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1. The Lover (1992)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jane March, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Jeanne Moreau, Frédérique Meininger
Votes: 23,510 | Gross: $4.90M
2. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
Votes: 65,703 | Gross: $0.06M
3. Indochine (1992)
PG-13 | 160 min | Drama, Romance, War
Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.
Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh-Dan Pham, Jean Yanne
Votes: 10,945 | Gross: $5.73M
4. Wild Reeds (1994)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
The fates of two partners are divided.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny
Votes: 6,648 | Gross: $0.92M
5. Of Gods and Men (2010)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, History
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 16,102 | Gross: $3.95M
6. Clean Slate (1981)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Votes: 6,719
7. Red Island (2023)
117 min | Drama
Thomas lives in a military base on colony of Madagascar. His parents and their circle, gradually becomes aware of politics both territorial and sexual while finding an outlet for his imagination in the exploits of crimebuster Fantômette.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Quim Gutiérrez, Charlie Vauselle, Amely Rakotoarimalala
Votes: 480
8. The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.
Directors: Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar | Stars: François Morel, Hafsia Herzi, Maurice Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Votes: 3,768 | Gross: $0.02M
9. Outside the Law (2010)
R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, War
A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa
Votes: 4,121
10. L'insoumis (1964)
115 min | Drama, Thriller
1961. Luxemburger Thomas Vlassenroot deserted the French Foreign Legion during the Algiers Putsch. His lieutenant, Fraser, initiated the desertion for the two of them, Fraser believing he ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Cavalier | Stars: Alain Delon, Lea Massari, Georges Géret, Maurice Garrel
Votes: 986
11. The Vultures (1984)
106 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
In 1943 in Tunisia, a unit of the French Foreign Legion fights the Germans over possession of a bank treasure in gold bars.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, Michel Constantin, Michel Creton
Votes: 2,278
12. Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, History, War
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal
Votes: 1,757
13. Sugar Cane Alley (1983)
PG | 103 min | Drama, History
Set in 1931, Sugar Cane Alley paints a rich impasto of native life under French colonial rules, filtered through the coming-of-age of a bright, sweetly opportunistic boy.
Director: Euzhan Palcy | Stars: Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck, Joby Bernabé
Votes: 1,023
14. China Gate (1957)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Drama, War
In 1954, during the French Indochina War, an Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries, infiltrate the enemy territory in order to destroy an arms depot.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat 'King' Cole, Paul Dubov
Votes: 946
15. Rebellion (2011)
136 min | Action, Drama, History
Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take hostages.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi, Alexandre Steiger
Votes: 2,878
16. Terror's Advocate (2007)
Unrated | 135 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Jacques Vergès, Klaus Barbie, Barbet Schroeder, Bassam Abu Sharif
Votes: 1,699 | Gross: $0.04M
17. Isabelle Eberhardt (1991)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History
Eberhardt converted to Islam in her teens. After her father's death, the wife of a Marquis summons her to Paris; her husband has gone missing in North Africa.
Director: Ian Pringle | Stars: Mathilda May, Tchéky Karyo, Peter O'Toole, Richard Moir
Votes: 128
18. Dilili in Paris (2018)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
In Belle Époque Paris, accompanied by a young scooter deliveryman, little Kanak Dilili investigates mysterious kidnappings of girls.
Director: Michel Ocelot | Stars: Prunelle Charles-Ambron, Enzo Ratsito, Natalie Dessay, Bruno Paviot
Votes: 1,201
19. Le joli mai (1963)
Not Rated | 165 min | Documentary
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme | Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 878 | Gross: $0.02M
20. A Captain's Honor (1982)
117 min | Drama, War
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Nicole Garcia, Charles Denner, Georges Wilson
Votes: 372
21. Le bal du gouverneur (1990)
98 min | Drama, Romance
A French civil servant throws The Governor's Party when his daughter comes of age regardless of colonial unrest and her parents' stormy marriage.
Director: Marie-France Pisier | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Didier Flamand, Laurent Grévill, Jacques Sereys
Votes: 90
22. The Undeclared War (1992)
247 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Patrick Rotman, Bertrand Tavernier
Votes: 118
23. Le roman d'un spahi (1936)
89 min | Drama, Romance
Jean is a proud spahi in the French army in North Africa. He loves Cora, a woman of the world and a man-eater. When he realizes that she has betrayed him, he takes refuge in the arms of ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Bernheim | Stars: Mireille Balin, Antonin Berval, Pierre Larquey, Jorge Rigaud
Votes: 33
24. Patrouille à l'Est (1971)
115 min | Action, Drama, History
A patrol of the National Liberation Army must convoy a French soldier taken prisoner to the Tunisian border.
Director: Amar Laskri | Stars: Hacène Benzerari, Mohamed Hadj Smaïn, Brahim Hadjadj, Mohamed Hamdi
Votes: 84
25. The Brides of Bourbon Island (2007– )
190 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the seventeenth century , beautiful women of Madagascar are unwillingly sent beyond the seas to distant French colonies and married off to wealthy French colonials.
Stars: Jean-Yves Berteloot, Sara Martins, Cécile Cassel, Marie Piot
Votes: 28
26. Krim Belkacem (2014)
180 min | Action, Biography, Drama
the story of the heroic path of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian revolution.
