French Resistance Movies

Robert d'Eglantine invites his friends to spend a few days in an old country house where he proposes them to embark on a daring adventure with a...

During the Second World War, many French railway workers participated in the resistance. Daily acts of sabotage, spectacular derailments: the railway...

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of...

In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul...

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses...

A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being...

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get...

In February 1944, in a courtyard at Fresnes Prison, the Germans staged a spectacle to stigmatize a group of communist resistance fighters—all...

England, World War II. Quint Munroe, RAF officer and new leader of a Mosquito squadron, is tasked with destroying a secret Nazi base in France while...

In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who knew the...

In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a...

Documentary about the French public welfare system.

June 1944. Europe is torn apart by war, and preparations are underway for the Normandy landings. Denis Porte continues his daily work with dedication...

In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the...

When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying...

50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970.