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1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

R | 122 min | Drama, Romance

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino

Votes: 109,913 | Gross: $3.76M

2. The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Approved | 150 min | Action, Adventure, War

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes

Votes: 79,184 | Gross: $45.30M

3. Leap! (2016)

PG | 89 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera House.

Directors: Eric Summer, Éric Warin | Stars: Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Carly Rae Jepsen, Maddie Ziegler

Votes: 24,418 | Gross: $24.70M

4. A Very Long Engagement (2004)

R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster, Dominique Pinon

Votes: 75,985 | Gross: $6.17M

5. A Summer's Tale (1996)

G | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

As a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him. But he ends up bonding with a local young woman whose female friend is also smitten with him.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon, Aurelia Nolin

Votes: 10,014 | Gross: $0.20M

6. Lola (1961)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott

Votes: 7,540

7. Livid (2011)

Not Rated | 92 min | Fantasy, Horror

The suggestion of a big treasure hidden somewhere inside Mrs Jessel's once renowned classical dance academy will become an irresistible lure to a fiendish trap for Lucie and her friends.

Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Chloé Coulloud, Félix Moati, Jérémy Kapone, Catherine Jacob

Votes: 7,811

8. Come Undone (2000)

R | 100 min | Drama, Romance

Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother's summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. A love-story begins between the two boys.

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz | Stars: Jérémie Elkaïm, Stéphane Rideau, Marie Matheron, Dominique Reymond

Votes: 5,361 | Gross: $0.01M

9. Rise (2022)

117 min | Comedy, Drama

Elise, a very promising classical dancer, is injured during a performance at 26 years old. Although she's told she will no longer be able to dance, she will try to find a new direction in contemporary dance.

Director: Cédric Klapisch | Stars: Marion Barbeau, Hofesh Shechter, Denis Podalydès, Muriel Robin

Votes: 3,219

10. Devils of Darkness (1965)

Approved | 88 min | Horror

A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.

Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: William Sylvester, Hubert Noël, Carole Gray, Tracy Reed

Votes: 1,059

11. Cookies (1975)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama

Henri is a middle-aged travelling umbrella salesman from Saumur. One night on the roads of Brittany he hits a boar with his car. He meets Émile, a rude and carefree painter who lives in a cottage near Riec-sur-Belon.

Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Claude Piéplu, Jeanne Goupil, Dolores McDonough

Votes: 1,083

12. Kaamelott: First Installment (2021)

120 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

The sequel on the big screen to the cult series of Alexandre Astier, an offbeat version of the legend of the Knights of the Round Table. Hidden in Rome, King Arthur plans his comeback to oppose the army of his former friend Lancelot.

Director: Alexandre Astier | Stars: Alexandre Astier, Lionnel Astier, Antoine de Caunes, Alain Chabat

Votes: 4,101

13. The Truth (1960)

Not Rated | 127 min | Drama

A liberated small-town girl and the family's black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey

Votes: 4,470

14. La petite Lili (2003)

104 min | Drama, Romance

A group of cinematic spend a holiday in the French countryside. The film provides insight in their relationships, including that between a young man and a local girl, Lili. She uses the ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ludivine Sagnier

Votes: 1,788 | Gross: $0.03M

15. 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: 11,304

16. My American Uncle (1980)

PG | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Nelly Borgeaud

Votes: 6,861

17. This Man Must Die (1969)

GP | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son's death.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac

Votes: 4,896

18. Élisa (1995)

115 min | Drama

A woman has had a tough childhood ever since her mother committed suicide. She spent most of her life in an orphanage and makes a living as a small-time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father.

Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sekkou Sall

Votes: 2,188 | Gross: $0.11M

19. Jacquot of Nantes (1991)

PG | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix

Votes: 2,006 | Gross: $0.15M

20. The Sensuous Assassin (1970)

R | 78 min | Mystery, Thriller

Marina and her boyfriend have an argument while on a trip in France. While driving with the car among the cliffs, he starts speeding and the car falls into the sea. Marina can jump out of ... See full summary »

Director: Léonard Keigel | Stars: Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Gabriele Tinti, Simone Bach

Votes: 531

21. The Light (2004)

TV-14 | 105 min | Drama, Romance

Camille arrives at the island Ouessant where she was born, to sell the house of her parents. She finds a book of a certain Antoine and starts reading. A story of a stranger is told who came... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Lioret | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Philippe Torreton, Grégori Derangère, Émilie Dequenne

Votes: 1,635

22. Le meilleur de la vie (1985)

96 min | Drama

Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is ... See full summary »

Director: Renaud Victor | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Bonnaffé, Jean-Marc Bory, Marie-Christine Barrault

Votes: 59

23. Shock Treatment (1973)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A French businesswoman goes to a remote and popular rejuvenation clinic after a breakup, and begins to suspect the treatment methods used by the head doctor, and slowly uncovers the horrible secret behind the clinic's success.

Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy

Votes: 1,779

24. The Grand Highway (1987)

R | 104 min | Drama

Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Loup Hubert | Stars: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Antoine Hubert, Vanessa Guedj

Votes: 1,772 | Gross: $0.76M

25. Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War (1999 TV Movie)

100 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher, Samuel West

Votes: 4,289

26. The Mystery of Henri Pick (2019)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

An editor discovers a novel that she considers to be a masterpiece in a library whose particularity is to collect the manuscripts refused by publishers. The text is signed "Henri Pick", a Breton pizza-maker who died two years earlier.

