French films about veterans

List of the best French films about veterans, selected by visitors to our site: Sentinelle, Disorder, Amnesia, Burning Shadow, Five, Oh Mercy, Just a Breath Away, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales, Taxi 5, One Night.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance

Transferred home after a traumatizing combat mission, a highly trained French soldier uses her lethal skills to hunt down the man who hurt her sister.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:44

An ex-soldier with PTSD is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama
CountryLuxembourg, France

Schroeder returns with this cross-generational relationship drama set against Europe’s electronic music scene.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genredrama
CountryUSA, France

Charlie, a down-on-his-luck loner, crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact double. Perplexed and intrigued by the discovery, Charlie invites the man into his life.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance

A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends at an apartment, ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills - only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryFrance
Duration01:57

A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, adventure
CountryFrance, Canada
Duration01:13

A strange and deadly mist envelops Paris. A group of survivors finds refuge on the upper floors of apartment blocks and on the roofs of the capital. With no information, electricity, food or water, a couple attempts to survive this disaster and save their daughter... But as the hours go by, one thing becomes quite clear: there is no help on the way, and if they want to make it through this catastrophe alive, they will have to try their luck in the mist…

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:11

The misadventures of a young clumsy Fox and a feisty little red Hen. The Fox, both a little stupid and naïve, tries daily to devour the little Hen, without success. Tired of the repeated humiliation, the Fox is persuaded to steal the Hen’s eggs to raise and then eat. This plan seems perfect, until the moment the chicks hatch…

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryFrance
Duration02:05

A police officer who's transfered in the police of Marseille gets assigned to take down a group of Italian robbers who drive the powerfull Ferrari's with the older niece of Daniel, a terrible driver who gets the legendary white taxi.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Belgium

In the harbor city of Le Havre, France, a woman is stabbed during the night, just below the windows of her neighborhood. Pierre (Yvan Attal) has witnessed the murder, and heard the wails of the women crying for help. So have the neighbors, certainly. But at the end, nobody called the police. Nevertheless, sorrows are too heavy for Pierre, which feel the needs to tell everything to his wife (Sophie Quinton), and to the police. During the investigation, it appears that 38 people witnessed the murdering, and none reacted...

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration02:06

How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:40

Ben, who dreamed of himself as a comic in New York, is back in Paris, his professional and emotional life in complete disarray. He encounters Alex, the star host of the Breakfast Club, a popular morning radio show. With Cyril, a forty-something who'd prefer not to be, and Arnold, the charismatic leader of the gang, they call the shots on Blast FM. In next to no time Ben is hired to write for them. He's barely joined the team when a tidal wave hits the station: Breakfast Club listenership is in free fall. They set out on a bus to travel to every corner of France to meet and win over their public once again. For these arrogant Parisians, a real journey of initiation arises from this radio-phonic road trip, shaking up all their certainties.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance

"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a tiny village hurt by the financial crisis and the desertification. Its last hope : Start back the Smoked Salmon factory. The only issue : Insurances require a permanent doctor on site. But it s has been 5 years the previous doctor retired without setting a replacement. The whole village,supporting their surly major Germain, will try everything to convince the very Parisian Doctor Maxime Meyer that happiness is only at Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne! This movie is the french remake of the Canadian movie 'la Grande Seduction'

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller
CountryFrance

Constance, a 40-years-old real estate agent, gets fired from her job. With no options left, she contacts her former boss, from the small agency where she started her career. To her surprise, he is hiring, but explains he may have already found someone. Constance is convinced she will get the job because of her experience and extensive qualifications. But when Audrey, a younger and prettier woman, is hired instead, it proves too much for Constance to take.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration02:02

Adrien, 40 years old and totally immature, is dumped by Maude, 35 years old, eager to finally found a family. In an attempt to regain the love of his life, Adrien decides to move into the future ex-married apartment: a nursery home - The beginning, an improbable educational experience.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredocumentary, history
CountryCanada, USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Duration01:30

