Vive La Resistance !
Films dealing with the resistance movements against the Nazis , not just the French - Greek , Polish , Russian , Italian ... even Germans .
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- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsLino VenturaPaul MeurisseJean-Pierre CasselAn account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
- DirectorRobert BressonStarsFrançois LeterrierCharles Le ClaincheMaurice BeerblockA captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsMarcel BarnaultJean ClarieuxJean DaurandRecounts the courageous efforts by French railroad workers who were part of an organized resistance during German World War II occupation.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsAnna NeagleTrevor HowardMarius GoringDuring WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsVirginia McKennaPaul ScofieldJack WarnerDuring World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsRobert BeattySimone SignoretJack WarnerA secret London school trains a motley group of men and women for sabotage work in German occupied Belgium during World War II. When one of them is captured by the Germans, five others are parachuted in to rescue him.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsDanielle DarrieuxBernard BlierRobert DalbanFifteen years after WWII, a group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, so that the former members of the network can finally relive one fateful night and find out who betrayed their murdered leader, Castille.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJames CagneyAnnabellaRichard ConteWhen spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsGary CooperRobert AldaLilli PalmerIn WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsBurt LancasterPaul ScofieldJeanne MoreauIn 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsBrian DonlevyWalter BrennanAnna LeeAfter the German administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
- DirectorLéonide MoguyStarsGeorge SandersPhilip DornBrenda MarshallMembers of the French underground resistance, live their "normal" lives during the day, and fight the occupying Nazis in the war-torn Paris after dark. Some will end their lives fighting, and some will find purpose in life once again.
- DirectorTeddy BairdStarsHarry RéeJacqueline NearneTeddy BairdDocudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJean-Paul BelmondoCharles BoyerLeslie CaronAugust 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and resistance groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
- DirectorIrving PichelStarsAlan LaddGeraldine FitzgeraldPatric KnowlesDuring WW2, the O.S.S. sends teams of spies and saboteurs into Nazi-occupied France.
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsHelmut TausendMarcel VerdierAlexis GraveAn in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsJean SebergMaurice RonetDaniel Gélin1941. A little town in the Jura is cut in half by a river that forms the border between German-occupied France and the free zone.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsCharles LaughtonMaureen O'HaraGeorge SandersA mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsPierre BlaiseAurore ClémentHolger LöwenadlerIn 1944, an 18-year-old boy from small-town France collaborates with the Gestapo and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsRobert MitchumStanley BakerElisabeth MüllerIn 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.
- DirectorIsmaël FerroukhiStarsTahar RahimMichael LonsdaleMahmud ShalabyIn Paris during World War II, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsTeresa IzewskaTadeusz JanczarWienczyslaw GlinskiIn 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
- DirectorClaude BerriStarsCarole BouquetDaniel AuteuilPatrice ChéreauA 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, and the lengths she goes to to rescue her husband from prison on more than one occasion. Based on a true story Lucie Aubrac works as both history lesson and love story.
- DirectorMartin RittStarsVan HeflinSilvana ManganoJeanne MoreauFive Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsMichael RenniePatricia MedinaMilly VitaleA group of Polish fighters of the Polish resistance movement go on a mission to destroy the German V-1 'Flying Bomb' at Peenemünde and cripple the German war effort during World War II.
- DirectorVictor VicasStarsJeffrey HunterAnnemarie DüringerNigel PatrickAmerican and British counter-espionage combine to convince the Germans the cross-channel invasion will be in the Netherlands instead of France.
- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsRobert PrestonElizabeth SellarsColin TapleyA Canadian World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office scours England for the killer who murdered his wife.
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsJulia JentschFabian HinrichsAlexander HeldA dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
- DirectorMichael VerhoevenStarsLena StolzeMartin BenrathWulf KesslerDuring the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provocative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsErrol FlynnAnn SheridanWalter HustonAfter two years under German rule, a small Norwegian fishing village rises up and revolts against the occupying Nazis.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsGregory PeckTamara ToumanovaAlan ReedA heroic guerrilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsAnne BaxterDana AndrewsWalter HustonA Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsDaniel CraigLiev SchreiberJamie BellJewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsCharles VanelBruno CremerJean-Claude BrialyA French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?
- DirectorSergei NolbandovStarsJohn ClementsTom WallsRachel ThomasA World War II film made by Ealing Studios on the Yugoslav guerrilla resistance movement in German-occupied Yugoslavia.
- DirectorPaul RothaStarsAb AbspoelHenk AdmiraalChris BaayCrime-thriller based on a true story. In 1944 Resistance fighter Bakker is sent to a prison in Leeuwarden by the Gestapo. There he and other Allied resistance fighters are about to be rescued in a giant prison escape by their comrades.
- DirectorGiannis HristodoulouStarsHelmut DantineMariannaIrene ChamplinDuring World War II, a beautiful, brave, deadly woman helps to fight against Communists in the Greek Civil War.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsJohn ClementsGodfrey TearleHugh SinclairA mayor's daughter poses as collaborator to help British agent escape to England with vital information to help the allied war effort.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsSimone SignoretStuart WhitmanGeneviève PageIn Nazi-occupied France during WWII, a French woman helps two downed Allied airmen to evade capture by the Germans and make their way into neutral Spain.
- DirectorLeopold LindtbergStarsEwart G. MorrisonJohn HoyRay ReaganEscaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground.
- DirectorBodil IpsenLau LauritzenStarsPoul ReichhardtLisbeth MovinPer BuckhøjThe memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German wartime prison.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsCharles VanelBruno CremerJean-Claude BrialyA French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsMerle OberonBrian AherneCarl EsmondNicole Larsen is detested by her countrymen because they suspect she is collaborating with the occupying Germans. In reality she is working for the Norwegian underground, risking her life passing secrets to the resistance fighters.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsHedy LamarrPaul HenreidSydney GreenstreetDuring World War II, in neutral Portugal, a Dutch resistance fighter is attempting to find passage to England while trying to avoid German spies and Portuguese policemen.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsPaul MuniAnna LeeLillian GishA gentle widower, enraged at German atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsJeffrey LynnPhilip DornKaren VerneA World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, who are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsElisabeth BergnerRandolph ScottBasil RathboneMarianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flee the city when the goose-stepping German storm troopers arrive. After her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of German bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation, is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancé, a pro-German informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee through a French seaport.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGérard BlainAnna Maria FerreroBernard BlierAlvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo (Il Gobbo del Quarticciolo), during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. He starts his career of rebel like a partisan against the German occupants, fighting for freedom. The war goes on, and after the Nazis the Allied enter Roma as liberators. Now the Hunchback, like all the Rome's inhabitants, is finally a free man. But he doesn't leave the renegade life style as expected. In fact the Hunchback becomes one of the most well known bandits of the city, representing a problem for the new "occupants": the Allied.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsCornel WildeSteve CochranPhyllis ThaxterWhile under attack by German forces, a French army unit discovers there is a traitor in their midst, feeding the Germans information.
- DirectorGottfried ReinhardtStarsClark GableLana TurnerVictor MatureA Dutch intelligence officer recruits an Allied woman to act as liaison with dashing Resistance leader "The Scarf" for a British attack on Arnhem.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsEddie AlbertPaul MassieLillian GishAmerican agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsFrançoise ArnoulBernhard WickiAndré VersiniIn 1943, a French Resistance female fighter falls in-love with the undercover German Intelligence agent sent to investigate her.
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsFrançoise ArnoulHorst FrankFrançois GuérinIn 1944, former French Resistance agent Cora is employed by German Intelligence after being subjected to mind control experiments.