French movies
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1. The House of Happiness (2006)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Dany Boon, Michèle Laroque, Daniel Prévost, Zinedine Soualem
Votes: 1,692
2. The Tuche Family (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
When the Tuche family wins 100 million euros, they will need to be accepted in swanky Monaco whilst staying true to themselves.
Director: Olivier Baroux | Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Isabelle Nanty, Claire Nadeau, Théo Fernandez
Votes: 3,896
3. I Killed My Mother (2009)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément
Votes: 31,405
4. Heartbeats (2010)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
The story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Anne Dorval
Votes: 30,323 | Gross: $0.06M
5. Laurence Anyways (2012)
Not Rated | 168 min | Drama, Romance
A drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuel Schwartz, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye
Votes: 22,186
6. Tom at the Farm (2013)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A grieving man meets his lover's family, who were not aware of their son's sexual orientation.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu
Votes: 19,226
7. French Women (2014)
116 min | Comedy, Romance
A story about 11 women living in Paris. Each of them has her own problems: career, love life, children. Every woman has her complexes and virtues. They always look elegant, hiding their ... See full summary »
Director: Audrey Dana | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Alice Belaïdi, Laetitia Casta, Audrey Dana
Votes: 2,337
8. The Party (1980)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This is the story about a teenage girl's first love experiences.
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau, Denise Grey
Votes: 10,548
9. The Party 2 (1982)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Vulnerable and impressionable teenage girl continues to experience sorrows and joys of adult life.
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 5,199
10. Big Is Beautiful (2012)
100 min | Comedy
A resort for individuals who want to lose weight is helps several women discover friendships, acceptance with body image and hard truths.
Director: Charlotte de Turckheim | Stars: Victoria Abril, Lola Dewaere, Catherine Hosmalin, Grégory Fitoussi
Votes: 1,013
11. School's Out (2008)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
A few days before the baccalaureate, a high school student decides to settle accounts with the most cowardly teacher in the school.
Director: Frédéric Berthe | Stars: Théo Frilet, Valentine Catzéflis, Michel Blanc, Arthur Dupont
Votes: 815
12. Young & Beautiful (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
After losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Fantin Ravat
Votes: 38,240 | Gross: $0.05M
13. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
NC-17 | 180 min | Drama, Romance
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 162,934 | Gross: $2.20M
14. LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2008)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
When Lola's boyfriend is unfaithful to her on his summer holiday, she dumps him and flirts with his best friend as punishment. But as their class prepares to leave on an excursion to London, the relationship heats up.
Director: Lisa Azuelos | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Christa Théret, Jérémy Kapone, Marion Chabassol
Votes: 9,620
15. Happiness Never Comes Alone (2012)
110 min | Comedy, Romance
Sacha Keller is only interested in one night stands with 20-somethings and has a phobia of children. That is until he meets Charlotte, the divorced mother-of-three and ex-wife of one his employer's powerful clients.
Director: James Huth | Stars: Gad Elmaleh, Sophie Marceau, Maurice Barthélémy, François Berléand
Votes: 5,542
16. Cartagena (2009)
92 min | Drama, Romance
Léo, an alcoholic French ex-boxer in Cartagena, Colombia, takes a job looking after a bedridden, pretty Frenchwoman - quadriplegic after an injury 3 years ago.
Director: Alain Monne | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Christopher Lambert, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Rodolfo De Souza
Votes: 1,390
17. Female Agents (2008)
TV-MA | 148 min | Drama, War
London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie Gillain
Votes: 7,950
18. Les clefs de bagnole (2003)
90 min | Comedy
Baffie is in his luxury pad. His pal Daniel comes by. They are going out. Baffie can't find his car keys.
Director: Laurent Baffie | Stars: Laurent Baffie, Daniel Russo, Pascal Sellem, Karine Lyachenko
Votes: 1,547
19. Fidelity (2000)
166 min | Drama
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet, Magali Noël
Votes: 2,028
20. It Boy (2013)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
Alice works for "Rebelle" magazine, where she needs to let her hair down to get a promotion. When Balthazar returns a lost USB to Alice, the appearance of dating someone half her age helps her. Does it get real?
Director: David Moreau | Stars: Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Charles Berling, Gilles Cohen
Votes: 11,595
21. L'amour, c'est mieux à deux (2010)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
Michel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He... See full summary »
Directors: Dominique Farrugia, Arnaud Lemort | Stars: Clovis Cornillac, Virginie Efira, Manu Payet, Annelise Hesme
Votes: 1,818
22. Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama
A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint-Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Bergé.
Director: Jalil Lespert | Stars: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet
Votes: 13,012 | Gross: $0.72M
23. Les gamins (2013)
95 min | Comedy
A frustrated young musician finds unexpected kinship with his girlfriend's father.
Director: Anthony Marciano | Stars: Alain Chabat, Max Boublil, Sandrine Kiberlain, Mélanie Bernier
Votes: 3,398
24. Les invincibles (2013)
98 min | Comedy, Sport
Momo has one dream buried for years: become a petanque champion. When an international tournament is announced, he drops his ordinary life to win the first prize and fulfill his dreams.
Director: Frédéric Berthe | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Atmen Kelif, Virginie Efira, Daniel Prévost
Votes: 609
25. 17 Girls (2011)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
When a rebellious teenager finds out that she is already eight weeks pregnant, she forms a pact with sixteen of her classmates to get pregnant simultaneously, raise their children together, and most of all, be in charge of their lives.
