Massacre in Rome

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.

The Crossing of Paris

1956

French

7.3

♡ 8

smuggling (contraband)

suitcase

War

Claude Autant-Lara Director

Louis de Funès as Jambier, l'épicier

Harald Wolff as Le commandant allemand

Hubert Noël as Le gigolo arrêté

Jacques Marin as Le patron du restaurant Saint Martin

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

Francofonia

2015

French

6.6

♡ 4

87%

Aleksandr Sokurov Director Léolo

Léolo as Groom service

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as Jacques Jaujard

Adolf Hitler as Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.

The Last Note

2017

Greek

7.6

♡ 32

Pantelis Voulgaris Director

Melia Kreiling as Hara Lioudaki

André Hennicke as Karl Fischer

Andreas Konstantinou as Napoleon Soukatzidis

Vassilis Koukalani as Sarantos

The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.

The Round Up

2010

French

7.1

♡ 14

96%

Rose Bosch Director

Adèle Exarchopoulos as Anna Traube

Mélanie Laurent as Annette Monod

Jean Reno as Dr. David Scheinbaum

Anne Benoît as Matthey Jouanis

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

The Diary of Anne Frank

2016

German

6.8

♡ 4

1940s

based on memoir or autobiography

Hans Steinbichler Director

Lea van Acken as Anne Frank

Jamie Bick as Hanneli

Florian Teichtmeister as Karl Josef Silberbauer

Ulrich Noethen as Otto Frank

The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.

Black Book

2006

Dutch

7.7

♡ 49

77%

Paul Verhoeven Director

Garrick Hagon as British General

Derek de Lint as Gerben Kuipers

Waldemar Kobus as Günther Franken

Michiel Huisman as Rob

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

The Sorrow and the Pity

1969

French

8.1

♡ 1

100%

nazi collaborationism

Marcel Ophüls Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Maurice Chevalier as Self - Denies Making Tour of Germany

Marcel Ophüls as Self, interviewer

Anthony Eden as Self, Winston Churchill's foreign Secretary 1940-1945

An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration between France’s Vichy government and Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944.

This Life

2012

Danish

6.6

♡ 2

denmark

Drama

nazi collaborationism

Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis Director

Thomas Morris as Hans Müller

Nick Wilder as Schwitzgebel

Paul Hüttel as Statsminister Buhl

Jesper Asholt as Thorup Petersen

The true story of the Fiils: a family of innkeepers who, during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark, took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.

The Tobacconist

2018

German

6.5

♡ 4

25%

based on novel or book

Nikolaus Leytner Director

Karoline Eichhorn as Anna Freud

Haymon Maria Buttinger as Echse

Johannes Krisch as Otto Trsnjek

Bruno Ganz as Sigmund Freud

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.

Suite Française

2014

English

7.0

♡ 15

75%

69%

Action

based on novel or book

Saul Dibb Director

Margot Robbie as Celine Joseph

Michelle Williams as Lucile Angellier

Kristin Scott Thomas as Madame Angellier

Ruth Wilson as Madeleine Labarie

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 small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

The Silence of the Sea

1949

French

7.6

♡ 12

100%

occupied france (1940-44)

Romance

War

world war ii

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Claude Vernier as L'Allemand Rudelle

Rudelle as L'Allemand

Nicole Stéphane as La nièce

Georges Patrix as L'ordonnance

In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he speaks to them candidly about his life and hopes for the future of France and Germany.