French Colonialism Movies
- 1973
Papillon
Papillon7.8291973HD
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...
- 1992
Indochine
Indochine7.11992HD
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted...
- 1992
Diên Biên Phu
Diên Biên Phu6.31992HD
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and...
- 1932
Red Dust
Red Dust71932HD
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives...
- 1961
Chronicle of a Summer
Chronicle of a Summer7.21961HD
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking...
- 2011
The Rabbi's Cat
The Rabbi's Cat6.9752011HD
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...
- 1963
Le Petit Soldat
Le Petit Soldat71963HD
In 1958, during the Algerian War, Bruno Forestier, a young man belonging to a far-right group fighting against the Algerian resistance, arrives from...
- 1975
Chronicle of the Year of Embers
Chronicle of the Year of Embers6.21975HD
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...
- 1976
Black and White in Color
Black and White in Color6.4251976HD
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their...
- 2022
Faithful
Faithful6.42022HD
1956. Algeria is a French colony. Fernand and Helene are madly in love. Fernand is an activist, fighting for independence alongside the Algerians....
- 2005
Dark Night, October 17, 1961
Dark Night, October 17, 19617.32005HD
Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest...
- 1962
The Olive Trees of Justice
The Olive Trees of Justice7.1251962HD
The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill. Memories from childhood return. He also must...
- 1985
Hell Train
Hell Train5.41985HD
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....
- 1991
Isabelle Eberhardt
Isabelle Eberhardt5.71991HD
The true story of explorer, journalist and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, originally from Switzerland. She moved to Annaba in Algeria in 1897 with her...
- 2023
Red Island
Red Island5.62023HD
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....
- 1958
Jamila, the Algerian
Jamila, the Algerian71958HD
Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of...
- 2020
Pornotropic
Pornotropic72020HD
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....
- 2006
Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man
Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man8.42006HD
Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his...
- 1967
The Winds of the Aures
The Winds of the Aures6.41967HD
Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian...
- 2022
Here Ends the World We've Known
Here Ends the World We've Known6.82022HD
1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he...