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1. L'affaire Villemin (2006– )
52 min | Crime, Drama
A dramatisation of the events following the 1984 murder of the four-year old Gregory Villemin in Vosges, France.
Stars: Stéphane Debac, François Marthouret, Alain Doutey, François-Régis Marchasson
Votes: 40
2. Cinématon (1972– )
Documentary
Stars: Gérard Courant, Diana Lui, Joseph Morder, Célestine Roussel
Votes: 14
3. La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
Unrated | 238 min | Drama
The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt
Votes: 9,376 | Gross: $0.41M
4. Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1979)
65 min | Documentary
A cinéma vérité documentary about the elections in Paris which reflexively inverts in on itself.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Pascal Bonitzer, Jean Baudrillard
Votes: 56
5. Divertimento (1992)
125 min | Drama
More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one being more from Marianne's point of view.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt
Votes: 718
6. Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons (1994)
176 min | Biography, Drama, History
Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Bozonnet
Votes: 715
7. Night of Destiny (1997)
90 min | Thriller
Mr. Slimani, an elderly Muslim, is witness to a murder. Pursued by the killers, he retreats in the mosque among the crowd of faithful, which confuses his pursuers and saves his life. Inspector Leclerc is responsible for finding him.
Director: Abdelkrim Bahloul | Stars: Philippe Volter, Boris Terral, Gamil Ratib, Sonia Mankaï
Votes: 28
8. Le borgne (1980)
72 min | Drama
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Pascal Bonitzer, Philippe Collin, Pierre Donnadieu
Votes: 8
9. The Innocents (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History
1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne
Votes: 11,615 | Gross: $1.06M
10. Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
169 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Adventures of three young women in a hot and lazy Paris in summer.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Marianne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard, Laurence Côte, André Marcon
Votes: 704
11. Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2006– )
Talk-Show
The principle of "Ce Soir (Ou Jamais!)" is to present live and in public "the news seen by culture". The program brought together guests with very varied profiles, around specific topical ... See full summary »
Stars: Frédéric Taddeï, Emmanuel Todd, Jean-Didier Vincent, Michel Maffesoli
Votes: 69
12. Joan the Maid 1: The Battles (1994)
PG | 160 min | Biography, Drama, History
A part of Joan of Arc's life. At the beginning, Jeanne (Joan) has already left Domremy, she is trying to convince a captain to escort her to the Dauphin. It ends during Jeanne's first ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Tatiana Moukhine, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marie Richier, Baptiste Roussillon
Votes: 833 | Gross: $0.00M
13. Lumumba (2000)
Not Rated | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History
The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto
Votes: 2,083 | Gross: $0.68M
14. Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère... (1976)
130 min | Crime, Drama
Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a ... See full summary »
Director: René Allio | Stars: Claude Hébert, Jacqueline Millière, Joseph Leportier, Annick Géhan
Votes: 353
15.
Suite noire (2009– )
Episode:
La reine des connes
(2009)
TV-MA | Thriller
The first time Emmanuel wanted to jump from a window, he was seven years old. The second time was only a few seconds ago. And all because he wanted a sex change. Thanks to his lover and a ... See full summary »
Director: Guillaume Nicloux | Stars: Clément Hervieu-Léger, Yves Verhoeven, Pascal Bongard, Nicolas Jouhet
Votes: 42
16. La chasse aux papillons (1992)
115 min | Drama
A noble family of France maintains dignity despite the onslaught of modernism and non-white immigrants.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Narda Blanchet, Pierette Pompom Bailhache, Aleksandr Cherkasov, Thamara Tarassachvili
Votes: 586
17. Le scandale Clouzot (2017 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An excellent documentary ,summing up Henri-Georges Clouzot in admirably succinct style.
Director: Pierre-Henri Gibert | Stars: Henri Arius, Pierre Assouline, Antoine Balpêtré, Odette Berroyer
Votes: 77
18. Secret Defense (1998)
170 min | Crime, Drama
Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Grégoire Colin, Laure Marsac
Votes: 961
19. Snakes and Ladders (1980 TV Movie)
30 min | Mystery
A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Pascal Bonitzer, Jean-Loup Rivière
Votes: 169
20. Love on the Ground (1984)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Isabelle Linnartz
Votes: 649
21. Who Knows? (2001)
PG-13 | 154 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles
Votes: 2,505 | Gross: $0.91M
22. My Favorite Season (1993)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, Romance
Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites ... See full summary »
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier
Votes: 2,233 | Gross: $0.76M
23. L'homme des foules (2001)
90 min | Drama
Paul Markovic suffers from Stendhal syndrome. It is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his monstrous secret.
