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1. Droit de réponse: l'esprit de contradiction (1981– )
"Right of Reply/Right of Correction" - Michel Polac's cult program "Droit de Réponse" - live, controversial and French.
Stars: Michel Polac, François Weyergans, Raphaël Sorin, Laure Adler
Votes: 14
2. Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (1974– )
Documentary
Stars: Armand Panigel, Christian-Jaque, Marcel Carné, Marcel L'Herbier
Votes: 22
3. Polizeifunk ruft (1966–1970)
26 min | Crime, Drama
Police radio calls crime series.
Stars: Karl-Heinz Hess, Hans Daniel, Josef Dahmen, Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum
Votes: 84
4. Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes (2002 Video)
94 min | Documentary
Directors: François-Régis Jeanne, Stéphane Roux | Stars: André G. Brunelin, Paul Cadéac, Mireille Darc, Philippe de Broca
Votes: 27
5. Maigret (1991–2005)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Frissung, Pierre Diot
Votes: 788
6. Francis Veber artisan du rire: La mécanique dure rire (2002 Video)
51 min | Documentary
Directors: Thibault Carterot, Nicolas De La Mothe, François-Régis Jeanne | Stars: Dominique Paturel, Francis Veber, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Vladimir Cosma
Votes: 7
7.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et la vente à la bougie
(1995)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret visits a small town trying to get information about some Polish gangsters. While staying there, he catches the flu. During his recovery, a murder occurs in the inn where he is staying.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Etienne Chicot, Daniel Gélin, Michèle Moretti
Votes: 99
8.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Madame Quatre et ses enfants
(1999)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret goes undercover at a boarding house where a woman with two boys is occupying room number 4, hence Mrs. Quatre/Four. She has fled her home and husband with the boys and is in hiding ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Bérenger | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Marianne Basler, Christian Morin, Claude Duparfait
Votes: 96
9.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et l'étoile du nord
(2004)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man is killed in a hotel in Paris. Maigret meets there a young woman who says she is a prostitute. But it seems to Maigret she is not what she wants him to believe... This seems to become the very last Bruno Cremer's Maigret.
Director: Charles Nemes | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Lizzie Brocheré, Catherine Ferran, Luis Rego
Votes: 70
10. 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: 2,404
11.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret voit double
(2000)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret investigates the death of a seemingly boring accountant killed while standing at the bedroom window of his fourth floor flat. The victim had no strong feelings for his wife or his ... See full summary »
Director: François Luciani | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Laure Duthilleul, Aladin Reibel
Votes: 86
12.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et l'enfant de choeur
(1997)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A child while is going to church to make an altar boy sees a corpse in the street. No one else sees that corpse, and two minutes later, that corpse is disappeared. Later the child claims to... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Stanislas Forlani, Anne Roussel, Ginette Garcin
Votes: 88
13.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Un meurtre de première classe
(1999)
84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret is called for by his nephew, a new inspector in the north after a man was found dead in a first class carriage. The 106 train to Paris which started outside France was stopped at ... See full summary »
Director: Christian de Chalonge | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Hélène de Saint-Père, Veronika Varga
Votes: 88
14.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Meurtre dans un jardin potager
(1999)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret travels to Dole after a gun found with a murdered "vagrant" matched one used to kill another "vagrant" under a Paris bridge. There he encounters a pair of feuding sisters, one of ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Baily | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Geneviève Fontanel, Michèle Simonnet, Rémy Kirch
Votes: 85
15.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret chez les riches
(2000)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret investigates a threatening letter at the Parendon mansion.
Directors: Denys Granier-Deferre, Pierre Joassin | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Caroline Silhol, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 97
16.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret à l'école
(2002)
84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret goes to a small village after receiving a letter from the son of the schoolteacher. The schoolteacher is currently in prison awaiting trial for the murder of the village's ... See full summary »
Director: Yves de Chalonge | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Carole Richert, Stéphane Jobert
Votes: 78
17.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret chez le ministre
(2002)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A government minister asks Maigret to investigate when he becomes the victim of "dirty tricks".
Director: Christian de Chalonge | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Bernard Freyd, Gisèle Casadesus
Votes: 77
18. Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
95 min | Drama, War
During World War II, French commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud, Charles Aznavour
Votes: 2,087
19. Le grand dadais (1967)
90 min | Drama
A young man with a large inheritance falls in love with a photographer's model.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Eva Renzi, Danièle Gaubert, Yves Rénier
Votes: 29
20.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et le fou de Sainte Clothilde
(2002)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret is traveling by train on vacation to meet his wife and niece when he sees a man jump off the moving train. He follows and ends up in the hospital at Saint Clothilde with minor ... See full summary »
Director: Claudio Tonetti | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Philippe Khorsand, Philippe Magnan
Votes: 80
21.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et le marchand de vin
(2002)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wealthy wine dealer's death doesn't bother his wife or "secretary."
Director: Christian de Chalonge | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Thierry Frémont, Nicole Croisille
Votes: 78
22.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Les scrupules de Maigret
(2004)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
While in Brussels where he is being rewarded with the Order of Leopold, Maigret is asked for by a man named Xavier Marton who tells him that he suspects his wife Gisèle to want to murder ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Joassin | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Georges Siatidis, Pascale Arbillot, Florence Hebbelynck
Votes: 75
23. The Night Is My Kingdom (1951)
110 min | Drama
After an accident Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child. Fortunately, a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read with the Braille alphabet.
