French Revolution Movies

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade. The film is now attributed to Alice Guy-Blaché by the Gaumont company,...

A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who...

Born into the chaos of the French Revolution, Mathias Loras would come to develop a vision for a state of spirituality in the New World that few dare...

Robespierre, a child of the Enlightenment, passionate about justice and concerned with order, is thrust into the storms of the Revolution. He becomes...

Using contemporary engravings and cartoons by artists such as Honoré Daumier, this short documentary recounts the events of the French...

A beautiful love story that bloomed in Paris and scattered in the Bastille. France at the end of the 18th century, where the populace struggled with...

Portrait of the 18th-century French writer and connoisseur of sex, whose name would enter the language as a synonym for sexual cruelty.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.

19th century Sardou period melodrama turned into a vehicle for diva star Lyda Borelli: an aristocratic French lady leaves her unfaithful husband and...

Virtually unseen since its Soviet television broadcast in 1971, the film, Peter Rollberg writes, is “devoted to the anniversary of the Paris...

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...

In the eighteenth century the mystical midnight hour disappeared and the modern night was born. We now aim to keep sleep at an efficient minimum, but...

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...

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

The life of Lafayette and his involvement in the revolutionary war.

Montage of still photos with lighting effects.