# The best films about the French Revolution

From Renoir's La Marseillaise to Wajda's Danton, from The Lady and the Duke to One Nation, One King: the French Revolution films ranked highest by SensCritique and Cinetrafic.

- 21 votes · 13 items
- Mar 2, 2024 · S. Bonvin
- https://even.best/en/l/4394/the-best-films-about-the-french-revolution

## Top 13

1. **La Marseillaise (1938)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Jean Renoir. Volunteers from Marseille marching to Paris in 1792.
2. **Danton (1983)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Andrzej Wajda. Danton against Robespierre; Gérard Depardieu.
3. **That Night in Varennes (1982)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Ettore Scola. Casanova, Restif de la Bretonne and the king's flight.
4. **The Lady and the Duke (2001)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Éric Rohmer. An English aristocrat during the Terror, against painted sets.
5. **The French Revolution (1989)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron. The bicentenary epic in two parts.
6. **Farewell, My Queen (2012)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Benoît Jacquot. July 1789 as seen from Versailles.
7. **The Scoundrel (1971)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jean-Paul Rappeneau. Jean-Paul Belmondo returns from America to get divorced.
8. **Chouans! (1988)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Philippe de Broca. The war in western France, with Philippe Noiret.
9. **Scaramouche (1952)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — George Sidney. Swashbuckling on the eve of the Revolution.
10. **The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Harold Young. The Englishman who saves aristocrats from the guillotine.
11. **One Nation, One King (2018)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Pierre Schoeller. The people of Paris, from the Bastille to the king's execution.
12. **Dear Caroline (1951)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Richard Pottier. A young aristocrat caught in the revolutionary storm.
13. **The Carmelites (1960)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Philippe Agostini and Father Bruckberger. The Carmelites of Compiègne sent to the guillotine.

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