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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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Steve McQueen

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Deneuve

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Subor

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Carmet

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edgar Morin

Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Pleasence

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: François Morel

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Clark Gable

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlie Vauselle

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders of political and trade union organizations were...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Abdelkader Alloula

Genre: History

Cast: Douta Seck

The Oath, a TV film produced by Algerian television in 1963 following the end of the war of independence, tells the story of young Algerians who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taha El Amiri

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Romane Bohringer

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Khaled Benaissa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Auclair

Chants d’Automne (Song of Autumn), is a story of daily life on a colonial farm, at the start of the war of liberation in Algeria, describing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine)

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Clotilde Courau

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aimé Césaire

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

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Saïd Taghmaoui

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jimmy Jean-Louis

Genre: Drama

Cast: Théo Frilet

The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Reda Kateb

Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aladin Reibel

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Abderrahmane Lotaisa