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1. Dunkirk (2017)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, History
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy
Votes: 743,423 | Gross: $188.37M
2. 1917 (2019)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, History
April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth
Votes: 680,311 | Gross: $159.23M
3. Atonement (2007)
R | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan
Votes: 300,969 | Gross: $50.93M
4. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
R | 148 min | Action, Drama, War
A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.
Director: Edward Berger | Stars: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus
Votes: 248,208
5. Happy End (2017)
R | 107 min | Drama
A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin
Votes: 17,016 | Gross: $0.30M
6. Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
A French public servant from Provence is banished to the far North. Strongly prejudiced against this cold and inhospitable place, he leaves his family behind to relocate temporarily there, with the firm intent to quickly come back.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret
Votes: 45,094 | Gross: $1.48M
7. Being 17 (2016)
Unrated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret
Votes: 7,282 | Gross: $0.05M
8. Journey's End (I) (2017)
R | 107 min | Drama, War
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.
Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Paul Bettany, Sam Claflin, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge
Votes: 11,391 | Gross: $0.16M
9. Les témoins (2014– )
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Set in a small coastal village in France, this is a quiet thriller of crime and dark secrets. The opening sequence takes place in a house just put out for sale. In it, the discovery of what... See full summary »
Stars: Marie Dompnier, Jan Hammenecker, Alexandre Carrière, Florence Bolufer
Votes: 2,646
10. North (1991)
88 min | Drama
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Xavier Beauvois, Bulle Ogier, Bernard Verley, Agnès Evrard
Votes: 168
11. Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart (2014)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
For several months in 1978 and 1979, inhabitants of Oise live in fright and terror as a serial killer disturbs the peace and quiet.
Director: Cédric Anger | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Ana Girardot, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Patrick Azam
Votes: 3,172 | Gross: $0.00M
12. Oh Mercy! (2019)
119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Roschdy Zem, Léa Seydoux, Sara Forestier, Antoine Reinartz
Votes: 2,519
13. D-Day: The Last Heroes (2013– )
60 min | Documentary, History, War
An examination of how two years of planning, espionage and analysis helped the Allied Forces win D-Day
Stars: Dan Snow, Roy Cadman, John Raaen, George 'Jimmy' Green
Votes: 65
14. The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
R | 113 min | Drama
The lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways.
Director: Erick Zonca | Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin, Patrick Mercado
Votes: 7,778 | Gross: $1.73M
15. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-day Spies (2012)
Documentary, History, War
Revealing the heroic spies who helped contribute to the Allied Powers' victory in WWII.
Director: Matthew Whiteman | Stars: Ben Macintyre, Tuppence Middleton, Hugh Astor, Thomas Argyll Robertson
Votes: 44
16. Family is Family (2018)
G | 107 min | Comedy
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Dany Boon, Line Renaud, Laurence Arné, Valérie Bonneton
Votes: 4,558
17. Too Early/Too Late (1981)
G | 100 min | Documentary
A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Danièle Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi, Gérard Samaan, Gamal Abdel Nasser
Votes: 671
18. The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell (2019 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary, History, War
An unprecedented look at the vicious three-month Battle of Normandy that took place after the D-Day invasion.
Director: Guilain Depardieu | Stars: John McManus, Anthony Beevor, Tim Cook, Geoffrey Bateman
Votes: 60
19. Comradeship (1931)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch, Elisabeth Wendt
Votes: 1,760
20. La loi du nord (1939)
110 min | Adventure, Drama
Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel, Arlette Marchal
Votes: 117
21. Si on chantait (2021)
96 min | Comedy
Following the closure of their plant, in a small labor town, in the North of France, a group of friends decides to open a song delivery company called "Si On Chantait".
Director: Fabrice Maruca | Stars: Jérémy Lopez, Alice Pol, Artus, Clovis Cornillac
Votes: 373
22. Le petit boxeur (1971 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Jacques Krier | Stars: Bernard Dylbaitys, Lysiane Dylbaitys, Patricia Dylbaitys, Sonia Dylbaitys
23. When the Sea Rises (2004)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Irene is on tour with her one-woman-show "Sale Affaire" in the north of France. When she runs into Dries, who carries giants in fairs, it's the beginning of a love story that bears an ... See full summary »
Directors: Yolande Moreau, Gilles Porte | Stars: Yolande Moreau, Wim Willaert, Olivier Gourmet, Jackie Berroyer
Votes: 730 | Gross: $0.02M
24. Little Ships (2010 TV Movie)
Documentary, History, War
Dan Snow tells the story of the 'little ships' which took part in the Dunkirk evacuation.
