Movies Similar to Song of Armorica

Le Village au cimetière(1994)

A village in Brittany. During the ten days leading up to All Souls Day, we can see it in its entirety "inhabiting" the cemetery, going from gravestone to gravestone for the rituals of cleaning, flowering and praying. Telling its story through its faces, its voices and its ambulations.

Les Champs de la colère(2017)

Englouties(2020)

In the heart of Saint-Malo, there's a gigantic area, covering 1/3 of the city, off-limits to the public. It's a part of the commercial port that's mainly accessible via an architecturally unusual footbridge that limits access. An inaccessible place that will be the first to disappear beneath the waves in a few years' time. Only strange sounds reach us from afar: whirring, construction noise, sirens wailing... This parallel world is bustling day and night. But it's in the depths of the night that unfamiliar sounds and lights arouse the most fantasies.

Crawl(2013)

Crawl is set in Brittany and tells the story of the emerging romance between Martin, a small-time crook, and Gwen, a mysterious girl who lives on her own and goes swimming everyday in the high sea.

The Poisoning Angel(2017)

In 1800, Brittany is on its knees, overwhelmed by the regime in place and by the omnipotent clergy. It founders in an economic slump without end in sight and, in the middle of all this, a young, suffering girl pushes back as best she can. She is known as the "Poisoning Angel," an isolated child, mistreated by life and rocked by morbid thoughts. She will become one of the world's most notorious serial killers and will sow death, perhaps merely to be looked at and loved.

La grande histoire de la Bretagne(2022)

From time immemorial, the Bretons have fought many battles to safeguard their culture, rich in language, music and dance. However, Brittany was for a long time a forgotten land, neglected by the Republic which forbade its language. From the 1960s onwards, the agricultural revolution turned peasant life upside down. Its culture, which had long been supported by Catholic priests, was emancipated in the seventies, carried by a new breath of air that accompanied the Breton angers. The youth then reappropriated their language and culture. From the long years of relegation to their great anger, the Bretons have written a fascinating saga since the end of the 19th century.

Matmatah - Live au Zénith de Nantes 2017(2018)

La Ceinture Dorée(1947)

La Ceinture Dorée is an institutional documentary film on the Brittany region in France. The different scenes describe the daily life of the Bretons, starting with a geography lesson on Brittany in a classroom. Then a Breton landscape where a painter paints a house, women in headdresses in a procession, bell towers and forgiveness, prayers at Calvaries. Then follow the plans of the boats at the dock and the work of the oyster farmers. Lobster ponds, algae collectors and fertilizer collection. Daily life of the Leonards, preparation of pancakes in front of the fireplace and pancake meal. etc

L'Homme-cochon, 20 ans plus tard(2000)

Jean-Louis Le Tacon finds Maxime Duchemin in the ruins of his pig farm, devoured by brambles and nettles. Twenty years later, what has become of his life?

La Part des singes(2021)

Sépia, l'odyssée d'une seiche(2024)

Nous irons jusqu'au bout (les Kaolins de Plemet)(1973)

Chronicle of the 9-week strike by the kaolin workers of Plémet. The film emphasizes the particular nature of such a strike in a rural commune and in a sector of the old Breton proletariat: that of subsoil mining, almost entirely liquidated after the closure of the Hennebont forges.

Un Village sans dimanche(2012)

A vouezh uhel

Monsieur Taurins(2011)

An unemployed Latvian gets a job as an agent finding a house in France.

Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Idylls(2022)

A body is pulled out of the sea and it becomes clear this was neither a suicide nor accident… it was murder.

Waitress - The Musical: Cameri(2023)

Jenna is a young waitress and expert in making pies who lives in a small, desolate town. Her daily life is marked by the same hours, the same customers, among the cooking pots and frying pans, a colorless life with no dreams along with a forced pregnancy by a husband she’s stopped loving a long time ago. The arrival of a young doctor in town brings a new taste to Jenna’s life and to the life of her two waitress friends.

Life Without Credit(2025)

Libby, wild and enigmatic, wanders like a possessed woman among the corners of the streets of South Tel Aviv as she carries an explosive secret in her heart. Libby escaped from “Or La’banot" a religious care institution and she is on the run. Libby is desperately looking for Ezra, a mysterious relative of hers, who was appointed as her legal guardian, after she was declared "mentally ill" and then disappeared from her life. With vague details on his whereabouts, she encounters other people that Ezra knew or met, penetrates their loneliness while gathering more clues to the fate of the man who holds her keys to freedom.

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