The Penal Colony
A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent
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A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent
The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered a convent. Now, he is garrisoned at Strasbourg.
After the defeat of 1940, and faced with the unexpected collapse of French power, all eyes turned to a horizon of both hope and uncertainty: the colonies. France had suddenly become an empire without a metropolis, reduce
Through the story of an underground militant in the armed struggle, the miniseries recounts 60 years of misunderstandings between Corsica and Paris through the voices of the story’s protagonists.
Born in the colonial time from a Belgian agent and a Rwandan woman, Suzanne is only 4 years old when her father brings her to Europe in 1930 to give her a European education. Suzanne’s father is also the director’s grand
Massacre! Famine! Violence! Infant mortality! Slaves! Natural disasters! Fornication! Rape! Learn everything you ever wanted to know about the relations between the Spanish and the indigenous people in minute and unspeak
Juliano Moreira Colony, Rio de Janeiro. Estelar works in a psychiatric hospital and has visions of the past. During a water crisis in the state, she receives Kalil, her younger brother, to live in her house.
In The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno sheds light on the complex and problematic relationship between colonization and European missionaries on the African continent. The film looks at Christian evangelism as
In 1954, Daniel Vérin, a young schoolteacher of Algerian descent, made a radical decision: he turned his back on colonial France and joined the Algerian insurgents. He enlisted in the FLN, then the ALN, and became "Ali,"
A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!
This film presents the point of view of an Arab from Algeria who rebels against colonization. He analyzes the process of awareness, the transition to revolt, to armed insurrection. Algeria and the settlers are seen throu
A young girl is found dead off the Venezuelan coast. A medical examiner tries to determine the cause of death before the body is repatriated.
In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both plan
A soldier has a very animated chat with a pretty nurse, the little child takes advantage of the opportunity to change their hats. Suddenly the colonel comes up and finds the soldier wearing the maid's hat and she, his he
Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB. He and his friend steal a truck bound for
The aim of this documentary – especially in the subtitles – is to promote the benefits of civilization. The buildings and roads, built by Africans, commanded by settlers. The agricultural facilities, the hospital. Then t
The film is set in the celebration of Sarita Colonia in the Baquíjano y Carrillo cemetery. During this celebration of the saint rejected by the Catholic Church for welcoming delinquents, prostitutes, transvestites and ho
Amateur film showing people living in the mountain colony that Gallo founded together with his wife, Maria Menabrea.
Love with a Colonial Scent uses Puerto Rico's colonial situation with the USA, the island's bankruptcy, and breath taking vistas as a backdrop to focus on the debate over gay marriage on the island. Another, in a series