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Films from France (Production Companies)   (1,188 Most Notable)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
4 The Rules of the Game 1939 Renoir, Jean France D
10 The 400 Blows 1959 Truffaut, François France D
17 Breathless 1960 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
19 8 1/2 1963 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DUS
29 The Conformist 1970 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France / West Germany DS
30 La Dolce Vita 1960 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
35 Belle de jour 1967 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy D
38 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain D
45 Children of Paradise 1945 Carné, Marcel France D
47 Jules and Jim 1962 Truffaut, François France DS
51 L'Atalante 1934 Vigo, Jean France DS
52 L'Avventura 1960 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France D
53 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France D
60 Fanny & Alexander 1982 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden / France / West Germany D
61 Wings of Desire 1987 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France DS
65 Contempt 1963 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy DS
67 Zéro de conduite 1933 Vigo, Jean France V
69 Playtime 1967 Tati, Jacques France / Italy D
71 Forbidden Games 1952 Clément, René France D
72 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France D
79 Diabolique 1955 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
80 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pasolini, Pier Paolo France / Italy DU
84 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Bresson, Robert France D
85 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Cocteau, Jean / Clément, René France / Luxembourg D
86 Weekend 1967 Godard, Jean-Luc Italy / France D
88 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Visconti, Luchino France / Italy DS
99 L'Âge d'Or 1930 Buñuel, Luis France Y
102 Tristana 1970 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain V
106 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Ophüls, Max France / Italy D
109 À nous la liberté 1931 Clair, René France D
110 Shoah 1985 Lanzmann, Claude France Y
111 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
129 Murmur of the Heart 1971 Malle, Louis France / Italy / West Germany D
132 Le Boucher 1970 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
143 Grand Illusion 1937 Renoir, Jean France D
145 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
146 Le Jour se lève 1939 Carné, Marcel France V
152 Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Rivette, Jacques France Y
153 The American Friend 1977 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France Y
154 Le Million 1931 Clair, René France D
156 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Demy, Jacques France / West Germany DUS
159 Lamerica 1994 Amelio, Gianni Italy / France DS
163 Lola Montès 1955 Ophüls, Max France / West Germany Y
164 Pierrot le fou 1965 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy D
169 Atlantic City 1980 Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France DUS
172 La Chienne 1931 Renoir, Jean France Y
174 Un Chien Andalou 1928 Buñuel, Luis France D
179 The Golden Coach 1953 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
180 Day for Night 1973 Truffaut, François France / Italy DS
182 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Angelopoulos, Theo France / Greece / Italy D
193 L'Eclisse 1962 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
196 1900 1976 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / West Germany DS
202 Two English Girls 1971 Truffaut, François France YS
204 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Renoir, Jean France D
205 Red Desert 1964 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
210 The Double Life of Véronique 1991 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Norway DS
214 The Piano 1993 Campion, Jane Australia / New Zealand / France DS
218 Masculin, féminin 1966 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Sweden D
223 Red 1994 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland / France / Switzerland YS
228 Vampyr 1932 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France / Germany DU
