Films like The Battle of the Rails

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   Lucie Aubrac

   Film · 1997 · also drama and war

   A 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...

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   Army of Crime

   Film · 2009 · also drama and war

   This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Par...

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   Diplomacy

   Film · 2014 · also drama and war

   On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to destroy the city on Hitler's orders. As the general prepares to detonate...

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   Is Paris Burning?

   Film · 1966 · also drama and war

   Near the end of World War II, General Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he's unable to ma...

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   Intimate Enemies

   Film · 2007 · also drama and war

   A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

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   Uprising

   Film · 2001 · also drama and war

   In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

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   The Children of the Resistance

   Film · 2026 · also drama

   During the German occupation of World War II, François, Eusèbe, and Lisa, three courageous children, embark on a secret adventure: resisting the Nazis in the heart of Fra...

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   Taxi for Tobruk

   Film · 1961 · also drama and war

   During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.

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   The Longest Day

   Film · 1962 · also drama and war

   The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being establ...

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    Waiting for Anya

    Film · 2020 · also drama and war

    During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Sp...

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