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1. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin
Votes: 12,043 | Gross: $0.09M
2. 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
3. Pacifiction (2022)
165 min | Drama, Thriller
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the high commissioner of the Republic and French government must investigate an ongoing rumor: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Marc Susini, Matahi Pambrun
Votes: 3,212
4. To Our Loves (1983)
R | 99 min | Drama, Romance
An erratic young woman's family desperately tries to prevent her increasingly erotic ways.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Christophe Odent, Dominique Besnehard
Votes: 7,269
5. The Odyssey (2016)
PG | 122 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.
Director: Jérôme Salle | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou, Laurent Lucas
Votes: 6,194
6. Love at Sea (1965)
77 min | Drama
A sailor has a brief affair with a young secretary.
Director: Guy Gilles | Stars: Daniel Moosmann, Geneviève Thénier, Josette Krieff, Guy Gilles
Votes: 710
7. De Gaulle (2020)
108 min | Biography, Drama, History
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Director: Gabriel Le Bomin | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Isabelle Carré, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Mouchet
Votes: 2,003
8. Le Crabe-Tambour (1977)
120 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A dying mariner, full of regret, is looking for his longtime colleague somewhere on the high seas.
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jacques Perrin, Aurore Clément
Votes: 928
9. Pêcheur d'Islande (1924)
93 min | Drama
Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really loves who will not at first give himself to her because of his fondness for the sea that takes him away.
Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Sandra Milovanoff, Charles Vanel, Thomy Bourdelle, Noémi Seize
Votes: 59
10. Le matelot 512 (1984)
100 min | Drama
Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.
Director: René Allio | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Jacques Penot, Bruno Cremer, Laure Duthilleul
Votes: 59
11. Profondeur 4050 (1954)
30 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Director: Jacques Ertaud | Stars: Georges Houot, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Auguste Piccard
12. The Boat and the Bomb (2005)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary
In Aukland Harbour, New Zealand, on July 10th 1985, French navy combat frogmen placed two mines against the hull of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, sinking the ship and killing photographer Fernando Pereira.
Director: Martin Atkin | Stars: Rien Achterberg, Paul Brown, Margaret Crozier, Martini Gotje
Votes: 9
13. Tyrant of the Sea (1950)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, War
In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Rhys Williams, Ron Randell, Valentine Perkins, Doris Lloyd
Votes: 25
14. Undersea Treasures: Napoleon's Lost Fleet (1999 TV Movie)
Unrated | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Exploring the history and adventures of Napoleon Bonaparte in the lead up to and Napoleon's actual Battle of the Nile, where most of the French fleet was destroyed by Great Britain's greatest admiral, Horatio Nelson, in 1798.
Director: Christopher Rowley | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Franck Goddio, Eric Wartenweiler Smith, Brian Lavery
Votes: 12
15. Les Gars de La Une (1988 TV Special)
210 min | Music
Director: Christian Gomila | Stars: Jean Amadou, Julie Arnold, Jean-Louis Aubert, Marie-Laure Augry
16. Rose and the Soldier (2015 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama, History
1942. In Martinique facing starvation, Rose, a young teacher sacked by the Vichy regime, keeps house for a wounded German officer. She plans to spy and help the resistance but is torn between her beliefs and her love for a French soldier.
Director: Jean-Claude Flamand-Barny | Stars: Fred Testot, Zita Hanrot, Jean-Michel Martial, Jocelyne Béroard
Votes: 67
17. L'Afrique noire française (1944)
10 min | Documentary, Short, War
Stars: Charles de Gaulle, René Pleven, Félix Éboué
19. Mars et Neptune (1957)
24 min | Documentary, Short, Action
Director: Jacques Ertaud | Stars: Le Groupe d'Études et de Recherches Sous-Marines, Jean Topart
20.
Les dossiers de l'écran (1967–1991)
Episode:
Mers El-Kebir
(1979)
Director: Pierre Cardinal | Stars: Yves Brainville, Vernon Dobtcheff, Kavin Brennan, Howard Vernon
21.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for the Mediterranean
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
We tell the story of the crucial battles for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the irreplaceable oil fields in World War 2 and the story of the war in Greece.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Winston Churchill
Votes: 5
22.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battles for Tunisia
(2001)
Documentary, History, War
The campaign in Tunisia in World War Two saw the battles that finally ended the brutal war in the desert. We look at the weapons used and tactics and tell the story of the battle itself.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Kenneth Anderson, Claude Auchinleck
Votes: 6
23.
TopTenz (2010– )
Episode:
10 Uncomfortable Truths About the American Revolution
(2018)
15 min | Documentary
The American Revolution is rich in myth and legend, quite a bit of it of questionable validity. But the big one is the omission of the extent France was involved in the war thanks to the ... See full summary »
Star: Simon Whistler
24.
Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West (2021– )
Episode:
Ultimes Combats
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
France is in chaos. The French people take to the roads, trying to escape. The government signs an armistice as Germans take over half the country.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, William C. Bullitt
Votes: 40
25.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
The Gathering Storm
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
The activities of nations after World War I that lead to World War II.
Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Paul von Hindenburg, Kai-Shek Chiang
Votes: 408
26.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
Britain at Bay
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
Germany makes critical errors during the bombing of Britain.
Stars: Robert Powell, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder
Votes: 311
27.
The 100 Days: That Defined Modern History (2022–2023)
Episode:
The Suez Crisis - 1956
(2023)
Documentary, History
In July 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal. The British and French were obliged to timidly withdraw.
Directors: Edmund Duff, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Louise Kettle, Bob Bowker, Spencer Mawby, Nigel Ashton
28.
Ah! Vous écrivez? (1976–1980)
Episode:
Pierre Schoendoerffer ou à la recherche de la fraternité
(1976)
22 min | Short, Talk-Show
Director: Nicolas Ribowski | Stars: Bernard Pivot, Pierre Schoendoerffer