101. 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, Evelyne Brochu, Johanne-Marie Tremblay
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.
102. Phantom of Liberty, The ( fantôme de la liberté, Le )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Paul Frankeur, Michael Lonsdale
Plot: Bunuel's enchanting surrealist film casts his usual jaundiced eye on the players and institutions of Western society through a series of loosely interconnected episodes.
103. Murmur of the Heart ( souffle au coeur, Le )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Gila von Weitershausen
Plot: This darkly comic coming-of-age film follows 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier and his dysfunctional family through the summer of 1954.
104. Baker's Wife, The ( femme du boulanger, La )
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marcel Pagnol
Actors: Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin, Robert Vattier, Charles Blavette, Robert Bassac
Plot: When his beautiful wife runs off with a local shepherd, a naive village baker is too distraught to ply his trade. Missing their daily supply of bread, the villagers from all walks of life pull together to bring her back.
105. Gigi
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacqueline Audry
Actors: Gaby Morlay, Jean Tissier, Yvonne de Bray, Franck Villard, Paul Demange, Madeleine Rousset
Plot: A teen raised to be a demimondaine isn't ready to step into that role until she becomes involved with a rich playboy and finds the perfect opportunity to perfect that role.
106. Red Rooms ( chambres rouges, Les )
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pascal Plante
Actors: Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin, Elisabeth Locas, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Natalie Tannous, Pierre Chagnon
Plot: As the high-profile trial of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier begins, we
follow two women - Kelly-Anne and Clementine - as the event unfolds. While
Clementine has an obsession over Chevalier himself, Kelly-Anne's fixation
is on a missing video, one she will do anything to track down no matter
how dark the path she must follow.
107. Danton
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Emmanuelle Debever, Patrice Chéreau, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche
108. Christmas Tale, A ( conte de Noël, Un )
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Hippolyte Girardot
Plot: A family with a history of illness and dysfunction convenes over Christmas and decides how best to deal with their mother's need for a bone marrow transplant.
109. 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, André Dussollier, Jodie Foster
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.
110. Madame de... ( Earrings of Madame de... )
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Max Ophüls
Actors: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt, Jean Galland, Mireille Perrey
Plot: The wife of a general winds selling the earring he gave her as wedding gift in order to cover her debts. The general discovers this and buys back the earrings to give to his mistress - and the voyage continues eventually coming full circle.