Director: Linda Sands | Stars: Dan Snow, Ian Gilbert, John Tough, Simon Palmer
Votes: 12
25. Liebmann (2016)
Unrated | 82 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The teacher Antek Liebmann moves to the French countryside to leave his former life in Germany behind. He soon gets a job and finds himself in a new relationship. But the strange energy of ... See full summary »
Director: Jules Herrmann | Stars: Godehard Giese, Adeline Moreau, Fabien Ara, Bettina Grahs
Votes: 193
26. Looking for Infinity: El Camino (2017)
60 min | Documentary
The film offers an intimate and fascinating insight into the pilgrim's journey, seeking to probe some of the timeless questions confronting humanity.
Director: Aaron C. Leaman
Votes: 288
27. 14-18: The Noise and the Fury (2008 TV Movie)
148 min | Documentary, History
A documentary of World War I, exploring how soldiers accepted their conditions in the trenches when no clear reason had been given for the fight.
Director: Jean-François Delassus | Star: Alexandre Astier
Votes: 129
28. The Last Cartridges (1897)
1 min | Short, War
An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated painting.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 455
29. La grande histoire des Petits meurtres (2021)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Thibault Pomares | Stars: Alessia Bellassaï, Blandine Bellavoir, Pierre Cassignard, Chloé Chaudoye
31. Never Die (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: John Jacobs | Stars: Dorothy Alison, Raymond Barry, Jacques Cey, Andre Charisse
33. Inutile d'envoyer photo (1977 TV Movie)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Alain Dhouailly | Stars: Paul Le Person, Hélène Dieudonné, Bernard Lajarrige, Rémy Carpentier
34. 10 minutes d'aventures souterraines (1959)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Guy Gillet | Star: Daniel Ivernel
35. Mines du Nord (1951)
39 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Henri Fabiani | Star: Henri Champetier
36. Des hommes comme les autres (1954)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Henri Fabiani, Raymond Vogel
37. Liberation (1948 TV Movie)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Martita Hunt, Richard Hurndall, Patricia Jessel, Pamela Stirling
38. L'épopée du charbon: L'histoire de la mine et des mineurs (2005 Video)
260 min | Documentary
Directors: Tewfik Fares, François Porcile, Roger Viry-Babel | Stars: Marie Boitel, Tewfik Fares, François Marthouret
41. July 1, 1916: With the Ulster Division (2016)
7 min | Short, Drama, War
Director: George Belfield | Stars: Lloyd Hutchinson, Filippa Geslin, Alexandre Jacob, Alexy Piquet
42. Mines et mineurs du Nord (2010 Video)
300 min | Documentary, History
Covering history of miners and history of coal, the set offers a historical "saga" of the different aspects of the life of underground miners in the North of France from the Industrial Revolution to the end of mining as we once knew it.
43.
Je veux être... toi (1977–1982)
Episode:
Garde forestier
(1979)
16 min | Documentary, Short, Family
Director: Jean-Pierre Manquillet | Star: Agnès Vincent
44.
Secret Nazi Bases (2019– )
Episode:
The Doomsday Castle (Kraftwerk Nord West)
(2019)
Documentary
One of the largest bunkers ever constructed, the Blockhaus is built under immense secrecy, utilizing unimaginable engineering feats, and is a potential game changer for Hitler at the tipping point in the war.
Director: Daniel Oron | Stars: James MacPhee, Rob Bell, Hubert De Megille, Robert Watson
Votes: 24
45.
Underground Marvels (2019– )
Episode:
City of Naours
(2019)
44 min | Documentary
An underground city beneath a forest in Northern France built to house 3,000 people, an ice cave under Iceland's biggest glacier, and a subterranean power station in London.
Directors: Iain Paterson, Jonny Leeder | Star: Chris Jarman
Votes: 8
46.
Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie (2009–2024)
Episode:
La nuit qui ne finit pas
(2021)
TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Actor Richard Planck was found dead in his trailer on the set of his new feature film. The main suspect is the young star of the film, Anna Delange, who had a rocky sentimental relationship with Richard. Adapted from "Endless Night".
Director: Nicolas Picard-Dreyfuss | Stars: Arthur Dupont, Emilie Gavois-Kahn, Chloé Chaudoye, Quentin Baillot
Votes: 83
47.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Red Devils
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
From the moment British airborne was formed after Churchill noted the impressive feats of Germany's elite Falschirmjaeger paratroopers, Britain's Airborne would be an elite fighting force.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Chip Chapman, Tony Hibbert, Jim Knox, Jon Trigg
48.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Desert Rats
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The story of the armoured units who landed in Normandy to spearhead the Allied advance into Nazi occupied Europe and break open the Third Reich's defences.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Dick Taylor, Jon Trigg, Rodney Scott, Cecil Newton
49.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Screaming Eagles
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The 101st Airborne parachuted into their first battle on D-Day, swiftly proving their worth as one of the most accomplished combat formations ever fielded by the US army.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: John O'Brien, Ed Shames, Carl Beck, Jon Trigg
50.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Rangers
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
America's first true Special Forces units, specially selected and trained with the help of British commandos, Rangers became the first US ground forces to see action in Europe.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Edwin Roth, George Sabine, Flint Whitlock, Jon Trigg