Director: Georges Lacombe | Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Valère, Gérard Oury, Jacques Dynam
Votes: 354
24.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et la fenêtre ouverte
(2001)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A shot is heard at 3pm from the waiting room of a shady financier. Minutes later he is found shot dead. Among the witnesses are two inspectors waiting to issue a summons. A suicide? Maigret... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Florence Darel, Jacques Boudet
Votes: 78
25.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et la princesse
(2003)
86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A count who is also a diplomat is murdered.
Director: Laurent Heynemann | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Colette Renard, Micheline Boudet, Guillaume Gallienne
Votes: 72
26. Cinéma cinémas (1982–1991)
Documentary
A ten episode Tv series on cinephilia, in which contributors to both American and French films are interviewed.
Stars: Michel Boujut, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 65
27. Chicago Digest (1960)
28 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.
Director: Paul Paviot | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Anne Campion, María Riquelme, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 22
28. The Widow Couderc (1971)
TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Drama, Romance
John, an escaped convict, takes refuge on the farm of Widow Couderc. He becomes the older woman's lover and admits that he's on the run. The widow's in-laws, who despise her,
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean Tissier
Votes: 2,019
29. The Last Train (1973)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud, Paul Amiot
Votes: 1,734
30. Paris au mois d'août (1966)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
A man is alone in Paris during the month of August while his woman and children go on vacation. He meets a young English girl posing as a model who came to Paris for a shoot.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Charles Aznavour, Susan Hampshire, Michel de Ré, Daniel Ivernel
Votes: 128
31. Horse (1970)
90 min | Crime, Thriller
Near the Baie de la Seine swamps, opposite the Port of Le Havre, Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean Gabin, Danièle Ajoret, Michel Barbey, Christian Barbier
Votes: 965
32. The Possessors (1958)
92 min | Drama
Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. He manages his financial and commercial concerns with an iron grip, leaving little room for his son François to prove himself.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Ducaux, Jean Desailly, Françoise Christophe
Votes: 591
33. La dernière fête (1996 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Romance
The story of Marquise De Prie, the wife of Marquis De Savoy and the mistress of King Louis XV.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Stéphane Freiss, Bernard Dhéran, Manfred Andrae
Votes: 31
34. Archipel (1992)
103 min | Drama, Romance
A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for holiday season.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Michel Piccoli, Claire Nebout, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 24
35. Terreur en Oklahoma (1951)
22 min | Short, Comedy, Western
This French comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood western genre.
Directors: André Heinrich, Paul Paviot | Stars: Jean Bellanger, Huguette Faget, Jean Gautrat, Stéphane Goldmann
Votes: 19
36. The French Detective (1975)
91 min | Crime, Drama
Two policemen risk of interfering with a corrupt politician.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 1,859
37. Air of Paris (1954)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Sport
The story of Andre Menard, a promising young amateur boxer from an impoverished background who is mentored by former pro Victor Le Garrec, and whose career path takes a nosedive when he falls for the wealthy Corinne.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Roland Lesaffre, Marie Daëms
Votes: 710
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: 588
39. 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
40. Midi Trente (1972–1975)
30 min | Music
Stars: Danièle Gilbert, Gaston Michel Cassez, Pierre Perret, Annie Cordy
Votes: 8
41. Father, Mother, the Maid and I (1954)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
The film tells how a young lawyer Robert Langlois fell in love with a student Catherine and how they both managed to "tame" their parents and get their consent to marriage.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Robert Lamoureux, Gaby Morlay, Fernand Ledoux, Nicole Courcel
Votes: 318
42. Legenden (1998– )
45 min | Documentary, Biography
Legends - the documentation of the stars.
Stars: Patrick Blank, Margot Hielscher, Dale Olson, Uwe Müller
Votes: 36
43. This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
30 min | Documentary, Biography
The UK version of the popular US show. Eamonn Andrews (later Michael Aspel) surprises celebrities by presenting them with the Big Red Book before taking them into the studio to tell viewers... See full summary »
Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Michael Aspel, Elizabeth Dawn, June Whitfield
Votes: 323
44. Crime and Punishment (1956)
107 min | Crime, Drama
Modern update of Dostoievski's novel Crime and Punishment.
Director: Georges Lampin | Stars: Jean Gabin, Marina Vlady, Ulla Jacobsson, Bernard Blier
Votes: 340
45. Cloportes (1965)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime
Three petty criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Irina Demick, Maurice Biraud
Votes: 596
46. Rue de Paris (1959)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Jean Gabin, Marie-José Nat, Claude Brasseur, Roger Dumas
Votes: 379
47. Without Leaving an Address (1951)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Thérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as she told him that she was expecting his baby. To trace her unworthy lover, she boards... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Bernard Blier, Danièle Delorme, Pierre Trabaud, Arlette Marchal
Votes: 187
48. L'étoile du Nord (1982)
PG | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1934, a mysterious Frenchman returns to Europe from Egypt.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Cottençon, Julie Jézéquel
Votes: 608
49. The Hide (2008)
Not Rated | 82 min | Thriller
On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one more sighting - the elusive sociable ... See full summary »
Director: Marek Losey | Stars: Alex Macqueen, Phil Campbell, Laura Hopwood, Howard Ward
Votes: 4,632
50. Les évadés (1955)
110 min | Drama, War
During World War II, three prisoners escape from a labor camp.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, François Périer, Michel André, Jacques Marin
Votes: 70