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, 4h27Directed by Marcel Ophuls
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Claude Lanzmann, Marcel Ophuls, Jeanne Moreau, Bertrand Tavernier
D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
, 2h9Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Riccardo Freda
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about sexuality, Transgender in film, Histoire de France, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Gigi Proietti
In the autumn of 1654, an escaped slave seeks refuge at a convent in southern France. After the nuns take him in, his pursuers break into the convent and assault the nuns, searching for the slave. After wounding the mother superior (Pascale Roberts), they close in on their prey. One feisty novitiate, Eloise (Sophie Marceau)—the daughter of the renowned swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret) of the famed Three Musketeers—stands up to the intruders, but is shoved aside as they ride off after the frightened slave, who escaped from the evil Duke Crassac de Merindol. Eloise finds a blood-stained piece of paper (a simple laundry list) that the slave used to stop a bleeding wound, and believes it holds some secret code. Later, Eloise is with the mother superior when she dies from her wound. Swearing a sacred oath to avenge her and dressed in men's clothes, Eloise sets out for Paris to elicit the help of her father in tracking down the murderers.
Our Patriots (2017)
, 1h47Directed by Gabriel Le Bomin
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Marc Zinga, Alexandra Lamy, Pierre Deladonchamps, Louane, Audrey Bastien, Audrey Bastien
Après la défaite française de l'été 1940, Addi Bâ, un jeune tirailleur sénégalais, est emmené dans un camp de prisonniers. Il s'évade et se cache dans les Vosges.
The 317th Platoon (1965)
, 1h40Directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer, Philippe Fourastié
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Politique, La guerre d'Indochine, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Jacques Perrin, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Fabre, Manuel Zarzo, Saksy Sbong
L'histoire de huit journées de guerre. En mai 1954, durant la guerre d'Indochine, la 317e section locale supplétive composée de quatre Français et de quarante-et-un Laotiens reçoit l'ordre d'abandonner le petit poste isolé de Luong Ba à la frontière du Laos, pour rallier une colonne partie au secours du camp retranché de Diên Biên Phu.
The Rover (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Terence Young
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Anthony Quinn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Rita Hayworth, Richard Johnson, Ivo Garrani, Mino Doro
1797. Le boucanier Peyrol, porteur d'un message pour l'amiral de la flotte, force une fois de plus le blocus de la flotte anglaise au large de Toulon. Mais un commissaire du peuple, Dussard, l'accuse bientôt d'avoir dérobé un chargement d'or. Peyrol parvient à s'échapper et trouve refuge dans une ferme côtière isolée, où vivent Arlette, jeune femme instable, et sa tante Catherine.
Lady Oscar (1979)
, 2h4Directed by Jacques Demy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, Patsy Kensit, Christine Böhm, Georges Wilson, Jonas Bergström
Oscar Françoise de Jarjayes (Catriona MacColl) is a young woman whose father, a career military man, wanted a boy. After she was born her father took to dressing Oscar in boy's clothes and raising her as a man. Privately Oscar acknowledges her feminine side, she dresses as a man and gains an honored position as a guard of Marie Antoinette (Christina Bohm). In her youth, Oscar is in love with Andre (Barry Stokes), the son of the family's housekeeper. Years later, when the French Revolution begins, Oscar and Andre's paths cross for the first time in years. With the assault on the Bastille, Oscar and Andre find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the revolution.
Joan of Arc (2019)
, 2h4Directed by Bruno Dumont
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Jeanne d'Arc, Histoire de France
Actors Fabrice Luchini
Année 1429. La guerre de Cent Ans fait rage. Jeanne, investie d’une mission guerriere et spirituelle, délivre la ville d’orlean et remet le Dauphin sur le trône de France. Elle part ensuite livrer bataille à Paris où elle subit sa première défaite. Emprisonnée à Compiègne par les Bourguignons, elle est livrée aux Anglais. S’ouvre alors son procès a Rouen, mené par Pierre Cauchon qui cherche à lui ôter toute crédibilité. Fidèle à sa mission et refusant de reconnaître les accusations de sorcellerie diligentées contre elle, Jeanne est condamnée au bûcher pour hérésie.
Free Men (2011)
, 1h39Directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Islam, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Lubna Azabal, Farid Larbi, Stéphane Rideau, Christopher Buchholz
In occupied Paris, the young unemployed Algerian, Younes Ben Daoud, makes a living on the black market. He is arrested by the police, and to avoid prison he agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect that the mosque leadership, including its rector Si Kaddour Benghabrit, is helping resistance fighters and protecting North African Jews by giving them Muslim birth certificates.
