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Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The courage-filled story of the Allied Resistance and the Paris Liberation of 1944. As the Nazi jackboot marches through Europe, the freedom fighters of Paris mount a brave resistance. Nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Original Score at the **Golden Globes.**
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jerry Mulligan is an ex-G.I. and a struggling American painter in Paris. He is 'discovered' by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist. Romance between Jerry and Lise becomes complicated.
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by a secret past and tormented by an uncertain future, two lonely people are drawn together in Paris during the last desperate days of freedom before WWII. A surgeon flees to Paris to escape the Nazis' growing power. After falling in love with an unemployed cabaret singer and finding her a job, he is deported when unable to produce his passport. Things come to a crisis when war is declared.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, this novel of WWII illuminates the power of hope in the face of hatred and prejudice. As the shadows of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party fall over Paris, Madeleine Levy draws on the spirit of her WWI hero grandfather and defends her beloved France in the only way she knows how: helping Jewish children escape the impending horror. Using her education, patience, and charm, Madeleine undertakes deadly missions, saving Jewish lives...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother's treasure-filled apartment, unsure if she'll ever return. An elusive courtesan, Marthe de Florian cultivated a life of art and beauty, casting out all recollections of her impoverished childhood in the dark alleys of Montmartre. With Europe on the brink of war, she shares her story with her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron, using her...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
Series
Criterion collection volume 318
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A timeless evocation of the loss of innocence, Rene Clement's devastating Forbidden games tells the story of a young orphan and her friend forced to fend for themselves in World War II France.
Language
English
Description
A tale of love, romance and jealousy in Post-War France. In the midst of celebrating V-E Day, two sisters meet an army lieutenant. The free-spirited sister wins his heart. Their marriage is less than idyllic, and though they are very much in love, the pairing results in tragedy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 462
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country,...
14) Victory
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
50,000 fans are on hand for a match in occupied Paris between German all-stars and a pick-up team of Allied POWs. In an attempt to demonstrate the Aryan superiority, the Germans unwittingly set up a means of prisoner escape.
Publisher
Disc Plaza Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
English
Description
The last time I saw Paris: Tragedy strikes an American WWII veteran with literary ambitions who falls in love in Paris.
Charade: "Reggie Lambert returns to her home in Paris after a vacation in the French Alps only to find that her husband has been murdered! Reggie discovers that her husband had many secret identities. With the help of Peter and the CIA, Reggie unravels the truth about her husband's death. As the mystery is being solved, a flame...
17) Victory
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"This is no ordinary soccer match. This is war. The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another 'proof' of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins? Better yet, guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape?"--Container.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A woman disguises herself as a young boy to help her father escape from the police in pre-war Paris; three British Army veterans find adventure on India's North-West frontier, helped by a young Indian water boy; a WW II drama about a submarine mission to Tokyo Bay and the lives of the sailors on board; an easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In 1939 a young girl sits alone in a station waiting room in Marseilles. Half-Jewish Ilse has been sent out of Nazi Germany to safety in Morocco by her mother. But her journey takes her back to France, where she cannot escape the Nazi occupation. Blown about by circumstances beyond her control, she must grow up alone in a demi-monde of refugees, whores and freedom fighters.
In Germany, Nicolai struggles against his destiny in the Hitler Youth. His...
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An aspiring American writer living in Paris comes into unexpected wealth and ditches his hard-working lifestyle for a lavish yet self-destructive spending spree that threatens to cost him all the things that really matter to him.
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