Cécile Ricard

In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.

Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.

After a volcanic eruption, a small village from which no one can escape. The plague spreads, and among the survivors, famine rules. For a piece of bread, Charlotte sleeps with the grocer. Night is falling. At the top of a hill, someone is watching.