Na kaučukovou plantáž ve Francouzské Indočíně, kterou vlastní Dennis Carson, přijíždí ze Saigonu prostitutka Vantine. Začne škádlit Dennise, který zpočátku odolává jejímu kouzlu, ale brzy se poddá a rychle si vypěstují přátelský, nezávazný vztah, kdy se navzájem škádlí a předstírají, že k sobě nechovají žádnou náklonost. Oslovují se „Frede“ a „Lily“, jako by si ani jeden nemohl zapamatovat jméno toho druhého. Carson však ztratí o Vantine zájem, když dorazí Willisovi. Gary Willis je mladý nezkušený inženýr a jeho žena Barbara je noblesní půvabná dáma. Carson je okamžitě přitahován Barbarou a poté, co pošle Garyho na dlouhou průzkumnou cestu, začne svádět Barbaru, což se žárlivé Vantine nelíbí.

Henri Charriére (1906–1973) byl odsouzen na doživotí a deportován do nechvalně proslulé věznice na Ďábelských ostrovech ve Francouzské Guayaně, kde si odpykávali trest nejhorší zločinci. Tamní podmínky byly nelidské, režim tvrdý a naděje na únik prakticky neexistovala. Charriére, podle tetování přezdívaný Motýlek, však odmítl rezignovat. Myšlenka na útěk byla to jediné, co ho udržovalo při životě. Získal pro ni i dalšího vězně, slabošského, intelektuálně založeného Degu, jenž se do trestnice dostal za padělání peněz. Několik nezdařených pokusů Motýlkovi vyneslo přísnou samotku a kruté zacházení, přesto bojoval dál.

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 Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent.

Alžír, 20. léta minulého století. Rabín Sfar žije se svou dcerou Zlabyí, s hlučným papouškem a darebáckým kocourem, který papouška sežere a začne sám mluvit, jenže říká samé lži. Rabín se ho chce zbavit, ale kocour, milující svou mladou paničku, je ochotný udělat cokoliv, aby jí mohl zůstat nablízku...

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.

Francouzská pevnost Diên Biên Phu, jeden z pilířů kolonální vlády, je dějištěm krvavé bitvy v roce 1954, jež ukončí přítomnost Francie v této oblasti. Dnem i nocí je posádka pevnosti masakrována vietnamskými jednotkami a přežijí jen někteří... Strhující válečný film podle skutečných událostí!

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

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. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and its supporters adopted the tactic of murdering French policemen in hopes of forcing a withdrawal. When French law enforcement retaliated by brutalizing Algerians and imposing a strict curfew, the FLN organizes a peaceful demonstration that drew over 11,000 supporters, resulting in an order from the Paris police chief to take brutal countermeasures. Told through the eyes of both French policemen as well as Algerian protestors, Tasma’s film attempts to get to the root of the tragedy by presenting both sides of the story.

Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmosphere tinged with racism. Three of the ringleaders end up at the police station. The next day, November 14, 1983, on the Bordeaux-Ventimiglia train, the three men who were candidates for enlistment in the Foreign Legion beat Habib Grimzi, a 26-year-old Algerian, before throwing him out of a window. A young woman, who witnessed the murder, alerted the police. The investigation begins in a climate of extreme tension. In the city, provocations and attacks are increasing...

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow process of suffering and warlike revolts, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization in 1830, until this "Red All Saints' Day" of November 1, 1954. At its center, Ahmed gradually awakens to political awareness against colonization, under the gaze of his son, a symbol of the new Algeria, and that of Miloud, half-mad haranguer, half-prophet, incarnation of Popular memory of the revolt, the liberation of Algeria and its people.

In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.

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 deal with some problems involving the Algerian fight for independence.

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root causes of the armed conflict of the Algerian resistance. Participating in a war of real images against French colonial propaganda, these images aimed to show the images that the occupier had censored or distorted, by showing the extortions of the French occupation army: torture, arrests and arbitrary executions, napalm bombings, roundabout fires, erasing entire villages from the map, etc. This is what the French media described as a “pacification campaign”.

1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he may lose his freedom and his life. She is ready to sacrifice him to save her own skin. But their wounds bring them together. Will this be enough to make them something other than what colonisation has decided they should be: a savage to be exterminated, an African to be enslaved?

Directed by Pierre Clément and Djamel-Eddine Chanderli, produced by the FLN Information Service in 1958, this film is a rare document. Pierre Clément is considered one of the founders of Algerian cinema. In this film he shows images of Algerian refugee camps in Tunisia and their living conditions. A restored DVD version released in 2016, from the 35 mm original donated by Pierre Clément to the Contemporary International Documentation Library (BDIC).

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next day. International Critics Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Copy restored in 2012

Directed by Mustapha Badie.