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11 results for “french colonialism”

Black and White in Color

1976 ★ 6.4

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

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The Battle of Algiers

1966 ★ 7.9

Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings

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Daniel Ali, a rebellious schoolteacher in colonial Algeria

2012 ★ 10.0

In 1954, Daniel Vérin, a young schoolteacher of Algerian descent, made a radical decision: he turned his back on colonial France and joined the Algerian insurge

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Albert Schweitzer

1957 ★ 6.5

This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go to French Eq

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The Lover

1992 ★ 7.0

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and s

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The Last of the Mohicans

1992 ★ 7.4

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Col

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Indochine

1992 ★ 7.0

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare the th

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Faithful

2022 ★ 6.2

1956. Algeria is a French colony. Fernand and Helene are madly in love. Fernand is an activist, fighting for independence alongside the Algerians. Helene is fig

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Papillon

1973 ★ 7.8

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 escape. Crime

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Le Petit Soldat

1963 ★ 6.9

Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian

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Michel Sardou

Michel Charles Sardou, who is known by his credited stage name as Michel Sardou (born 26 January 1947) is a French singer and occasional actor. He is known not

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