Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII (2002), La grande vadrouille (1966), Suite Française (2014), Korczak (1990), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018), Strayed (2003), In Darkness (2011), Flame & Citron (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best German Occupation movies.
Storyline: Before the Second World War, more than one and a half million Jewish children were living in Europe. By the war's end, fewer than one out of ten had survived. This is the story of the non-Jewish families who put their own lives at risk to save these children.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: world war ii, holocaust, survivors, jews, documentary, history, war crimes ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A RAF Bomber is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew land there by parachute. With the help of some French civilians they try to escape over the demarcation line into the southern part of France, still not occupied by the Germans.
Plot Keywords: comedy, war, adventure, french, world war ii, escape, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Her husband away at war, a lonely Frenchwoman (Michelle Williams) begins a tentative romance with the refined German soldier (Matthias Schoenaerts) who has taken up residence in her mother-in-law's house.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, france, romance, historical, drama, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, known also as Janusz Korczak, is a man of high principles. He is unafraid of shouting at German officers and frequently has to be persuaded to save his own life. His orphanage, set up in a cramped school in the Warsaw ghetto, provides shelter to 200 homeless kids. Putting his experimental educational methods into practice, he installs a kind of children's self-government, whose justice is in a big contrast to what is happening in the outside world. Right in front of the school, dozens of kids are dying or being killed everyday and their naked bodies lie on the street unattended. Ghetto's mayor assures Korczak that the orphanages will be saved. Korczak raises food and money for the orphanage from the rich Jews. In the final roundup he refuses to accept a Swiss passport and boards the train to Treblinka with his orphans.—Polish Cinema Database <http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/>
Plot Keywords: war, history, biography, world war ii, holocaust, jewish, children ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A correspondence begins between Juliet Ashton (Lily James) and members of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, with them sharing their experiences of Nazi-occupied Guernsey Island. When an idea for a book catches Juliet, she goes to visit the island, making life-long friends and taking life changing steps along the way. This book is told by way of letters, and as the reader, you become enchanted by the writers of them and the love Juliet comes to feel for each of the Islanders; Dawsey Adams (Michiel Huisman), Amelia Maugery (Dame Penelope Wilton), Isola Pribby (Katherine Parkinson), Eben Ramsey (Sir Tom Courtenay), Kit (Florence Keen), and Elizabeth McKenna (Jessica Brown Findlay).—Cathryn McDowell
Plot Keywords: historical, romance, drama, war, novel adaptation, british, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Nazi-occupied France in the 1940s, a widowed school teacher, Odile (Emmanuelle Béart), races to get out of Paris with her two children, Philippe (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Cathy (Clémence Meyer). Destruction and mayhem in the city streets force the family to flee into the forest, where they meet a 17-year-old boy, Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), who leads them to a safe house. Once there, Odile and Yvan explore their sexual feelings for each other, even as the Nazis pursue them.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, france, flight, survival, family, mother ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: IN DARKNESS tells the true story of Leopold Socha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the German-occupied town of Lvov (former Poland).—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: world war ii, nazis, jews, underground, hiding, survival, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, resistance, denmark, spy, nazi ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, based on true story, nazis, escape, military, history ...
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: war, history, world war ii, germany, jews, nazis, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, taking on the role of maid as well as accompanist, living life vicariously through Irene's triumphs and affairs.—Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, music, historical, war, french, world war ii, piano ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, french film, drama, escape, history, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, nazis, italy, jews, rescue, resistance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: War brews over Warsaw in 1939, and while life is still running its course, the Germans are slowly beginning to make their presence felt, with Hitler secretly preparing for the German invasion of Poland. Under those circumstances, the young couple of Jan and Antonina Zabinski continue their daily routine as owners and keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, but soon, as German Luftwaffe's Stukas hammer the Polish capital, their life's work together with the city, will turn to ashes. However, with the zoo liquidated for the war effort and many of its animals tragically perished, what was once an animals' zoo, will now serve as a sanctuary where Antonina, the humanist veterinarian, and Jan can hide the persecuted Polish Jews in plain sight until safe houses are found. That was Jan and Antonina's formidable, yet perilous plan, who regardless of the consequences, refused to wither before the Nazi menace, took matters into their own hands and sheltered 300 Jews under the Germans' noses.
Plot Keywords: world war ii, nazi, jewish, resistance, historical drama, true story, humanitarianism ...
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: war, world war ii, french film, history, resistance, filmmaking, collaboration ...
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