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1. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
PG | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel
Votes: 44,854 | Gross: $16.06M
2. Femmes Fatales (1976)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy
Two men flee to the countryside to escape their sexual duties and settle for a quiet, rustic life.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Blier, Brigitte Fossey
Votes: 1,448
3. Two Men in Town (1973)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Director: José Giovanni | Stars: Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux
Votes: 5,029
4. The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 2,236
5. Les cinq dernières minutes (1958–1996)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Marc Eyraud, Jacques Debary, Raymond Souplex, Jean Daurand
Votes: 73
6. Special Section (1975)
PG | 110 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In occupied France during World War II a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 1,591
7. Buffet Froid (1979)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Alphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who have killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a serie of event in a surrealist world.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Denise Gence
Votes: 6,495
8. Three Men to Kill (1980)
93 min | Thriller
A man is pursued by killers after helping someone at a car crash.
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michel Auclair, Pascale Roberts
Votes: 2,017
9. Devil Story (1986)
76 min | Horror
A deformed man living with his mother in the countryside roams the woods killing indiscriminately. A couple spend the night nearby, and the wife goes through a nightmarish experience involving a black horse, a mummy, and the deformed man.
Director: Bernard Launois | Stars: Véronique Renaud, Marcel Portier, Catherine Day, Nicole Desailly
Votes: 661
10. Tender Moment (1968)
GP | 82 min | Drama
Teenage student Olivier (Verley) meets 25 year-old Frédérique (Delon), wife of race car driver Enrico (Hossein), and start an affair. But guilt and doubt storm over Olivier's mind.
Director: Michel Boisrond | Stars: Nathalie Delon, Renaud Verley, Katia Christine, Martine Sarcey
Votes: 202
11. Le Chat (1971)
86 min | Drama
In 1971 Courbevoie (France), former typographist Julien Bouin and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, which is soon to be ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal
Votes: 2,402
12. The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
113 min | Comedy
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie ... See full summary »
Directors: Philippe de Broca, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy, Sylvain Dhomme, Jean-Luc Godard, Édouard Molinaro, Roger Vadim, Max Douy | Stars: Marie-José Nat, Dominique Paturel, Danièle Barraud, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Votes: 667
13. Commissaire Moulin (1976– )
90 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Yves Rénier, Clément Michu, Bernard Rosselli, Francis Lax
Votes: 129
14. ...And Hope to Die (1972)
PG | 99 min | Crime, Drama
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray
Votes: 864
15. The Sucker (1965)
111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Criminals have chosen an ordinary man to carry drugs and jewels in his car across the border. The problem is that this man turned out too much ordinary.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Venantino Venantini, Henri Génès
Votes: 8,031
16. Girls (1980)
95 min | Drama
Three girls: Susanne, Annie and Catherine, just have finished high school and meet every night to have a good time in discos and bars with frequently changing boyfriends. Susanne's younger ... See full summary »
Director: Just Jaeckin | Stars: Anne Parillaud, Zoé Chauveau, Charlotte Walior, Isabelle Mejias
Votes: 134
17. Thierry la Fronde (1963–1966)
26 min | Adventure
Fictional adventures of Thierry de Janville, nicknamed "Thierry la fronde or Thierry the sling-slingshot", after his weapon of choice. A young of brave nobleman in XIVth century France, ... See full summary »
Stars: Jean-Claude Drouot, Céline Léger, Fernand Bellan, Clément Michu
Votes: 135
18. Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967–1990)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Jean Richard, François Cadet, Annick Tanguy, Jean-François Devaux
Votes: 126
19. Male Hunt (1964)
91 min | Comedy
Antoine is about to get married to Gisèle. His friend Julien, a confirmed bachelor, tries desperately to talk him out of it, citing his own painful experiences.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Dorléac, Marie Laforêt
Votes: 599
20. Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962)
111 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Anne de Vierne, the wife of a magistrate, confesses to her son François that Laroche was in ... See full summary »
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac, Geneviève Grad
Votes: 197
21. Action Man (1967)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Sophisticated crook talks ex-crook and now respectable business man into one last caper. This highly planned and well executed crime goes off without a hitch until rival bad guys want a piece of the action.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Jean Gabin, Robert Stack, Margaret Lee, Jean Topart
Votes: 738
22. Les risques du métier (1967)
105 min | Drama
Jean Doucet is a popular schoolmaster teaching in a small town in Normandy. At least he was... Until the day one of his pupils, Catherine Roussel, a garage owner's daughter, accuses him of ... See full summary »
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Jacques Brel, Emmanuelle Riva, René Dary, Nadine Alari
Votes: 619
23. Second Chance (1976)
PG | 105 min | Drama
Catherine has just served a prison sentence for complicity in the murder of her boss who raped her. There she gives birth to a son, Simon. After her release she wants to make up for the ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Anouk Aimée, Charles Denner, Francis Huster
Votes: 291
24. Le viager (1972)
101 min | Comedy
The greedy Galipeaus, thinking the old Martinet is about to die, provide him a life annuity to own his house after his death. But Martinet continues living for years, so the Galipeaus opt for radical actions.
Director: Pierre Tchernia | Stars: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Claude Brasseur, Rosy Varte
Votes: 1,258
25. Des frissons partout (1963)
91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war.
Director: Raoul André | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Perrette Pradier, Daniel Emilfork, Clément Harari
Votes: 105
26. Belphégor ou le fantôme du Louvre (1965)
283 min | Romance, Thriller
A mysterious phantom appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at night. Neither the guards nor the police are able to arrest it. A curious young man tries to break the ice and discover what drives the creature and the background activities.
