Movie List for "france"

This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Djibouti. Year 1999.

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot — the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal. Year 2009.

“Cafe Transit” depicts an independent-minded widow who bucks tradition to run her dead husband’s truck stop café. Year 2005.

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life – and resorts to drastic means to do so. Year 1981.

A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved. Year 1959.

It is the holy month of Ramadan in Morocco in 1981. Amina, accompanied with her seven years old son Mehdi, come to live with her father-in-law Ahmed in a small village in Morocco, after her husband was arrested for political reasons. Year 2003.

Three separate stories about the same thing: le plaisir (pleasure). Year 1952.

A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France. Year 1956.

Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer. Year 1959.

Late in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Khalil returns to Beirut after many years. Ten years earlier, during a battle, he took advantage of the confusion and pretended he was dead. Year 1998.

A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor’s condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; Year 1987.

Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death. Year 1928.

A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amidst chaos; a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family; and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror. Year 2011.

King Arthur learns about his wife’s, Queen Guinevere, affair with Lancelot, who at the same time remains loyal to the king, particularly after Arthur’s traitorous nephew Mordred commits an attempt on his life. Year 1974.

France employs local secret agents in Vietnam 1922 to eliminate resistance. The rebel leader’s pretty daughter gets captured. Later an agent seems to have fallen in love with her and helps her escape. He flees, too. Lots of martial a Year 2007.

A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord’s mistress. Year 1995.