French Resistance Movies

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 this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always...

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

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of...

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network...

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...

Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors....

The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the...

World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in...

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...

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...

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

During World War II, two members of the Dutch resistance share the same goal but use very different methods to reach it.