(LE DERNIER MÉTRO, François Truffaut, France 1980, 131 min., French/subtitles)

Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II in director Truffaut’s gripping, humanist character study. Against all odds—a Jewish theater manager in hiding, a leading man who’s in the Resistance, and the increasingly restrictive Nazi oversight—the troupe believes the show must go on. Equal parts romance, historical tragedy, and even comedy, The Last Metro is Truffaut’s ultimate tribute to art overcoming adversity.