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Kanopy
89
8.1
/74647/
78
/1195/
78
/856/
4.5
/115908/
99
/95/
95
/1192/
96
/22/

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
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The Roku Channel
85
8.2
/9684/
78
/209/
78
/213/
4.2
/20984/
87
/68/
90
/109/

Napoleon (1927)
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.4
/8315/
69
/146/
68
/173/
3.7
/7713/
85
/13/
82
/106/

Danton (1983)
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
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Netflix
79
7.4
/241106/
76
/11330/
74
/5415/
3.5
/254909/
84
/310/
83
/1500/
75
/50/
cc age 13+

Darkest Hour (2017)
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
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Kanopy
75
7.3
/16224/
75
/675/
77
/1290/
3.9
/50155/
86
/83/
79
/207/
74
/25/

Polisse (2011)
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically document the daily routine of the team.
poster
74
7.6
/1845/
68
/34/
71
/48/
3.9
/1919/
81
/1/

Special Section (1975)
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
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MUBI
72
6.8
/2816/
67
/93/
65
/98/
3.7
/6684/
87
/54/
59
/5/
76
/16/

The Death of Louis XIV (2016)
August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.
poster
69
6.5
/2715/
58
/38/
58
/119/
3.3
/2302/
79
/14/
58
/8/

Stavisky... (1974)
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.
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Amazon Prime Video
68
6.8
/17734/
74
/1233/
70
/1502/
3.6
/56316/
74
/53/
63
/213/
58
/19/

OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
In 1967, OSS 117 is sent to Brazil in order to retrieve a microfilm list of French Nazi sympathizers, only to once again unknowingly set foot into a bigger international intrigue.
poster
72
67
7.2
/23013/
71
/1166/
70
/1570/
3.5
/35489/
78
/46/
83
/21/
60
/15/

An Officer and a Spy (2019)
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
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Kanopy
67
6.6
/4247/
68
/97/
66
/198/
3.3
/1621/
76
/42/
63
/76/
59
/14/

Outside the Law (2010)
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
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Kanopy
66
6.6
/2009/
66
/127/
67
/154/
3.3
/6114/
80
/40/
73
/1/
50
/8/

La Syndicaliste (2023)
The true story of the Irish national Maureen Kearney- head tradeunion representative-turned-whistleblower of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. After denouncing top-secret deals that shook the sector, Kearney’s life is suddenly turned upside-down when she is violently assaulted in her own house.
poster
63
6.3
/1741/
61
/57/
58
/98/
3.1
/903/
79
/33/
50
/48/
62
/14/

The Conquest (2011)
A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
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Criterion Channel
62
6.2
/2290/
67
/50/
59
/45/
3.4
/2909/
71
/14/
38
/18/

Elena and Her Men (1956)
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.
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Kanopy
60
6.4
/4140/
63
/185/
60
/301/
3.3
/5840/
62
/21/
55
/20/
65
/11/

The French Minister (2013)
Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity, and efficacy. Enter Arthur Vlaminck. Hired to write the minister's speeches, Arthur must contend with the sensibilities of his boss and the dirty dealings within the Quai d'Orsay, the ministry's home.
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Apple TV
59
6.3
/183108/
63
/8634/
63
/2976/
2.9
/548476/
58
/342/
58
/933/
64
/62/
cc age 16+

Napoleon (2023)
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
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Amazon Prime Video
72
54
7.1
/1771/
70
/28/
65
/37/
3.7
/1165/
87
/46/
67
/124/
75
/17/

Terror's Advocate (2007)
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants interviewed include Algerian nationalists Yacef Saadi, Zohra Drif, Djamila Bouhired and Abderrahmane Benhamida, Khmer Rouge members Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, once far-left activists Hans-Joachim Klein and Magdalena Kopp, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber, Palestinian politician Bassam Abu Sharif, Lebanese politician Karim Pakradouni, political cartoonist Siné, former spy Claude Moniquet, novelist and ghostwriter Lionel Duroy, and investigative journalist Oliver Schröm.
poster
70
53
6.4
/1180/
62
/91/
63
/118/
3.1
/3003/
100
/12/

Promises (2022)
Clémence, the fearless mayor of a town near Paris, is completing the final term of her political career. With her faithful right-hand man Yazid, she has long fought for this town plagued by inequality, unemployment and slumlords. However, when Clémence is approached to become Minister, her ambition arises, questioning her devotion and commitment to her citizens. Will her political integrity and election promises survive her newly found ambition?
poster
56
50
6.6
/8546/
68
/142/
61
/175/
3.1
/2834/
31
/32/
61
/134/
44
/13/