Vatel (2000)
, 1h43Directed by Roland Joffé
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Cooking films, Politique, Political films, Histoire de France, Films about royalty
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Timothy Spall, Julian Glover, Tom Stoppard
The film takes place in 1671. In the prelude to the Franco-Dutch War, a financially struggling Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé is visited by King Louis XIV for three days of festivities at the Château de Chantilly.. The prince wants a commission as a general, and spares no expense in order to impress the king. In charge of organizing the event is François Vatel, Master of Festivities and Pleasures in the prince's household. Vatel is a man of great honor and talent, but of low birth. As the great Condé is prepared to do anything in his quest for stature, the tasks assigned to Vatel are often menial and dishonourable. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity amidst the extravaganza he is meant to orchestrate, he finds himself in love with Anne de Montausier, the king's latest lover, who returns his affections. However, due to their incompatible social standing and the rigid hierarchy of the court, continuing the liaison is clearly impossible. The movie ends with Vatel realizing that he is nothing more than a puppet in the hands of his superiors, bought and sold like a piece of property: he consequently commits suicide. Vatel throws himself on his sword because the roast was not sufficient to feed several unexpected guests, the clouds dulled the fireworks display and he lacked confidence that there would be enough fish for the morning meal. Anne de Montausier is grief-stricken upon hearing the news but she must not speak of it. In doing so, she flees the court quietly and no one ever knew about her and Vatel.
Napoleon (2024)
, 5h30Directed by Abel Gance
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes French war films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Antonin Artaud, Edmond van Daële, Abel Gance, Suzanne Bianchetti
The scenario of the film as originally written by Gance was published in 1927 by Librairie Plon. Much of the scenario describes scenes that were rejected during initial editing, and do not appear in any known version of the film. The following plot includes only those scenes that are known to have been included in some version of the film. Not every scene described below can be viewed today.
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
, 1h54Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Eugène Silvain, Renée Falconetti, Maurice Schutz, Louis Ravet, Antonin Artaud, Michel Simon
After having led numerous military battles against the English during the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc is captured near Compiegne and eventually brought to Rouen, Normandy to stand trial for heresy by French clergymen loyal to the English.
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
, 3h2Directed by Wojciech Has
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Ghost films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Iga Cembrzyńska, Kazimierz Opaliński, Elżbieta Czyżewska, Jan Machulski, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Gustaw Holoubek
During a battle in the Aragonese town of Saragossa (Zaragoza) during the Napoleonic Wars, an officer retreats to the second floor of an inn. He finds a large book with drawings of two men hanging on a gallows and two women in a bed. An enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him; the second officer recognizes its author as his own grandfather, who was a captain in the Walloon Guard.
Django (2017)
, 1h57Directed by Étienne Comar
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, La culture tzigane, Jazz films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Reda Kateb, Cécile de France, Patrick Mille, Àlex Brendemühl, Xavier Beauvois, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h
En 1943, alors que la France est occupée, le guitariste de jazz Django Reinhardt souhaite échapper aux forces allemandes qui l'invitent à faire une tournée en Allemagne pour récupérer sa notoriété. Il tente de quitter la France en passant par la Suisse. Il séjourne un temps en Savoie et en Haute-Savoie, notamment à Thonon-les-Bains. Là il découvre les dures conditions que les forces d'ordre français et les Allemands font subir aux tsiganes, lui qui fut jusqu'ici un célèbre joueur de jazz insouciant...
Forbidden Games (1952)
, 1h26Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Laurence Badie, Jacques Marin, Madeleine Barbulée, Suzanne Courtal
It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. After five-year-old Paulette's parents and pet dog die in a German air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, the traumatized child meets 10-year-old Michel Dollé whose peasant family takes her in. She quickly becomes attached to Michel. The two attempt to cope with the death and destruction that surrounds them by secretly building a small cemetery among the ruins of an abandoned watermill, where they bury her dog and start to bury other animals, marking their graves with crosses stolen from a local graveyard, including one belonging to Michel's brother. Michel's father first suspects that Michel's brother's cross was stolen from the graveyard by his neighbour. Eventually, the father finds out that Michel has stolen the cross.
, 1h55Directed by Bruno Dumont
Origin France
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Jeanne d'Arc, Musical films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
L'action se situe à proximité du petit village lorrain de Domrémy, dans le second quart du XV siècle, alors que la guerre de Cent Ans, opposant Anglais et Bourguignons d'un côté et Français de l'autre, fait rage dans le royaume de France. Elle décrit la germination et l'éclosion d'une petite paysanne tourmentée par la peur et le doute, en une adolescente affermie, décidée, volontaire et convaincue de l'inéluctabilité de sa mission divine.