May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.

The Midwife

2015

Finnish

6.0

♡ 5

based on novel or book

Antti Jokinen Director

Krista Kosonen as Helena Alatalo

Elina Knihtilä as Heta

Lauri Tilkanen as Johannes Angelhurst

Arturas Kuzmenka as Soldier

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.

The Gang's All Here

1943

English

6.6

♡ 2

100%

Busby Berkeley Director

Mary Stewart as Chorus Girl

William A. Boardway as Club New Yorker Patron

John Roy as Dock Worker

Frank Faylen as Marine Sergeant

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

1968

English

6.3

♡ 5

40%

Jack Smight Director

Norman Fell as Captain Stanley

John Williams as General Mayhew

Paul Newman as Harry Frigg

Richard X. Slattery as M.P. Sergeant

When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...

The Naked Civil Servant

1975

English

7.9

♡ 7

92%

based on memoir or autobiography

Jack Gold Director

Charles Pemberton as Court PC

Roger Lloyd Pack as Liz

Jan Chappell as Neurotic Girl

John Hurt as Quentin Crisp

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

Simone: Woman of the Century

2022

French

6.8

♡ 2

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

biography

Biography

concentration camp

concentration camp prisoner

Olivier Dahan Director

Camille Rutherford as La jeune héroïnomane

Gaël Raës as Pierre-François Veil

Rebecca Marder as Simone Jacob

Genevieve O'Neal as Visiteuse Assemblée Nationale

Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.

Saints and Soldiers

2003

English

♡ 18

64%

Ryan Little Director

Corbin Allred as Cpl. Nathan 'Deacon' Greer

Larry Bagby as Pvt. Shirley 'Shirl' Kendrick

Peter Holden as SSgt. Gordon Gunderson

John Robert as WWII Re-Enactor

Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed

2012

English

5.7

♡ 6

55%

Ryan Little Director

Nichelle Aiden as Charlotte

Corbin Allred as Cpl. James Rossi

Ivan R. Bird as French Partisan #2

Nate Harward as German Motorcycle Driver

On August 15, 1944 the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (PRCT) jumped over the south of France. Their mission was to support and protect the Allied Troops marching to Berlin. Landing in enemy territory, they fell under immediate attack. In their effort to complete the mission and rendez-vous with their unit, three isolated paratroopers come across a group of French resistants in desperate need. They decide to help liberate some of the captive Partisans. Doing so they will risk their lives.

Edge of Darkness

1943

English

7.2

♡ 4

78%

Lewis Milestone Director

Errol Flynn as Gunnar Brogge

Monte Blue as Petersen

John Roy as Soldier

Carl Sklover as Soldier

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.

Kelly's Heroes

1970

English

7.6

♡ 47

79%

Brian G. Hutton Director

Len Lesser as Bellamy

Telly Savalas as Big Joe

Don Rickles as Crapgame

Clint Eastwood as Kelly

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

Hamsun

1996

Swedish

7.2

♡ 2

100%

Jan Troell Director

Gard B. Eidsvold as Arild Hamsun

Per Jansen as Harald Grieg

Max von Sydow as Knut Hamsun

Ghita Nørby as Marie Hamsun

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.

Special Section

1975

French

7.6

♡ 5

81%

based on novel or book

Costa-Gavras Director

Guy Mairesse as Léon Redondeau

Henri Serre as Le préfet Ingrand, délégué du ministère de l'Intérieur en zone occupée

Jacques Mathou as M. Montillot, l'avocat d'Octave Lamand

Costa-Gavras as Un milicien

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

Stalingrad

1993

German

7.5

♡ 46

world war ii eastern front

Joseph Vilsmaier Director

Dominique Horwitz as Fritz Reiser

Martin Benrath as General Hentz

Thomas Kretschmann as Hans von Witzland

Oliver Broumis as HGM

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.

Flame & Citron

2008

Danish

7.2

♡ 6

86%

Ole Christian Madsen Director

Peter Mygind as Aksel Winther

Mads Mikkelsen as Citronen

Thure Lindhardt as Flammen

Rasmus Botoft as Købmand

Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assigned targets by their Allies-connected leader, Aksel Winther, they relish the opportunity to begin targeting the Nazis themselves. When they begin to doubt the validity of their assignments, their morally complicated task becomes even more labyrinthine.

We Dive at Dawn

1943

English

6.7

♡ 7

53%

Anthony Asquith Director

Walter Gotell as Luftwaffe Captain

Jack Watling as Navigating Officer - Lt. Gordon, R.N.

Norman Williams as Periscope Operator - 'Canada'

Niall MacGinnis as Torpedo Gunner's Mate - C / P.O. Mike Corrigan

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from leave on shore with their families, and sent on a secret mission to intercept the Nazi battleship Brandenburg. In the ensuing battle the British submarine is damaged by a German destroyer. The submarine is leaking fuel so badly that the crew won't be able to make it back to Britain before running out somewhere along the Danish coast. When it seems that their only option may be to blow up the submarine and try to escape to Denmark, seaman James Hobson hatches a plan...

My Family and Other Animals

2005

English

7.3

♡ 5

83%

based on novel or book

Sheree Folkson Director

Jason Watkins as Durant

Matthew Goode as Larry Durrell

Imelda Staunton as Mother

Alexander Armstrong as Narrator

Escaping the dreary wet weather of 1930s England, an eccentric family uproot and ship themselves to the sunnier climes of the Greek island of Corfu.

Pastor Hall

1940

English

7.2

♡ 1

Action

Drama

world war ii

Roy Boulting Director

Nova Pilbeam as Christine Hall

Marius Goring as Fritz Gerte

Seymour Hicks as General von Grotjahn

Wilfrid Lawson as Pastor Frederick Hall

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.

The Big Red One

1980

English

7.1

♡ 26

90%

Samuel Fuller Director

Mark Hamill as Pvt. Griff, 1st Squad

Perry Lang as Pvt. Kaiser, 1st Squad

Siegfried Rauch as Schroeder

Lee Marvin as The Sergeant

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.

The Young Black Stallion

2003

English

5.4

♡ 3

human animal relationship

northern africa

world war ii

Simon Wincer Director

Richard Romanus as Ben Ishak

Gérard Rudolf as Rhamon

Ike Ogut as Sultan

Adil Abdelwahab as Village Chief

When courageous young Neera becomes separated from her family in the desert, she chances upon a wild colt. Together they find friendship, trust, and their way back home only to discover her family is about to lose everything!