Director: John Lvoff | Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Maria de Medeiros, Danuta Stenka, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Votes: 61
24. The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Middle-aged Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet, Bettina Kee
Votes: 1,935
25. The Gang of Four (1989)
160 min | Drama, Mystery
A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Benoît Régent, Fejria Deliba, Laurence Côte
Votes: 1,155
26. 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: 575
27. Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
123 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Take a walk into the dreamlike world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisting ride. Four strangely symmetrical stories unfold involving love, lust, crime, and time.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud
Votes: 1,546
28. Suite noire (2009– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Thriller
Step into a world of seedy seduction, sinister plots, bloody murder, and hard vengeance: the pulp-fueled realm of "Suite Noire."
Stars: Jean-Bernard Pouy, Clotilde Hesme, Aïssa Maïga, Niels Arestrup
Votes: 65
29. Alias Betty (2001)
103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression after her young son Joseph dies. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap a boy named Jose to replace the son Betty... See full summary »
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner, Luck Mervil
Votes: 1,641 | Gross: $0.21M
30. Benedetta (2021)
Unrated | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 25,527
31. Thieves (1996)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The fates of four different people - a thief, a cop, a female professor of philosophy, a suicidal girl - unexpectedly collide.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Laurence Côte, Benoît Magimel
Votes: 2,277 | Gross: $0.94M
32. Simone Barbès ou la vertu (1980)
77 min | Drama
Simone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and pass the time. At midnight Simone departs to a lesbian nightclub.
Director: Marie-Claude Treilhou | Stars: Ingrid Bourgoin, Martine Simonet, Michel Delahaye, Sonia Saviange
Votes: 248
33. The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet
Votes: 7,281 | Gross: $0.13M
34. Bouillon de culture (1991–2001)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Broth of culture.
Stars: Bernard Pivot, Philippe Sollers, Jean Tulard, Bernard-Henri Lévy
Votes: 40
35. The Suspended Vocation (1978)
90 min | Drama
Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Didier Flamand, Pascal Bonitzer, Gabriel Gascon, Maurice Bénichou
Votes: 170
36. Visions & Merveilles de la religion chrétienne (1992)
20 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bénédicte Sire, Jean Badin, Thierry Jousse, Bruno Beaugé
Votes: 10
37. Le tableau volé (2024)
91 min | Drama
André Masson, specialist in modern art, receives a letter according to which a painting by Egon Schiele had been discovered in Mulhouse. He finds that the work has been missing since 1939. This discovery puts his career in danger.
Director: Pascal Bonitzer | Stars: Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi, Louise Chevillotte
Votes: 47
38. Chillers (1990)
53 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Chillers" was a 1990 series based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories: displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving in to the darkest depths of human nature.
Stars: Anthony Perkins, Doug Rollins, Assumpta Serna, Stéphane Freiss
Votes: 145
39. The Brontë Sisters (1979)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
Votes: 1,218
40. The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
Unrated | 137 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 1,464 | Gross: $0.28M
41. Augustin, King of Kung-Fu (1999)
89 min | Comedy
Augustin Dos Santos is back. He still wants to be an actor and, this time, he moves to the Chinese borough in Paris because he has decided to play in kung-fu movies. But poor Augustin has a... See full summary »
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, Maggie Cheung, Darry Cowl, Bernard Campan
Votes: 446
42. Wuthering Heights (1985)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Romance, Mystery
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu, Alice de Poncheville
Votes: 401 | Gross: $0.62M
43. Hot House (I) (2003 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Josée Dayan | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Nicole Garcia, François Berléand, Cyrille Thouvenin
Votes: 49
44. The Gordji Affair (2012 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama, History
Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are released. Political scandal in France: ... See full summary »
Director: Guillaume Nicloux | Stars: Michel Duchaussoy, Thierry Lhermitte, Malik Zidi, Eric Elmosnino
Votes: 44
45. Gemma Bovery (2014)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After moving to the French countryside with her husband, the British beauty Gemma Bovery draws the attention of a local baker who finds in the moving couple a resemblance to the heroes of Madame Bovary.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier
Votes: 6,874 | Gross: $0.19M
46. Scene of the Crime (1986)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ... See full summary »
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Nicolas Giraudi, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Wadeck Stanczak
Votes: 1,077 | Gross: $0.16M
47. Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1995)
R | 118 min | Drama
Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive.
Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Xavier Beauvois, Chiara Mastroianni, Roschdy Zem, Bulle Ogier
Votes: 586
48. Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn
Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.08M
49. Night and Day (1991)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver ... See full summary »
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Guilaine Londez, Thomas Langmann, François Négret, Nicole Colchat
Votes: 475
50. Murder in Pacot (2014)
130 min | Drama
After the terrible January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, a privileged couple struggles to reinvent a life amid the rubbles of their villa in Port-au-Prince's upscale neighborhood of Pacot. ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Alex Descas, Ayo, Thibault Vinçon, Lovely Kermonde Fifi
Votes: 182