Romy Schneider in The Last Train (1973)

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It's May 1940 in war-torn France, and a bunch of people are trying to catch The Last Train (1973) out of town. One of them is Jean-Louis Trintignan, a guy who's skedaddling south as quickly as the Germans are hustling through Holland and Belgium. He's managed to misplace his family along the way, and when he meets the mutually kinless Romy Schneider, he strikes up a friendship with her and offers to let her pretend to be his wife. She's German and Jewish, you see . . . and she also happens to have a perfect, perky, dainty pair of dreidels, so it's a win-win refugee arrangement! If it weren't for the Nazis and the family estrangement, this would be a match made in heaven.