61. Holy Motors
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leos Carax
Actors: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
Plot: A man is driven through the streets of Paris where he takes on various roles: a family man, a wealthy industrialist, a murderer, a victim, a pauper - as he interacts with the people around him in this surreal odyssey.
62. Butcher, The ( boucher, Le )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Claude Chabrol
Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone
Plot: A working-class butcher strikes up an unlikely friendship with a repressed schoolteacher. A series of gristly murders around town have everyone on edge.
63. Rules of the Game, The ( règle du jeu, La )
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Odette Talazac
Plot: Bored French aristocrats meet for a hunting party, and as they relax and the soap operas of their lives unfold, the witty satire gradually develops into high tragedy.
64. Boy Meets Girl
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leos Carax
Actors: Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks, Elie Poicard
Plot: Two broken individuals find comfort in each other: an aspiring filmmaker who has just lost her lover and a suicidal woman who has just ended a failed romance herself. Directorial feature debut of Leon Carax.
65. Dheepan
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jacques Audiard
Actors: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers
Plot: A former Tamil warrior in Sri Lanka finds himself having to make an exit after coming out on the wrong side of a civil war. Finding a woman and child, he picks them up along the way, hoping this new "family" will lead to a better chance at asylum. They find themselves in Paris, struggling to find a life and home but even after finally settling into some sense of normalcy, violence still finds them and the man finds the warrior still inside will have to come out to protect those he has come to love.
66. Delicatessen
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard
Plot: In a post-apocalyptic world, food has become the new currency and a vicious landlord / butcher serves up troublesome people as food for his quirky tenants.
67. Last Year at Marienbad ( année dernière à Marienbad, L' )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin
68. Double Life of Veronique, The ( double vie de Véronique, La )
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors: Kalina Jedrusik, Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska
Plot: The story of two Veroniques who live in different places at the same time where one dies and the other chooses a different path at what seems like the same time as the others death.
69. Hiroshima, My Love ( Hiroshima mon amour )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud
Plot: A French actress in Hiroshima, for a film about peace, spends the night with a Japanese man. It reminds her of an earlier relationship she had in WWII with a German soldier.
70. Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution ( Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution )
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Mystery/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Plot: A American detective is sent to a distant planet where logic rules but emotion and freedom has been suppressed. His intrusion threatens to bring Alphaville down.
