Films like No Chains, No Masters
1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike her disillusioned father Massamba, 16-year-old Mati refuses to keep her head down and accept her fa...
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The Rays and Shadows
Film · 2026 · also drama and historyJean and Otto, a French newspaperman and a young German Francophile, are fighting for peace in Europe. Jean’s daughter, Corinne, is launching a brilliant acting career in...
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Oranges and Sunshine
Film · 2010 · also drama and historyThe story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of child...
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The Edge of the Blade
Film · 2023 · also drama and historyIn 1887, at a time when duels are in vogue in Paris, Clément Lacaze and Marie-Rose Astié meet. He's a charismatic master of arms; she's a feminist, far ahead of her time....
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De Gaulle: Résistance
Film · 2026 · also drama and historyJune, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London...
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Farewell, Mr. Haffmann
Film · 2022 · also drama and historyParis 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Ha...
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12 Years a Slave
Film · 2013 · also drama and historyIn the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindn...
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Panther
Film · 1995 · also drama and historyIn this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
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Quills
Film · 2000 · also dramaIn early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the authorities tighten...
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Curiosa
Film · 2019 · also drama and historyA passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Film · 2013 · also drama and historyIn the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious,...
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