French Revolution Movies

  • 1947
    The Royalists

    The Royalists

    The Royalists

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

    The Royalists
  • 1937
    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

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    Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but...

    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
  • 2005
    The French Revolution

    The French Revolution

    The French Revolution

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    On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage...

    The French Revolution
  • 1937
    Song of Revolt

    Song of Revolt

    Song of Revolt

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    This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.

    Song of Revolt
  • 1992
    The Ghosts of Versailles

    The Ghosts of Versailles

    The Ghosts of Versailles

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    What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One possible sequel is told in John...

    The Ghosts of Versailles
  • 2001
    The Lady and the Duke

    The Lady and the Duke

    The Lady and the Duke

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    Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered...

    The Lady and the Duke
  • 1948
    Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

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    In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

    Les Misérables
  • 1957
    Dangerous Exile

    Dangerous Exile

    Dangerous Exile

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    Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and...

    Dangerous Exile
  • 2006
    Marie Antoinette: A Film by David Grubin

    Marie Antoinette: A Film by David Grubin

    Marie Antoinette: A Film by David Grubin

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    This was a very human account of the lives and deaths of Marie Antoinette and Louis the XVI focusing primarily on Marie. It is an account of their...

    Marie Antoinette: A Film by David Grubin
  • 1978
    La Passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins

    La Passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins

    La Passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins

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    La Passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins
  • 1989
    Manon Roland

    Manon Roland

    Manon Roland

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    The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.

    Manon Roland
  • 2027
    Dumas: Black Devil

    Dumas: Black Devil

    Dumas: Black Devil

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    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...

    Dumas: Black Devil
  • 1930
    Du Barry, Woman of Passion

    Du Barry, Woman of Passion

    Du Barry, Woman of Passion

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    Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted...

    Du Barry, Woman of Passion
  • 2015
    Louis XVI: The Unknown Versailles

    Louis XVI: The Unknown Versailles

    Louis XVI: The Unknown Versailles

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

    Louis XVI: The Unknown Versailles
  • 2004
    La Commune de Paris 1871

    La Commune de Paris 1871

    La Commune de Paris 1871

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    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...

    La Commune de Paris 1871
  • 2011
    The Tragedy of Man

    The Tragedy of Man

    The Tragedy of Man

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

    The Tragedy of Man
  • 1989
    Reunion in Travers

    Reunion in Travers

    Reunion in Travers

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    The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzerland. Prussian aesthete Herman Beyer is on the...

    Reunion in Travers
  • 2018
    A Violent Desire for Joy

    A Violent Desire for Joy

    A Violent Desire for Joy

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    Region of Occitania, France, 1792. As the storm of revolution devastates the country, young monk Gabriel and his companions live peacefully in the...

    A Violent Desire for Joy
  • 1972
    Madame Sans-Gène

    Madame Sans-Gène

    Madame Sans-Gène

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    Madame Sans-Gène
  • 1953
    Let's Ask Nostradamus

    Let's Ask Nostradamus

    Let's Ask Nostradamus

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

    Let's Ask Nostradamus