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1. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Sport
Number one NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton, Jr. But when a French Formula One driver, makes his way up the ladder, Ricky Bobby's talent and devotion are put to the test.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole
Votes: 200,338 | Gross: $148.21M
2. 5 to 7 (2014)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An aspiring novelist enters into a relationship with a woman, though there's just one catch: She's married and the couple can only meet between the hours of 5 and 7 each evening.
Director: Victor Levin | Stars: Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 21,400 | Gross: $0.12M
3. My Uncle (1958)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy
Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis
Votes: 24,300
4. The Silence of the Sea (1949)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War
In occupied France, an elderly man and his niece are forced to give shelter to a German army lieutenant who seemingly loves their country and culture.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe
Votes: 5,667
5. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 2,175
6. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Passed | 116 min | Biography, Drama
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden
Votes: 9,035
7. The Wing or The Thigh? (1976)
104 min | Comedy, Family
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and the publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast-food entrepreneur Tricatel to save the French art of cooking. After ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 12,356
8. Agatha and the Limitless Readings (1981)
90 min | Drama
A dialogue-driven drama about a woman and her brother who meet at a deserted seaside hotel to deal with their passionate incestuous feelings for each other and reminisce about their happy childhood.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Yann Andréa, Marguerite Duras
Votes: 327
9. Versailles: The Dream of a King (2008 TV Movie)
180 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Docudrama about the life of Louis XIV nicknamed "the Sun King", the King of France who ran a glamorous court, expanded the borders of France, loved women and parties and built an incredible palace for himself - the Versailles.
Director: Thierry Binisti | Stars: Vinciane Millereau, Samuel Theis, Jérôme Pouly, Antoine Coesens
Votes: 370
10. The French Minister (2013)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy
A young speechwriter working in the French Foreign Ministry learns the impure nature of the political world.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Raphaël Personnaz, Niels Arestrup, Bruno Raffaelli
Votes: 3,947 | Gross: $0.00M
11. November 13: Attack on Paris (2018)
55 min | Documentary, Crime
Documentary chronicling the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015.
Stars: François Hollande, Line, Jimmy, Anne Hidalgo
Votes: 3,754
12. French in Action (1987– )
TV-G | 30 min | Documentary
This educational series teaches the French language and profiles cultural attributes. No attempt is made to use English in presenting skills and concepts.
Stars: Pierre J. Capretz, Valérie Allain, Charles Mayer, Virginie Contesse
Votes: 167
13. One Man and His Cow (2016)
G | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
An Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture Fair.
Director: Mohamed Hamidi | Stars: Fatsah Bouyahmed, Lambert Wilson, Jamel Debbouze, Hajar Masdouki
Votes: 2,796
14. Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta (1976)
114 min | Drama
The life of Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of ambassador to India circa 1930.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Nicole Hiss, Michael Lonsdale, Sylvie Nuytten, Delphine Seyrig
Votes: 178
15. Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
In response to a new friend's queries, Vera recounts her life, starting with her no-good husband Jean, who has been using her to keep his failing building business afloat - up to the present affair she's having with Cayre (Depardieu).
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Noëlle Châtelet, Nathalie Nell, Claude Aufaure
Votes: 641
16. Francofonia (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History
A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes
Votes: 3,005 | Gross: $0.30M
17. La petite histoire de France (2014– )
Comedy
Everyone knows about Joan of Arc, Louis XIV and Napoleon. However the lives of their cousins was long lost. Until today.
Stars: Alexandra Roth, Faustine Koziel, Maxime Gasteuil, Paul Scarfoglio
Votes: 66
18. Chef's Table: France (2016)
TV-14 | 46 min | Documentary
Chef's Table, French edition, goes inside the lives and kitchens of some of the world's most renowned French chefs. Each episode focuses on a single chef and their unique look at their ... See full summary »
Stars: Alain Passard, Alexandre Couillon
Votes: 1,865
19. A Season in Hell (1971)
130 min | Biography, Drama
About the last months Arthur Rimbaud spent in Africa before his untimely death (at only 37), trafficking in arms and maybe in slaves. Earlier moments of Rimbaud's life are explored with a frequent use of flashbacks.
Director: Nelo Risi | Stars: Terence Stamp, Jean-Claude Brialy, Florinda Bolkan, Pier Paolo Capponi
Votes: 79
20. Le navire Night (1979)
90 min | Drama
Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Dominique Sanda, Mathieu Carrière, Benoît Jacquot
Votes: 353
21. Nathalie Granger (1972)
83 min | Drama
This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu, Luce Garcia-Ville
Votes: 667
22. Destroy, She Said (1969)
100 min | Drama
Elizabeth Alione is sinking into a deep melancholy when she drags down the corridors, the park and the dining room of a hotel.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Catherine Sellers, Michael Lonsdale, Henri Garcin, Nicole Hiss
Votes: 289
23. The Children (1985)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy
7 year-old boy Ernesto intrigues people around him for several reasons. Despite such a young age, he looks like a man on his 40's and also seems a little more intelligent than any of his ... See full summary »
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Axel Bogousslavsky, Daniel Gélin, Tatiana Moukhine, Martine Chevallier
Votes: 194
24. Des journées entières dans les arbres (1977)
95 min | Drama
An old lady, settled in the colonies, comes to Paris to visit her son, a man of fifty, whom she has not seen for ten years.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Madeleine Renaud, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yves Gasc
Votes: 94
25. The Horse of Pride (1980)
120 min | Drama
In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Le Saché, François Cluzet, Paul Le Person
Votes: 297
26. En rachâchant (1982)
7 min | Short, Drama
The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Olivier Straub, Nadette Thinus, Bernard Thinus, Raymond Gérard
Votes: 492
27. Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne) (1979)
27 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A girl evokes through an intimate scene - a passing river, a starving cat who meows and then dies etc. - the search for a communion with another person never named, foreign or unknown and yet intensely loved.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Star: Marguerite Duras
Votes: 95
28. La folle aventure de Louis de Funès (2020 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary
A documentary based on exclusive videos from the private archive of Louis de Funès, his written notes, his filmography, and multiple interviews.
