French Colonialism Movies

  • 1973
    Papillon

    Papillon

    Papillon

    7.8271973HD

    A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his...

    Papillon
  • 2005
    Dark Night, October 17, 1961

    Dark Night, October 17, 1961

    Dark Night, October 17, 1961

    7.32005HD

    Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest...

    Dark Night, October 17, 1961
  • 1992
    Diên Biên Phu

    Diên Biên Phu

    Diên Biên Phu

    6.51992HD

    Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and...

    Diên Biên Phu
  • 1932
    Red Dust

    Red Dust

    Red Dust

    6.91932HD

    Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives...

    Red Dust
  • 1981
    Coup de Torchon

    Coup de Torchon

    Coup de Torchon

    71981HD

    A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

    Coup de Torchon
  • 1985
    Hell Train

    Hell Train

    Hell Train

    4.81985HD

    Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmosphere tinged with racism....

    Hell Train
  • 1939
    Lady of the Tropics

    Lady of the Tropics

    Lady of the Tropics

    6.11939HD

    American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier to their...

    Lady of the Tropics
  • 1991
    Isabelle Eberhardt

    Isabelle Eberhardt

    Isabelle Eberhardt

    4.51991HD

    The true story of explorer, journalist and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, originally from Switzerland. She moved to Annaba in Algeria in 1897 with her...

    Isabelle Eberhardt
  • 1992
    Indochine

    Indochine

    Indochine

    71992HD

    In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter...

    Indochine
  • 1975
    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    6.41975HD

    A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire
  • 2011
    The Rabbi's Cat

    The Rabbi's Cat

    The Rabbi's Cat

    72011HD

    The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's...

    The Rabbi's Cat
  • 2020
    Pornotropic

    Pornotropic

    Pornotropic

    72020HD

    When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

    Pornotropic
  • 1973
    December

    December

    December

    101973HD

    In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most...

    December
  • 1961
    Yasmina

    Yasmina

    Yasmina

    101961HD

    "Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl with her hen and her family whose father was...

    Yasmina
  • 2010
    Paroles d'un Prisonnier Français de l'ALN

    Paroles d'un Prisonnier Français de l'ALN

    Paroles d'un Prisonnier Français de l'ALN

    102010HD

    The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until today, no Algerian or even European report or...

    Paroles d'un Prisonnier Français de l'ALN
  • 1976
    Black and White in Color

    Black and White in Color

    Black and White in Color

    6.31976HD

    French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their...

    Black and White in Color
  • 1991
    Children of the Sun

    Children of the Sun

    Children of the Sun

    91991HD

    Children of the Sun
  • 2023
    Red Island

    Red Island

    Red Island

    5.52023HD

    Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism....

    Red Island
  • 1961
    Chronicle of a Summer

    Chronicle of a Summer

    Chronicle of a Summer

    7.21961HD

    Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking...

    Chronicle of a Summer
  • 1974
    Forbidden Zone

    Forbidden Zone

    Forbidden Zone

    101974HD

    A revolutionary militant is killed during the repression of May 1945. His son, who is unaware of the real circumstances of the murder, ends up being...

    Forbidden Zone