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1. Meurtres à... (2013– )
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A collection of police murder investigations each time taking place in a different French city and region.
Stars: Vanessa Liautey, Daniel Njo Lobé, Arnaud Binard, Anne Loiret
Votes: 377
2. In the House (2012)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 34,399 | Gross: $0.35M
3. The Adolescent (1979)
PG | 90 min | Drama
In 1939, a 13-year-old girl develops a crush on the town's Jewish doctor while visiting her grandmother. Her parents have an affair with the doctor. When her father returns, tensions arise regarding the relationships and the impending war.
Director: Jeanne Moreau | Stars: Edith Clever, Francis Huster, Jacques Weber, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 342
4. Capitain Marleau (2014– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable ... See full summary »
Stars: Corinne Masiero, Marius Colucci, Aymeric Demarigny, Jean-Claude Drouot
Votes: 672
5. Waiting for Anya (2020)
109 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Director: Ben Cookson | Stars: Noah Schnapp, Thomas Kretschmann, Frederick Schmidt, Tómas Lemarquis
Votes: 1,893
6. Tokyo! (2008)
Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A triptych examines the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and even run amok) inside one enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated megalopolis, the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo.
Directors: Leos Carax, Michel Gondry, Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Ayako Fujitani, Ryô Kase, Ayumi Ito, Nao Ômori
Votes: 11,899 | Gross: $0.35M
7. Swann in Love (1984)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant
Votes: 2,187
8. The French Revolution (1989)
335 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A chronicle of the French Revolution from the calling of the Etats General in 1789 until the end of the Jacobin Terror in 1794.
Directors: Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 1,861
9. The Worst Man in London (2024)
127 min | Crime, Drama
Charles Augustus Howell was John Ruskin's secretary, agent and model for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and exhumer of Lizzie Siddal. But he is also said to have been a master blackmailer and a forger of works of art.
Director: Rodrigo Areias | Stars: Albano Jerónimo, Edward Ashley, Victoria Guerra, João Pedro Vaz
Votes: 66
10. Madame Bovary (1991)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Romance
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne
Votes: 4,498 | Gross: $1.94M
11. Spender (1991–1993)
50 min | Action, Drama
Jimmy Nail plays Spender, a Northeast England police detective with marital problems.
Stars: Jimmy Nail, Sammy Johnson, Berwick Kaler, Denise Welch
Votes: 357
12. Diên Biên Phú (1992)
140 min | Drama, War
An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh, which finally resulted in the defeat and ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Patrick Catalifo, Jean-François Balmer, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 1,085
13. Lucky Luke (2009)
Not Rated | 103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western
Fearless gunslinger Lucky Luke is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
Director: James Huth | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Michaël Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prévost
Votes: 4,527
14. The Mouth Agape (1974)
TV-14 | 82 min | Drama
Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Monique Mélinand
Votes: 1,297
15. Cop or Hood (1979)
PG | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset
Votes: 3,113
16. Cosmos (2015)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young man, hoping to write a novel, visits a French guest-house with a friend, he but finds himself distracted by a strange mystery and the stranger inhabitants of the home.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet, Johan Libéreau
Votes: 2,196 | Gross: $0.02M
17. Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre (2001)
TV-14 | 97 min | Mystery, Fantasy, Horror
At the Louvre museum in Paris, the phantom Belphegor awakens and causes electrical havoc. Night guards at the museum start dying, Lisa gets possessed, and Martin tries to help her.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Michel Serrault, Frédéric Diefenthal, Julie Christie
Votes: 5,192
18. Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)
169 min | Drama, Romance, War
A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich
Votes: 2,839 | Gross: $0.46M
19. The King's Favorite (2022– )
Biography, Drama, History
It follows Diane de Poitiers, an emeritus huntress whose unalterable beauty fuels rumors and legends during her lifetime - and even in her death.
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Hugo Becker, Samuel Labarthe, Virginie Ledoyen
Votes: 106
20. The Night Caller (1975)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli, Rosy Varte
Votes: 4,329
21. The Swindle (1997)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 3,006 | Gross: $0.23M
22. Love at the Top (1974)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution.
Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Romy Schneider, Jane Birkin
Votes: 2,082
23. Golden Eighties (1986)
96 min | Comedy, Musical
Employees and clients of a commercial gallery only live for love; they dream it, proclaim it, sing it and dance it. Experience the encounters, reunions, passions and disappointments of a malicious chorus of girls and a group of idle boys.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Lio, Pascale Salkin, Delphine Seyrig, Myriam Boyer
Votes: 582
24. The Blood of Others (1984 TV Movie)
175 min | Drama, History, Romance
WWII. In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 624
25. Neige (1981)
90 min | Drama
Paris, Pigalle. Anita works as a waitress in a bar. When she learns that the police are looking for drug dealers, she tries to warn Bobby, who deals in the neighborhood.
Directors: Juliet Berto, Jean-Henri Roger | Stars: Juliet Berto, Jean-François Stévenin, Robert Liensol, Patrick Chesnais
Votes: 169
26. Dead Europe (2012)
84 min | Drama
In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to unveil dark truths that forced his father to flee years ago.