Director: Lucie Cariès | Stars: Isabelle Nanty, Bourvil, Colette Brosset, Mario David
Votes: 75
29. Prostitution (1975)
102 min | Documentary
The director conducts a number of street interviews with prostitutes about their lives, and their costumers take a bashing out of this.
Director: Jean-François Davy | Stars: Claude Janna, Jocelyne Clairis, Dominique Erlanger, Foughali El Habib
Votes: 55
30. Les Trésors de... (2014– )
90 min | Documentary, History
A look at the cultural heritage of France through the presentation of some of its outstanding elements.
Stars: Sophie Jovillard, Stéphanie Coudurier, Mathias Auclair, Marina Carrère d'Encausse
31. La face cachée des fesses (2009 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Directors: Caroline Pochon, Allan Rothschild | Stars: Jean-Luc Hennig, Alina Reyes, Edward Lucie-Smith, Claudine Cohen
Votes: 37
32. Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime (2018)
TV-14 | 23 min | Documentary, Short
Combining unseen period footage with original scores from that era, 'Syncopated Ragtime' tells the story of Noble Sissle incredible life journey that spans "The Harlem Hellfighters" of ... See full summary »
Directors: Daniel L. Bernardi, David de Rozas | Stars: Trevor Getz, Noble Lee Sissle Jr.
33. French Food Safari (2011)
25 min | Documentary
Filmed in Australia and France, this series is a celebration of exquisite French cuisine in all its delicious complexity.
Stars: Maeve O'Meara, Guillaume Brahimi, Wendy Lyn, Stéphane Raynaud
Votes: 17
34. Being Jewish in France (2007 TV Movie)
185 min | Documentary
Director: Yves Jeuland | Stars: Robert Badinter, Elie Barnavi, Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Votes: 20
35. Cesarée (1978)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A short film Marguerite Duras which documents the Tuileries Gardens.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Star: Marguerite Duras
Votes: 225
36. Je Suis Charlie (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
On January 7th, 2015, the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was the first target in a series of deadly terrorist attacks. This new documentary pays tribute to the victims and explores the resulting aftermath of a changed nation.
Directors: Daniel Leconte, Emmanuel Leconte | Stars: Elisabeth Badinter, Gérard Biard, Marisa Bret, Cabu
Votes: 296
37. C'est dur d'être aimé par des cons (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary
When twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were published by Denmark's largest newspaper in 2005, European muslim groups denounced the cartoons as insulting and sacrilegious. To ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Leconte | Stars: Elisabeth Badinter, François Bayrou, Christophe Bigot, Cabu
Votes: 234
38. L'enfance du hard (2013 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Portrays what was "the golden age of French pornographic cinema", from its beginnings in neighborhood cinemas in the 1970s to the advent of video and adoption of the "X" law at the very beginning of the 80s.
Directors: Jérôme About, Sébastien Bardos | Stars: Didier Philippe-Gérard, Gérard Kikoïne, Jean-François Davy, Richard Allan
Votes: 10
39. Même pas peur! (2015)
100 min | Documentary
An emergency documentary on the tragic events of January 2015, after the bloody attacks against Charlie Hebdo's editorial team.
Director: Ana Dumitrescu | Stars: Ashkenaton, Jean Baubérot, Laurence Blisson, Gilles Boitte
40. Tage und Nächte in Paris (2004 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary
Georg Stefan Troller's foray through Paris districts and milieus and a journey through time
Director: Georg Stefan Troller | Stars: Georg Stefan Troller, Frédéric Beigbeder, Samira Bellil, Jean-Paul Belmondo
41. Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (2000 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
In this portrait, Jacqueline Veuve pays tribute to Delphine Seyrig, evoking not only the legendary actress, but also the staunch feminist and friend.
Director: Jacqueline Veuve | Stars: Freddy Buache, Jean-Claude Carrière, Claudine Herrmann, Liliane de Kermadec
Votes: 9
42. Paris est une cible (2016)
50 min | Documentary
From the January 7 attack on Charlie Hebdo to the carnage of November 13, a thorough investigation into the roots of terror and how to deal with it.
Director: Benoît Bertrand-Cadi
43. Monet: The Mystery of the Orangery (2000 Video Game)
Adventure, Crime, Family
Adventure game about Monet and his art. The French government asks you to help famous real life painter Monet restore his Orangery and stop his fictional nemesis, banker Celeon Derek, from turning it into an oil field.
44.
London et Kirschenbaum (2003–2019)
Episode:
Episode dated 7 January 2015
(2015)
News
Stars: Denis Charbit, Nadav Eyal, Or Heller, Matan Hodorov
45.
En direct de... (1956–1974)
Episode:
À coups de ciseaux; à coups de crayons
(1963)
17 min | Documentary
Director: Jean-Marie Coldefy | Stars: Marianne Lecène, Mona Sangor, Olga Choumanski, Sammy Assié
46.
Ah! Quels titres (1994–1996)
Episode:
Episode dated 18 March 1995
(1995)
55 min | Talk-Show
Director: Serge Kaufmann | Stars: Philippe Tesson, Patricia Martin, Gérard de Cortanze, Javier Marías