Top French Movies


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

161. Diplomacy ( Diplomatie )

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Burghart Klaußner, Robert Stadlober
Plot: On the day a Nazi general is supposed to level Paris, a Swedish ambassador tries to make him see reason.

162. Marguerite

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Actors: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret
Plot: Follows Marguerite Dumont in 1920s Paris. The wealth woman is a patron of the arts, music and opera in particular and, on occasion, she performs for her husband and friends. Though they play along with her fantasty, things take a serious turn when she decides to take her "talent" to the actual stage in front of a live audience.

163. Girl on the Bridge ( fille sur le pont, La )

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Patrice Leconte
Actors: Vanessa Paradis, Daniel Auteuil, Demetre Georgalas, Mireille Mossé

164. My Life to Live ( Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux )

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger

165. Raw

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Julia Ducournau
Actors: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas
Plot: A young woman who is also a vegetarian is forced to in to participating in a carnivorous hazing ritual. But this act unlocks something buried deep inside, and her craving for meat begins to grow.

166. Mon oncle

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tati
Actors: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis
Plot: Monsieur Hulot visits his sister's family - and enters a world driven by technology. it's a world that he doesn't quite fit into - and as he starts to influence his nephew away from this automated world - his brother-in-law decides to employ him at his factory to keep him occupied.

167. My Father's Glory ( gloire de mon père, La )

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Yves Robert
Actors: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Joris Molinas

168. Week End ( Weekend )

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Plot: A couple plan a country retreat, but their idyllic plan is ruined by a monstrous traffic jam, murder, cannibalism and the collapse of the French bourgeois society.

169. Lola

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Demy
Actors: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott

170. JCVD

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim Belkhadra
Plot: Broke, out of work and stuck in a custody battle, Jean-Claude Van Damme's life can't get much worse -- until he gets involved in a robbery with the whole world watching. Part heist thriller, part stream-of-consciousness dramedy, this is Jean-Claude Van Damme as you've never seen him before: *as* Jean-Claude Van Damme.

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