French soldier movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant french soldier movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, tense and suspense films and TV shows about / with french soldier, military, soldier, war, world war two, battles, father son relationship, uniform, death and bare chested male plots mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres shot in France, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as french soldier: The Wakhan Front (2015), Frantz (2016), Special Forces (2011), War Trap (2022), Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat (2022), Beau Travail (1999), Father & Soldier (2022), Legionnaire (1998), Beau Geste (1966), March or Die (1977).
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List of french soldier movies
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Afghanistan 2014 As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antarès and his men’s determination, ...
Style:
exciting, touching, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
soldier, dog, french soldier, animal sacrifice, village, motorcycle, night, military, sacrifice, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 2014
Place:
afghanistan
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sexy, black and white, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war one, guilty conscience, german soldier, grave, french soldier, nationalism, death of loved one, war veteran, sadness, casualty of war, soldier, mourning ...
Time:
post world war one, 1910s, year 1919, year 2016, 90s ...
Place:
germany, paris france, france
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit ...
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
taliban, military, chase, soldier, war zone, kidnapping, tough heroes, daring rescue, danger, rescue, swat team, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, pakistan
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, following an ambush carried out in a fort by German troops, Eugène, a French soldier, finds himself trapped underground. Now fighting for his survival, his destiny will play out alongside that of another survivor and ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, french soldier, soldier, ambush, survival, military, wound, battles, wartime, fight, war, trap ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat.
Style:
dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
world war, winter, world war two, military, french soldier, cold weather, bombing, young girl, small town, hitler, defeat, battles ...
Time:
year 1940
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belarus, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in ...
Style:
surreal, harsh, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
foreign legion, gay, desert, obsession, military, military training, gay interest, discipline, french foreign legion, soldier, homoeroticism, existential loneliness ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
africa, france, south africa, marseille, paris france ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Senegal
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
1917. Bakary Diallo enlists in the French army to join his 17-year-old son, Thierno, who has been forcibly recruited. Sent to the front, they will have to face the war together. While Thierno learns to become a man, Bakary will do everything to ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
world war one, french soldier, father, wartime, family relations, relationships, father and son, war, soldier, military, wartime life, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 1917, 1920s
Place:
africa, france, senegal
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, realistic, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, foreign legion, martial arts, combat, soldier, french foreign legion, military, battlefield, behind enemy lines, hitman, master warrior, tough heroes ...
Time:
1920s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
morocco, africa, france, paris france, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Beau, John, and Digby Geste are three inseparable, adventurous brothers who haven been adopted into the wealthy household of Lady Brandon. When money in the uppercrust household grows tight, Lady Brandon is forced to sell her most treasured jewel ...
Plot:
foreign legion, french foreign legion, french soldier, military, legion, lonely, medieval, jewel theft, hairy chested man, bare chested male, sibling relationship, male male relationship ...
Time:
year 1966, 1800s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
north africa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The French Foreign Legion, in the early 20s, is tasked to protect a group of Archaeologists in the middle east. After scenes depicting the hardship of day-to-day Foreign Legion life, and the ragtag collection of people who join, the local Arabs take ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
foreign legion, french foreign legion, archaeologist, military, obsessive quest, world war one, adventurer, danger, treasure hunt, rescue, heroic mission, medieval ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
morocco, africa, middle east, sahara
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Digby Geste (Feldman) and his ‘identical’ twin brother Beau (York) compete with their stepmother (Ann-Margeret) over possession of a priceless family heirloom.
Style:
parody, witty, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
foreign legion, bedouin, disorder, farce, goofy hero, siblings relations, french foreign legion, camel, brother brother relationship, jewel theft, french soldier, slutty attitude ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
morocco, north africa, sahara
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Unlikely friends in a melting pot of confusion. Simon Murray fights for the French Foreign Legion. Pascal Dupont fights for himself. War torn men question honour, hope, morality...because you can desert everything...except yourself.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, tense
Plot:
french foreign legion, military, war, introspection, military life, rivalry, soldier, moral dilemma, hopes, friendship, infantrymen, basic training ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1960
Place:
africa, algeria
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A personal look at the French military leader’s origins and swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of Napoleon’s addictive, volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine.
Style:
epic, thrilling, captivating, psychological, crying ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
french army, french military, french revolution, psychic, soldier, commander, crown, napoleonic wars, empress, leader, fight, exile ...
Time:
19th century, 1780s, 1810s, 18th century, 1790s ...
Place:
paris france, moscow russia, egypt, france, russia ...
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Genre: Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.
