# List of films featuring the French Foreign Legion

This is a list of films featuring the French Foreign Legion in which the Foreign Legion is portrayed either through its plot or by a main character.
The Foreign Legion is an elite unit of the French army, established in 1831, and it has seen action throughout the world, recently in Africa and the Middle East. It has been featured in a large number of films, including a number about the legion itself, such as 1949's Outpost in Morocco.

## List of films

| Title | Director | Notable cast | Summary | Released | Notes |
| Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello | | 1950 | |
| Adventure in Sahara | D. Ross Lederman | Paul Kelly, C. Henry Gordon, and Lorna Gray | Stationed at Fort Agadez, a lonely French desert outpost in Algeria, Legionnaire Jim Wilson leads a mutiny against his cruel and oppressive commanding officer Captain Savatt. | 1938 | |
| Alarm in Morocco | Jean Devaivre | Jean-Claude Pascal, Erich von Stroheim, and Gianna Maria Canale | | 1953 | |
| Ali Baba Bound | Robert Clampett | Mel Blanc (voice) | Porky Pig discovers a plot by Ali-Baba and his Dirty Sleeves to attack his fort and rushes to warn his fellow legionnaires, only to discover everyone has left for the Legion convention in Boston, and is forced to single-handedly defend the fort with his rented camel. | 1940 | Animated short film |
| Arabian Tights | Hal Roach | Charley Chase, Muriel Evans, and Carlton Griffin | After being coerced into joining the Foreign Legion, Charley and his friends are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan. | 1933 | Comedy short |
| Beau Geste | Herbert Brenon | Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, and Ralph Forbes | | 1926 | Based on the novel of the same name |
| Beau Geste | William A. Wellman | Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston | | 1939 | |
| Beau Geste | Douglas Heyes | Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, and Leslie Nielsen | | 1966 | |
| The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Marty Feldman | Marty Feldman, Ann-Margret, and Michael York | | 1977 | |
| Beau Geste | Douglas Camfield | Benedict Taylor, Anthony Calf, and Jonathon Morris | | 1982 | Television mini-series |
| Beau Hunks | James W. Horne | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and James W. Horne | Oliver joins the Foreign Legion after being jilted by his girlfriend dragging his best friend Stanley along with him. | 1931 | |
| Beau Ideal | Herbert Brenon | Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, and Irene Rich | Otis Madison joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend held prisoner in Morocco. | 1931 | |
| Beau Sabreur | John Waters | Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, and Noah Beery | | 1928 | Lost film |
| Beau Travail | Claire Denis | Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, and Grégoire Colin | Galoup reflects on his career as a Foreign Legion officer, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti, and his jealous rivalry with young recruit Gilles Sentain. | 1999 | Awards: 5 total |
| Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion | Lester Fuller | Buster Crabbe, Fuzzy Knight, and Cullen Crabbe | This early U.S. television series followed the adventures of Capt. Michael Gallant and his fellow Foreign Legionnaires | 1955-1957 | One of the few American television series in the 1950s to be filmed outside the US, most being limited to California, with the show being shot on location in Morocco. Several episodes were edited into the 1954 film Desert Outpost. |
| China Gate | Samuel Fuller | Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, and Nat King Cole | Sergeant Brock and Goldie, ex-American Korean War veterans serving as French Foreign Legion mercenaries in the First Indochina War, are ordered to lead a squad to blow up an arms depot near the Chinese border. | 1957 | |
| Desert Hell | Charles Marquis Warren | Brian Keith, Barbara Hale, and Richard Denning | | 1958 | |
| Desert Legion | Joseph Pevney | Alan Ladd, Richard Conte, and Arlene Dahl | | 1953 | |
| Desert Sands | Lesley Selander | Ralph Meeker, Marla English, and J. Carrol Naish | | 1955 | |
| The Desert Song | Roy Del Ruth | John Boles, Carlotta King, and Louise Fazenda | | 1929 | Based on the operatta of the same name. |
| The Desert Song | Robert Florey | Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, and Bruce Cabot | | 1943 | |
| The Desert Song | H. Bruce Humberstone | Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, and Steve Cochran | | 1953 | |
| The Devil's in Love | William Dieterle | Victor Jory, Loretta Young, and Vivienne Osborne | | 1933 | |
| Drums of the Desert | George Waggner | Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, and George Lynn | | 1940 | |
| Due della legione straniera | Lucio Fulci | Franco and Ciccio, and Alighiero Noschese | | 1962 | |
| Escape from Sahara | Wolfgang Staudte | Hildegard Knef, Bernhard Wicki and Hannes Messemer | | 1958 | |
| Escape to the Foreign Legion | Louis Ralph | Hans Stüwe, Alexander Murski, Eva von Berne | | 1929 | |
| Flesh and the Woman | Robert Siodmak | Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, and Peter van Eyck | | 1954 | |
| Die Flucht aus der Hölle | Hans-Erich Korbschmitt | Armin Mueller-Stahl | | 1960 | |
| The Flying Deuces | A. Edward Sutherland | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and Jean Parker | | 1939 | |
| Follow that Camel | Gerald Thomas | Phil Silvers, Kenneth Williams, and Jim Dale | | 1967 | |
| The Foreign Legion | Edward Sloman | Norman Kerry, Lewis Stone, and Crauford Kent | | 1928 | Considered a lost film. |
| Fort Algiers | Lesley Selander | Yvonne De Carlo, Carlos Thompson, and Raymond Burr | | 1953 | |
| Fremdenlegionär Kirsch | Philipp Lothar Mayring | Max Kirsch, Philipp Lothar Mayring, Benno Norbert | | 1921 | |
| Le Grand Jeu | Jacques Feyder | Marie Bell, Pierre Richard-Willm, and Charles Vanel | | 1934 | |
| Hermoso Ideal | Alejandro Galindo | Conchita Martínez, Rodolfo Landa, and Alejandro Ciangherotti | Version of Beau Ideal (1931) | 1948 | |
| Invincible | Blackie Ko | Dave Wong, Sharla Cheung and Blackie Ko | A timid triad member fled to France with his lover after killing a rival gang boss accidentally, in order to earn a living and to gain a French nationality, he joins the Foreign Legion. | 1992 | |
| Juarez | William Dieterle | Paul Muni, Bette Davis, and Brian Aherne | | 1939 | |
| Jump into Hell | David Butler | Jacques Sernas, Peter van Eyck, and Marcel Dalio | | 1955 | |
| Legion of Missing Men | Hamilton MacFadden | Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander, and Hala Linda | | 1937 | |
| Legion of the Doomed | Thor L. Brooks | Bill Williams, Dawn Richard, and Anthony Caruso | | 1958 | |
| Legione Straniera | Basilio Franchina | Viviane Romance, Marc Lawrence, and Alberto Farnese | | 1953 | |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Steven Berkoff | A 1920s boxer who wins a fight after having been hired by gangsters to lose it, then flees to join the French Foreign Legion | 1998 | |
| Lionheart | Sheldon Lettich | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, and Deborah Rennard | When his brother is seriously injured, a paratrooper legionnaire returns to Los Angeles to enter the underground fighting circuit to raise money for his brother's family | 1990 | |
| Little Beau Porky | Frank Tashlin (as Frank Tash) | Joe Dougherty (voice, uncredited), Billy Bletcher (vocie, uncredited) | Porky Pig is ordered by his Commandant to wash the Commanadant's camel. A cable arrives, saying that Ali Mode's Riff Raffs have attacked, and the Commandant and everyone except Porky march to the rescue. However, Ali Mode and his men later attack the fort and Porky must defend his post single-handedly. | 1936 | Animated short film |
| Lost in the Legion | Fred C. Newmeyer | A. Bromley Davenport, Betty Fields and Leslie Fuller | | 1934 | |
| A Man Called Sarge | Stuart Gillard | Gary Kroeger, Gretchen German, and Marc Singer | | 1990 | |
| March or Die | Dick Richards | Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, and Catherine Deneuve | | 1977 | |
