Top French Movies


The Top French Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top French List". Lists are calculated daily.

91. An Andalusian Dog ( chien andalou, Un )

Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff
Plot: Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel's surrealist silent and plotless short-film is meant to inspire thought and evoke emotion through the juxtaposition of images. Using logic that could only be explained in dreams, Un chien andalou will shock, disturb, and ultimately confuse anyone who dare's to try and fully understand it.

92. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not... ( À la folie... pas du tout )

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Romance/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Laetitia Colombani
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré, Clément Sibony

93. Very Long Engagement, A ( long dimanche de fiançailles, Un )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth
Plot: Set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl and her relentless search to find her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. All an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.

94. Twelve Tasks of Asterix, The ( douze travaux d'Astérix, Les )

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Adventure/Animation
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: René Goscinny, Henri Gruel, Albert Uderzo, Pierre Watrin
Actors: Roger Carel, Jacques Morel, Pierre Tornade, Henri Labussière
Plot: The great Ceasare realizes he will never be able to take the Gaul's village, led by Asterix and his friends, through force - but he comes up with a novel plan - he sets 12 tasks for them to complete. Should they succeed, the Roman empire in all its glory will be theirs - should they fail, they will submit to him.

95. This Man Must Die ( Que la bête meure )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Claude Chabrol
Actors: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac
Plot: A single father will stop at nothing to avenge the hit and run death of his daughter. When he learns an actress was in the car - he poses as a screenwriter to get close to her - willing to kill her if she was the driver. But as he get more and more involved with her life, his empathy causes him to change his outlook.

96. Timbuktu

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Actors: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed

97. Merry Christmas aka Happy Christmas ( Joyeux Noël )

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christian Carion
Actors: Diane Kruger, Natalie Dessay, Benno Fürmann, Rolando Villazón
Plot: On Christmas Eve during WWI, the Scottish, Germans and French fraternize and get to know the men who fight on the opposite side.

98. Camille Claudel

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruno Nuytten
Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill, Alain Cuny
Plot: The story of Camille Claudel,a young artist whose career and love affair with Rodin brings her close to madness.

99. Fantastic Planet ( planète sauvage, La )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Animation/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: René Laloux
Actors: Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart, Jean Valmont
Plot: On the faraway world of Ygam, the minute human-like Om are pets and slaves to the blue giants known as Draag. But when the Om, Ter, finds a device that enhances intellect, he uses it to help his fellow Om and plan an uprising against their harsh masters.

100. Polytechnique

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse, Martin Watier
Plot: Set in Montreal, Quebec and based on the École Polytechnique massacre (also known as the "Montreal Massacre"), the film documents the events of December 6, 1989, through the eyes of two students who witness a gunman murder fourteen young women.

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