Shadows | The Ar...
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France, 1942, under German occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is a French Resistance commandant. Denounced by a French collaborator, he is interned in a concentration camp. He manages to escape, and rejoins his network in Marseille, where he has the traitor executed. This movie reveals ..
Casablanca | Everybody Comes to Rick's - 1942
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The story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco during the early stages of WWII. Despite the pressure he constantly receives from the local authorities, Rick's cafe has become a kind of haven for refugees seeking to obtain illicit letters that ..
Charlotte Gray - Paixão sem Fronteiras - 2001
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Em 1942, em plena ocupação nazista da França, Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett), uma jovem escocesa recrutada como agente secreta, se une à Resistência Francesa. Seu objetivo é resgatar seu amor, um piloto da Força Aérea Britânica. Ela logo descobre que não se pode confiar em ninguém.O filme é baseado..
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! | The Big R...
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In 1942, a Royal Air Force plane is shot down over Nazi-occupied Paris. The three pilots parachute out: Peter Cunningham lands on the scaffolding of Augustin Bouvet, a construction painter working on the facade of the German command; Alan Macintosh lands on the roof of the Opera House during the orc..
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! | The Big R...
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In 1942, a Royal Air Force plane is shot down over Nazi-occupied Paris. The three pilots parachute out: Peter Cunningham lands on the scaffolding of Augustin Bouvet, a construction painter working on the facade of the German command; Alan Macintosh lands on the roof of the Opera House during the orc..
Female Agents - 2008
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In 1944, in London, Lieutenant Pierre Desfontaines assigns his sister Louise Desfontaines to convince three other women to form a five-woman task force under his command to rescue a British geologist from a German hospital in the countryside. The geologist was assigned by Colonel Maurice Buckmaster ..
Forbidden Games | The Secret Game - 1952
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A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. She is befriended by a pre-adolescent peasant boy after she wandered away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast frie..
Inglourious Basterds - 2009
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In German-occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movi..
Is Paris Burning? - 1966
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This sprawling, star-laden film, depicts the struggles of various French-Resistance factions to regain control of Paris near the end of World War II. The Nazi general in charge of Paris, Dietrich von Cholitz (Fröbe), is under orders from Hitler himself to burn the city if he cannot control it or if ..
Kings Go Forth - 1958
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Race, love, and war. The Allies have landed in France, set up in a coastal town, where Lt. Sam Loggins, a serious guy from Manhattan's west side, falls hard for Monique Blair, an American raised in France. Loggins' sergeant, Britt Harris, a playboy from Jersey, also finds Monique attractive. She cho..
Le Caporal épinglé | The Vanishing Corporal - 19...
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An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from priso..
Le passage du Rhin | Tomorrow Is My Turn | The Cro...
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Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers. In the ensuing years they become deeply involved in the lives of their captors...
Léon Morin, Priest | The Forgiven Sinner | Leon M...
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In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live ..
Les Milles: The Train of Liberty - 1995
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In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect..
Mãos Vermelhas - 1943
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Querendo manter as coisas em família, a família Goupi decide ligar para Eugène Goupi de Paris para sua casa de campo em Charente, para que possam se casar com Mugeut. Chegando lá pela primeira vez desde os 2 anos de idade, Eugène fica horrorizado ao receber uma recepção menos que calorosa. Enquanto ..
Monsieur Batignole - 2002
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In 1942, in occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When Pierre-Jean Lamour, his future son-in-law and collaborator of the Germans calls the Germans to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move t..
Safe Conduct - 2002
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In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the wolf's teeth and avoid being chewed up". Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible..