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  • Code Name: Emerald

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    In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the ‘overlords’ were the few Allied agents who knew the details of the operation. When one them is captured by the Germans, a double agent must infiltrate occupied Paris, with the help of a high level German officer and the French Resistance.

  • Plenty

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    David Hare’s account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

  • The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

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    Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.

  • Suite Française

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    France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in…

  • Memoir of War

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    In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a Resistance fighter and then deported, while she maintains a tense relationship with her ambiguous lover and a dangerous game with a French collaborationist. Even when the Liberation arrives, she must still endure…

  • Chinese In Paris

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    Overnight, Paris is invaded – although peacefully – but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people… It’s the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern – funny – twists.