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1. The Intouchables (2011)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot
Votes: 929,958 | Gross: $13.18M
2. Captain Fantastic (2016)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama
In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Director: Matt Ross | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso
Votes: 235,191 | Gross: $5.88M
3. Gigi (1958)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 24,509
4. The Black Dahlia (2006)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank
Votes: 77,040 | Gross: $22.52M
5. The Hurricane (1999)
R | 146 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber
Votes: 102,510 | Gross: $50.67M
6. Personal Shopper (2016)
R | 105 min | Mystery, Thriller
A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie
Votes: 43,303 | Gross: $1.31M
7. Happening (2021)
R | 100 min | Drama
An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
Director: Audrey Diwan | Stars: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luàna Bajrami, Louise Orry-Diquéro
Votes: 11,576
8. La Bohème (1926)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, George Hassell
Votes: 1,681 | Gross: $1.01M
9. Les Misérables (2019)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.
Director: Ladj Ly | Stars: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga, Issa Perica
Votes: 28,310 | Gross: $0.33M
10. Vacation from Marriage (1945)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd
Votes: 1,524
11. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 38,508 | Gross: $0.20M
12. The Rules of the Game (1939)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély
Votes: 31,340
13. The Girl from Nowhere (2012)
91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A retired mathematics professor spends his days writing, when one day he comes across a young injured girl with no home or history. As he takes her in and cares for her, he begins to suspect that she is the reincarnation of his late wife.
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau | Stars: Virginie Legeay, Claude Morel, Lise Bellynck, Anne Berry
Votes: 1,066
14. In the House (2012)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 34,319 | Gross: $0.35M
15. Camille Claudel (1988)
R | 175 min | Biography, Drama, History
Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.
Director: Bruno Nuytten | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grévill
Votes: 7,396 | Gross: $0.20M
16. The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An artist forms an attachment with a woman on holiday in the country. As the relationship develops, his behavior and information about his past cause her increasing concern.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 4,908
17. Le bal des folles (2021)
122 min | Drama, Thriller
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
Director: Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Mélanie Laurent, Emmanuelle Bercot, Benjamin Voisin
Votes: 4,156
18. Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
G | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Several ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid German captivity.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy
Votes: 20,230
19. House of the Long Shadows (1983)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
An American author finds a dilapidated Welsh manor perfect for writing until the residents host a bizarre family reunion.
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Votes: 4,615
20. D.O.A. (1988)
R | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
A college professor's day: his top student allegedly commits suicide, his wife presents him with divorce papers and he overnights in a freshman girl's dorm. The next day: more murders around him. Will he find the killer in time?
Directors: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern
Votes: 10,967 | Gross: $12.71M
21. Departure (III) (2015)
Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A nuclear family unravels in the South of France.
Director: Andrew Steggall | Stars: Juliet Stevenson, Alex Lawther, Phénix Brossard, Finbar Lynch
Votes: 2,806
22. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy
The timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Jean Danet, Alain Cuny
Votes: 3,167
23. The Story of Adele H (1975)
PG | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley
Votes: 8,978
24. Children of the Century (1999)
135 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A story of doomed passion between two genius writers of the 19th century - novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci
Votes: 2,022 | Gross: $0.05M
25. The Promised Land (1975)
Not Rated | 170 min | Drama
Three friends hope to build a factory but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner's dangerous love affair.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Anna Nehrebecka
Votes: 4,029
26. The Devil, Probably (1977)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano
Votes: 4,736 | Gross: $0.03M
27. Confidentially Yours (1983)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 7,501
28. 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: 5,658
29. Journal d'une femme de chambre (2015)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A scheming servant works for a wealthy couple in France during the late 19th century.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre
Votes: 3,037 | Gross: $0.05M
30. Synonyms (2019)
Unrated | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
Director: Nadav Lapid | Stars: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte, Uria Hayik
Votes: 6,291
31. Promise at Dawn (2017)
131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A man recounts his life, from his childhood through his experiences in World War II, and the story of his self-sacrificing mother, who raised him alone.
