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1. The Bureau (2015–2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Thriller
A very unique and captivating series about the "bureau des légendes", the mythical powerhouse within the French Secret Service and its dare devil ghost agents.
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Florence Loiret Caille, Jonathan Zaccaï, Sara Giraudeau
Votes: 14,239
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
PG-13 | 112 min | Biography, Drama
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny
Votes: 110,469 | Gross: $5.99M
3. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
345 min | Drama, History, War
In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau, Maylis Bouffartigue
Votes: 1,338
4.
The Bureau (2015–2020)
Episode:
Episode #5.6
(2020)
TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Thriller
Jonas goes to Cairo to strike a deal with the sheikh. Sisteron has to remain discreet as he goes about investigating JJA.
Directors: Samuel Collardey, Anna Novion, Eric Rochant | Stars: Florence Loiret Caille, Jonathan Zaccaï, Mathieu Amalric, Jules Sagot
Votes: 194
5. Taken (I) (2008)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser
Votes: 635,023 | Gross: $145.00M
6. Floodtide (1987–1988)
60 min | Drama
Drama serial following the trail of cocaine smugglers.
Stars: Philip Sayer, John Benfield, Georges Trillat, Gaby Dellal
Votes: 31
7. Profilage (2009–2020)
TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Thriller
Chloé Saint-Laurent is a profiler who works with a police team to solve murders in Paris. Little by little she makes a place for herself in the team and her colleagues, at first somewhat shy, become her best friends.
Stars: Jean-Michel Martial, Raphaël Ferret, Philippe Bas, Valérie Dashwood
Votes: 1,937
8. Love Me If You Dare (2003)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.
Director: Yann Samuell | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe, Joséphine Lebas-Joly
Votes: 72,475 | Gross: $0.55M
9.
HPI Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021– )
Episode:
Phyllobates terribilis
(2021)
45 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The assistant of Fanny Mariani, veterinarian specializing in exotic animals, finds her dead on the floor in her clinic, the printer nonstop flipping sheets with the word "murder" printed on... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Jamain | Stars: Audrey Fleurot, Mehdi Nebbou, Bruno Sanches, Marie Denarnaud
Votes: 98
10.
Profilage (2009–2020)
Episode:
Sacrifiées
(2015)
TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Thriller
A young girl is missing, and Chloé and the others are on the case. A PI investigating the same case is someone from the past.
Director: Vincent Jamain | Stars: Nicole Croisille, Patrick Bouchitey, Odile Vuillemin, Philippe Bas
Votes: 37
11. HPI Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021– )
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Morgane has a 160 IQ but it never really helped her in her everyday life. The police decide to bring her on board to help them track down and catch highly intelligent criminals.
Stars: Audrey Fleurot, Mehdi Nebbou, Bruno Sanches, Marie Denarnaud
Votes: 1,622
12. Marie Antoinette (2022– )
52 min | Biography, Drama, History
Follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.
Stars: Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow
Votes: 2,947
13.
Marie Antoinette (2022– )
Episode:
Rival Queens
(2022)
TV-14 | 56 min | Biography, Drama, History
When Louis refuses to share his bed with her, Marie Antoinette realizes that producing an heir will not be straightforward. She turns to Madame du Barry for help but a rivalry begins to form between the Favorite and the Dauphine.
Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow
Votes: 200
14.
Marie Antoinette (2022– )
Episode:
Rebel Queen
(2022)
TV-MA | Biography, Drama, History
Louis may now be King, but Marie Antoinette is determined to launch her reign as the Queen of France. However, as her political advice is ignored and Provence and Joséphine threaten to deliver an heir, a chill sets in the royals' marriage.
Director: Geoffrey Enthoven | Stars: Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow
Votes: 183
15. Le roi Lear (2007 TV Movie)
161 min | Drama
Director: Don Kent | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Anne See, Lisa Martino, Julie-Marie Parmentier
Votes: 17
16. Bordertown (1989–1991)
TV-14 | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
The adventures of the inhabitants of a western town that straddles the Canadian-American border.
Stars: Richard Comar, John H. Brennan, Sophie Barjac, Beverley Elliott
Votes: 247
17.
Savages (2019– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2019)
58 min | Drama
In Paris, the home stretch of Idder Chaouch's presidential campaign is met with a wave of hope and popular support. But on the day the results, Chaouch is the victim of an assassination attempt.
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski | Stars: Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem, Amira Casar, Souheila Yacoub
Votes: 30
18.
