French Colonialism Movies
- 1973
Papillon
Papillon7.8391973HD
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 esca...
- 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 Vietnam...
- 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 pass...
- 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 woman...
- 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 alon...
- 2011
The Rabbi's Cat
The Rabbi's Cat6.9832011HD
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 te...
- 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 the Vietminh.
- 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 film...
- 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. Influence...
- 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. Thre...
- 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 moments of the Alge...
- 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 may lose...
- 1962
The Olive Trees of Justice
The Olive Trees of Justice7.31962HD
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 deal...
- 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 pr...
- 1965
La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
La Tragédie du Roi Christophe101965HD
- 2020
Lost Mountain
Lost Mountain102020HD
On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's independence. France, colonizer since 1830, hastened...
- 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 arr...
- 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 powe...
- 1994
Traps
Traps01994HD
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 planta...
- 1983
The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting
The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting7.61983HD
“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des femmes du mont Che...