Movies and TvShows featuring "french-occupation" theme.
Love and Death (1975) is a comedic movie set during the French occupation of Russia in the 1810s. It follows the story of an anti-hero who embarks on various picaresque adventures while attempting to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte. The film showcases elements of postmodernism, parody, and anarchic comedy, with themes of unrequited love, extramarital affairs, and the complexities of marriage. Through slapstick comedy and philosophical musings, it explores the absurdity and randomness of life and death.
What the Day Owes the Night follows the story of a young Algerian man, Younes, who falls in love with a Muslim woman and becomes involved in the armed resistance against the French occupation. The film explores themes of regret, love, racism, and the struggle for Algerian independence.
In the French colony of Vietnam during the French occupation, a rebel uses his martial arts skills to fight against colonialism and inspire a rebellion. The story is filled with action, drama, and romance.
In the French-occupied Mexico, a beefcake martial arts master seeks revenge against a ruthless outlaw gang using his kickboxing skills and Western-style fighting techniques.
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975) is a historical drama that depicts the Algerian resistance against French colonialism and their fight for liberation. Set in the 1940s and 1950s, the film explores the harsh realities faced by Algerians under French occupation, including racial segregation, political activism, and the struggle for independence. It highlights key moments such as massacres, the involvement of Nazi Germany during World War Two, and the guerilla warfare tactics used by the Algerian rebels.
The Silences of the Palace follows the life of a young woman in Tunisia, exploring her relationships with her mother, the oppressive French occupation, and the struggles she faces as a woman. The film touches on themes of women's rights, Islam, and the complexities of mother-daughter relationships.
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
This film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur"as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the earlier years of french occupation.
This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of the old west to somewhat anti-"gringo" Mexican revolutionaries.
This film retraces the combat journey of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian War. When he left the Dellys barracks in October 1945, the day after the Second World War, Krim Belkacem was 23 years old. He is a man revolted by the May massacres in Sétif, Guelma, Kherrata and several other localities in the ravaged country. But it is also and above all a young Algerian who questions the future of Algeria. On March 21, 1947, Krim at the age of 25, he dug up his "Sten" submachine gun, he took action against the boss of his douar who was none other than his cousin. He goes into hiding with six companions. He meshes this entire part of Algeria with a dense and dense network with the sole objective of taking action which will lead to the outbreak of the armed struggle on November 1, 1954.
During the French-Algerian War in the 1940s, Mostefa Ben Boulaid becomes a resistance leader and leads a group of Algerian fighters against French colonialism. He plans a daring escape from prison, digs a tunnel, and forms an escape plan. With the help of an Algerian woman and other revolutionaries, they struggle for independence and face war crimes committed by the French army.
The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.
The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama is a gripping movie set in 19th century Algeria. It tells the story of Cheikh Bouamama, a tribal leader who leads the resistance against the French colonial forces. The film explores the themes of war, rebellion, sacrifice, and the strength of the human spirit.
Eight-year old Francois has moved from Paris to a quiet chateau with his parents who want to escape the stress of the war. In a nearby town, his father's mistress works as a tutor. Soon his father allows a refugee family of Polish Jews to move into the basement. Francois has a terrible crush upon their daugther. Real trouble begins when a Nazi commander and his unit also move into the house, totally unaware of the refugees living below them.
In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.
Patrol in the East is a powerful war movie set during the 1950s in Algeria, portraying the struggle for independence against French colonialism. The story follows a French infantry unit as they navigate through dangerous terrain, facing off against the Algerian resistance. The film explores the complexities of war, the clash between army and civilians, and the fight for freedom in a country torn between cultures.
This documentary of repressive political realities in Cameroon begins with the 1990 publication of an open letter to President Biya calling for a national conference - and the immediate arrest of the letter's author and publisher. The narration then examines the nation's colonial history, beginning with the first German missionary in 1901, the establishment of schools, French occupation following World War I, the paucity of books written by and published by Cameroonians, and the repression of the CPU, a leftist organization of the 1950s and 1960s. Cameroon and its people are the lark, its feathers plucked first by colonialism and then by native strongmen: 'Alouette, je te plumerai.'
During the Algerian War, Hassan Terro, a rebel, disguises himself as a woman and escapes from prison, leading to a series of hilarious misadventures.