19 Films & TV Shows Set In French Guiana
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Terrible Jungle
🇬🇫 French GuianaFrench Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.
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An Officer and a Spy
🇫🇷 France 🇬🇫 French Guiana The 1890sIn 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil's Island penal colony.
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Papillon
🇬🇫 French Guiana The 1930s The 1940sThe greatest escape adventure ever told — Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
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Prisoner of Honor
🇬🇫 French Guiana 🇫🇷 France The 1890sAs the battle raged, one man fought alone — France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted of espionage in 1894.
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Papillon
🇬🇫 French Guiana 🇭🇳 Honduras The 1930s The 1940s The 1950sThe greatest adventure of escape! — A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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I Escaped From Devil's Island
🇬🇫 French Guiana The 1910sHe's the devil they named the island for! — In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
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Women of Devil's Island
🇬🇫 French GuianaItalian costume drama about convicted women in France being sent to the penal colony on Devil's Island where they must wade through alligator-infested waters and find gold. Life on the island is tough for these buxom, beautifully-swept coiffed maidens - virtually none who look like they had even the slightest knowledge of crimes worthy of such a punishment. Here, if the girls want to get a day of rest they must work the night with the guards and/or warden of the island, but some changes come when Guy Madison arrives as the new warden out to change the horrible lives led by these playmate-wannabes.
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Terror of the Bloodhunters
🇬🇫 French GuianaSee hypnotic love create shocking bestial desire! — An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease but also a ferocious Indian tribe.
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Hell on Devil's Island
🇬🇫 French GuianaAn ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.
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We're No Angels
🇬🇫 French GuianaA strangler... A swindler... A safecracker... Yet you'll love them! — Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.
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The Return of Monte Cristo
🇬🇫 French Guiana The 1860sLouis Hayward, star of 1940's Son of Monte Cristo, returns to Alexandre Dumas territory in Columbia's Return of Monte Cristo. This time, Hayward plays the grandson of his namesake Edmond Dantes, who, it will be recalled, was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape and wreak vengeance on his betrayers by assuming the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo. Just like grandpa, the younger Dantes is framed by a trio of connivers and shipped off to Devil's Island. Escaping with a fellow convict, political radical Bombelles (Steven Geray), Dantes adopts the bearded guise of an elderly man in order to destroy his enemies and reclaim his birthright. One of his principal antagonists - at least during the first half of the film - is haughty aristocrat Angele Picard (Barbara Britton), who because she wasn't a part of the original conspiracy genuinely believes that Dantes is a criminal.
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Passage to Marseille
🇫🇷 France 🇬🇫 French GuianaWarner Bros. Triumph — A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
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Strange Cargo
🇬🇫 French Guiana The 1940sM-G-M's Mighty Thrill-Romance for 1940 ! — Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Devil's Island
🇬🇫 French GuianaA Drama of Inhuman Cruelty! — A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
England 🇬🇫 French GuianaPeter Lorre gives you your greatest thrill — The Japanese detective (Peter Lorre) rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
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The Life of Emile Zola
🇫🇷 France 🇬🇫 French Guiana The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1860sHe'll hold you in silence as deep as your emotions! — Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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Condemned
🇬🇫 French GuianaA kiss that cannot be forgotten! — Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
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Devil's Island
🇬🇫 French GuianaA wealthy Parisian surgeon finds himself serving time in a brutal penal colony.
