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Crossing to Freedom
Crossing to Freedom (1990)

Genres Drama, War
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Peter O'Toole, Mare Winningham, Michael Kitchen, Juliette Mole, Ron Donachie, James Gaddas

Été 40. Devant la menace allemande, un avocat anglais en vacances dans le Jura décide de regagner l'Angleterre. Contre son gré, il se charge de ramener deux enfants auxquels d'autres se joindront en cours de route. Commence alors un voyage périlleux, en lutte permanente contre la faim, la peur et la guerre. Une odyssée du courage et de la volonté pour regagner la liberté.
Au Revoir les Enfants
Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
, 1h43
Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes French war films, Films about children, Films about religion, Scoutisme, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Raphaël Fejtö, Gaspard Manesse, Philippe Morier-Genoud, François Berléand, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg

During the winter of 1943-44, Julien Quentin, a student at a Carmelite boarding school in occupied France, is returning to school from vacation. He acts tough to the students at the school, but he is actually a pampered mother's boy who still wets his bed. Saddened to be returning to the tedium of boarding school, Julien's classes seem uneventful until Père Jean, the headmaster, introduces three new pupils. One of them, Jean Bonnet, is the same age as Julien. Like the other students, Julien at first despises Bonnet, a socially awkward boy with a talent for arithmetic and playing the piano.
The Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
, 2h46
Directed by Abel Gance
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Claudia Cardinale, Leslie Caron, Elvire Popesco, Georges Marchal

The first half of this film covers Napoleon's coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle, where he beat both Austrian and Russian forces in his drive eastward.
To Be Twenty in the Aures
To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972)
, 1h37
Directed by René Vautier
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Documentary
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Algerian War films, Histoire de France
Actors Philippe Léotard, Alexandre Arcady, Jacques Canselier, Jean-Michel Ribes, Alain Scoff, Jean-Jacques Moreau

A group of young pacifists from Brittany is taken to a camp destined to deserters. They end up by accepting the increasing violence with which they are trained, and become true killing machines. In April, 1961, they are moved to the Aurès mountains in Algeria where they face off against troops from the National Liberation Army. During the battle, the battalion captures a rebel fighter which they shall execute the next morning. Their most precious ideals are supposed to become overridden by sheer discipline.
Babette Goes to War
Babette Goes to War (1959)
, 1h40
Directed by Christian-Jaque
Origin France
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Ronald Howard, Jacques Charrier, Francis Blanche, Hannes Messemer, Yves Vincent

En 1940, Babette, une jeune provinciale française, se retrouve à Londres où le lieutenant Gérard de Crécy la fait engager comme femme de ménage au Quartier Général de la France libre. Le major Fitzpatrick, officier de renseignement britannique, remarque son étrange ressemblance avec Hilda, l'ex-maîtresse du responsable allemand du débarquement en Angleterre, le général von Arenberg. Après un entraînement intensif, elle est parachutée en France avec Gérard afin d'enlever le général. Mais après le parachutage, incapable de retrouver son beau lieutenant, elle prend seule le train pour Paris.
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
, 1h40
Directed by Édouard Molinaro, Vincent Trintignant, Robert Kechichian
Origin France
Genres Comedy-drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France, Films about royalty
Actors Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Manuel Blanc, Claire Nebout, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Serrault

L'année 1773 : le XVIII siècle peaufine son dernier acte. Louis XV s'apprête à quitter la scène, et en coulisses, déjà, Louis XVI se prépare. C'est le temps des grandes idées, et des mauvais sujets. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, fils d'horloger, horloger lui-même, trouvait avec Voltaire que les pendules de son temps retardaient dangereusement. Il allait s'employer à les remettre à l'heure...
Belle and Sebastian
Belle and Sebastian (2013)
, 1h38
Directed by Nicolas Vanier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier, Dimitri Storoge, Mehdi El Glaoui, Andreas Pietschmann

In the French Alps, during the year 1943, Sébastien is a seven year old orphan boy living with César, an adoptive "grandfather" and his daughter, Angélina. The unusual little family lives in the small village of Saint-Martin, whose inhabitants, despite the German occupation, secretly organize the passage of Jewish exiles into Switzerland. The village is also plagued by a mysterious "Beast" who preys on the flocks of the shepherds and the inhabitants, including Cesar's animals. Sébastien is a very lonely child who is suffering from the absence of his mother. He believes that she migrated "to America, just over the mountains", and spends all his days in the mountains. One day, on the way home, he meets a huge dog, wild and completely discredited: it is the so-called "Beast". Sébastien is not slow to make friends with the animal, a female sheepdog, and names her "Belle" because he is struck by her beauty after she is cleaned up from the mud that she was coated with. Sebastian decides to keep his friendship with Belle secret to protect her.
Billy Budd
Billy Budd (1962)
, 2h3
Directed by Peter Ustinov
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Terence Stamp, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers, John Neville

In the year 1797, the British naval vessel HMS Avenger (changed from the book; in early drafts it was Indomitable, later ones, Bellipotent) press gangs into service a crewman "according to the Rights of War" from the merchant ship The Rights of Man. The new crewman, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp), is considered naive by his shipmates, and they attempt to indoctrinate him in their cynicism. But Budd's steadfast optimism is impenetrable, as when he is asked to critique the horrible gruel the crew must eat, he offers "It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor." The crew discovers Budd stammers in his speech when under anxiety.
Bon Voyage
Bon Voyage (1944)
, 26minutes
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France

The story is told in flashback, once from the perspective of the protagonist, and then a second time with a deeper understanding that is provided by the intelligence officer in London.
Bon Voyage
Bon Voyage (2003)
, 1h54
Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Black comedy
Themes French war films, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Isabelle Adjani, Aurélie Matéo, Gérard Depardieu, Peter Coyote, Grégori Derangère, Virginie Ledoyen

It is 1940. When the movie begins, film star Viviane Denvert sits in the audience of a premiere of her new movie and notices a man who keeps staring at her. She is disturbed, and when the film is over and the audience has finished praising her, she rushes home, discovering that she is pursued by that same man. He chases her into her apartment.
Boulevard des hirondelles
Boulevard des hirondelles (1993)
, 1h30
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Élizabeth Bourgine, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Christophe Bourseiller, Didier Sandre, François Caron, Pierre Banderet

Une femme organise pendant la guerre une action commando pour sortir son amant de prison où il est retenu par les Nazis. L'opération se déroule pendant un transfert à proximité du Boulevard des Hirondelles à Lyon (aujourd'hui Boulevard des Tchécoslovaques)
Captain Horatio Hornblower
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
, 1h57
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, James Robertson Justice, Moultrie Kelsall

In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, British Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower (Gregory Peck) commands the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia on a lengthy secret mission to Central America. He is to provide arms and support to a megalomaniac named Don Julian Alvarado, who is calling himself "El Supremo" or "The Almighty" (Alec Mango), in his rebellion against Spain, an ally of Britain's enemy France. As Hornblower observes to First Lieutenant Bush (Robert Beatty), "War breeds strange allies."