Occupied france movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant occupied france movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, tense and suspense films and TV shows about / with occupied france, world war two, nazi, wartime life, nazi occupied france, holocaust, war, world war, soldier and resistance plots mostly in War, Drama and Romance genres shot in France, UK, USA and other countries.
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occupied france movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as occupied france: Strayed (2003), A French Village (2009), Suite Française (2014), Resistance (2020), Strange Gardens (2003), Transit (2018), The Savior (1971), Lucie Aubrac (1997), Leon Morin, Priest (1961), Story of Women (1988).

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 6.5
 3K
Strayed (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that ...
Style: sincere, touching, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, world war two, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man, occupied france, wartime life, male nudity, refugee, survival, friendship, teenage life, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: paris france, france, europe, riviera, nice france
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A French Village (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The stories of the people of Villeneuve, a fictional subprefecture, in the Jura, in German–occupied France during the Second World War.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: world war two, occupied france, nazi occupied france, occupation, nazi occupation, german occupation, war, life is a bitch, small village, social problems, society, wartime ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: france, soviet union, germany, israel
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Suite Française (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style: emotional, realistic, romantic, period piece, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, war, fall in love, wartime life, occupied france, nazi occupied france, adultery, nazi officer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, ancient times, 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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 6.5
 9K
Resistance (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Style: powerful, costume drama
Plot: french resistance, occupied france, nazi officer, world war two, orthodox jew, world war, secret, love, husband wife relationship, saving a life, mother daughter relationship, anti semitism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1938, year 1943, year 1939 ...
Place: europe, swiss alps, geneva switzerland, munich germany, switzerland ...
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Strange Gardens (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: occupied france, world war two, french resistance, german occupation, nazi occupation, sabotage, resistance fighter, occupation, fighting the system, resistance, fight, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: france
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 6.9
 12K
Transit (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The German troops are just outside Paris. Georg escapes to Marseille at the last moment. His luggage contains the legacy of a writer named Weidel, who took his own life out of fear of persecution. This legacy comprises a manuscript, some letters and ...
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, tense, sentimental ...
Audience: adult
Plot: refugee, police, voice over narration, on the run, love, love interest, fake identity, police raid, doctor, world war two, world war, judaism ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france, germany, marseille, france
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 6.4
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The Savior (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life ...
Style: neurotic, crying
Plot: world war two, older man younger woman relationship, revenge, french resistance, love hate relationship, nymphet, occupied france, young love, age difference, teenage girl, female pubic hair, rural setting ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: germany, france
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 6.6
 1K
Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 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 Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious
Plot: french resistance, world war two, occupied france, gestapo, love, resistance movement, french history, biopic, resistance, judaism, nazi, nudity ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: france, lyon
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Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: clergy, world war two, atheist, religion, catholic priest, church, faith, priest, unfulfilled love, self discovery, theology, religions or cults ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1961
Place: france, europe
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Story of Women (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat.
Style: anthology, thought provoking, sincere, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: abortion, world war two, women's prison, street prostitution, unhappy marriage, ends with death, death row, nazi, wartime life, unwanted pregnancy, feminist, women ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, year 1943, 20th century
Place: europe, normandy, paris france, france
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War of the Buttons (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: youth, friendship, world war two, mischievous children, jewish girl, village, fall in love, young heroes, coming of age, disorder, social relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1944
Place: france, europe
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The Good and the Bad (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: From 1935 to 1945, the happiness of a couple turns to sadness when their Traction Avant auto is used by the gang des Tractions Avant.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: police officer, resistance, world war two, occupied france, nazism, hooligan, wartime life, dishonesty, heist, on the run, politics, obsessive quest ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 1930s, year 1945, year 1940 ...
Place: paris france
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 5.0
 1K
Breakthrough (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in ...
Plot: world war two, eastern front, world war, nazi, military, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, ss, holocaust, freedom, revolutionary war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, year 1944, 20th century
Place: normandy, france, paris france
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A Child in the Crowd (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul is a boy who wants affection and attention and cannot find it at home. For a while, he becomes the pet of some German soldiers, running errands for them. Later, he helps the ...