Directors: Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin | Stars: Louise Grinberg, Juliette Darche, Roxane Duran, Esther Garrel
Votes: 3,384 | Gross: $0.02M
26. Paris, I Love You (2006)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented, and awakened.
Directors: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Leonor Watling, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Ardant
Votes: 74,531 | Gross: $4.86M
27. Playing Dead (2013)
104 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A has-been actor takes a job playing the victims in a homicide reenactment, where he sparks with the civil officer investigating the real-life crime.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: François Damiens, Géraldine Nakache, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Anne Le Ny
Votes: 997
28. Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)
92 min | Drama
Lili returns from holidays and learns that her twin brother left the house after a violent argument with their father.
Director: Philippe Lioret | Stars: Mélanie Laurent, Kad Merad, Isabelle Renauld, Julien Boisselier
Votes: 11,295
29. Every Jack Has a Jill (2009)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
Jack is encouraged to take the romantic Paris vacation he won, despite just being dumped by his girlfriend. His trip soon devolves into chaos and adventure, when his luggage is swapped for ... See full summary »
Director: Jennifer Devoldère | Stars: Mélanie Laurent, Justin Bartha, Valérie Benguigui, Billy Boyd
Votes: 1,576
30. Une vie à t'attendre (2004)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair with a man whom she hadn't seen in twelve years.
Director: Thierry Klifa | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Patrick Bruel, Géraldine Pailhas, Anouk Grinberg
Votes: 477
31. The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)
114 min | Drama
Five key days in a family's life.
Director: Rémi Bezançon | Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman, Déborah François, Marc-André Grondin
Votes: 9,947
32. Camping (I) (2006)
95 min | Comedy
At the campsite Blue Waves, people arrives from all over France. Like every year, this is the time of reunion around a drink customary for families of regulars. Except this year, Mister Pic... See full summary »
Director: Fabien Onteniente | Stars: Gérard Lanvin, Mathilde Seigner, Franck Dubosc, Claude Brasseur
Votes: 3,865
33. Love is in the Air (2013)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
Antoine is a lawyer living in New York. On his way back to France for the final round of a job interview, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. With a ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandre Castagnetti | Stars: Ludivine Sagnier, Nicolas Bedos, Jonathan Cohen, Arnaud Ducret
Votes: 5,279 | Gross: $0.01M
34. Belle & Sebastian (2013)
104 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A six-year-old boy and his dog look to foil a Nazi effort to capture French Resistance fighters.
Director: Nicolas Vanier | Stars: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Chatelier, Dimitri Storoge
Votes: 5,554
35. Just Like Home (2011 TV Movie)
87 min | Comedy
A French family plans to swap homes with a Turkish family for the holidays. But at the last moment, the father learns he could be about to be made redundant. The two families have to live together.
Director: Lorenzo Gabriele | Stars: Elise Tielrooy, Philippe Lefebvre, Sedef Ecer, Özz Nûjen
Votes: 80
36. Summertime (2015)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader in this drama set in 1970s France.
Director: Catherine Corsini | Stars: Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky, Jean-Henri Compère
Votes: 5,668 | Gross: $0.04M
37. Poveri ma ricchi (2016)
90 min | Comedy
The "Tucci" are a poor Italian family living in a small village in Lazio. Father, mother, a conceited daughter and a genius son, forced to pretend being stupid to keep up with the family. ... See full summary »
Director: Fausto Brizzi | Stars: Christian De Sica, Enrico Brignano, Lucia Ocone, Lodovica Comello
Votes: 1,408
38. Nos jours heureux (2006)
103 min | Comedy
As they spend three weeks in a summer camp in the south of France, not only the children but also the monitors learn a little more about happiness, love, and most importantly themselves.
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Marilou Berry, Omar Sy, Lannick Gautry
Votes: 4,646
39. Serial Teachers (2013)
88 min | Comedy
The worst teachers are recruited to save the worst school in France from shutting down.
Director: Pierre-François Martin-Laval | Stars: Christian Clavier, Isabelle Nanty, Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Kev Adams
Votes: 4,039
40. Serial Teachers 2 (2015)
92 min | Comedy
The worst teachers of France landed in England for an ultra-secret mission. With Boulard, the King of the Dunces, they are parachuted in the best school of the country, and they will apply their famous methods on the future of the nation.
Director: Pierre-François Martin-Laval | Stars: Kev Adams, Isabelle Nanty, Didier Bourdon, Pierre-François Martin-Laval
Votes: 1,723
41. Family Business (2018)
90 min | Comedy
When their aunt's inheritance is given to their annoying cousin, three brothers and sisters have to work to get it back.
Director: Anne Le Ny | Stars: Miou-Miou, Julia Piaton, Baptiste Lecaplain, Margot Bancilhon
Votes: 165
42. Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
A French public servant from Provence is banished to the far North. Strongly prejudiced against this cold and inhospitable place, he leaves his family behind to relocate temporarily there, with the firm intent to quickly come back.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret
Votes: 44,928 | Gross: $1.48M
43. What's in a Name? (2012)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
Vincent is about to become a father. At a meeting with childhood friends he announces the name for his future son. The scandalous name ignites a discussion which surfaces unpleasant matters from the past of the group.
Directors: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte | Stars: Patrick Bruel, Valérie Benguigui, Charles Berling, Guillaume de Tonquédec
Votes: 18,284
44. Rolling to You (2018)
TV-14 | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
Jocelyn is a successful businessman, but selfish and misogynistic. He tries to seduce a pretty young woman by pretending to be handicapped until she introduces him to her wheelchair-bound sister.
Director: Franck Dubosc | Stars: Franck Dubosc, Alexandra Lamy, Elsa Zylberstein, Gérard Darmon
Votes: 5,184
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