french colonialism movies

Red Dust (1932)
6.9 / 10

Romance, Drama

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

Papillon (1973)
7.848 / 10

Crime, Drama

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...

Indochine (1992)
7.066 / 10

Drama, Romance

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...

The Little Soldier (1963)
6.955 / 10

Drama, Romance

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...

Diên Biên Phu (1992)
6.4 / 10

Drama, War

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

The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
7 / 10

Comedy, Animation

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...

Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
7.2 / 10

Documentary

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

Red Island (2023)
5.618 / 10

Drama

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....

Hell Train (1985)
5.3 / 10

Crime, Drama

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....

Black and White in Color (1976)
6.5 / 10

Drama, Comedy, War

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

Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 (2005)
7.3 / 10

TV Movie, Drama, History

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

Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
6.3 / 10

Drama, War, History

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

The Olive Trees of Justice (1962)
7.286 / 10

Drama

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...

François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie (2010)
10 / 10

Documentary

Under The Ashes (1990)
9 / 10

Drama, War

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

Sawt Echaâb (1961)
10 / 10

War, Documentary

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root causes of the armed conflict of the Algerian...

Forbidden Zone (1974)
10 / 10

Drama

A revolutionary militant is killed during the repression of May 1945. His son, who is unaware of the real circumstances of the murder, ends up being...

Here Ends the World We've Known (2022)
6.5 / 10

Drama, History

1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he may...

December (1973)
10 / 10

Drama, War

In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most...

Traps (1994)
0 / 10

Drama

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...