BEST FRENCH MOVIES

The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.

A jealous husband intends to kill the man his wife is meeting for business, but arrives to find the deed already done.

An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.

Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?

During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.

A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.

Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.

The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.

In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.

After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.

Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.

The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence.

A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

As a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him. But he ends up bonding with a local young woman whose female friend is also smitten with him.