Top French Movies


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

181. French Cancan

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, Anna Amendola

182. Farewell, Friend aka Honor Among Thieves ( Adieu l'ami )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Herman
Actors: Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Olga Georges-Picot, Brigitte Fossey
Plot: After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways only to be reunited by an extraordinary coincidence in bank vault.

183. Late August, Early September ( Fin août, début septembre )

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Olivier Assayas
Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, Jeanne Balibar

184. Laurence Anyways

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Xavier Dolan
Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri

185. Polisse

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Maïwenn
Actors: Karin Viard, Joey Starr, Marina Foïs, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Plot: Members of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit see some of the worst from abusive parents, out-of-control teens and worse. Trying to balance their lives with this reality is a tricky situation and a photographer arrives to document their work for the Ministry of the Interior, it complicates things even more.

186. Les misérables

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Claude Lelouch
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Salomé Lelouch

187. cage aux folles, La

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Rémi Laurent
Plot: A pair of gay men in St. Tropez find themselves in a desperate fight to conceal their relationship - and the transvestite club they run downstairs - when one of their sons announces his marriage and his fiance's parents stop by for a visit.

188. Secret of the Grain, The ( graine et le mulet, La )

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Abdel Kechiche
Actors: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche

189. Cleo from 5 to 7 ( Cléo de 5 à 7 )

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Agnès Varda
Actors: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blank
Plot: Cleo (Corrine Marchand) is afraid she is going to die and spend two suspenseful hours waiting for doctors results (filmed in real time).

190. Man and a Woman, A ( homme et une femme, Un )

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Claude Lelouch
Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valérie Lagrange
Plot: Two widowed parents meet by chance at their children's boarding school slowly open up to each other. Before things get too far the woman confesses she is still haunted by the memory of her husband.

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