French Colonialism Movies
- 1973
Papillon
Papillon7.81973HD
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
Indochine71992HD
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...
- 2011
The Rabbi's Cat
The Rabbi's Cat72011HD
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
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young...
- 1932
Red Dust
Red Dust6.91932HD
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives...
- 1992
Diên Biên Phu
Diên Biên Phu6.41992HD
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- 1975
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Chronicle of the Years of Fire6.31975HD
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 Color6.41976HD
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their...
- 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....
- 2022
Here Ends the World We've Known
Here Ends the World We've Known6.52022HD
1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he...
- 1985
The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama
The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama101985HD
The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The...
- 1990
Under The Ashes
Under The Ashes91990HD
The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders of political and trade union organizations were...
- 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...
- 1965
So Young a Peace
So Young a Peace101965HD
The first fictional feature film produced in Algeria after independence, this film addresses one of the most worrying problems: that of childhood....
- 2010
An Unhealed Wound - The Harkis in the Algerian War
An Unhealed Wound - The Harkis in the Algerian War02010HD
It's the unforgivable story of the two hundred thousands harkis, the Arabs who fought alongside the French in the bitter Algerian war, from 1954 to...
- 2009
Gerboise Bleue
Gerboise Bleue102009HD
"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Sahara, is the starting point of France's nuclear...
- 2000
Jean-Marie Tjibaou ou le rêve d'indépendance
Jean-Marie Tjibaou ou le rêve d'indépendance102000HD
Through the commitment of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, this documentary traces the history of the march of the Kanak people in search of their independence....