Director: Eric Barbier | Stars: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Votes: 3,852
32. Antoine and Colette (1962)
32 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Antoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Jean-François Adam
Votes: 6,355
33. East/West (1999)
PG-13 | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is ... See full summary »
Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, Sergey Bodrov
Votes: 5,145 | Gross: $2.78M
34. Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)
169 min | Drama, Romance, War
A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich
Votes: 2,831 | Gross: $0.46M
35. The Little Thief (1988)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel... See full summary »
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bezace, Simon de La Brosse, Clotilde de Bayser
Votes: 2,323 | Gross: $1.06M
36. Slack Bay (2016)
Unrated | 122 min | Comedy, Fantasy
In the early 20th century, at the Pas de Calais, people mysteriously disappear as Ma Loute, son of the local fishermen family, and Billie, daughter of the snobbish Van Peteghems, fall in love each other.
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Jean-Luc Vincent
Votes: 4,883 | Gross: $0.11M
37. Reinventing Marvin (2017)
115 min | Drama
A young man runs away from his family to become an actor.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Macaigne, Catherine Salée
Votes: 1,585
38. The Wheel (1923)
Not Rated | 417 min | Drama
A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof, Séverin-Mars
Votes: 2,563
39. Marthe (1997)
121 min | Drama, Romance, War
(Translated from TV5 description) A soldier wounded during WWI falls in love with a young school teacher.
Director: Jean-Loup Hubert | Stars: Clotilde Courau, Guillaume Depardieu, Bernard Giraudeau, Thérèse Liotard
Votes: 201
40. The Sower (2017)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Violette is old enough to get married when her village in the Lower Alps is cruelly deprived of all its men by the repression that followed the republican uprising of December 1851. For the... See full summary »
Director: Marine Francen | Stars: Pauline Burlet, Géraldine Pailhas, Alban Lenoir, Iliana Zabeth
Votes: 709 | Gross: $0.04M
41. Suffering Man's Charity (2007)
93 min | Comedy, Horror
Jonathan Vandermark is a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and without a pot to piss in. When Sebastian enters his life and takes advantage of John's charity, his life and afterlife will be changed forever.
Director: Alan Cumming | Stars: Alan Cumming, Alison Guh, David Boreanaz, Anne Heche
Votes: 897
42. Supercondriaque (2014)
G | 107 min | Comedy
Fanatical need for cleanliness of a raging hypochondriac is severe tested when he is mistaken for a war hero preparing for revolution.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Dany Boon, Kad Merad, Alice Pol, Jean-Yves Berteloot
Votes: 9,264
43. Marguerite (2015)
R | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. She sings wholeheartedly, but terribly out of tune. Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience acts as if she was the diva she believes she is.
Director: Xavier Giannoli | Stars: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret
Votes: 5,671 | Gross: $0.51M
44. Widow of St. Pierre (2000)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, Romance
In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 5,732 | Gross: $3.06M
45. For Ever Mozart (1996)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Madeleine Assas, Ghalya Lacroix, Bérangère Allaux, Vicky Messica
Votes: 1,162
46. Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
PG | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
In 17th-century Spain, the Minister of Finance tries to dishonor the queen with an overly complex plan.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert
Votes: 7,976
47. It's Christmas, Carol! (2012 TV Movie)
TV-G | 87 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
On Christmas Eve in Chicago, heartless publishing-exec tyrant Carol is haunted by her dead ex-boss--who is the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future.
Director: Michael M. Scott | Stars: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Carrie Fisher, Olivia Cheng, Tygh Runyan
Votes: 1,069
48. Olivia (1951)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Late nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia.
Director: Jacqueline Audry | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Marie-Claire Olivia, Yvonne de Bray
Votes: 733 | Gross: $0.01M
49. The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
183 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he ... See full summary »
Stars: Jean Marais, Lia Amanda, Daniel Ivernel, Folco Lulli
Votes: 1,114
50. The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
128 min | Crime, Drama, History
An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 2,328