250 Secrets & Lies 1996 Leigh, Mike France / UK Y
254 The Kingdom 1994 von Trier, Lars / Arnfred, Morten Denmark / France / Germany / Sweden D
258 Lola 1961 Demy, Jacques Italy / France Y
271 Amarcord 1973 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
276 The Pianist 2002 Polanski, Roman Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands Y
278 Night and Fog 1955 Resnais, Alain France Y
288 La Notte 1961 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
313 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Franju, Georges France / Italy Y
313 La Roue 1923 Gance, Abel France D
317 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DUS
318 Mulholland Dr. 2001 Lynch, David France / USA DUS
320 Au Revoir, Les Enfants 1987 Malle, Louis France / West Germany D
324 The Wages of Fear 1953 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France / Italy D
325 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France YUP
325 The Leopard 1963 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France YUS
334 All About My Mother 1999 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain / France DS
355 Hiroshima, mon amour 1959 Resnais, Alain France / Japan Y
356 City of God 2002 Meirelles, Fernando / Lund, Kátia Brazil / France / USA Y
358 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Tati, Jacques France DS
373 Mon oncle 1958 Tati, Jacques Italy / France Y
381 In the Mood for Love 2000 Wong, Kar Wai Hong Kong / France / Thailand DS
389 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras Algeria / France Y
393 The Last Emperor 1987 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK DB
409 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Arcand, Denys Canada / France D
411 Stolen Kisses 1968 Truffaut, François France D
417 L'Argent 1983 Bresson, Robert France / Switzerland Y
421 Pickpocket 1959 Bresson, Robert France D
440 Breaking the Waves 1996 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Norway Y
449 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Bresson, Robert France / Sweden D
456 Mon Oncle d'Amérique 1980 Resnais, Alain France Y
463 Cinema Paradiso 1989 Tornatore, Giuseppe Italy / France DS
470 Jean de Florette 1986 Berri, Claude France / Switzerland / Italy DS
480 Amélie 2001 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / Germany DS
486 Le Samouraï 1967 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
503 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Figgis, Mike France / USA / UK Y
512 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Malle, Louis France / West Germany / Italy D
521 The Tin Drum 1979 Schlöndorff, Volker West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia YS
533 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Buñuel, Luis France / Spain Y
534 Taste of Cherry 1997 Kiarostami, Abbas France / Iran Y
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539 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Fellini, Federico Italy / France / West Germany YS
546 Diva 1981 Beineix, Jean-Jacques France DS
548 Orpheus 1949 Cocteau, Jean France Y
550 Europa Europa 1990 Holland, Agnieszka Germany / France / Poland Y
554 Blue 1993 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Switzerland / UK Y
563 My Life to Live 1962 Godard, Jean-Luc France Y
568 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Rappeneau, Jean-Paul France Y
571 Bob le flambeur 1955 Melville, Jean-Pierre France Y
573 Paris, Texas 1984 Wenders, Wim UK / France / West Germany / USA Y
583 My Night at Maud's 1969 Rohmer, Eric France D
595 Two or Three Things I Know About Her 1967 Godard, Jean-Luc France Y
597 Billy Elliot 2000 Daldry, Stephen UK / France Y
607 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Olmi, Ermanno Italy / France Y
620 Far from Heaven 2002 Haynes, Todd France / USA YS
621 Death in Venice 1971 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France YU
623 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Ophüls, Marcel France / Switzerland / West Germany Y
623 Wild Reeds 1994 Téchiné, André France DU
625 The Straight Story 1999 Lynch, David France / UK / USA Y
626 The Day of the Jackal 1973 Zinnemann, Fred UK / France Y
630 Manon of the Spring 1986 Berri, Claude Italy / France / Switzerland DS
631 A Sunday in the Country 1984 Tavernier, Bertrand France Y
634 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 Truffaut, François France DS