Marie Antoinette (2022– )
Episode:
The Slap
(2022)
TV-14 | 52 min | Biography, Drama, History
Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when forced to leave Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. She must deliver an heir in order to secure an alliance between the two nations, but she is unprepared for the royal family that awaits her.
Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow
Votes: 264
19. The Accusation (2021)
138 min | Drama
A young man is accused of raping a young woman.
Director: Yvan Attal | Stars: Ben Attal, Suzanne Jouannet, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mathieu Kassovitz
Votes: 1,876
20. Venus and Apollo (2005– )
26 min | Comedy
Stars: Brigitte Roüan, Maria de Medeiros, Maëva Pasquali, Mélanie Bernier
Votes: 113
21. Travelling avant (1987)
114 min | Comedy, Drama
Paris, October 1948. Nino and Donald, two cinema lovers, meet during a screening in the suburbs. They quickly become great friends. Both dream of a successful career in the 7th art, and ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Charles Tacchella | Stars: Thierry Frémont, Ann-Gisel Glass, Simon de La Brosse, Sophie Minet
Votes: 98
22.
Savages (2019– )
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2019)
56 min | Drama
Hope returns when Idder Chaouch awakens. Marion goes to Saint-Etienne because Fouad no longer answers her calls, while Nazir escapes from his Saint-Etienne prison.
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski | Stars: Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem, Amira Casar, Souheila Yacoub
Votes: 21
23.
Savages (2019– )
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2019)
54 min | Drama
Fouad returns to Saint-Etienne to reconnect with his family. Lost in a city he no longer recognises or understands, he tries in vain to get back in touch with his fiance, Jasmine.
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski | Stars: Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem, Amira Casar, Souheila Yacoub
Votes: 20
24.
Savages (2019– )
Episode:
Episode 5
(2019)
49 min | Drama
To prevent riots from breaking out in Saint-Etienne, President Chaouch decides to attend a crucial soccer match at the city's iconic stadium. Fouad is also there and tries to meet Jasmine.
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski | Stars: Gabriell Arch, Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem, Amira Casar
Votes: 19
25. Savages (2019– )
Drama
Present-day France. The first presidential candidate of Algerian descent is on the brink of power. But on the night of the election, he is shot, bringing turmoil to two families and the entire nation.
Stars: Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem, Amira Casar, Souheila Yacoub
Votes: 439
26.
Savages (2019– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2019)
54 min | Drama
After the shot, Chaouch has fallen into a coma. Marion, the Head of Security for the President, is cut off from the investigations. Racked with guilt, she tries to dig deeper.
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski | Stars: Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem, Amira Casar, Souheila Yacoub
Votes: 24
27. The Hitchhiker (1983–1991)
TV-MA | 26 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
Stars: Page Fletcher, Nicholas Campbell, Vincent Grass, Kirstie Alley
Votes: 1,873
28. The Odyssey (2016)
PG | 122 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.
Director: Jérôme Salle | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou, Laurent Lucas
Votes: 6,196
29. Vise le coeur (2022– )
Crime
After testifying against her colleagues, Captain Julia Scola faces hostility from fellow police officers as she investigates a woman's disappearance; Julia's focus is tested when her teenage love arrives as the new commissioner.
Stars: Claire Keim, Lannick Gautry, Noémie Chicheportiche, Zinedine Soualem
Votes: 126
30. Hemingway (1988)
100 min | Biography
Of all the memorable characters created by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway, none was more complicated, more fascinating, or more charismatic than Hemingway himself.... See full summary »
Stars: Stacy Keach, Josephine Chaplin, Marisa Berenson, Lisa Banes
Votes: 129
31. Le système de Ponzi (2014 TV Movie)
85 min | Biography, Drama
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.
Director: Dante Desarthe | Stars: Scali Delpeyrat, Céline Milliat-Baumgartner, Élizabeth Mazev, Jean-Christophe Quenon
Votes: 85
32. Je me fais rare (2006)
103 min | Comedy
Daniel, a filmmaker is convinced that cinema is dying as an art form, and thinks he is a new Don Quichotte.
Director: Dante Desarthe | Stars: Dante Desarthe, Colas Gutman, Valérie Niddam, Michel Lascault
Votes: 31
33.
