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Films with theme "Histoire de France", sorted by revenue
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Madame (1961)
, 1h38Directed by Christian-Jaque
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes French war films, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Julien Bertheau, Gianrico Tedeschi, Renaud Mary, Marina Berti
Catherine est lingère durant la Révolution. Elle fournit un jeune lieutenant, désargenté, qui oublie de la payer. Elle est courtisée par un sous-officier, le sergent Lefebvre, mais elle est soucieuse de sa réputation... Le 10 août 1792, durant les émeutes parisiennes, c´est dans sa cour que le canon est tiré, vers les Tuileries. Puis, elle suivra son mari, le sergent Lefebvre, épousé entre deux campagnes napoléoniennes, dans ses pérégrinations militaires.
Blood on His Sword (1961)
, 2hDirected by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Histoire de France
Actors Jean Marais, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roger Hanin, Guy Delorme, Annie Anderson
Louis XI, roi de France, et Charles le Téméraire, duc de Bourgogne, sont en situation de « guerre froide ». Louis XI cherche à stabiliser la paix malgré les colères du duc et les félonies du traître de Sénac. Le projet du roi est de donner sa filleule, Jeanne de Beauvais, en mariage à Charles, qui la désire. Mais Jeanne est amoureuse du chevalier de Neuville...
Billy Budd (1962)
, 2h3Directed by Peter Ustinov
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Terence Stamp, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers, John Neville
In the year 1797, the British naval vessel HMS Avenger (changed from the book; in early drafts it was Indomitable, later ones, Bellipotent) press gangs into service a crewman "according to the Rights of War" from the merchant ship The Rights of Man. The new crewman, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp), is considered naive by his shipmates, and they attempt to indoctrinate him in their cynicism. But Budd's steadfast optimism is impenetrable, as when he is asked to critique the horrible gruel the crew must eat, he offers "It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor." The crew discovers Budd stammers in his speech when under anxiety.
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
, 1h41Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter
The humane Captain Crawford (Guinness) is in command of the warship HMS Defiant during the French Revolutionary Wars. He soon finds himself in a battle of wills with his first officer, the sadistic and supercilious first lieutenant, Mr. Scott-Padget (Bogarde). The Lieutenant believes that Crawford is too soft on his crew, and also disagrees with the captain's decision to proceed with orders to sail to Corsica despite word that Napoleon has overrun much of Italy. Scott-Padget has powerful family connections, which he has used in the past to "beach" two previous commanding officers with whom he disagreed. Knowing that Crawford is helpless to intervene, Scott-Padget subjects the former's son, Midshipman Harvey Crawford (David Robinson), to excessive daily punishments so as to gain leverage over the captain.
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1963)
, 1h5Directed by Robert Bresson
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Prison films, Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Florence Delay, Donald O'Brien, Michael Williams, Gérard Zingg
Jeanne is incarcerated. She can only leave her prison cell when the court demands her appearance for further interrogation. The judges show no empathy and it becomes increasingly obvious that they are about to sentence her to death but Jeanne remains nonchalant.
La salamandre d'or (1962)
, 1h37Directed by Maurice Régamey
Origin France
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler
Themes Histoire de France
Actors Jean-Claude Pascal, Valérie Lagrange, Madeleine Robinson, John Justin, Claude Titre, Scilla Gabel
Nous sommes au XVI siècle. Le roi de France François Ier a été capturé par Charles Quint lors de la bataille de Pavie. En son absence, sa mère Louise de Savoie assure la régence et charge le chevalier Antoine de Montpezat, fidèle et loyal compagnon de François, de rassembler la rançon exigée en échange de la liberté de son fils et de se rendre à Madrid pour la remettre à Charles Quint. Montpezat va devoir déjouer les pièges tendus par le traître Vandœuvre, gouverneur du Languedoc qui a fait allégeance au connétable Charles III de Bourbon manigançant pour s’emparer du trône. En même temps, Antoine va retrouver sa bien-aimée Anne de Guise, promise à Vandœuvre…
The Little Soldier (1963)
, 1h24Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, La colonisation française, Films about terrorism, Algerian War films, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet, Jean-Luc Godard, László Szabó, Georges de Beauregard
During the Algerian War, Bruno Forestier lives in Geneva to escape the enlistment in France. Working for French intelligence, he is ordered to kill Palivoda, who is pro-FLN (National Liberation Front of Algeria), to prove he is not a double agent. Refusal and hesitation keep him from carrying out the assassination.
