French military movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant french military movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, tense, rough, suspenseful and suspense films and TV shows about / with french military, military, soldier, french soldier, war, danger, french army, world war two, battles and heroes plots mostly in Drama, War and Action genres shot in France, Belgium, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as french military: The Assault (2010), Special Forces (2011), An Officer and a Spy (2019), To the Ends of the World (2018), Intimate Enemies (2007), Captain Conan (1996), Rape of Love (1978), Sadsacks Go to War (1974), Dark Hearts (2023), The Sentinels (2025).
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List of french military movies
Genre: Action, History, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Saturday 24th December 1994. Four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus at the Algiers airport. The Airbus, bound for Paris, has 227 passengers on board. No one knows exactly what the terrorists’ intentions are, just that they are armed ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorist, hostage, military, islamic terrorism, confined, terrorism, hijacking, danger, law enforcement, negotiation, special forces, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
algeria, france, europe
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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, 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: 103 min.
Story:
Indochina, 1945. Robert, a young French soldier, witnesses the Japanese executing his family. Hungry for revenge, he enlists in the fight alongside the French soldiers, but his encounter with an Indochinese prostitute will turn his beliefs and his ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, brutal, suspense, retro
Plot:
nudity, prostitute, death, blood, wartime life, sole survivor, danger, dictator, dictatorship, survival, male nudity, male pubic hair ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1946
Place:
indochina, vietnam
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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: 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: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend's advice, she decides to file a lawsuit.
Style:
grindhouse, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
anal rape, gang rape, male orgasm, female pubic hair, violence against women, female nudity, blaxploitation, hospital, crime investigation, engagement, nudity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.
Style:
slapstick, fast, exciting, realistic, not serious ...
Plot:
farm, soldier, chases and races, prank, officers and cadets, world war two, countryside, jail cell, military life, silly humor, friends, power relations ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
The French Special Forces are deployed in Iraq, on the eve of the battle of Mosul, in October 2016. The members of this commando have the mission of finding and exfiltrating the daughter and the grandson of an important French Emir of Daesh who ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, political
Plot:
isis, commando, special forces, military, french military, hostage rescue, ethical dilemma, realism, dangerous mission, moral ambiguity, rescue mission, duty ...
Place:
iraq, middle east
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Genre: Fantasy, War
Country: France
TV show
Story:
1915, WWI. French Private Gabriel is presumed dead. Selected for a top-secret program, he’s given a serum that makes him stronger and faster. To see his family again, he must join the Sentinels, elite soldiers on a mission to end the war.
Style:
tense, period piece, dark, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
world war one, battlefield, super soldier, french military, sacrifice, heroism, ethical dilemma, brotherhood, survival, special forces, tragedy, male protagonist ...
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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: 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: Drama, War
Country: Algeria, France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Style:
emotional, realistic, rough, serious, political ...
Plot:
battles, war, world war two, politics, brutality, justice, military, muslim, survival, racism, self esteem, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
year 1944, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2006 ...
Place:
africa, algeria, morocco, italy, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked retreat. When the news reaches Napoleon, he furiously orders ...
Style:
tense, serious, perverse, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, soldier, military, on the run, escapades, rivalry, folk hero, rebelliousness, vengeance, chases and races, war crime, medieval ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
catalonia, europe, spain
Is relevant?
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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, War
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
black and white, political, political thriller, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
spy, algerian war, politics, assassin, assassination, fighting the system, identity, revolution, death, hotel, torture, terrorist group ...
Time:
year 1958, 1950s, 50s, 60s
Place:
algeria, switzerland, europe, france, geneva switzerland ...
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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: War
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Vietnam, 1954, a French platoon isolated behind enemy lines tries to come back. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Werhmacht.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
vietnam war, military, jungle warfare, dying man, cold war, tropics, parachute drop, platoon, behind enemy lines, french soldier, opium, french military ...
Time:
year 1954, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
cambodia, indochina, vietnam, asia, laos ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW ...
Style:
contemplative, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
world war two, french military, explosions, prisoner, partner, escape, captivity, human spirit, escapades, prison, wartime life, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed English Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must ...
Style:
humorous, exciting, semi serious, realistic, funny ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, war, french resistance, soldier, rescue, world war, nazi occupied france, danger, royal air force, house painter, allies ...
Time:
1940s, year 1966, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, France, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot:
world war one, colonialism, great war, imperialism, african, french military, world war, blaxploitation, satire, soldier, military, french colonialism ...
Time:
20th century, year 1976, 1910s, year 1915, year 1914
Place:
africa
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in to rescue hostages left behind ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
satire, gulf war, kickboxer, rescue, hostage, military life, heroic mission, danger, daring rescue, secret agent, behind enemy lines, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
iraq, middle east, southeast asia, berlin germany, virginia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this WW2 epic comedy – in the vein of “La Grande Vadrouille” – our two heroes, Max and Léon, two lazy and partier pals, will try by all possible means to avoid going in the battle zone… This will lead the duo to demented and wild ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, unusual plot structure, contemplative, buddy comedy
Plot:
world war two, soldier, storytelling, french army, german soldier, french soldier, aviation, war, aircraft, french military, drug, singing ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, year 1939
Place:
vichy, france, syria, london
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Les Chevaliers du ciel (English: Sky Fighters) is a 2005 French film directed by Gérard Pirès about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. It is based on Tanguy et Laverdure, a comics series ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fighter pilot, aviation, fighter plane, military, air force, aerial combats, terrorism, warplane, betrayal, heroic mission, one man army, false accusation ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, alps
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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, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
The title is Adolf Hitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall ...
Style:
harsh, factual, tense, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, resistance, holocaust, nazi, ss, moral ambiguity, military, moral dilemma, totalitarianism, rescue, against the odds ...
Time:
1940s, year 1966, year 1944
Place:
france, paris france, europe, germany, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, road movie, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, war, desert, friendship, soldier, military, tank, courage, german soldier, german officer, pow, anti war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
africa, france, libya, paris france, north africa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, bleak, period drama
Plot:
world war two, military school, coming of age, pacifism, bullying, resilience, loss of innocence, father son conflict, peer pressure, traumatic childhood, identity crisis, french soldier ...
Time:
pre world war two, 1930s, year 1939
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, revolutionary war, french revolution, revolutionary, struggle, medieval, revolution, freedom, cannon, combat, soldier, sniper ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
mysterious, tense, gloomy, poliziottesco, eurospy
Plot:
secret, persecution, doubt, paranoia, prisoner, on the run, hiding, seaside, uncertainty, hitchhiking, pistol, killer ...
Time:
70s
Place:
south of france, france
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