french colonialism movies

Papillon (1973)
7.85 / 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)
7.05 / 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...

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...

The Little Soldier (1963)
6.968 / 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...

Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
7.179 / 10

Documentary

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

Our Algeria (1959)
10 / 10

Documentary, War

"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to inform...

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...

The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
7.003 / 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...

Yasmina (1961)
10 / 10

Drama

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl with her hen and her family whose father was...

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...

Red Island (2023)
5.6 / 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....

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...

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 Way (1967)
10 / 10

The Algerian War is seen through the eyes of a group of Algerian freedom-fighters who have been captured and incarcerated in French-run military...

Yaouled (1993)
10 / 10

Drama

Directed by Rachid Benallal.

Breakdown (1982)
8 / 10

Drama

"Rupture is a look at a complex and little-known period in the recent history of Algeria, that of the thirties, a time when a political conscience...

Black and White in Color (1976)
6.447 / 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...

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...

Color-Blind (2019)
4 / 10

Documentary

A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial...

Algerian Refugees (1958)
10 / 10

Documentary

Directed by Pierre Clément and Djamel-Eddine Chanderli, produced by the FLN Information Service in 1958, this film is a rare document. Pierre...