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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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Steve McQueen

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Deneuve

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Subor

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Clark Gable

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: François Morel

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Pleasence

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edgar Morin

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlie Vauselle

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

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ouassini Embarek

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Carmet

Documentary edited from testimonies on the torture of people who experienced the war. Some witnesses were tortured by Jean-Marie Le Pen. These...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Germaine Tillion

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....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Romane Bohringer

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....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Roger Hanin

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saskia Reeves

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yorgo Voyagis

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Athmane Ariouet

The film traces the story of a patrol of the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN), whose mission is to transport a prisoner French soldier to the...

Genre: War

Cast: Hacène Benzerari

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magda Al Sabahi

The feature film “The seven ramparts of the citadel”, a fiction recounting the conflict between an Algerian family expropriated from its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antar Hellal

There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Léonie Simaga

The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Reda Kateb

Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jimmy Jean-Louis

Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aladin Reibel

In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Abderrahmane Lotaisa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Théo Frilet

Genre: Documentary

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