French Revolution Movies

The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.

Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.

In the spring of 1789, France is devastated by famine. The French people begin to rise in unrest against the ruling French king Louis XVI. Ronan, a...

Coffee is the second most important commodity in the world after oil. The drink has a long history and what's more, its effect seems to be...

The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is...

The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French Revolution in which she was executed.

Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.

Maurice Lemaître had the ambition to make a really creative film about the revolt of May 68. For this, he did not renounce any of his filmic...

Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins where it all ended, in New Caledonia, with images of the ruins of the penal colony where many Commune insurgents...

Constance, an aristocrat from the Vendée, and François-Denis, a navy officer 10 years her senior, fall madly in love. But, during a...

Stéphane Bern tells the story of King Louis XVI, deposed by the revolution and guillotined on January 21st, 1793. He was a cultured man,...

A still drawing film on the personality of Robespierre and the French Revolution.

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a...