Papillon
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...
release : 1973.12.16popularis : 24.884
Indochine
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...
release : 1992.04.15popularis : 16.405
Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking...
release : 1961.10.20popularis : 10.297
Le petit soldat
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...
release : 1963.01.25popularis : 9.358
Le Chat du rabbin
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...
release : 2011.05.31popularis : 7.125
Red Dust
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives...
release : 1932.10.22popularis : 6.364
L'Île rouge
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....
release : 2023.05.31popularis : 5.96
Diên Biên Phu
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and...
release : 1992.03.04popularis : 4.995
Ici s'achève le monde connu
1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he...
release : 2022.10.21popularis : 4.318
Chronique des Années de Braise
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...
release : 1975.11.26popularis : 3.732
Réfugiés Algériens
Directed by Pierre Clément and Djamel-Eddine Chanderli, produced by the FLN Information Service in 1958, this film is a rare document. Pierre...
release : 1958.01.01popularis : 3.445
Thomas Sankara, l'homme intègre
Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his...
release : 2006.09.08popularis : 3.325
Sous La Cendre
The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders of political and trade union organizations were...
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 3.182
La Blessure, la tragédie des harkis
It's the unforgivable story of the two hundred thousands harkis, the Arabs who fought alongside the French in the bitter Algerian war, from 1954 to...
release : 2010.09.20popularis : 3.175
La Victoire en chantant
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their...
release : 1976.09.22popularis : 2.61
L'Algérie des chimères
Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837...
release : 2001.11.15popularis : 23.102
Decolonisation
The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.
release : 2020.01.07popularis : 8.982
L’Incendie (El Harik)
In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome...
release : 1974.03.15popularis : 8.696
Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the...
release : 2012.02.14popularis : 5.832