658 No Man's Land 2001 Tanovic, Danis Bosnia-Herzegovina / Slovenia / Italy / France / UK / Belgium D
659 Rififi 1955 Dassin, Jules France D
663 The Unfaithful Wife 1969 Chabrol, Claude Italy / France D
665 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 Cameron, James France / USA DBU
678 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Fellini, Federico Italy / France YS
684 Claire's Knee 1970 Rohmer, Eric France D
697 A Man Escaped 1956 Bresson, Robert France Y
699 Black Orpheus 1959 Camus, Marcel Brazil / France / Italy Y
708 La Belle Noiseuse 1991 Rivette, Jacques France / Switzerland Y
709 JFK 1991 Stone, Oliver USA / France DBS
710 Rosetta 1999 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc France / Belgium Y
715 The River 1951 Renoir, Jean France / India / USA Y
718 Vagabond 1985 Varda, Agnès France / UK D
719 Casino 1995 Scorsese, Martin USA / France DBU
738 The Dreamlife of Angels 1998 Zonca, Erick France D
739 The Baker's Wife 1938 Pagnol, Marcel France Y
745 This Man Must Die 1969 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy Y
747 The Last Metro 1980 Truffaut, François France YS
748 White 1994 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Switzerland / UK YS
755 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 Buñuel, Luis Italy / France Y
762 The Testament of Orpheus 1960 Cocteau, Jean France DS
764 Salaam Bombay! 1988 Nair, Mira UK / India / France Y
770 Les Vampires 1915 Feuillade, Louis France YU
778 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Eustache, Jean France Y
785 Jour de fête 1949 Tati, Jacques France
795 Jesus of Montreal 1989 Arcand, Denys Canada / France Y
796 Partie de campagne 1936 Renoir, Jean France
805 Dogville 2003 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Sweden / France / Norway / Netherlands / Finland / Germany / USA / UK DUP
807 Delicatessen 1991 Caro, Marc / Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France D
825 Bed and Board 1970 Truffaut, François France / Italy D
833 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Schnabel, Julian France / USA D
859 The Clockmaker 1974 Tavernier, Bertrand France D
865 Before the Rain 1994 Manchevski, Milcho Rep of Macedonia / France / UK DS
868 The Train 1964 Frankenheimer, John / Penn, Arthur USA / France / Italy DUP
879 Two Women 1960 De Sica, Vittorio Italy / France Y
881 La Ronde 1950 Ophüls, Max France D
886 Yeelen 1987 Cissé, Souleymane Mali / Burkina Faso / France / West Germany Y
893 Pépé le Moko 1937 Duvivier, Julien France D
897 The Wild Child 1970 Truffaut, François France Y
928 The Man Without a Past 2002 Kaurismäki, Aki Finland / Germany / France Y
963 Un Coeur en hiver 1992 Sautet, Claude France D
966 General della Rovere 1959 Rossellini, Roberto Italy / France Y
978 2046 2004 Wong, Kar Wai China / France / Germany / Hong Kong D
982 The Sea Inside 2004 Amenábar, Alejandro Spain / France / Italy D
989 'Round Midnight 1986 Tavernier, Bertrand USA / France DUS
991 Central Station 1998 Salles, Walter Brazil / France Y
998 Army of Shadows 1969 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy DU
1007 Story of Women 1988 Chabrol, Claude France Y
1012 The Son's Room 2001 Moretti, Nanni Italy / France Y
1019 The Passenger 1975 Antonioni, Michelangelo France / Italy / USA / Spain DU
1020 Sundays and Cybele 1962 Bourguignon, Serge France Y
1022 A Man and a Woman 1966 Lelouch, Claude France Y
1031 Small Change 1976 Truffaut, François France Y
1034 Monsoon Wedding 2001 Nair, Mira India / USA / France / Italy / Germany D
1043 The Piano Teacher 2001 Haneke, Michael France / Austria D
1049 La Cérémonie 1995 Chabrol, Claude France / Germany Y
1052 Othello 1952 Welles, Orson USA / Italy / France / Morocco Y
1055 Underground 1995 Kusturica, Emir France / Fed Rep of Yugoslavia / Germany / Hungary Y
1058 Entre Nous 1983 Kurys, Diane France Y
1058 The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 Salles, Walter USA / Germany / UK / Argentina / Chile / Peru / France D
1066 Les Misérables 1995 Lelouch, Claude France YUP
1066 Tess 1979 Polanski, Roman France / UK Y
1073 The Bride Wore Black 1968 Truffaut, François France / Italy YS
1075 The Cousins 1959 Chabrol, Claude France
1075 Diary of a Chambermaid 1964 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy Y
1078 Mayerling 1936 Litvak, Anatole France Y
1081 Yol 1982 Gören, Serif / Güney, Yilmaz Turkey / Switzerland / France Y
