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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

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

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

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

In 1958, during the Algerian War, Bruno Forestier, a young man belonging to a far-right group fighting against the Algerian resistance, arrives from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Subor

The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill. Memories from childhood return. He also must...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Prothon

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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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

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

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magda Al Sabahi

The film traces the story of a patrol of the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN), whose mission is to transport a prisoner French soldier to the...

Genre: War

Cast: Hacène Benzerari

On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's independence. France, colonizer since 1830,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anna Dodier

"Algeria, The Two Soldiers" tells the true story of two young French soldiers during the Algerian War, who were driven in two completely opposite...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Noël Favrelière

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des...

Genre: Drama

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"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to...

Genre: Documentary

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A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yorgo Voyagis

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saskia Reeves

“In Algeria, we are restoring order, what we mean by French order,” declared Michel Debré, Prime Minister, under the presidency of...

Genre: Documentary

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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

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: 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

Genre: Documentary

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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