The Last Metro (1980), Habermann (2010), Fanny's Journey (2016), Monsieur Batignole (2002), Safe Conduct (2002), Bon Voyage (2003), Hearts of the World (1918), Django (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best German Occupation movies.
Storyline: Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive with a new play, and hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. But Lucas is actually hiding in the basement... A film about art and life.
Plot Keywords: theater owner, director, actress, actor, designer, critic, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mill owner in the Sudetenland and his family's lives are changed as Europe heats up in 1938.
Plot Keywords: german, german soldier, man, young woman, love interest, war hero, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the mountains.
Plot Keywords: girl, young girl, young boy, group leader, soldier, sister, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: grocer, fiancé, collaborator, jewish child, cousin, daughter, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the wolf's teeth and avoid being chewed up". Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.—Aline
Plot Keywords: resistance fighter, assistant director, screenwriter, german, wife, brother, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the start of World War II, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux. Cabinet members, journalists, physicists, and spies of all persuasions gather in order to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris. High society socialites hobnob with jailbirds. Murderous intrigues, scientific secrets and love affairs flourish.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: actress, government official, prisoner, german, writer, student, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some successfully, others tragically, until French troops retake the town.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: american, beautiful girl, friend, german soldier, father, mother, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Django Reinhardt was one of the most brilliant pioneers of European jazz and the father of Gypsy Swing. "Django" grippingly portrays one chapter in the musician's eventful life and is a poignant tale of survival. Constant danger, flight and the atrocities committed against his family could not make him stop playing.—Berlinale
Plot Keywords: composer, guitarist, band member, gypsy, nazi, girlfriend, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During World War II, France's Vichy government takes part in the collection of 13,000 French Jews and holds them in various venues, including an indoor cycling stadium, before shipping them off to their deaths.
Plot Keywords: family, jew, emotional, powerful, sad, france, montmartre ...
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