Akcja filmu rozpoczyna się w okupowanej Francji podczas egzekucji rodziny Shosanny Dreyfus, której dziewczyna jest świadkiem. Egzekucji dokonuje nazistowski pułkownik Hans Landa. Shosannie udaje się uciec i wyjechać do Paryża, gdzie, jako właścicielka kina, przyjmuje nową tożsamość. W innym miejscu w Europie, porucznik Aldo Raine organizuje grupę żydowskich żołnierzy, którzy mają dokonywać aktów zemsty. Do oddziału Raine'a dołącza niemiecka aktorka i agentka Bridget Von Hammersmark, której misją jest pozbawienie władzy przywódców Trzeciej Rzeszy. Losy tych ludzi zbiegają się pod kinowym afiszem, gdzie Shosanna przygotowuje własny plan zemsty...
Minęło kilka lat od wydarzeń znanych z „Cudownego chłopaka”. Justin usunięty ze szkoły za niekoleżeńskie traktowanie małego Auggiego, próbuje odnaleźć się w liceum. Rozgoryczony, wściekły na cały świat, nie potrafi nawiązać kontaktu z rówieśnikami. Na życzliwość reaguje niechęcią, nie umiejąc sobie poradzić z poczuciem winy izoluje się od szkolnej społeczności. Jego nieco ekscentryczna babcia wie jednak, że każdy zasługuje na drugą szansę. Postanawia podzielić się z Justinem poruszającą historią swojej młodości. Jej niezwykłe losy są dowodem na to, że ten kto ma w sercu odwagę, życzliwość i otwartość na drugiego człowieka potrafi dokonać rzeczy, o które sam by siebie nie podejrzewał. Czy ta niezwykła historia miłości i walki o przetrwanie odmieni Justina?
Kwiecień 1944 roku. Akcja filmu toczy się w Paryżu na krótko przed inwazją wojsk alianckich na Normandię. Gus Lang (Ed Harris), przez hitlerowców uznawany za lojalnego informatora gestapo, tak naprawdę jest amerykańskim tajnym agentem o kryptonimie "Szmaragd". Lang ma zapobiec ujawnieniu planów inwazji przez Andy'ego Wheeler'a (Eric Stoltz), amerykańskiego oficera wziętego do niemieckiej niewoli. "Szmaragdowi" w jego niebezpiecznej misji pomaga Claire Jouvet (Cyrielle Claire), członkini francuskiego ruchu oporu.
In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by her grandfather. Quite upset, the two "hosts" decide to resist the occupier by never speaking a word to him. Now Werner is a lover of France and its culture, and he tries to persuade them that a rapprochement between Germany and France would be beneficial for the two nations. Quite unexpectedly Jeanne, little by little, falls in love with Werner. At the same time, the Francophile officer loses his illusions, realizing at last that what Nazi Germany actually wants is to thrall France and to stifle its culture...
A young Jewish girl, Sara, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual in a clandestine relationship with his lover Philippe.
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.
Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions factory where they are tasked to perform inhuman works. An explosion erupts, they are suspected of sabotage and threatened with being sent to a boot camp. Alice and Lisette believe they saved when transferred to a maternity where they continue living the hell of war.
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life is about to change forever.
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.
In June 1940 nothing was written. The appeal of June 18 by General de Gaulle was a hope but also a start. The start for an essential page of the History of France, written by De Gaulle and his followers, without whom nothing would have existed in the Resistance to the German tyranny and this film wishes to honor their memory.
Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexual relations in times of war... and shows how being close to death reinforces the yearning for passion, for pleasure, for transgression, for desire as a last burst of freedom, as an ultimate call to life. Nearly two hundred thousands children are thought to be born of the union of French women with German soldiers. Women weren't the Germans' only conquests; indeed, occupied Paris swarms with all kinds of homosexuals—from Genet to Cocteau—who treated with the occupier. The fate of those women who were shaved at the end of the war for fraternizing with Germans is the punishment of a France that lied down and slept with the enemy.
Portrait of the German and Jewish painter who lived during the war in the south of France, in Villefranche-sur-Mer, where she painted 769 gouaches which recount her life, from her childhood, the suicide of her mother, her relationship to her father, to her mother-in-law, the singer Paula Lindberg, to a teacher whom she was secretly in love with, her flight to France, the reunion with her grandparents, until her arrest by the Gestapo who sent her to Auschwitz where she was assassinated in 1943.
Discovering Paris under the German occupation through the story of an SS soldier and more generally of Wehrmacht soldiers allows us to follow the daily life on the German side. These soldiers enjoyed privileged status, during their stay, they were led to believe that they belong to a social elite, a status unreachable back in Germany during peacetime. And who better than a German who has led such lifestyle to serve as a common thread and tell this story?