Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's mo...
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia fee...
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas...
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...
A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Mar...
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characte...
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois a...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacita...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.