Movies Like Voltaire et l'affaire Calas

Jet Black Ten: The Last Story

2022

In Edo, an amnesic man with extraordinary sword skills searches for clues about his past and his identity.

Apollonie, les dieux avaient raison

2022

The D.A.: Murder One

1969

A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.

The Rays and Shadows

2026

Jean 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 the film world, but war breaks out and France is occupied. The two friends have a major role to play in this new France. Jean becomes a big press baron and an ardent advocate of collaboration with the occupying forces, while Otto becomes the Reich’s ambassador in Paris. Corinne, meanwhile, finds herself thrown into the lion’s pit.

A Royal Affair

2012

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

Special Forces Squad

1987

Les Misérables

1998

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Les Misérables

1978

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

The Miniaturist

2017

A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.

The Rosa Parks Story

2002

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

The Scarlet and the Black

1983

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.

Brüder auf Leben und Tod

1995

Manuel is the right-hand man of drug lord Renato Calvi. After Manuel witnesses his boss brutally punishing a man who apparently betrayed him to the police, he decides to break away from Renato and go into business for himself. Renato is not happy about this and now wants to involve Manuel's younger brother TS in his business. But what no one suspects is that TS is working closely with the police!

Blame It on Fidel!

2006

A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

2024

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

2012

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

Girl in the Box

2016

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

Rebellion

2011

April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from France to re-establish order. 2 men confront each other: Philippe Legorjus, chief of the terrorist squad, and Alphonse Dianou, head of the kidnappers. Through their shared values, they will attempt to make discussion triumph. But, in the middle of a presidential election, when the stakes are political, order isn't always dictated by morality. A violent and troubling epic that marks the return of Mathieu Kassovitz in front and behind the camera.