Vise le coeur (2022– )
Episode:
Ligne de vie
(2022)
53 min | Crime
Novak and Julia distance themselves as a manhunt is organised to find a medical student who terrorised a family; as a child, the man was haunted by the ghostly figure of a martyred girl, ... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Jamain | Stars: Claire Keim, Lannick Gautry, Noémie Chicheportiche, Zinedine Soualem
Votes: 16
34. The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2008)
Not Rated | 108 min | Action, Thriller
After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers, and stop them from taking over his financial empire.
Director: Jérôme Salle | Stars: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mélanie Thierry
Votes: 14,786 | Gross: $0.01M
35. Hidden Diary (2009)
105 min | Drama
Pregnant and living in Canada, Audrey visits her parents in the small French town of her birth. Over the holiday, she comes to learn the story of the grandmother who gave up her family, ... See full summary »
Director: Julie Lopes-Curval | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Marina Hands, Marie-Josée Croze, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 554
36. Les châtaigniers du désert (2010– )
90 min
Stars: Élodie Navarre, Louis Velle, François Marthouret, Thomas Jouannet
Votes: 15
37. Solitudes (2012)
17 min | Short, Crime, Drama
One night, an interpreter translates a Romanian prostitute's testimony.
Director: Liova Jedlicki | Stars: Madalina Constantin, Razvan Oprea, Gérard Watkins, Marie Desgranges
Votes: 40
38. Nos frangins (2022)
92 min | Drama
Based on the story of 22-year-old Malik Oussekinean, whose death is believed was caused by an affair of police violence after several weeks of student protests against a university reform bill.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Reda Kateb, Lyna Khoudri, Raphaël Personnaz, Samir Guesmi
Votes: 203
39. Citoyens clandestins (2024– )
Action | Post-production
In a race against the clock, a lone agent battles to stop a looming terrorist strike in France. Caught between secret services and extremists, with a journalist and an infiltrator in the mix, he'll risk everything to avert catastrophe.
Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Nailia Harzoune, Gringe, Pierre Arditi
Votes: 58
40. La fabrique des sentiments (2008)
104 min | Drama
A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great education, but she's looking for love. Can a couple of minutes be the key to finding true love?
Director: Jean-Marc Moutout | Stars: Elsa Zylberstein, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Putzulu, Hiam Abbass
Votes: 301
41. Death in the Shadow of State (2013 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama
A minister commits suicide at the Élysée palace. To contain the impact on public opinion and prevent the case from becoming a national scandal, the French president turns to Claire Ferran, ... See full summary »
Director: Frédéric Berthe | Stars: Rachida Brakni, Thierry Neuvic, Richard Berry, Éric Caruso
Votes: 108
42. Naked Normandy (2018)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
A French mayor has to convince his villagers to pose naked for an American photographer.
Director: Philippe Le Guay | Stars: François Cluzet, François-Xavier Demaison, Julie-Anne Roth, Pili Groyne
Votes: 1,213
43. Plein sud (2009)
87 min | Drama, Romance
In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a ... See full summary »
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz | Stars: Yannick Renier, Léa Seydoux, Nicole Garcia, Théo Frilet
Votes: 792
44. Le loup de la côte Ouest (2002)
132 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A detective thriller about a private eye, who was hired by one of the gangsters.
Director: Hugo Santiago | Stars: James Faulkner, Anna Mouglalis, Gérard Watkins, Valérie Dréville
Votes: 79
45. Colt 45 (2014)
85 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The young police man Vincent is the best in his class, and denies to be recruited to the special forces. But when the corrupt Milo manages to get a grip on him, his life is turned into a living nightmare.
Director: Fabrice du Welz | Stars: Gérard Lanvin, JoeyStarr, Alice Taglioni, Ymanol Perset
Votes: 2,299
46. They Came Back (2004)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Fantasy
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccaï, Frédéric Pierrot, Victor Garrivier
Votes: 2,979
47. Les danseurs du Mozambique (1992 TV Movie)
Director: Philippe Lefebvre | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Erin Gray, Jacques François, Anne Létourneau
Votes: 15
48.
The Hitchhiker (1983–1991)
Episode:
White Slaves
(1990)
TV-MA | 24 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Two college students, who can't get a date for the evening, kidnap a woman, but end up fighting each other over her.
Director: Robin Davis | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Gérard Watkins, Mapi Galán, Page Fletcher
Votes: 37
49.
Citoyens clandestins (2024– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2024)
Action
Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Nailia Harzoune, Gringe, Pierre Arditi
Votes: 6
50.
Citoyens clandestins (2024– )
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2024)
Action
Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Nailia Harzoune, Gringe, Pierre Arditi
Votes: 6