An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
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 search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even though he is a leader in the French Resistance. His nurse supports his activities, but her Nazi-brainwashed husband provides the tension.
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
Vapaa Ranska tarvitsee kipeästi apua.Suuren maailman uuvuttama Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) ei kuitenkaan moiseen uhkapeliin ryhdy.Mutta mies muuttaa mielensä, kun näyttävä seireeni nimeltä Marie kysyy, mahtaako kenelläkään olla tulta. Kyseessä on yksi kaikkien aikojen sähköisimmistä tapaamisista: Bogart kohtaa 19-vuotiaan Lauren Bacallin, joka tekee debyyttirooliaan. Jännitystä ja ikimuistoisia repliikkejä (tietyt viheltämisohjeet) anteliaasti tarjoileva trilleri on todellinen aarre.Howard Hawksin taitavasti ohjaama, William Faulknerin ja Jules Furthmanin oivaltavasti käsikirjoittama elokuva ei paljon muistuta Ernest Hemingwayn romaania. Sen sijaan se muistuttaa Casablancaa aika tavalla: Ranskan vastarintaliikkeen soturit, blueshenkinen pianisti (Hoagy Carmichael) ja martiniquelainen baari, joka ei juuri eroa eräästä tietystä paikasta nimeltä Rick ?s Café Americaine.
A 1946 war movie which tells the courageous efforts by French railway workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains.
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
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 have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.
Liittoutuneiden lähestyessä Pariisia elokuussa 1944, saksalainen taiteentuntija eversti von Waldheim päättää siirtää ranskalaisten “rappiotaiteen” aarteet - mm Degas, Renoir, Picasso, Lautrec, Gauguin jne - junalla Saksaan. Vastarintaliikkeen miehet valtionrautateillä saadaan vakuutetuksi lastin tärkeydestä. Lopulta tehtävä jää yhden miehen harteille. Liikennepäällikkö Labiche ei anna periksi, vaikka ei taiteesta mitään ymmärräkään.
It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre, is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German command centre. Whilst he is obliged to co-operate with the enemy, his wife Mary supports the resistance movement and is willing to risk her life for it. The Nazis step up their activity against the resistance, insisting that any who attempt to cross the line of demarcation will be shot. When his wife is arrested, Pierre decides to switch his allegiance.
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British 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 avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Englanti, toinen maailmansota. Quint Munroe, RAF:n upseeri ja laivueen uusi johtaja, saa tehtäväkseen tuhota salainen natsitukikohta Ranskassa ja yrittää samalla selvitä aseveljensä katoamisesta.
Tuntemattomat sankarit on mestariohjaaja Melvillen kolmas elokuva, joka käsittelee saksalaismiehityksen aikaa Ranskassa, mutta ensimmäinen joka niveltyy suoraan hänen omiin kokemuksiinsa vastarintaliikkeen jäsenenä. Elokuvan tapahtumat lähtevät liikkeelle vuoden 1942 lokakuusta ja seuraavat Philippe Gerbierin, salamyhkäisen insinöörin ympärille kokoontuneiden taistelijoiden elämänkohtaloita parin seuraavan kuukauden ajan. Paettuaan Vichyn hallituksen ja Gestapon käsistä Gerbier määrää hänet pettäneen miehen tapettavaksi ja matkustaa myöhemmin Lontooseen vastarintaliikkeen johtajan, filosofi Luc Jardinin kanssa. Hän palaa kuitenkin laskuvarjolla hypäten takaisin Ranskaan auttamaan vastarintaliikkeen organisoimisessa ja kiinnittää huomiota lujan ja nokkelan Mathilden erinomaisiin kykyihin taistella saksalaisia vastaan mitä nerokkaimmilla tavoilla. Vastarintaliike kohtaa kuitenkin monia koettelemuksia, ja sen jäsenet joutuvat vaikeiden henkilökohtaisten valintojen eteen.
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 is about to change forever.
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.
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists.
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 (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.