Vatel (2000)
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity, he finds himself attracted to Anne de Montausier, the king's newest mistress. In Vatel, she finds someone who's authentic, living out his principles within the casual cruelties of court politics. Can the two of them escape unscathed?
poster
76
49
7.1
/280/
65
/18/
63
/14/
3.8
/1818/
100
/12/

Returning to Reims (2022)
An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.
poster
66
49
5.9
/893/
59
/92/
48
/115/
3.3
/4037/
100
/5/

Undercover (2022)
October 2015. French customs seize seven tonnes of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a shady past, contacts Stéphane Vilner, a journalist at Libération. He claims to be able to demonstrate the existence of State drug trafficking led by Jacques Billard, prominent media figure and high-ranking French police officer. Suspicious at first, the young journalist finally dives into an investigation that will lead him to the darkest corners of the Republic.
poster
64
49
6.7
/3113/
65
/91/
64
/143/
3.5
/3203/
54
/25/

The Minister (2011)
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
45
6.4
/1380/
65
/98/
60
/103/
3.2
/4767/
75
/20/
60
/1/
69
/6/

Bloody Oranges (2021)
Simultaneously, a retired couple overwhelmed by debt tries to win a dance contest, as the minister of economy is suspected of tax evasion, and a teenage girl encounters a sexual maniac, while a young lawyer attempts to climb the social ladder. When the shoe drops, the winner won’t necessarily be the one we expected.
poster
78
42
7.6
/2146/
72
/31/
75
/54/
3.8
/2782/
91
/3/

The French Revolution (1989)
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was imprisoned). Part two carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794.
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Kanopy
80
39
7.3
/836/
80
/61/
73
/55/
3.8
/4436/
100
/5/

The Monopoly of Violence (2020)
As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizens-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In this documentary, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.
poster
65
39
6.8
/3027/
66
/64/
65
/103/
3.5
/1813/
60
/2/

Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
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Kanopy
62
39
6.4
/1255/
60
/81/
58
/132/
3.1
/1319/
73
/11/
56
/1/
61
/8/

This Is Our Land (2017)
Pauline, a devoted and generous home help nurse, raises her two children alone, while also looking after her father, a former steelworker. Taking advantage of her popularity, the directors of an extremist political party suggest she become their candidate at the mayoral elections.
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Criterion Channel
70
38
7.0
/1956/
68
/38/
64
/80/
3.6
/1868/
80
/5/

Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
poster
72
38
6.9
/1873/
68
/41/
66
/71/
3.8
/4444/
83
/1/

The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993)
The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.
poster
76
37
7.6
/239/
78
/41/
73
/28/
4.0
/5489/

Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals (2025)
A democracy and a dictatorship. A presidential campaign and dirty money. War and death. When Nicolas Sarkozy affirmed in the press that “No one can make sense of it”, he was trying to discredit the investigation into his ties with Muammar Gaddafi, portraying it as a bunch of gibberish. As Sarkozy and his many accomplices go on trial in the Libyan campaign financing affair, here’s the film that will finally explain all of the ins and outs of one of the most remarkable French political scandals in decades.
poster
71
36
7.2
/367/
72
/38/
69
/46/
3.6
/1624/

La cravate (2020)
Bastien is twenty years old and has been an activist for five years in the main extreme right party. When the presidential campaign begins, he's invited by his superior to commit even further. Initiated into the art of decking himself out like a politician, he starts to dream of a career, but old demons surge forth...
poster
74
34
7.1
/1184/
77
/49/
72
/74/
3.7
/1570/
78
/1/

The President (1961)
At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key figures, including the one set to become the next President.
poster
61
30
7.0
/1097/
64
/12/
64
/28/
3.4
/319/
43
/7/
61
/33/

The Last Mitterrand (2005)
A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.
poster
61
26
6.1
/991/
62
/19/
57
/59/
3.2
/740/

Chouans! (1988)
Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouans are revolting against the young Republic and fight for the monarchy restauration. The civil war divides also the family of the Count Savinien de Kerfadec, a liberal and generous noble and a flying machines inventor.
poster
52
25
5.6
/774/
59
/31/
58
/69/
3.1
/732/
25
/69/

Coluche (2008)
French comedian Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, announces - for laughs - his candidacy for the 1981 French presidential elections.
poster
74
24
7.3
/131/
75
/17/
76
/20/
3.7
/1083/

