Top French Movies


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

321. Don't Look Now - We're Being Shot At! ( Grande vadrouille, La )

Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Gérard Oury
Actors: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy, Colette Brosset, Mike Marshall
Plot: Summer 1941. Over German Nazi occupied France, a Royal Air Force AVRO Lancaster gets lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The crew, Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out right over the city. They are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort. Involuntarily, Lefort and Bouvet get themselves involved in the manhunt against the aviators led by Wehrmacht Major Aschbach. They have to help the flyboys to go back to England with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathizers.

322. Violette Nozière

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Claude Chabrol
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Guy Hoffman, Lisa Langlois
Plot: Violette (Isabelle Huppert) is a spoiled girl without a conscience. She decides to accuse her father of a terrible crime.

323. Sorrow and the Pity, The ( chagrin et la pitié, Le )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Marcel Ophüls
Actors: Marcel Ophüls, Edward Spears, Henri Rochat, Pierre Mendès-France, Claude Levy, Georges Bidault

324. Under the Roofs of Paris ( Sous les toits de Paris )

Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: René Clair
Actors: Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry, Edmond T. Gréville, Bill Bocket, Gaston Modot, Raymond Aimos

325. That Man from Rio ( homme de Rio, L' )

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Philippe de Broca
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais, Simone Renant, Roger Dumas, Daniel Ceccaldi

326. Donkey Skin ( Peau d'âne )

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Demy
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle, Delphine Seyrig, Fernand Ledoux

327. Innocent, The ( innocente, L' )

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luchino Visconti
Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O'Neill, Rina Morelli, Massimo Girotti, Didier Haudepin

328. Under the Sand ( Sous le sable )

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: François Ozon
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot, Alexandra Stewart, Pierre Vernier, Andrée Tainsy

329. Bridesmaid, The ( demoiselle d'honneur, La )

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Claude Chabrol
Actors: Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément, Bernard Le Coq, Solène Bouton, Thomas Chabrol
Plot: A young man meets and falls for a bridesmaid at his sister's wedding. At first his new girlfriend seems charmingly flaky. Then she asks him to kill someone for her.

330. Farewell, My Queen ( adieux à la reine, Les )

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Actors: Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois, Noémie Lvovsky, Michel Robin
Plot: In the waning days of the reign of Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette revolution is in the air. At the palace the queen and one of her readers, a lower class woman of the court who entertains the queen, begin a relationship and we get a glimpse of the darker side of palace life.

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