1088 Time Regained 1999 Ruiz, Raoul France / Italy / Portugal D
1091 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Kiarostami, Abbas Iran / France D
1097 Cleo from 5 to 7 1961 Varda, Agnès France / Italy D
1099 The Stolen Children 1992 Amelio, Gianni France / Switzerland / Germany / Italy
1109 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1976 Akerman, Chantal Belgium / France
1120 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 Ophüls, Marcel France / USA Y
1126 The Two of Us 1967 Berri, Claude France D
1129 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs 1978 Blier, Bertrand Belgium / France Y
1134 Casque d'or 1952 Becker, Jacques France Y
1138 United 93 2006 Greengrass, Paul France / UK / USA DU
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1143 Moolaadé 2004 Sembene, Ousmane Senegal / France / Burkina Faso / Cameroon / Morocco / Tunisia D
1149 The Lovers 1958 Malle, Louis France D
1151 The Story of Adèle H 1975 Truffaut, François France Y
1153 Dancer in the Dark 2000 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Germany / Netherlands / USA / UK / France / Sweden / Finland / Iceland / Norway Y
1165 The Thief 1997 Chukhraj, Pavel Russia / France Y
1166 Monsieur Hire 1989 Leconte, Patrice France D
1171 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Herzog, Werner West Germany / France Y
1172 Irma Vep 1996 Assayas, Olivier France D
1176 The Gleaners and I 2000 Varda, Agnès France Y
1177 Alphaville 1965 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy Y
1178 Kandahar 2001 Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Iran / France Y
1180 Christ Stopped at Eboli 1979 Rosi, Francesco France / Italy D
1187 A Good Marriage 1982 Rohmer, Eric France D
1194 I Vitelloni 1953 Fellini, Federico France / Italy YS
1195 Il Postino 1994 Radford, Michael France / Italy / Belgium Y
1204 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan UK / France / USA Y
1205 Le Feu follet 1963 Malle, Louis Italy / France
1212 Danton 1983 Wajda, Andrzej France / Poland / West Germany Y
1214 Port of Shadows 1938 Carné, Marcel France Y
1215 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Oshima, Nagisa Japan / France Y
1218 What Time Is It There? 2001 Tsai, Ming-liang Taiwan / France Y
1219 Sans Soleil 1983 Marker, Chris France D
1220 L'Innocente 1976 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France Y
1226 Beau Travail 1999 Denis, Claire France Y
1236 Le Voyage Dans La Lune 1902 Méliès, Georges France DU
1242 The Crime of Monsieur Lange 1936 Renoir, Jean France Y
1246 Cousin, Cousine 1975 Tacchella, Jean Charles France Y
1251 Chloe in the Afternoon 1972 Rohmer, Eric France D
1253 Days of Glory 2006 Bouchareb, Rachid France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium D
1255 Léolo 1992 Lauzon, Jean-Claude France / Canada D
1260 Lancelot of the Lake 1974 Bresson, Robert France / Italy Y
1270 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Chomet, Sylvain France / Belgium / Canada / UK DUS
1271 Devil in the Flesh 1946 Autant-Lara, Claude France
1282 Kameradschaft 1931 Pabst, Georg Wilhelm Germany / France Y
1285 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 1963 De Sica, Vittorio Italy / France Y
1287 The Devil, Probably 1977 Bresson, Robert France Y
1288 The Vanishing 1988 Sluizer, George Netherlands / France Y
1296 La Guerre est finie 1966 Resnais, Alain France / Sweden Y
1301 Time Out 2001 Cantet, Laurent France Y
1311 Vera Drake 2004 Leigh, Mike UK / France / New Zealand YU
1315 Autumn Tale 1998 Rohmer, Eric France V
1329 A Tale of Winter 1992 Rohmer, Eric France V
1337 Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir 1970 Renoir, Jean Italy / France Y
1344 Cyclo 1995 Tran, Anh Hung Vietnam / France Y
1350 Summer 1986 Rohmer, Eric France D
1352 Persepolis 2007 Paronnaud, Vincent / Satrapi, Marjane France DBS
1361 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
1364 Ponette 1996 Doillon, Jacques France Y
1367 Papillon 1973 Schaffner, Franklin J. France / USA DU
1370 Le Trou 1960 Becker, Jacques France / Italy D
1378 The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Epstein, Jean France / USA YU
1379 The Son 2002 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc Belgium / France D
1383 French Cancan 1954 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
1388 Queen Margot 1994 Chéreau, Patrice France / Italy / