The classic film Casablanca (1942), starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, also concerns making personal sacrifices on behalf of the French Resistance.

Anouilh's L'Alouette (The Lark, 1953) focuses on the life of Joan of Arc.

Mark Twain wrote a novel about Joan of Arc (1896) after spending twelve years researching her life and times.

Albert Camus' The Stranger (1946) explores the predicament of a faithless man who commits a senseless murder and contemplates the absurdity of modern existence.