French Colonialism Movies

  • 1973
    Papillon

    Papillon

    Papillon

    7.8391973HD

    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...

    Papillon
  • 1992
    Indochine

    Indochine

    Indochine

    71992HD

    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...

    Indochine
  • 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 pass...

    Chronicle of a Summer
  • 1963
    Le Petit Soldat

    Le Petit Soldat

    Le Petit Soldat

    71963HD

    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...

    Le Petit Soldat
  • 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 alon...

    Red Dust
  • 2011
    The Rabbi's Cat

    The Rabbi's Cat

    The Rabbi's Cat

    6.9832011HD

    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...

    The Rabbi's Cat
  • 1992
    Diên Biên Phu

    Diên Biên Phu

    Diên Biên Phu

    6.41992HD

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

    Diên Biên Phu
  • 1975
    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    6.31975HD

    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...

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire
  • 2023
    Red Island

    Red Island

    Red Island

    5.62023HD

    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...

    Red Island
  • 1985
    Hell Train

    Hell Train

    Hell Train

    5.41985HD

    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...

    Hell Train
  • 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 moments of the Alge...

    Dark Night, October 17, 1961
  • 2022
    Here Ends the World We've Known

    Here Ends the World We've Known

    Here Ends the World We've Known

    6.82022HD

    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...

    Here Ends the World We've Known
  • 1962
    The Olive Trees of Justice

    The Olive Trees of Justice

    The Olive Trees of Justice

    7.31962HD

    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...

    The Olive Trees of Justice
  • 1976
    Black and White in Color

    Black and White in Color

    Black and White in Color

    6.41976HD

    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...

    Black and White in Color
  • 1965
    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    101965HD

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
  • 2020
    Lost Mountain

    Lost Mountain

    Lost Mountain

    102020HD

    On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's independence. France, colonizer since 1830, hastened...

    Lost Mountain
  • 1990
    Under The Ashes

    Under The Ashes

    Under The Ashes

    91990HD

    The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders of political and trade union organizations were arr...

    Under The Ashes
  • 2009
    Gerboise Bleue

    Gerboise Bleue

    Gerboise Bleue

    102009HD

    "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...

    Gerboise Bleue
  • 1994
    Traps

    Traps

    Traps

    01994HD

    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...

    Traps
  • 1983
    The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting

    The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting

    The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting

    7.61983HD

    “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...

    The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting