Wooden Crosses
Original title: Les Croix de bois
We don’t recommend it under 13. WWI trenches with realistic deaths.
Reason translated with AI from our Spanish original.
Good to know
- Death or separation
- Someone loved dies or disappears, often a parent.
- Fighting or violence
- Punches, weapons, injuries; slapstick barely counts.
- Difficult themes
- War, bullying, illness, broken families, hard real events.
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US
Included with subscription: Criterion Channel
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Spain
Included with subscription: Filmin
Availability as of 17 October 2026. Data from JustWatch.
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What it’s about
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
Genres: Drama, War
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