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance

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Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, music
CountryFrance
Duration01:34

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Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:45

    A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:34

    Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Spain
    Duration02:02

    Two sisters, their families, and sometimes complicated lives.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance

    After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a little mobility while others receive the verdict of the handicap for life. Despite everything, hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration01:26

    A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:34

    A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:43

    After keeping a careful distance for many years, 25-year-old Gaspard must renew contact with his family when his father remarries. Accompanied by Laura, an eccentric young woman who agrees to pretend she's his girlfriend at the wedding, he finally feels ready to set foot in the zoo owned by his parents, where he is reunited with the monkeys and tigers he grew up with... But with a father who is an out-of-control womanizer, a brother who is far too sensible, and a sister who is far too beautiful, he unknowingly sets himself up to experience the last days of his childhood.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:57

    A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:42

    After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:33

    Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    It all began when camcorders replaced cameras. Making TV programs then became within everyone's reach. Jean-Lou, Yasmina, Victor, Clara, Adonis, and the others didn't only want to create their own television channel, they above all wanted to make a revolution. Thus Télé Gaucho was born, as anarchic and provocative as the main channels were conformist and reactionary. Five years of mayhem, brutal pirate TV demonstrations, drunken parties, and thwarted love.. And that was my idyllic interlude.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:07

    The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who passed away 20 years earlier; then Carlotta returns from the dead, causing Sylvia to run away.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, crime, detective
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:42

    The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's will he unwittingly, but irresistibly, gets caught in the tangled web of murder and small town politics in this off-beat mystery.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:30

    When Thomas Platz is suddenly made the guardian of a baby - then pretends to be its real father in order to win back Marie, the girlfriend who dumped him a year before. Stuck between staying a man-child forever, and proving he is ready to take the next steps of marriage and family with the love of his life, Thomas goes on an unexpectedly hilarious adventure getting the girl of his dreams to believe he has changed.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:25

    Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:06

    Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French countryside. Accompanied by Mike, a young, quirky taxi driver, they set off in the direction of France’s major wine regions. Together, they are going to discover not only the wine trails, but also the road that leads back to Love.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance

    A narcissistic plastic surgeon, who prefers women of a certain high quality, meets an everyday woman who questions his morals, his methods and his meaning to life.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryFrance, Canada
    Duration02:10

    A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:21

    Pierre has been married for 15 years and has two kids. He still loves his wife and is fulfilled in his role as a father. Overall, he’s a contented man. Until one evening, he meets Elsa. They chat, laugh, and joke around in a way that doesn’t happen every day. Two weeks later, they run into each other again by chance. The same easy mutual attraction they felt for one another is just as strong, and they tell each other as much. A line has been crossed. But Elsa has a golden rule never to get involved with married men, and Pierre wants to remain faithful. They go their separate ways without swapping phone numbers, preferring to let life take its own course. As the line blurs between how they imagine their relationship and what has actually happened, their fantasies start to mingle with reality

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance

    Biarritz. Sixteen-year-old George, the high school hottie, falls in love with Alex. To get his attention, she initiates a group game with Alex, Nikita, Laetitia and Gabriel. They will discover, test, and push the limits of their sexuality.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, sport
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:56

    40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:27

    Arnaud Mustier, lawyer and brilliant philosopher, arouses the annoyance of his younger brother Jules, age sixteen. One day, Arnaud is a victim of a late adolescent crisis. Helped by Jules, he is going to catch up this phase of the life which he did not live.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:10

    Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:31

    Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Lucie and her father Hugo have grown closer since Lucie's mother left unexpectedly a year prior. When her mother returns, Hugo becomes jealous and angry.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium, South Korea
    Duration02:52

    A man tries that his wife fall in love with him again, after to wake up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:30

    1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance

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    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:56

    Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance

    A couple’s verbal sparring intensifies with shoving, punching and wrestling, escalating to the point where their frequent fighting sessions become real love battles…




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