Those Who Care (2021)
Since the cult success of Merci Patron!, activist/journalist/filmmaker François Ruffin has become an MP. Here, he attempts to table a law aimed at upholding the rights of what in Quebec are known as caregivers, and shows us in passing how a law whose need seems patently obvious is put together, debated, voted on and . . . dies on the battleground of French politics. A stirring documentary about social injustice that somehow manages to make us bust a gut laughing as we rage with indignation. And also cry at the beauty of it all, thanks to the director’s humanist sensibility and a deft play between reality and fiction.
poster
69
24
6.8
/259/
72
/29/
70
/30/
3.4
/733/

A Place in the Sun (2019)
Made on a shoestring budget, François Ruffin and Gilles Perret’s investigative documentary has the adventurous spirit of a road movie. Intimate and sometimes humorous, encounters with yellow vest protestors pierce through reports of violence and destruction, revealing a collective desire for equity.
poster
64
22
6.8
/462/
64
/39/
65
/31/
3.1
/467/

Emmanuel Macron: Behind the Rise (2017)
Deputy General Secretary at the Elysée to candidate for the presidency of the Republic, the novice in politics went from the shadows to the light in a very short time. For 200 days, our cameras followed him behind the scenes of his campaign and his exceptional ascent. For eight months we were the only ones allowed to follow the candidate Emmanuel Macron with our camera behind the scenes of this exceptional campaign. From the announcement of his candidature until his election on May 7, we propose you an exclusive documentary allowing you to live from inside the campaign of Emmanuel Macron in the manner of a political thriller.
poster
57
19
6.2
/1460/
55
/9/
53
/33/
3.3
/483/
50
/2/

A French Woman (1995)
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.
poster
55
19
5.7
/424/
60
/32/
57
/67/
3.2
/625/
40
/1/

Des lendemains qui chantent (2014)
Olivier and Leo, two brothers that are moved to Paris and that life has separated ... If the first sees himself as a journalist without concessions, the second is an ambitious and opportunistic communication adviser. Noémie, a charming presidential adviser, can not, over the years, choose between them. To the amusement of Sylvain, their childhood friend, who made his fortune in Pink Minitel, their destinies intersect over 20 years, are intertwined, in a funny epic, tender and nostalgic, in the 80 / 90.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
19
5.5
/479/
54
/25/
49
/50/
3.1
/387/

The Great Game (2015)
Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to take on a strange mission that takes him back to a past he’d prefer to forget, and puts his life in danger. In the middle of all this, Pierre falls in love with Laura, a young extreme-left activist. But in this world of subterfuge, who can really be trusted?
poster
57
18
6.0
/537/
69
/11/
54
/24/
3.5
/742/
36
/9/

Pater (2011)
During a year, they would meet and film each other. The filmmaker and the actor, the President and his prime minister, Alain Cavalier and Vincent Lindon. In Pater, you will see them in real life and in the fiction that they invented together.
poster
67
16
7.1
/253/
60
/10/
65
/17/
3.6
/584/

1974, une partie de campagne (2002)
Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
poster
61
16
6.1
/346/
64
/12/
54
/33/
3.3
/239/

Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre (1989)
Postwar France was slow to recover from the after-effects of the World War Two. The economy was doing poorly, and many people were poor and homeless, sleeping under bridges, etc. The winter of 1953-54 proved particularly difficult for these people, as it was one of the coldest on record. Father Pierre (Lambert Wilson), a parish priest, on seeing the suffering of these people (and their frequent death from the cold), was moved to write the French government seeking help for them. When his letter, which was published in the newspapers, succeeded in rousing overwhelming popular support for helping the homeless, he was able to form a charitable group (still active today) titled "Les Chiffoniers d'Emmaus," or "The Ragpickers of Emmaus" to channel help to them. This biographical film tells the true story of Abbe Pierre's successful efforts in those years.
poster
64
15
6.0
/693/
50
/12/
63
/21/
3.4
/422/
80
/3/

Napoleon (1955)
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
poster
65
13
6.0
/356/
70
/7/
63
/13/
3.4
/460/

Life Is Ours (1936)
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
poster
66
12
6.6
/95/
67
/4/
64
/21/
3.5
/216/

A Man is Dead (2018)
Brest, 1950. The war ended five years ago and nothing remains of the city. Massive bombings and intense fighting lasting more than a month turned the city, its docks, its arsenal, into ashes. Thousands of workers will build it up again, brick by brick. But with awful work conditions protests quickly arise and a strike begins. Violent confrontations happen during manifestations. Until one man falls. The next day René Vautier lands at Brest clandestinely to make a movie about the movement.
poster
?
80
/1/

EADS-Airbus: Une affaire d'états
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