Director: Tony Krawitz | Stars: Ewen Leslie, William Zappa, Thanos Samaras, Theodora Tzimou
Votes: 752
27. East Wind (1993)
110 min | Drama
The story of General Smyslovsky and his pro-Axis, anti-Communist First Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned in the USSR.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Pierre Vaneck, Jean-François Balmer, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 252
28. La Menace (1977)
117 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The main character is unhappily married and has an affair. When his wife finds out, she lures his girlfriend to a cliff and throws herself of it, making the girlfriend look as her killer. ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Corneau | Stars: Yves Montand, Carole Laure, Marie Dubois, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 898
29. Beauregard (2009– )
185 min | Drama
Stars: Jean-François Balmer, Pierre Boulanger, Anne Jacquemin, Joyce Bibring
Votes: 25
30. Comedy of Power (2006)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Patrick Bruel, Marilyne Canto
Votes: 3,075 | Gross: $0.08M
31. Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
116 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain, Michel Aumont
Votes: 1,471 | Gross: $0.63M
32. Mumu (2010)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. ... See full summary »
Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Jean-François Balmer, Bruno Lochet, Michel Galabru
Votes: 243
33. Vivement dimanche (1998– )
Talk-Show
Stars: Michel Drucker, Emmanuel Chaunu, Franck Ferrand, Hélène Gateau
Votes: 109
34. Saint-Cyr (2000)
119 min | Drama, History, Romance
Madame de Maintenon rises from humble beginnings to become a courtesan to the royal court and eventually marries King Louis XIV. With the king's indulgence, Maintenon opens a special school for girls.
Director: Patricia Mazuy | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Simon Reggiani, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 707
35. La nuit des Césars (1976– )
Documentary
The César is the national film prize of France. He is named after the French sculptor César Baldaccini.
Stars: Nathalie Baye, Antoine de Caunes, Juliette Binoche, Pierre Tchernia
Votes: 231
36. Les naufragés de l'île de la Tortue (1976)
140 min | Comedy
Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rozier | Stars: Pierre Richard, Jacques Villeret, Maurice Risch, René Gros
Votes: 289
37. Ripoux 3 (2003)
105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
It has been ten years since the paths of René and François separated. From the glorious days when as cops they roamed the Montmartre district, they only have a handful of memories.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Lorànt Deutsch, Chloé Flipo
Votes: 1,290
38. Une étrange affaire (1981)
105 min | Drama
Louis Coline assists the head of advertising of a department store in decline. He has little to do, but seems content with his marriage to Nina, his visits to his mother and grandmother, ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Votes: 593
39. Boulevard du Palais (1999– )
90 min | Drama
Nadia Lintz, a young and idealistic investigating judge who has just arrived in Paris, and Philippe Rovère, a struggling and disbelieving judicial police inspector, are forced to understand... See full summary »
Stars: Anne Richard, Jean-François Balmer, Philippe Ambrosini, Olivier Saladin
Votes: 82
40. Le grand journal de Canal+ (2004–2017)
60 min | Documentary, Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Michel Denisot, Ariane Massenet, Jean-Michel Aphatie, Yann Barthès
Votes: 302
41. Juliette dans son bain (2022 TV Movie)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Having recently donated two paintings to the French state, one by Gauguin and the other by Munch, the billionaire benefactor learns that his daughter has been abducted. As their ransom, the... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Paul Lilienfeld | Stars: André Dussollier, Marisa Berenson, Charlotte Gabris, Bruno Todeschini
Votes: 75
42. L'africain (1983)
101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Balmer, Jacques François
Votes: 913
43. La dilettante (1999)
118 min | Comedy
Pierrette Dumortier, a woman of character but weak-willed and defenseless against boredom, decides one fine day to leave her husband and her bourgeois life in Switzerland to return to Paris... See full summary »
Director: Pascal Thomas | Stars: Catherine Frot, Sébastien Cotterot, Barbara Schulz, Jacques Dacqmine
Votes: 730
44. Cellule de crise (2020– )
Thriller
Newly elected president of one of the largest humanitarian organisations in the world, Suzanne Fontana is put to the test when a young delegate and a dozen employees of the organisation are kidnapped in Yemen.
Stars: André Dussollier, Isabelle Caillat, Luc Schiltz, Karim Saleh
Votes: 83
45. Le quart d'heure américain (1982)
90 min | Comedy
Ferdinand drives his car to Thailand. Barely gone, he is followed by a Radio 1 car and hears on the radio the voice of the host, Bonnie, indicate his registration number and ask him to stop. He may be the winner of a large sum of money.
Director: Philippe Galland | Stars: Anémone, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Brigitte Catillon
Votes: 353
46. Elephant Tales (2006)
G | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Teenage Zef and little brother, Tutu, are two happy elephants. Who wouldn't be with the biggest backyard in the world to play in? - the wild plains of Africa. They merrily chase zebras, ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Andreacchio | Stars: Patrick Bry, Aymeric Lecerf, Boris Ventura-Diaz, Xavier Clément
Votes: 115
47. That Day (2003)
105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 783
48. La joie de vivre (2012 TV Movie)
Drama
Pauline Quenu, a wealthy heiress, is still dispossessed of her property by Mrs. Chanteau and his son Lazare.
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris | Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Swann Arlaud, Marianne Basler, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 72
49. Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross (2006 TV Movie)
99 min | Biography, Drama, History
Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the colonists are thirsty, he returns determined to ... See full summary »
Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard | Stars: Thomas Jouannet, Émilie Dequenne, Noémie Kocher, Michel Galabru
Votes: 184
50. L'histoire du samedi (1995– )
Drama
An anthology television series from the French third public television channel, which features drama or comedy productions of original teleplays or TV adaptations developed from existing pieces of writing (popular plays or novels).
Stars: Philippe Clay, Nadia Barentin, Philippe Volter, Laetitia Legrix
Votes: 24