Keyword: french colonialism

Red Island

5.9

2023

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Thomas lives in a military base on colony of Madagascar, with his parents and friends. He gradually becomes aware of territorial and sexual politics while finding an outlet for his imagination in the exploits of crime-buster Fantômette.

Papillon

8.3

1973

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A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devils Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Chronicle of a Summer

7.5

1961

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A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.

Les oliviers de la justice

8

1962

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A man returns to his native Algeria to visit his dying father there, at a time when the French colonial hold on that country is coming to its end.

Le Petit Soldat

7.4

1963

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During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.

Chronicle of the Year of Embers

7.3

1975

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A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian liberation national movement. The film demonstrates that the Algerian War was a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization of Algeria in 1830

The Rabbi's Cat

7.2

2011

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Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbis cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.