Stars: Juliette Gréco, René Dary, Christine Delaroche, Yves Rénier
Votes: 454
27. Mata Hari, agent H21 (1964)
98 min | Drama, History, Romance
The Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War.
Director: Jean-Louis Richard | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Rich, Henri Garcin
Votes: 471
28. La dame de Monsoreau (1971– )
Drama, History, Romance
Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Count de Bussy and the woman he adores, la Dame de Monsoreau.
Stars: Karin Petersen, Nicolas Silberg, Denis Manuel, Michel Creton
Votes: 204
29. Aux frontières du possible (1971–1974)
55 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Stars: Pierre Vaneck, Yvette Montier, Jean-François Rémi, Elga Andersen
Votes: 42
30. L'année sainte (1976)
85 min | Comedy, Crime
Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Jean Gabin, Jean-Claude Brialy, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Henri Virlojeux
Votes: 506
31. Les folies Offenbach (1977– )
Biography, Comedy, Music
Stars: Michel Serrault, Jean Stout, Catherine Samie, André Thorent
Votes: 32
32. Rendez-vous en noir (1977– )
52 min | Crime
Jean Morin pursues with implacable revenge the five passengers of a tourist plane responsible for the death of his fiancée. Every May 31, he commits a murder, which soon attracts the attention of Inspector Camaret.
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Jean Martin, Didier Haudepin, Pierre Danny
Votes: 31
33. Allô police (1966–1970)
55 min | Crime
Stars: Fernand Berset, Claude Ruben, Guy Tréjan, Bernard Rousselet
Votes: 23
34. Les mystères de Paris (1980– )
52 min | Drama, Crime
Stars: Sigmar Solbach, Christine Deschaumes, Jacques Seiler, Noëlle Leiris
Votes: 28
35. The Lions Are Loose (1961)
95 min | Comedy
Bored with her life, Albertine (Claudia Cardinale) drops her husband and takes the first train to Paris, to start fresh.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Claudia Cardinale, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan
Votes: 204
36. People in Luck (1963)
95 min | Comedy
Every day, the newspaper reports the story of a man or woman especially in vein, who won a prize or a spectacular contest.
Directors: Philippe de Broca, Jean Girault, Jacques Pinoteau | Stars: France Anglade, Francis Blanche, Blanchette Brunoy, Daniel Ceccaldi
Votes: 354
37. Netchaïev est de retour (1991)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial center of a bomb attack a few minutes before its completion.
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Yves Montand, Vincent Lindon, Patrick Chesnais, Mireille Perrier
Votes: 178
38. Le mille-pattes fait des claquettes (1977)
105 min | Comedy
The Germans decided, in 1943, to bring the famous Venus de Milo to one of their superiors. Three friends do not hear this ear and invest the Louvre to steal the famous work of art.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Francis Perrin, Roger Miremont, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Michel Galabru
Votes: 133
39. Médecins de nuit (1978–1986)
55 min | Drama
Stars: Catherine Allégret, Georges Beller, Greg Germain, Agnès Château
Votes: 35
40. Histoires insolites (1974– )
52 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The spirit of this series is very unusual but not fantastic. In these stories, the unusual is capricious everyday life, offbeat realism, that is to say that the facts are ordinary until the moment when the situation slips into the unusual.
Stars: Jean-Pierre Darras, Bernard Le Coq, Nicole Desailly, Jean Cherlian
Votes: 10
41. Trop petit mon ami (1970)
80 min | Crime
Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.
Director: Eddy Matalon | Stars: Jane Birkin, Michael Dunn, Bernard Fresson, Claude Brasseur
Votes: 35
42. Les Misérables (1972– )
245 min | Drama
Jean Valjean is convicted for stealing bread for his family. Thus is set in motion a lifetime of fear and pain, as the police inspector Javert pursues Valjean, hounding him relentlessly over the years in an obsessive quest.
Stars: Georges Géret, Bernard Fresson, François Marthouret, Alain Mottet
Votes: 21
43. La caméra explore le temps (1957–1966)
History
Stars: Roland Ménard, François Maistre, Alain Nobis, Louis Arbessier
Votes: 59
44. The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957)
110 min | Drama
A heartfelt plea for painless childbirth in rural France of the fifties.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel, Silvia Monfort, Henri Arius
Votes: 319
45. La belle vie (1963)
105 min | Drama, War
After twenty-seven long months spent in Algeria, Frédéric Simon, a young photographer is determined to forget this time of trouble. Now that the Army has finally discharged him he wants to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Frédéric de Pasquale, Josée Steiner, Odile Geoffroy, Françoise Giret
Votes: 52
46. Nanou (1970– )
26 min | Comedy
Stars: Françoise Laurent, Jean Vinci, Denise Provence, Patrick Jeantet
47. Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenager daughter Élisabeth, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Louis Bertuccelli | Stars: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, François Périer, Isabelle Huppert
Votes: 241
48. Les Thibault (1972–1973)
90 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Jacques Thibault stifles in his bourgeois family where his father rules supreme over the household.He runs away with his friend Daniel but their plans come to a sudden end.The unfortunate ... See full summary »
Stars: Philippe Rouleau, François Dunoyer, Françoise Christophe, Anne Deleuze
Votes: 19
49. The Secret Wife (1986)
95 min | Drama
Director: Sébastien Grall | Stars: Jacques Bonnaffé, Clémentine Célarié, Philippe Noiret, Wladimir Yordanoff
Votes: 25
50. En votre âme et conscience (1955– )
Crime, Drama, History
Stars: Pierre Dumayet, Pierre Desgraupes, René Alone, Jean Berger
Votes: 25