Style:
entertaining, tense, captivating, fairy tale
Plot:
musketeer, palace intrigue, swordsman, sword fight, teamwork, french soldier, love and romance, heroes, royal palace, love affair, queen, friendship ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
TV show
Story:
At the end of 2012, France announced the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan after a decade of war. All the soldiers are happy with this news, except one unit, the Black Cats. Led by Chief Sergeant Dostali, the group will do everything to ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
soldier, military, military base, intrigue, mysterious disappearance, french soldier, conspiracy, satire, troops, military life, secret, military officer ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
afghanistan
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining ...
Plot:
parachutist, foreign legion, french soldier, french foreign legion, military, african, conservative, conflict, cold war era, combat, group, town ...
Place:
africa, congo
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Vietnam, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged ...
Style:
realistic, political, period piece, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
politics, older man younger woman relationship, journalism, cia, love triangle, moral ambiguity, tragedy, complex characters, communism, reporter, cold war, dishonesty ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1952, 2000s, year 2002 ...
Place:
vietnam, southeast asia, indochina, asia, hong kong ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence
Style:
sexy, realistic, rough, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
military, politics, atrocity, soldier, anti war, racism, basic training, imperialism, military life, political unrest, moral dilemma, danger ...
Time:
1950s, year 2007, 50s, year 1959
Place:
algeria, europe, france
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Algeria, 1960. A section of French paratroopers are sent in search of a missing aircraft in the Algerian desert. The wreckage of the plane is quickly located, but there are no survivors, just a suitcase stamped “Top Secret”. Stormed by enemy ...
Style:
serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, spooky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
genie, fear, soldier, survival, village, supernatural, danger, isolation, confined, deadly creature, supernatural ability, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1960
Place:
algeria, sahara, morocco, africa, north africa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
André Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the little that she gives him. He leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn him into a warrior. As the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, slow cinema, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
castration, war crime, male female relationship, rape, soldier, murder, death, survival, battles, best friend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, military ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
france, middle east, flanders, europe, belgium
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
November 1918. A few days before the Armistice, Édouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard's life. These two men have nothing in common but the war. Lieutenant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, destroys their lives while binding them as ...
Style:
period piece, thought provoking, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
world war one, soldier, cemetery, death, swindle, businessman, hospital, grave, masked man, saving a life, wound, sculptor ...
Time:
year 1918, 1920s, post world war one, 1910s, year 2017 ...
Place:
paris france, france, morocco
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style:
atmospheric, dramatic, epic, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, evacuation, soldier, beach, military officer, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
wedding, adultery, extramarital affair, cheating wife, military, infidelity, betrayal, circus, sex scene, french soldier, love, beach ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1940, year 1939, 1930s ...
Place:
paris france, berlin germany, indochina, algeria, syria ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel Davenne, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette ...
Style:
anthology, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
teenage girl, beach, irony, maid, teen angst, unfaithfulness, cheating on boyfriend, coming of age, world war two, teenage pregnancy, passion, extramarital affair ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1950 ...
Place:
normandy, paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening ...
Style:
sentimental, visual, colorful, romantic, lyrical ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, young lovers, love triangle, unfulfilled love, first love, teenage girl, marriage, single mother, separation, mechanic, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, year 1957, year 1958, 20th century ...
Place:
france, algeria, normandy, europe, tokyo ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Style:
inspirational, psychological, visually stunning, grim, mind twisting ...
Plot:
prison escape, prison, life philosophy, escape, prison break, runaway, prison life, jail, protector, human spirit, escape attempt, escape plan ...
Time:
year 1973, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 70s
Place:
south america, persia, guyana, latin america, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, black and white, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
sex scene, cafe, love triangle, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, love affair, tragic love, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, year 1973, year 1972, 70s, 60s
Place:
france, paris france, new york, hamburg germany, europe ...
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
prostitution, sex, homosexual, male prostitution, young man, gay interest, male rape, rape, hustler, unrequited love, transvestite, sex work ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that ...
Style:
sincere, touching, erotic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, wartime life, world war two, older woman teenage boy sex, age difference, teenage boy, escape, refugee, age-gap relationship, older woman younger man sex, capture, outdoor sex ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
paris france, france, europe, nice france, riviera
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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. ...
Style:
political, talky, epic, anthology, art film ...
Plot:
french revolution, revolutionary, french history, revolution, politics, biopic, execution, guillotine, terror, death row, power struggle, french politics ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, 1790s, year 1983, georgian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, poland, eastern europe, europe ...
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