The best Paul Bonifas’s war movies

Paul Bonifas

Paul Bonifas

03/06/1902- 09/11/1975
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The Train

The Train
7.8/10
  • Genre: ThrillerWar
  • Release: 24/09/1964
  • Character: Spinet
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

Triple Cross

Triple Cross
6.3/10
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

Madagascar Landing

Madagascar Landing
5.4/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 01/01/1944
  • Character: Michel
A former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war. He tells about his time, operating an illegal radio station while evading the Nazis.

Johnny Frenchman

Johnny Frenchman
6.2/10
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.

Candlelight in Algeria

Candlelight in Algeria
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 19/03/1944
  • Character: French Proprietor
Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands

The Enemy General

The Enemy General
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 18/10/1960
  • Character: Mayor
OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes. Later they take him from a Nazi prison and smuggle him to England.

The Foreman Went to France

The Foreman Went to France
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 22/06/1942
  • Character: Prefect of Rouville
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

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