Director: Ahmed Rachedi | Stars: Sami Allem, Mustafa Laribi, Ahmed Rezzak, Bahia Rachedi
Votes: 14
27. La baie d'Alger (2012 TV Movie)
Drama
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algerie.In 1955 Louis is 15 years old and he lives with his grandmother Zoe.Zoe is friend with the president Steiger, leader of the French ... See full summary »
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Catherine Jacob, Solal Forte, Anthony Sonigo, Margaux Chatelier
Votes: 51
28. Battle for Dien Bien Phu (1979)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary, Drama, War
Tells not only of this important conflict that happened between March and May 1954 during the First Indochina War. It also relates the events leading up to that climactic confrontation ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, Christian de Castries, Hubert de Seguins-Pazzis, Malcolm MacDonald
Votes: 20
29. Lotfi (2015)
170 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the ... See full summary »
Director: Ahmed Rachedi | Stars: Youcef Sehairi, Ahmed Rezzak, Hassan Kechache, Boulem Zeblah
Votes: 17
30. Mostefa Ben Boulaid (2008)
163 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member of the Algerian National Movement, who worked with his comrades to explain the idea of the... See full summary »
Director: Ahmed Rachedi | Stars: Djamel Allam, Sami Allem, Fares Ben Hachani, Ahmed Benaïssa
Votes: 36
31. L'empire du milieu du sud (2002)
86 min | Documentary, History, War
Directors: Eric Deroo, Jacques Perrin
Votes: 24
32. Tandra Paparayudu (1986)
Action, Biography, Drama
The story of an Indian Freedom fighter who fought the French even before the British could establish their authority in India
Director: Dasari Narayana Rao | Stars: Krishnamraju, Mohan Babu, Pran Sikand, Jayasudha
Votes: 104
33. Vive la France (1974)
84 min | Documentary
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Michel Audiard, Andrex, Josephine Baker, Léon Blum
Votes: 52
34. L'amitié noire (1946)
18 min | Documentary, Short
"Black Friendship" - The commentary recalls that Radio Brazzaville was, from June 18, 1943, the contact of the French settlements and the metropolis, bush stations participate in the organization of the resistance.
Directors: Germaine Krull, François Villiers | Star: Jean Cocteau
35. Arcole ou la terre promise (1981– )
52 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Stars: Pierre Malet, Jean-Marc Thibault, Pierre Tornade, Corinne Bernard
36. Tes cheveux démêlés cachent une guerre de sept ans (2017)
74 min | Documentary
Your untangled hair hides a 7 year war. Cross-look of three women engaged alongside the FLN on colonization and the Algerian war of independence. They will know the clandestine, the prison,... See full summary »
Director: Fatima Sissani
38. Autour de Brazzaville (1943)
25 min | Documentary, Short
"The crime of the cease fire was to capitulate as if France had no empire". - Charles de Gaulle.
Director: Germaine Krull | Stars: Richard Francoeur, Charles de Gaulle, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
40. Moudjahidate (2008)
75 min | Documentary
Through interviews with former women combatants, this documentary recounts women's involvement and commitment to the struggle for Independence in Algeria.
Director: Alexandra Dols | Stars: Danièle Djamila Amrane Minne, Fatma Chebbah Abdelli, Zohra Drif-Bitat, Louisa Ighilahriz
41. Afrique 50 (1950)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about the living conditions in a small Ivorian village during French colonization.
Director: René Vautier | Star: René Vautier
Votes: 321
42. The Change: History Through Guineans' Eyes (2010)
70 min | Documentary, History, News
What's happening in Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Lybia, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire? Guinea has experienced these same events in 200, but its story has been hidden, ... See full summary »
Director: Chiara Cavallazzi | Stars: Moussa Dadis Camara, Kaba Saran Daraba, Rabiatou Diallo, Thierno Sow
43.
JFK: Destiny Betrayed (2021)
Episode:
Chapter Two
(2021)
TV-MA | 234 min | Documentary, History
An exploration of the strange anomalies in the medical evidence and key differences between the Warren Commission conclusions and the eyewitness testimonies of the doctors who tried to save Kennedy.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Donald Sutherland, Cyril H. Wecht, Gary Aguilar
Votes: 26
44.
The Vietnam War (2017)
Episode:
Déjà Vu (1858-1961)
(2017)
TV-MA | 81 min | Documentary, History, War
After nearly a century of French colonial rule, Vietnam emerges independent, but divided.
Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Karl Marlantes, Max Cleland, Bao Ninh
Votes: 1,093
45.
Docs interdits (2011– )
Episode:
La France est Notre Patrie
(2015)
Documentary, History
Director: Rithy Panh
Votes: 33
46.
A Very Secret Service (2015–2018)
Episode:
Un peu de soleil
(2015)
TV-MA | 23 min | Comedy
When an African state demands independence, Merlaux gets his first big assignment and discovers a passion for politics.
Director: Alexandre Courtès | Stars: Hugo Becker, Wilfred Benaïche, Christophe Kourotchkine, Karim Barras
Votes: 120