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1. Overlord (2018)
R | 110 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.
Director: Julius Avery | Stars: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbæk
Votes: 106,555 | Gross: $21.70M
2. Suite Française (2014)
107 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
During the early years of German occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), a French villager, and Lieutenant Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), a German soldier.
Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Margot Robbie, Eric Godon
Votes: 28,527
3. The Train (1964)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Thriller, War
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Directors: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Votes: 18,880 | Gross: $7.41M
4. Resistance (2020)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Félix Moati
Votes: 8,958
5. Transit (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Votes: 11,852 | Gross: $0.82M
6. Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance, War
Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel
Votes: 5,673 | Gross: $0.04M
7. Breakthrough (1979)
PG | 115 min | Drama, War
In 1944 a German sergeant gets involved in an anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Helmut Griem, Klaus Löwitsch
Votes: 1,480
8. The Silence of the Sea (1949)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War
In occupied France, an elderly man and his niece are forced to give shelter to a German army lieutenant who seemingly loves their country and culture.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe
Votes: 5,656
9. This Land Is Mine (1943)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, War
A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Votes: 3,732
10. The Last Train (1973)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud, Paul Amiot
Votes: 1,736
11. The Pied Piper (1942)
87 min | Drama, War
While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger
Votes: 736
12. Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
G | 89 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, a commando leader named Major Jamie Wilson leads a group of soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy a Nazi naval stronghold on the French coast.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden
Votes: 767
13. Glory at Sea (1952)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1940, the Captain of an old Royal Navy destroyer struggles with his crew, as well as the Nazis.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald
Votes: 757
14. Paradise (2016)
130 min | Drama, War
Follows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Jakob Diehl, Peter Kurth, Yuliya Khlynina, Yuliya Vysotskaya
Votes: 2,029 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Le Bal (1983)
109 min | History, Musical
Dance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier
Votes: 3,031
16. Allies (2014)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Drama, War
August 1944. A team of British soldiers led by a US Captain are dropped behind enemy lines in France on a mission that could shorten the war. As nothing goes according to plan, commando ... See full summary »
Director: Dominic Burns | Stars: Julian Ovenden, Chris Reilly, Matt Willis, Edmund Kingsley
Votes: 1,015
17. Varian's War: The Forgotten Hero (2001 TV Movie)
121 min | Drama, History, War
Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Director: Lionel Chetwynd | Stars: William Hurt, Howard Ryshpan, Carol Shamy, Harald Winter
Votes: 909
18. Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, War
Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of 28 slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next one, along ... See full summary »
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Jack Palance, Thomas Hunter, Robert Hundar, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 297
19. The Square Peg (1958)
85 min | Comedy, War
A British road repairman gets into a feud with the army, gets drafted, and is mistakenly parachuted into German-occupied France where his physical resemblance to the local German commandant triggers a hilarious chain reaction.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman, Campbell Singer
Votes: 1,595
20. The Good and the Bad (1976)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Marlène Jobert, Jacques Dutronc, Brigitte Fossey, Bruno Cremer
Votes: 367
21. Soleil (1997)
104 min | Drama
Algiers, 1940. MAMAN TITINE has lived alone with her five children ever since her husband JOSEPH, a Jewish post office employee, set off for Paris with forged papers to find work. Maman ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Hanin | Stars: Sophia Loren, Philippe Noiret, Marianne Sägebrecht, Roger Hanin
Votes: 188
22. Fortunat (1960)
121 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman ,Juliette,is forced to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet kind man.
Director: Alex Joffé | Stars: Bourvil, Michèle Morgan, Teddy Bilis, Rosy Varte
Votes: 325
23. Le repas des fauves (1964)
99 min | Drama, War
Set in World War Two occupied France. Several people gather at a house to celebrate a woman's birthday. Some German soldiers are killed outside. The Gestapo inform the group that they must ... See full summary »
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Francis Blanche, Boy Gobert, Antonella Lualdi, Adolfo Marsillach
Votes: 206
24. The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell (2019 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary, History, War
An unprecedented look at the vicious three-month Battle of Normandy that took place after the D-Day invasion.
Director: Guilain Depardieu | Stars: John McManus, Anthony Beevor, Tim Cook, Geoffrey Bateman
Votes: 53
25. Jericho (1946)
Passed | 139 min | Drama, War
Jericho is the code name of an operation set up by the British Royal Air Force and the French Resistance to free French hostages held by German soldiers in the jail of Amiens in Northern France.
Director: Henri Calef | Stars: Nadine Alari, Roland Armontel, Jean Brochard, André Carnège
Votes: 104
26. The Venetian (2010 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Saara Saarela | Stars: Thierry Frémont, Hélène Seuzaret, Catherine Samie, Brigitte Catillon
Votes: 71
27. Un matin rouge (1982)
80 min | Drama
During the world war two in a French village a teacher and a female pupil have been killed by the Gestapo because of an informer.Now forty years later former pupils , now adults will meet ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Jacques Aublanc | Stars: Claude Rich, Michel Duchaussoy, Jacques Fabbri, Maurice Garrel
Votes: 33
28. Mémoires en fuite (2000 TV Movie)
Crime, Drama
Frédéric Lemoyne must be very happy in his life: he is a famous biologist and the son of a hero of French resistance: his father, Marcel Lemoyne, doctor, took care for wounded members of ... See full summary »
Director: François Marthouret | Stars: Bernard Le Coq, Geneviève Page, Maurice Garrel, Delphine Sérina
Votes: 17
29. Le petit prof (1958)
88 min | Comedy
Jérôme Aubin is born on 16th of October 1925, the day of the signature of the Locarno Treaties,so as they say this day he was born under the sign of peace.Very young baby he helped his ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Rim | Stars: Darry Cowl, Yves Robert, Rosy Varte, René Blancard
Votes: 57
30. La sentence (1959)
79 min | Drama, War
July 1944. A German colonel who has committed terrible crimes against the population has been killed by a group of the French Resistance.Four members of the Resistance, two men and two ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Valère | Stars: Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Roger Hanin, Béatrice Bretty
Votes: 37
31. The Most Courageous Raid of WWII (2011 TV Movie)
49 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of the Cockleshell Heroes, who raided Nazi-occupied Bordeaux in 1942.
