We're Going Separate Ways

In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commandin...

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast

Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Brasseur, Philippe Noiret

In the spring of 1944, in the Woëvre forest of Lorraine, a group of young maquisards takes in four German deserters. led by Saint-Brice is based in the Woevre forest. Lise, a nineteen-year-old girl, is their liaison officer. One evening, four German soldiers turn up as deserters. After a period of doubt, the maquisards agree to integra...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Georges Dumoulin

Cast

Richard Leduc, Marie-France Pisier, Siegfried Rauch

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

Runtime

3h

Director

Alain Corneau

Cast

Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve

A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Joe Wright

Cast

James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan

Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British. And when the would-be traitor arrives home, he convinces the English to use him as a double agent -- in exchange for a full pardon.

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Terence Young

Cast

Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard