Female Agents (2008) on Netflix
May 1944. Louise Desfontaines, a French Resistance fighter, is recruited by the Special Operations Executive and gathers a team of women to free a British agent held by the Germans.
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- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.7/108,405 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes78%
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Plot summary
After her husband is killed, Louise Desfontaines escapes to Spain, is captured, and ends up in London, where the Special Operations Executive hands her an urgent assignment: an agent who was scouting the Normandy beaches for the coming invasion has fallen into German hands, and time is short. Louise, working under her brother Pierre, recruits three women, using lies, blackmail and the offer of a reprieve. Suzy Desprez is a cabaret dancer who knows how to charm men, Gaëlle Lemenech a chemist and explosives expert, Jeanne Faussier a prostitute serving a sentence for killing her pimp. In Normandy, radio operator Maria Luzzato joins them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Female Agents (2008)
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- Director Jean-Paul Salomé drew the story from Lise de Baissac, a Special Operations Executive heroine from Mauritius, after reading her obituary in The Times. Sophie Marceau plays Louise Desfontaines, the character inspired by her.
