Top 150 French films

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.

Three gangsters and an ex-con carpenter all fall for the same beautiful golden-haired woman in Belle Époque France.

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.

A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.

A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.

A daughter of a millionaire, distinguished by incredible bad luck, goes missing. The idea how to find her is either insane or brilliant - to send after her an equally unlucky person.

A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.

A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

A lonely teenage girl studying her exams meets a homeless woman and befriend with her.

A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.

Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.

A high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason.

A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.

Cesar is in love with Rosalie. But Rosalie isn't making it easy for him, especially when her old flame enters the picture.

After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.

The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.

25 years old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings -- he's a representative of a disillusioned generation, doesn't care what other people think of him. But of all people he falls in love with the ambitioned student Nathalie and soon finds himself forced to think about taking a job.

At an elegant Parisian bordello at the dawn of the 20th century exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries--and, most of all, slavery.

An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.

France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?

Iris finds a new job working in a preservation lab where she gradually enters into a troubled relationship with her boss.