Movies like Isabelle Eberhardt
If Isabelle Eberhardt's mix of algeria, french colonialism and 1900s stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Isabelle Eberhardt's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Coco Before Chanel
2009 · Directed by Anne Fontaine · 110 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: 1900s · Also a French drama
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar.
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Against the Ice
2022 · Directed by Peter Flinth · 101 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: 1900s · Also drama and adventure
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
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The Wind and the Lion
1975 · Directed by John Milius · 119 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: 1900s · Also adventure and drama
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999 · Directed by Luc Besson · 158 min6.4
Why you'll like itWith Tchéky Karyo · Also adventure and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil.
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De Gaulle: Résistance
2026 · Directed by Antonin Baudry · 160 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a French historical drama
June, 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 to save what remains of freedom.
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The Round Up
2010 · Directed by Roselyne Bosch · 115 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
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An Officer and a Spy
2019 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 132 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a French historical drama
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.