French army movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant french army movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful and bleak films and TV shows about / with french army, military, soldier, battles, french soldier, war, gun, french military, dog and violence plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in France, Italy, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as french army: Love at First Fight (2014), White Soldier (2014), Napoleon (2023), An Officer and a Spy (2019), Captain Conan (1996), Rebellion (2011), Life and Nothing But (1989), Toussaint Louverture (2012), Beau Travail (1999), The Battle of Algiers (1966).
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, family business, forest, teenage love, fall in love, love and romance, military, couples, disorder, parents and children, summer, french army ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, south of france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A muggy Saigon, late 1945. Stationed at a military camp in French Indochina, two young men--Robert and André--become close friends as they share the boredom and excitement of waiting for their first mission. But when they discover that instead of ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, period piece
Plot:
skinny dipping, french army, soldier, battles, pow, fight, resistance fighter, resistance, mortal combat, friends, moral dilemma, male nudity ...
Place:
indochina, vietnam, switzerland
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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: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.
Style:
costume drama, political, art film, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
spy, lawyer, trial, manipulation, courtroom, miscarriage of justice, french army, espionage, duel, french history, french military, french politics ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 2019, victorian era
Place:
paris france, israel, france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, warrior and wolf, leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Their motto: "We forgot to take prisoners, Captain." At war's end, the unit goes to Bucharest, ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
world war one, french army, heroism, frontline, brutality, military life, society, great war, insubordination, danger, french military, investigation ...
Time:
year 1918, 20th century, year 1996, 1910s, post world war one ...
Place:
macedonia, romania, europe, brittany, balkan ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France, New Caledonia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Dissidents in a French colony attack a police station and take hostages.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, tense, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, military, french colonialism, hostage, political unrest, culture clash, injustice, disorder, life is a bitch, confined, danger, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into ...
Style:
anthology, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
world war one, war, great war, research, missing person, interwar period, post war, time travel, anti war, destructive relationship, military, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, year 1989, 1910s, post world war one
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: History
Country: France
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, tense, historical drama
Plot:
slavery, french revolution, revolutionary, slave trade, french colonialism, slave labor, slave trader, slave, napoleonic wars, fighting the system, social problems, historical character ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
france, haiti
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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: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style:
black and white, political, philosophical, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
revolution, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, french algerian war, politics, terrorism, insurrection, independence, revolutionary ...
Time:
year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1954, year 1966 ...
Place:
africa, algeria, middle east, france, north africa ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.
Style:
captivating, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, medieval, napoleonic era, lone wolves, british army, french army, war hero, historical event, french revolution, revolutionary war, revolutionary, struggle ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s
Place:
europe, belgium
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them
Style:
political, realistic, emotional, anthology, philosophical ...
Plot:
mining, outdoor sex, revolution, art, politics, business, french history, union, capitalism, fighting the system, anarchist, unemployment ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1993
Place:
france, europe, flanders, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. ...
Style:
humorous, buddy comedy, period piece, slapstick, lighthearted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, german occupation, french army, behind enemy lines, chaos, camaraderie, escape, french military, escapades, escapism, irreverent, survival ...
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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: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, period piece, political thriller ...
Plot:
french algerian war, military, algerian war, torture, military life, soldier, wartime life, problem, wartime, war, military officer, warrior ...
Time:
60s
Place:
algeria
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport, War
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
While playing football, two children stumble across the grave of a French WWI infantryman who died in the trenches in 1918. His name was Pierre Delpeuch and in the last days of his life he and his comrades shared an extraordinary human adventure. ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, tense, bleak, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war one, soldier, trench warfare, camaraderie, brotherhood, sacrifice, survival, french army, battlefield, memories, grief, heroism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
They come from all over the world but they have one thing in common : The Foreign Legion, their new family. Our Men tells these stories : stories of women who struggle to keep their love fire burning; stories of men who leave for battle; stories of ...
Plot:
french foreign legion, french soldier, boy girl relationship, french military, french army, boys and girls, sex scene, little boy, desert, driving lesson, tattoo, babysitting ...
Place:
corsica
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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: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
1865. A young French officer, travelling the U.S. in search of the murderer of his best friend, gets involved in a struggle between poor farmers and a rich landowner. To help the farmers, he offers them his "Savate" (French kickboxing) ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
kickboxing, martial arts, one man army, fight, competition, french army, kickboxer, underground fighting, soldier, master warrior, revenge, best friend ...
Place:
texas
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, History, War
Country: Ireland, France, USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in the trenches of World War I.
Style:
captivating, factual, emotional, touching, uplifting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war one, chase, soldier, danger, rescue, army, battles, friendship, human spirit, hopes, dog, war ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
paris france, new haven connecticut, yale university
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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: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, USA, UK, Hungary, Spain, Czech Republic
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
The year is 1816, and NAPOLEON, held prisoner by the British on the island of St. Helena, is telling the young English girl BETSY his life story.
Style:
epic, exciting, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, imperial russia, battles, politics, conquering, war hero, leadership, rise to the top, ambition, society, military ...
Time:
1810s, 1800s, 19th century, 18th century, regency period ...
Place:
austria, france, europe, prussia
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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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Genre: Drama, War, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The true story of Iroquois warrior Thayendanegea participating in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, factual, epic ...
Plot:
colonial america, battles, fort, society, friendship, military, american revolution, historical event, brothers, rise and fall, french army, 007 ...
Time:
18th century, 1770s, 90s, 1780s
Place:
america, canada, new york
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s intimate epic.
Style:
serious, stylized, exciting, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, troops, soldier, invasion, battle zone, wartime life, on the run, life is a bitch, military, war, napoleonic era, anti war ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era
Place:
portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Tunisia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
french algerian war, prostitute, soldier, pacifist, idealist, deserter, french army, communist, platoon, military training, anti war protest, male nudity ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
algeria, africa, france
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A dying French naval frigate captain tries to make a last rendezvous in the winter storm-tossed seas off the Grand Banks, with "le crabe tambour," a French war hero he had betrayed twenty years earlier. "Le crabe tambour" ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, sincere, emotional, rough ...
Plot:
military, tropics, black cat, courtroom, doctor, naval officer, cancer, reminiscence, french army, veteran, french soldier, french military ...
Time:
1950s, 70s, 60s, 50s
Place:
algeria, atlantic ocean, indochina, newfoundland, france ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Hogan, on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort, encounters Sister Sara, a nun in trouble. Before he knows it, Hogan is accompanying Sister Sara in the dangerous frontier while she seeks to achieve a hidden ...
Style:
spaghetti western, stylized, light, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nun, cowboy, gunfight, cowboys and outlaws, rescue, heroes, danger, partner, gunslinger, rivalry, rebelliousness, violence ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, year 1970
Place:
mexico, latin america, sonora, france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions. - from IMDB
Plot:
world war two, french army, kriegsmarine, revolution, freedom, war, submarine, wartime, sea disaster, revolutionary war, struggle, revolutionary ...
Time:
year 1940, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, dunkirk, english channel, flanders
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