A People on the March (1963)
, 55minutesDirected by René Vautier, Ahmed Rachedi, André Dumaître
Origin Algerie
Genres War, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, La colonisation française, Films about terrorism, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Algerian War films, Political films, Histoire de France
In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organized an audiovisual formation center to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. A film was edited from that experience, but the French police partially destroyed it. The images that were saved represent an unprecedented historical document: They tell of the Algerian War and the history of the ALN (National Liberation Army), as well as showing life after the war and, particularly, the reconstruction of the cities and the countryside after the war of Independence.
The Postman Goes to War (1966)
, 1h35Directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert
Origin France
Genres War
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Politique, La guerre d'Indochine, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Charles Aznavour, Jess Hahn, Michel Galabru, Pierre Mondy, Doudou Babet, Lucien Barjon
En 1954, un facteur parisien, lassé par son travail, part pour l'Indochine et se retrouve en pleine guerre.
, 2h4Directed by Gérard Oury
Origin France
Genres War, Comedy, Adventure, Historical
Themes French war films, Military humor in film, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Motocyclette, Political films, Road movies, Buddy films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Terry-Thomas, André Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Mike Marshall, Helmuth Schneider, Claudio Brook
Summer 1941. Over Nazi-occupied France, a Royal Air Force B17 Flying Fortress becomes lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The crew, Sir Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out over the city, where they run into and are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort. Involuntarily, Lefort and Bouvet get themselves tangled up in the manhunt against the aviators led by Wehrmacht Major Achbach as they help the airmen to escape to the free zone with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathisers.
Long March (1966)
, 1h30Directed by Alexandre Astruc
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Robert Hossein, Maurice Ronet, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Paul Frankeur, Willy Braque
Un groupe de partisans, dénoncé par des paysans en juin 1944, est contraint de fuir à travers les Cévennes, et tente de rejoindre le Vercors.
Seven Guys and a Gal (1967)
, 1h30Directed by Bernard Borderie
Origin France
Genres Adventure, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Jean Marais, Guy Bedos, Marilù Tolo, Sydney Chaplin, Florin Piersic, Ettore Manni
Les péripéties de deux capitaines de l'armée de Napoléon et d'une comtesse italienne, accompagnés de quelques soldats français, en pleine guerre avec les Autrichiens.
The Hotheads (1967)
, 1h26Directed by Willy Rozier
Origin France
Genres Adventure
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Algerian War films, Road movies, Histoire de France
Actors Jacques Dufilho, Philippe Clay, Estella Blain, Jacques Dynam, Roberto Camardiel, Doudou Babet
Au cours de la guerre d'Algérie, quatre hommes et deux femmes acceptent de convoyer pour le compte du Front de libération nationale algérien des camions à travers le désert.
Hassan Terro (1967)
, 1h30Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Origin Algerie
Genres War, Comedy, Adventure, Historical
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Algerian War films, Histoire de France
Actors Rouiched, Keltoum, Hassan El-Hassani, Larbi Zekkal, Bernard Verley, Sid Ali Kouiret
Alors qu’il tente par tous les moyens de rester en dehors des bouleversements sanglants provoqués par la bataille d’Alger, Hassan, père de famille intègre et naïf, offre sans le savoir, l’hospitalité à un moudjahid activement recherché par l’armée française.
The Beginning (1970)
, 1h31Directed by Gleb Panfilov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Jeanne d'Arc, Histoire de France
Actors Inna Tchourikova, Leonid Kouravliov, Mikhaïl Kononov, Yuri Klepikov, Yuri Vizbor, Evgueni Lebedev
Une jeune et ordinaire provinciale reçoit une proposition inattendue de jouer au cinéma le rôle de Jeanne d'Arc.