Cycles

1944-2024, les 80 ans du débarquement

9 films

Les commémorations du 80ème anniversaire du débarquement se préparent partout en France pour fêter la libération de juin 1944. Découvrez ou re-découvrez des films emblématiques qui permettent de se souvenir de grands moments de l'histoire et de l'importance du lien entre le passé et le présent, soulignant, ainsi, l’importance de préserver la paix et la liberté.

1944-2024, les 80 ans du débarquement
  • Drama, Literary adaptation
  • 1959
  • 1h31
by Alain Resnais

A French actress is shooting a pacifist film in Japan; she has a brief affair with a Japanese architect, they talk, in a hotel room, in a bar, in the night. She talks about herself, a little girl from Nevers who once, in occupied France, loved a German soldier... She talks about herself, painful, radiant, terrified, appeased.

  • Comedy-drama, Classics
  • 1980
  • France
  • 2h08
by François Truffaut

All Marion Steiner can think about is rehearsals for a new play she is staging at the Montmartre Theater, where she has taken over as director in place of her Jewish husband, who has disappeared. Everyone believes that Lucas Steiner has fled France, but he is, in fact, hiding in the basement of the theater.

  • Literary adaptation, Drama
  • 2017
  • France
  • 2h07
by Emmanuel Finkiel

In the 1944 Nazi-occupied France, young talented writer Marguerite is an active Resistance member with her husband Robert Antelme. When he is deported by the Gestapo, she dives into a desperate struggle to get him back. She develops a chilling relationship with local Vichy collaborator Rabier and takes terrible risks to save Robert, playing a cat-and-mouse of unpredictable meetings all over Paris. Does he really want to help her? Or is he trying to dig up information about the anti-Nazi underground? Then come the end of the war and the return of camp victims, an excruciating period for her, and a long and silent agony after the chaos of the Liberation of Paris. But she continues to wait, bound to the torment of absence even beyond hope.

  • Historical film
  • 2019
  • France
  • 1h48
by Gabriel Le Bomin

1940. De Gaulle opposes Pétain because he wants to continue the military offensive. In Colombey, his wife Yvonne is forced to leave. The family knows the routes of the exodus to Brittany. As the armistice looms, de Gaulle chooses to leave for London, where Churchill, who becomes an ally, allows him to speak to the BBC on 18 June. Yvonne and Charles eventually found themselves, after a long journey, in the London capital.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h38
by Sandrine Kiberlain

Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a young, bubbly, 19-year-old Jewish girl. Her family watches her discover the world, friends, new love and a passion for the theatre. The aspiring actress is living her youthful life without a care in the world, but she does not know that time may be running out.

  • Drama
  • 2021
  • France, Italy, Belgium, Germany
  • 2h47
by Arthur Harari

Fin 1944. Le Japon est en train de perdre la guerre. Sur ordre du mystérieux Major Taniguchi, le jeune Hiroo Onoda est envoyé sur une île des Philippines juste avant le débarquement américain. La poignée de soldats qu'il entraîne dans la jungle découvre bientôt la doctrine inconnue qui va les lier à cet homme : la Guerre Secrète. Pour l'Empire, la guerre est sur le point de finir. Pour Onoda, elle s'achèvera 10 000 nuits plus tard

  • Literary adaptation
  • 1961
  • 1h30
by Henri Colpi

Therese runs a café in Paris; she lost her husband when he disappeared sixteen years earlier, and, while time has healed some of her wounds, she's still a lonely person. One day, a tramp passes by humming a familiar tune, and Therese is convinced that the vagabond is her husband. She follows him to his home, a tiny shack by the river, and tries to question him about his past. She discovers that the tramp suffers from amnesia and has no clear memory of his past. Therese brings him back to her cafe in hopes of jogging his memory and renewing the love they once knew.

  • Comedy
  • 1966
  • France
  • 2h02
  • available soon
by Gérard Oury

Episode héroï-comique de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Ou comment des Français très moyens prennent en charge des aviateurs britanniques dont le bombardier a été abattu au-dessus de Paris. « La Grande vadrouille » détient le record absolu des entrées en salle en France, avec plus de 17 millions de tickets vendus.

  • Drama, Historical film, Classics
  • 1987
  • France
  • 1h35
  • available soon
by Louis Malle

1944, Julien is a boarder at a Catholic college. He discovers Jean, a proud and secret newcomer. Julien and Jean become friends little by little. However, this bond will never be able to blossom. One day, the Gestapo arrives at the school and arrests Father Jean and the three Jewish children he had hidden among his Catholic children.

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