Director: Francis Whately | Stars: Paddy Ashdown, M.R.D. Foot, Norman Colley, Jeanne Baudray
Votes: 28
32. La cage aux souris (1954)
95 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Director: Jean Gourguet | Stars: Dany Carrel, Michel François, Dora Doll, Raymond Bussières
Votes: 14
33. Gloom (II) (2019)
3 min | Short, Action, Drama
Nazi occupied France, 1941. Mathilde, the chief recruiter of the espionage group "Interallié", and Monique, one of the network's members, arrange a meeting. From the beginning, Mathilde ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Gregoras | Stars: Rodrig Andrisan, Keanan Cantrell, Camille Champion, Dean Helliwell
34. La guerre des ondes (Radio Londres 1943-1944) (2014 TV Movie)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, History
After leaving Paris Pierre Dac , a famous French humorist,has been in Spain where he has been prisoner two times and arrives at London at the end of 1943.He joins a small team of French ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Jaoui | Stars: Jean-Yves Lafesse, Ronald Beurms, Margaux Colarusso, Jean-Luc Couchard
Votes: 15
35.
Goodyear Theatre (1957–1960)
Episode:
Coogan's Reward
(1959)
30 min | Drama
An arrogant war correspondent in World War Two France never bothers with actually going out to cover battles like the other reporters do, he just stays behind the lines, living it up and ... See full summary »
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Jered Barclay, Roxane Berard, Alan Carney, Alan Dexter
36.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Death Drum
(1952)
Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The mayor of a French town reveals the identities of underground members, he says, to save the country from destruction by the invading Nazis. Having been moved to a neutral country, he's ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Herbert Berghof, Ian Keith, Wright King, Maria Riva
Votes: 38
37.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Factories of Death
(2005)
TV-14 | 49 min | Documentary, History, War
The year 1942 is to be the most significant of 'the Final Solution' as the Nazis now begin to comb western Europe, even taking Jews from as far afield as the British Channel Islands.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Annette Muller
Votes: 182
38.
Masters of the Air (2024)
Episode:
Part Eight
(2024)
TV-MA | 51 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Crosby prepares for D-Day. The POWs wonder how the Allied landing will affect their fate. Tuskegee pilots attack targets in Southern France.
Director: Dee Rees | Stars: Branden Cook, Tomisin Ajani, Darryl Mundoma, Francis Lovehall
Votes: 1,664
39.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Operation Market Garden
(2001)
Documentary, History, War
Operation Market Garden was an attempt by the allies to use airborne units to seize key bridges and short-cut the slog into northern Germany thereby shortening the war. This is a look at the plan, the leaders and the equipment involved.
Directors: Andrew Aitken, Dave Flitton, James Wignall | Stars: Jonathan Booth, Wilhelm Bittrich, Omar N. Bradley, Lewis H. Brereton
Votes: 6
40.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for Caen
(2001)
Documentary, History, War
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bernard L. Montgomery, Erwin Rommel
Votes: 14
41.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battles for Tunisia
(2001)
Documentary, History, War
The campaign in Tunisia in World War Two saw the battles that finally ended the brutal war in the desert. We look at the weapons used and tactics and tell the story of the battle itself.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Kenneth Anderson, Claude Auchinleck
Votes: 6
42.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Big Red One
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The story of the longest serving infantry division in the US Army, who fought in every major campaign in Western Europe in which American forces were engaged.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Harley Reynolds, Flint Whitlock, Jon Trigg, Benjamin Hilton
43.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Red Devils
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
From the moment British airborne was formed after Churchill noted the impressive feats of Germany's elite Falschirmjaeger paratroopers, Britain's Airborne would be an elite fighting force.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Chip Chapman, Tony Hibbert, Jim Knox, Jon Trigg
44.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Desert Rats
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The story of the armoured units who landed in Normandy to spearhead the Allied advance into Nazi occupied Europe and break open the Third Reich's defences.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Dick Taylor, Jon Trigg, Rodney Scott, Cecil Newton
45.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Screaming Eagles
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The 101st Airborne parachuted into their first battle on D-Day, swiftly proving their worth as one of the most accomplished combat formations ever fielded by the US army.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: John O'Brien, Ed Shames, Carl Beck, Jon Trigg
46.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Rangers
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
America's first true Special Forces units, specially selected and trained with the help of British commandos, Rangers became the first US ground forces to see action in Europe.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Edwin Roth, George Sabine, Flint Whitlock, Jon Trigg
47.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
The Mighty Eighth
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The 8th United States Army Air Force flew some of WW2's most daring raids and sorties over Germany and mainland Europe.
Director: Adam Luria | Stars: Robert Ricks, Bill Toombs, Flint Whitlock, Henry Hughey
48.
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode:
Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942)
(2022)
TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History
As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.
Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes
Votes: 157
49.
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode:
The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-)
(2022)
TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History
A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.
Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer
Votes: 146
50.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
Closing the Ring
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
The Western Allies secure supply routes that will allow them to enter Germany, and the Ardennes counter-offensive fails. The Red Army advances rapidly, and Stalin shows uses the war for Empire-building. The SS implements the Holocaust.
Stars: Robert Powell, Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 221