Director: Rémi Bezançon | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, Alice Isaaz, Bastien Bouillon

Votes: 4,788

27. Les filles ne savent pas nager (2000)

Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

Even though they grew up in opposite parts of France, Gwen and Lise are best friends and spend every summer vacation together on the Brittany coast where Gwen lives and Lise's family has a ... See full summary »

Director: Anne-Sophie Birot | Stars: Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx, Pascale Bussières, Pascal Elso

Votes: 626 | Gross: $0.07M

28. A French Woman (1995)

100 min | Drama, Romance

A French woman is a French woman. She is unable to refuse the wonderful gift of love. And I'm willing to pay a high price for it.

Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Gabriel Barylli, Jean-Claude Brialy

Votes: 1,395 | Gross: $0.17M

29. 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: 3,385 | Gross: $0.02M

30. Tomorrow We Live (II) (1942)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A mayor's daughter poses as collaborator to help British agent escape to England with vital information to help the allied war effort.

Director: George King | Stars: John Clements, Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Sinclair, Greta Gynt

Votes: 238

31. Madame de Sévigné (2023)

93 min | Drama, History

In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman in her own image. But the more she tries to control the young ... See full summary »

Director: Isabelle Brocard | Stars: Karin Viard, Ana Girardot, Cédric Kahn, Noémie Lvovsky

Votes: 65

32. Les beaux gosses (2009)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Coming-of-age tale about an adolescent boy and his efforts to fit in among a varied cast of characters.

Director: Riad Sattouf | Stars: Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Trémolières, Julie Scheibling

Votes: 4,400

33. Diving (2017)

TV-MA | 102 min | Drama

A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.

Director: Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Gilles Lellouche, María Valverde, Ibrahim Ahmed, Marie Denarnaud

Votes: 612

34. 150 Milligrams (2016)

128 min | Biography, Drama

Dr. Irène Frachon from Brest discovers, that Mediator pills cause heart valve problems/deaths. In 2009, she starts an uphill battle against the producer and the French health authorities.

Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoît Magimel, Charlotte Laemmel, Isabelle de Hertogh

Votes: 1,513

35. Yoyo (1965)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A man has everything: dozens of servants, a palace, vast woods, gardens, a lake, mechanical toys, private entertainment troupes of musicians and dancers. He has it all - but love. When ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: Pierre Étaix, Claudine Auger, Philippe Dionnet, Luce Klein

Votes: 1,686

36. Une femme de ménage (2002)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Émilie Dequenne, Brigitte Catillon, Jacques Frantz

Votes: 1,893 | Gross: $0.46M

37. Rapture (1965)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell, Gunnel Lindblom

Votes: 1,130

38. Simon's Got a Gift (2019)

103 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Simon is 8 and he's an orphan. His dream is to find a family willing to take him in. But Simon is not a child like the others, he has a secret power: he is able to take the appearance of every person he has ever touched.

Director: Léo Karmann | Stars: Benjamin Voisin, Martin Karmann, Camille Claris, Nicolas Wanczycki

Votes: 725

39. C'est la vie (1990)

110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The July 1958 vacation, on a beach on the Atlantic coast. Little Sophie, 8 years old, and her big sister Frédérique suffer from the bad understanding between their parents, presenting the drama of divorce which will not fail to occur.

Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Julie Bataille, Richard Berry, Zabou Breitman

Votes: 917 | Gross: $0.81M

40. Ricardo et la peinture (2023)

106 min | Documentary, Biography

An invitation to dive into the history of painting but also to explore the life of this guy who has always been entirely committed, even to the point of passing on his passion to the children of his hamlet, with simplicity and humility.

Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Ricardo Cavallo, Barbet Schroeder

Votes: 40

41. Coffin Island (1979)

Mystery, Crime, Drama

Frankreich während des ersten Weltkrieges: Im Militärhospital Besancon hält sich Krankenschwester Véronique d'Hergemont (Claude Jade) seit 14 Jahren vor ihrem verhaßten Ehemann Vorski ... See full summary »

Stars: Claude Jade, Jean-Paul Zehnacker, Pascal Sellier, Julie Philippe

Votes: 350

42. Close to Leo (2002 TV Movie)

Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance

When 21-year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11-year-old Marcel, the youngest, is ... See full summary »

Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Yaniss Lespert, Pierre Mignard, Marie Bunel, Rodolphe Pauly

Votes: 1,123

43. Captain Conan (1996)

129 min | Drama, War

The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Torreton, Samuel Le Bihan, Bernard Le Coq, Catherine Rich

Votes: 2,450

44. Louise by the Shore (2016)

Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Drama

Elderly Louise gets stranded at a seaside resort after missing the last train. Determined to stay, she faces challenging weather conditions. Will she survive?

Director: Jean-François Laguionie | Stars: Diane Dassigny, Piera Degli Esposti, Dominique Frot, Antony Hickling

Votes: 1,236

45. Winged Migration (2001)

G | 89 min | Documentary

Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.

Directors: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Philippe Labro

Votes: 12,375 | Gross: $10.76M

46. Laurie Moto Club (2012– )

52 min | Documentary, Adventure

From Russia to India and Argentina, and from the legendary Route 66 to the United Kingdom and Italy, the journey is always better on two wheels.

Stars: Laurie Bernard, John Wheeler, Nello Mariotti, Steve Smith

47. Green Tide (2023)

107 min | Drama, Thriller

Following the recent deaths of locals on Breton beaches, a reporter comes to investigate the mystery surrounding algae that may be a cause of these tragic events.

Director: Pierre Jolivet | Stars: Céline Sallette, Nina Meurisse, Julie Ferrier, Jonathan Lambert

Votes: 500

48. A Room in Town (1982)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Amid an ongoing workers' strike, a steelworker falls in love with the daughter of his baroness landlady, even though both are already in relationships.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli

Votes: 1,614

49. Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)

Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, History, War

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal

Votes: 1,759

50. The Bridesmaid (2004)

Not Rated | 111 min | Thriller, Drama, Romance

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément, Bernard Le Coq

Votes: 2,864 | Gross: $0.11M