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Directed by Philippe de Broca,
Marc MonnetOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
War,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes French war films,
Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about psychiatry,
Political films,
Films set in psychiatric hospitalsActors Alan Bates,
Geneviève Bujold,
Pierre Brasseur,
Jean-Claude Brialy,
Adolfo Celi,
Françoise ChristopheRating73%
Charles Plumpick (Bates) is a kilt-wearing Scottish soldier who is sent by his commanding officer to disarm a bomb placed in the town square by the retreating Germans. , 1h45
Directed by Jean Renoir,
Guy LefrancOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
War,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes French war films,
Military humor in film,
Prison films,
Political filmsActors Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Claude Brasseur,
Jean Carmet,
O. E. Hasse,
Claude Rich,
Mario DavidRating69%
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Juin 1940 - Dans un stalag en France, se trouve réunie une équipe de prisonniers particulièrement pittoresques : Caruso, l'électricien, Emile, Ballochet, Pater et ... le Caporal. Dès les premiers jours de sa captivité, le Caporal manifeste déjà un trait essentiel de son caractère. C'est un maniaque de l'évasion. Une première tentative, à laquelle participe à ses côtés Ballochet et Pater, ne parvient même pas à dépasser le mur d'enceinte du camp. Ce premier échec ne décourage pas le Caporal et Pater qui referont un essai – toujours manqué…- dans le wagon qui les emporte vers l'Allemagne. Et les tentatives continuent ! Un essai de fuite de la fabrique de briques où ils travaillent se termine, pour Pater et le Caporal, aux pieds d'une sentinelle… Décidés d'opérer de façon plus « scientifique », les deux amis se préparent des costumes de ville, en teignant en noir des uniformes. L’opposition d'un adjudant les oblige à retarder leur projet et c’est avec Penche à gauche que le Caporal prend la fuite. Cette fois, ils parviennent à prendre le train, aidés par une voyageuse qui n’est autre qu’un prisonnier français déguisé. Cette évasion mènera le Caporal un peu plus loin que les précédentes… à la gare suivante, où il se fera encore arrêter. Après un séjour dans un camp disciplinaire, le Caporal persiste dans ses intentions et grâce à Erika, une jeune allemande, il parvient à se procurer des vêtements civils pour Pater et pour lui. Dans le train qui roule vers la France, l'espoir des deux évadés grandit d'instant en instant. Un bombardement providentiel les sauvera d'un mauvais pas. Les voici à la frontière, la France est en vue…, 1h41
Directed by Sidney J. FurieOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
SpyThemes Spy films,
Political filmsActors Frank Sinatra,
Peter Vaughan,
Derren Nesbitt,
Edward Fox,
Toby Robins,
Nadia GrayRating59%
Sam Laker (Sinatra) is a former World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operative who is recruited by his former commanding officer to do a mission whilst he attends a business conference in Leipzig. To insure his cooperation, his son is kidnapped., 2h19
Directed by Henri CalefOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
WarThemes French war films,
Political filmsActors Raymond Pellegrin,
Louis Seigner,
Pierre Larquey,
Nadine Alari,
Roland Armontel,
Pierre BrasseurRating69%
Amiens, sous l'Occupation. Un certain nombre de Français sont incarcérés et doivent servir d'otages si le convoi d'essence arrêté en gare doit subir un attentat. Celui-ci a lieu, les otages seront fusillés au matin. La nuit passe avec des réactions diverses de la part des prisonniers. Prévenue par radio, la Royal Air Force bombarde la prison au moment de l'exécution. Les condamnés qui réchappent de l'opération gagnent le maquis., 2h7
Directed by Chantal AkermanGenres DramaThemes Feminist films,
Political filmsActors Aurore Clément,
Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Helmut Griem,
Magali Noël,
Hanns Zischler,
Lea MassariRating72%
Anne Silver, a Belgian filmmaker, is travelling through West Germany, Belgium, and France to promote her new film. Along the way, she meets with strangers, friends, former lovers, and family members, all the while traversing an isolating and increasingly homogeneous Western Europe., 1h41
Directed by Ralph ThomasOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Spy,
CrimeThemes Spy films,
Political filmsActors Rod Taylor,
Christopher Plummer,
Lilli Palmer,
Daliah Lavi,
Burt Kwouk,
Camilla SparvRating60%
New South Wales Police Sergeant Scobie Malone (Taylor) is summoned to Sydney by the Premier of New South Wales (Leo McKern) who at the time was the controversial Sir Robert Askin. The Australian High Commissioner in London, Sir James Quentin (Plummer) is wanted for a 25-year-old murder charge, that the Premier, Quentin's gruff political rival, has discovered., 2h19
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville,
Jean-François AdamOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
HistoricalThemes French war films,
La provence,
Films about religion,
Political films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Histoire de France,
L'Occupation allemande en FranceActors Lino Ventura,
Simone Signoret,
Paul Meurisse,
Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Serge Reggiani,
Christian BarbierRating80%
Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura), the head of a Resistance network, is arrested by Vichy French police, imprisoned in a camp, and transported to Paris for questioning. He makes a daring escape., 2h24
Directed by Richard AttenboroughOrigin United-kingdomGenres War,
Comedy,
MusicalThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Political filmsActors Dirk Bogarde,
Phyllis Calvert,
Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Colin Farrell,
John Clements,
John GielgudRating69%
Oh! What A Lovely War summarises and comments on the events of World War I using popular songs of the time, many of which were parodies of older popular songs, and using allegorical settings such as Brighton's West Pier to criticise the manner in which the eventual victory was won., 2h4
Directed by Gérard OuryOrigin FranceGenres War,
Comedy,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes French war films,
Military humor in film,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Aviation films,
Motocyclette,
Political films,
Road movies,
Buddy films,
Disaster films,
Films about aviation accidents or incidents,
Histoire de France,
L'Occupation allemande en FranceActors Terry-Thomas,
André Bourvil,
Louis de Funès,
Mike Marshall,
Helmuth Schneider,
Claudio BrookRating78%
Summer 1941. Over Nazi-occupied France, a Royal Air Force B17 Flying Fortress becomes lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The crew, Sir Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out over the city, where they run into and are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort. Involuntarily, Lefort and Bouvet get themselves tangled up in the manhunt against the aviators led by Wehrmacht Major Achbach as they help the airmen to escape to the free zone with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathisers., 2h25
Directed by Philippe de BrocaOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
War,
HistoricalThemes Political films,
Histoire de France,
French Revolution filmsActors Sophie Marceau,
Philippe Noiret,
Lambert Wilson,
Stéphane Freiss,
Roger Dumas,
Jean-Pierre CasselRating61%
In 1793, during the French Revolution, a young woman named Céline (Sophie Marceau), who was adopted by Count Savinien de Kerfadec, must choose between two men who have been raised like her brothers, Tarquin Larmor (Lambert Wilson) and Aurèle de Kerfadec (Stéphane Freiss), while they take opposite sides in the conflict. Tarquin, also adopted by the Count, is a partisan of the New Republic and defends the new political system; Aurèle, the Count's natural son, supports the Royalist side. Both sons are in love with Céline. After the Republican Army decimates Western France, an insurgence of peasants, clergy, and aristocrats loyal to the Royalists stage a counterrevolution.