During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1934

English

7.4

♡ 21

88%

Rowland V. Lee Director

Theodore Lorch as Citizen

Sidney Blackmer as Mondego

Edward Hearn as Signalman

Irene Hervey as Valentine

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge himself on them.

Désirée

1954

English

6.4

♡ 12

20%

Henry Koster Director

John Roy as Council Member

Cameron Mitchell as Joseph Bonaparte

Charlotte Austin as Paulette Bonaparte

Gene Roth as Von Essen

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.

Goya's Ghosts

2006

English

6.9

♡ 17

30%

religion and supernatural

Milos Forman Director

Stellan Skarsgård as Francisco Goya

Natalie Portman as Inés / Alicia

Randy Quaid as King Carlos IV

Javier Bardem as Lorenzo

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.

Suez

1938

English

6.6

♡ 3

56%

Allan Dwan Director

Leonard Mudie as Campaign Manager

Sidney Blackmer as Marquis Du Brey

Nigel Bruce as Sir Malcolm Cameron

Annabella as Toni Pellerin

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

Waterloo

1970

English

7.3

♡ 27

27%

Sergey Bondarchuk Director

Ian Ogilvy as De Lancey

John Savident as Muffling

Charles Borromel as Mulholland

Pietro Ceccarelli as Rumigus

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

Passion in the Desert

1997

English

6.3

♡ 5

74%

Lavinia Currier Director

Ben Daniels as Augustin Robert

Michel Piccoli as Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis

Kenneth Collard as Officer

Abdul Latif Salazar as Soldier

Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.

Monsieur N.

2003

French

6.5

70%

Antoine de Caunes Director

Michael Culkin as Adm. Cockburn

Frédéric Pierrot as Gen. Gourgaud

Tessa Jubber as Prostitute

Peter Sullivan as Thomas Reade

This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon retains a loyal entourage of officers who help him plot his escape and evade the attentions of the island's overzealous governor, Sir Hudson Lowe.

The Battle of Austerlitz

1960

French

6.2

♡ 6

40%

Abel Gance Director

Jack Palance as Gen. Weirother

Martine Carol as Joséphine de Beauharnais

Paolo Gozlino as La Grassni's Lover

Georges Marchal as Le maréchal Jean Lannes

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

Adieu Bonaparte

1985

Arabic

6.2

♡ 8

Youssef Chahine Director

Michel Piccoli as Caffarelli

Seif Abdelrahman as Kourayem

Abla Kamel as La femme de Bakr

Salah Zulfikar as Le cheikh Hassouna

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.

Love and Death

1975

English

7.6

♡ 28

100%

Woody Allen Director

Hélène Vallier as Madame Wolfe

Aubrey Morris as Soldier 4

Diane Keaton as Sonja

Tony Jay as Vladimir Maximovitch

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

War and Peace

1956

English

6.7

♡ 23

50%

63%

Action

based on novel or book

King Vidor Director

Piero Pastore as Bolkonsky's Servant

Jeremy Brett as Nikolai Rostov

Robert Stephens as Officer Talking with Natasha

Howard Marion-Crawford as Prince Bolkonsky

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

Napoleon

2023

English

6.3

♡ 146

58%

Ridley Scott Director

Maxime Durand as French Soldier / British Soldier / Egyptian Soldier

Jannis Niewöhner as Hippolyte Charles

Vanessa Kirby as Josephine Bonaparte

Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

The Emperor's New Clothes

2001

English

6.8

♡ 2

73%

65%

19th century

Action

based on novel or book

Alan Taylor Director

Bob Mason as Captain Nicholls

Trevor Cooper as Leaud

Ian Holm as Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand

George Harris as Papa Nicholas

Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.

Napoleon

1955

French

6.0

♡ 6

86%

Sacha Guitry Director

Micheline Presle as Hortense de Beauharnais

Michèle Morgan as Joséphine de Beauharnais

Sami Frey as Petit rôle

Louis de Funès as Soldier Laurent Passementier

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Lupin the 3rd: Napoleon's Dictionary

1991

Japanese

6.3

♡ 11

Osamu Dezaki Director

Michihiro Ikemizu as France Representative

Yû Shimaka as Germany Representative

Makio Inoue as Goemon Ishikawa

Mitsuru Ogata as Japan Representative

The secret of the Lupin family treasure is out: its location is written inside a dictionary once owned by Napoleon Bonaparte himself! When the dictionary turns up as the prize for a historic motor car race, the notorious Lupin the Third and his criminal cadre race the world's superpowers to win - or steal - the Dictionary and unearth his grandfather's legacy of riches!

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Adieu Bonaparte

Love and Death

War and Peace

Napoleon

The Emperor's New Clothes

Napoleon

Lupin the 3rd: Napoleon's Dictionary