Plot: world war two, pedophilia, boyhood, lgbt, occupied france, public humiliation, male homosexuality, lgbt teen, gay subtext, female nudity, bare breasts, love ...
Time: 1940s
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 5.4
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Our Miss Fred (1972)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues in his female costume, Fred is certain to be shot as a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: occupied france, fashion show, gay interest, world war two, female impersonator, drag, cross dressing, surrender, invasion, transvestite, actor, german soldier ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france
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Varian's War: The Forgotten Hero (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Style: emotional, sincere, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: world war two, uncover truth, hidden identity, wartime life, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, society, against humanity, state affairs, escapades, survival, rescue ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, europe, usa, marseille
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Undercovers Hero (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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 bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style. As British Major Robinson he is hidden in Madame Grenier's ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film
Plot: occupied france, holocaust, brothel, french resistance, bare butt, satire, chaplain, mother superior, undercover, agent, soldier, priest ...
Place: paris france
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A Bag of Marbles (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, brother brother relationship, holocaust, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, german soldier, soldier, military, danger, machismo ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place: paris france, nice france, france
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Marie's Children (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: world war two, nazi occupied france, life is a bitch, hiding, occupied france, jew persecution, child custody, occupation, nazi germany, female protagonist, relationships, nazi ...
Place: france
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 7.5
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Resistance (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Paris. 1940. Lili is 17 years old. In occupied France, she encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance. Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance tells the story of young people going to any lengths to defend ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: world war two, french resistance, resistance, female protagonist, wartime, resistance fighter, occupied france, wartime life, historical event, youth, nazi occupation, occupation ...
Place: paris france
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The Last Train (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Style: road movie, sincere, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, train, french resistance, world war, love, railway, unhappy ending, nazi, judaism, wartime, occupied france, refugee ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 1943
Place: france, europe
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 7.8
 19K
The Train (1964)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat ...
Style: black and white, realistic, suspenseful, retro, exciting ...
Plot: world war two, train, french resistance, art, saboteur, art theft, nazi, resistance, sabotage, military, railway, wartime ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s
Place: france, paris france, germany, europe
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 6.6
 106K
Overlord (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: On the eve of D-Day, a group of American paratroopers is dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion’s success. But as they approach their target, they begin to realize there is more going on in this Nazi-occupied ...
Style: anime, action adventure, anamorphic, suspense, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: zombie, world war two, nazi, nazi zombie, supernatural, behind enemy lines, paratrooper, nazi occultism, war, fascist, laboratory, wartime ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: france, normandy
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Allies (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: August 1944 two months after D-Day, the Allies are advancing across France. A team of British and American commandos are dropped behind enemy lines on a secret mission to ambush a German Officer and steal maps charting the location of the enemy ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, exciting
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, secret mission, survival, battles, friendship, danger, war, holocaust, occupied france, summer ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: france
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The Army of Shadows (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style: noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: french resistance, world war two, espionage, terrorist, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, world war, betrayal, nazism, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place: paris france, vichy, marseille, lyon, europe ...
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Monsieur Batignole (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazism, child, wartime life, soldier, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, confined, society, resistance ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, year 1942
Place: france, paris france, switzerland, europe
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 8.4
 3K
Combat! (1962)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as ...
Style: retro, serious, realistic, vintage
Plot: world war two, military, world war, tank, mission, american soldier, soldier, us military, infantrymen, anti war, navy, d day ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century, 60s
Place: europe, prague, france, czech republic
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 7.0
 2K
Paradise (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.
Style: psychological, rough, touching, black and white, philosophical
Plot: prison, concentration camp, world war two, nazi collaborator, interrogation, nazi, holocaust, dictator, nazism, genocide, slavery, post soviet ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, 1930s
Place: soviet union, germany, french riviera
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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: During World War II, two French civilians and a downed English Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must ...
Style: humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious, funny ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, french resistance, war, soldier, danger, rescue, world war, house painter, royal air force, nazi occupied france, on the road ...
Time: 1940s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Genre: Action, War
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for ...
Style: exciting, macaroni combat, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, combat, world war, train, collaborator, submarine, commando, revenge, resistance, disguise, soldier, military ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: normandy, france
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