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1. Murmur of the Heart (1971)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama
As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 10,853 | Gross: $0.35M
2. The Quiet American (2002)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija
Votes: 29,749 | Gross: $12.99M
3. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin
Votes: 28,657 | Gross: $0.11M
4. 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
5. JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
TV-14 | 118 min | Documentary, History
Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Whoopi Goldberg, Oliver Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Votes: 4,236
6. From the Land of the Moon (2016)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with André.
Director: Nicole Garcia | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Alex Brendemühl, Brigitte Roüan
Votes: 6,698 | Gross: $0.04M
7. Lost Command (1966)
Approved | 129 min | Action, Drama, War
French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan
Votes: 2,277
8. The Little Thief (1988)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel... See full summary »
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bezace, Simon de La Brosse, Clotilde de Bayser
Votes: 2,323 | Gross: $1.06M
9. Diên Biên Phú (1992)
140 min | Drama, War
An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh, which finally resulted in the defeat and ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Patrick Catalifo, Jean-François Balmer, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 1,072
10. 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: 4,120
11. The 317th Platoon (1965)
100 min | War
In Vietnam, 1954, a French platoon isolated behind enemy lines tries to come back. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Wehrmacht.
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Fabre, Manuel Zarzo
Votes: 1,657
12. 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
13. In the Year of the Pig (1968)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary chronicling the background to, and history of, the Vietnam War.
Director: Emile de Antonio | Stars: Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger, William R. Corson
Votes: 1,917
14. Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989)
108 min | Documentary, History, Romance
Trinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present. She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contradictions.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Votes: 188
15. Jump Into Hell (1955)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, War
Four young French Army officers volunteer to join the Foreign Legion to fight in Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam) in 1954.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Jacques Sernas, Kurt Kasznar, Arnold Moss, Peter van Eyck
Votes: 181
16. 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
17. Red Sky (2017)
91 min | Drama, War
A drama where amorous passion and political engagement mingle, carried by two young idealists at the heart of the First Indochina War. Between sensuality and violence, power of feelings and cruelty of the war.
Director: Olivier Lorelle | Stars: Cyril Descours, Audrey Giacomini
Votes: 40
18. From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu (1967)
Drama, War
Director: Ying Chang | Stars: Chi Lin, Thuy Hang Tham, Yang Chen, Chen Chiao
19. 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
20. Pariahs of Glory (1964)
100 min | Drama, War
Ferrier is fighting in Indochina ; a German pilot takes refuge in his military post,and since WW2, he hates those people.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Maurice Ronet, Folco Lulli, Roland Lesaffre
Votes: 46
21. L'empire du milieu du sud (2002)
86 min | Documentary, History, War
Directors: Eric Deroo, Jacques Perrin
Votes: 24
22. Legio Patria Nostra (2022)
37 min | Short, Action
Indochina, 1947. Foreign Legion troops secure a railway line in Viet Minh territory. After the death of one of them, a new recruit is sent there.
Director: Kevin Favillier | Stars: Killian Merly, Jalal Altawil, Victor Pontecorvo, Mathieu Ziegler
23. Indochina, Traces of a Mother (2011)
71 min | Documentary, War
Indochina: Through the story of Christophe, a 58 year old Afro-Vietnamese man, the film tells the story of African colonial soldiers fighting for the French in Indochina.
Director: Idrissou Mora Kpai
Votes: 10
24. Jasmine Lane (2019)
20 min | Short, Drama
In the early 1960's, Loan, a young Vietnamese woman, and Pierre, her Eurasian husband, are relocated to a village in Auvergne, under a resettlement program fro French nationals from ... See full summary »
Director: Stéphane Ly-Cuong | Stars: Linh-Dan Pham, Mike N'Guyen, Fanny Sidney, Audrey Giacomini
Votes: 8
25. Victory at Dien Bien Phu (1964)
73 min | Documentary, War
This movie has been made for the 10th birthday of the anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu victory and the 20th birthday of the People's Army of Vietnam. This movie is made from movies shoot ... See full summary »
Director: Viet Tran
27. La république est morte à Diên Biên Phu (1974)
148 min | Documentary
This documentary covers, through various interviews, the history of the conflict between the French and the Vietnamese, leading to the battle of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954.
Directors: Philippe Devillers, Jérôme Kanapa, Jean Lacouture | Star: Jean Lacouture
28.
Passé sous silence (2000– )
Episode:
Diên Biên Phu: Le rapport secret
(2004)
55 min | Documentary
Director: Patrick Jeudy | Star: Peter Hudson
29.
François Mauriac, blocs-notes 1953-1970 (1985– )
Episode:
L'horreur en Indochine
(1985)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Marcel Teulade | Stars: François Mauriac, Henri Virlojeux, René Cogny, Joseph Laniel
30.
François Mauriac, blocs-notes 1953-1970 (1985– )
Episode:
Chute de Diên Biên Phu
(1985)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Marcel Teulade | Stars: Henri Virlojeux, Philippe Auboyneau, Germaine Coty, René Coty
31.
François Mauriac, blocs-notes 1953-1970 (1985– )
Episode:
Pierre Mendès France Président du Conseil
(1985)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Marcel Teulade | Stars: Henri Virlojeux, Muhammad 8 Al-Amin, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Henri Delteil
32.
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
33.
Battle Plan Under Fire (2004– )
Episode:
Siege
(2004)
Documentary, History, War
We explore siege warfare which is almost as old as history itself and can have several aims.
Director: Gordon Stevens | Stars: Bruce Gudmundsson, Lloyd Clark, Eric Meyers, Christian de Castries
34.
Battlefield: Vietnam (1999– )
Episode:
Dien Bien Phu: The Legacy
(1999)
Documentary, History, War
Director: Dave Flitton
Votes: 12
35.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
What Were the Impacts of the Vietnam War?
(2022)
18 min | Documentary, Animation
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
36.
Military Masterminds (2022)
Episode:
Guerrilla Warfare
(2022)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Looking at how Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Josip Broz Tito and Võ Nguyên Giáp used Guerrilla Warfare to overcome a militarily superior enemy.
Director: Roberto Irwin | Stars: Eric Y. Shibuya, Eric Gomez, James Rogers, William Leogrande
37.
The Ten Thousand Day War (1980– )
Episode:
Dien Bien Phu
(1980)
26 min | Documentary, History, War
Episode Three, covers the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the final battle in the French Indochina war. Dien Bien Phu is on the northwestern border with Laos, it is just within range of French ... See full summary »
38.
Docs interdits (2011– )
Episode:
La France est Notre Patrie
(2015)
Documentary, History
Director: Rithy Panh
Votes: 33
39.
Points de Repères (2016– )
Episode:
Dien Bien Phu, une bataille perdue d'avance
(2019)
26 min | Animation, Family, History
Since the end of the 19th century, Indochina has been a flourishing colony, the gem of the French Empire. However, the Second World War turns everything upside down. At the end of the war, the Viet Minh movement announces its independence.
Director: Pierre Lergenmuller | Stars: Helen Buday, Eddie Crew, Tercelin Kirtley, Karine Pinoteau