| Marcia o Crepa | Frank Wisbar | Stewart Granger, Dorian Gray, and Carlos Casaravilla | | 1962 | Known as The Legion's Last Patrol in the United Kingdom and Commando in the United States. |
| Marocco en het Vreemdelingenlegioen | Theo Frenkel | | | 1912 | |
| La Légion saute sur Kolwezi | Raoul Coutard | Bruno Cremer, Mimsy Farmer, and Giuliano Gemma | Based on the French intervention during the 1978 military coup in Kolwezi. | 1980 | Known as Military Coup in Kolwezi in the United States. |
| Les Morfalous | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, and Michel Constantin | | 1984 | |
| Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou | | 1930 | Film was selected to the National Film Registry in 1992. |
| The Mummy | Stephen Sommers | Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah | | 1999 | |
| Outpost in Morocco | Robert Florey | George Raft, Marie Windsor, and Akim Tamiroff | | 1949 | |
| Renegades | Victor Fleming | Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, and Noah Beery | | 1930 | |
| Rogues' Regiment | Robert Florey | Dick Powell, Märta Torén, and Vincent Price | | 1948 | |
| Savate | Isaac Florentine | Olivier Gruner | | 1995 | |
| Savior | Predrag Antonijevic | Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, and Pascal Rollin | | 1998 | |
| Scorching Sands | Hal Roach, Robin Williamson | Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, and Katherine Grant | | 1923 | |
| Secondhand Lions | Tim McCanlies | Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, and Robert Duvall | | 2003 | |
| Sergeant X | Vladimir Strizhevsky | Ivan Mozzhukhin, Trude von Molo, and Peter Voß | | 1932 | |
| Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion | Bernard Borderie | Noëlle Adam, Christian Marquand, and Paul Guers | | 1960 | |
| Il sergente Klems [it] | Sergio Grieco | Peter Strauss, Tina Aumont, and Pier Paolo Capponi | | 1971 | Known as Man of Legend internationally. |
| Siren of Atlantis | Gregg G. Tallas | Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, and Dennis O'Keefe | | 1949 | |
| Ten Tall Men | Willis Goldbeck | Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, and Gilbert Roland | | 1951 | |
| The Three Musketeers | Colbert Clark, Armand Schaefer | Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Ralph Bushman, and John Wayne | | 1933 | The Three Musketeers serial was edited into the 1946 film Desert Command. |
| Timbuktu | Jacques Tourneur | Victor Mature, Yvonne De Carlo and George Dolenz | | 1959 | |
| Totò sceicco | Mario Mattoli | Totò | | 1950 | |
| Trouble in Morocco | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Jack Holt, Mae Clarke and Paul Hurst | | 1937 | |
| Two Mules for Sister Sara | Don Siegel | Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood | Two fortune hunting mercenaries assist Mexican revolutionaries to fight the French. | 1970 | Set during the French intervention in Mexico |
| Un de la légion | Christian-Jaque | Fernandel, Robert Le Vigan, and Daniel Mendaille | | 1936 | |
| Under Two Flags | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes, and Stuart Holmes | | 1916 | Based on the novel of the same name. Considered a lost film. |
| Under Two Flags | Tod Browning | Priscilla Dean, James Kirkwood and John Davidson | | 1922 | |
| Under Two Flags | Frank Lloyd | Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, and Victor McLaglen | | 1936 | |
| Under Two Jags | George Jeske | Stan Laurel | | 1923 | |
| The Unknown | George Melford | Lou Tellegen, Theodore Roberts, and Dorothy Davenport | | 1915 | |
| Wages of Virtue | Allan Dwan | Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Norman Trevor, Ivan Linow, Armand Cortes, Adrienne D'Ambricourt | | 1924 | |
| Wee Wee Monsieur | Del Lord | Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard | | 1938 | Comedy short |
| We're in the Legion Now! | Crane Wilbur | Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston and Vince Barnett | | 1936 | |
| The Winding Stair | John Griffith Wray | Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe and Warner Oland | | 1950 | |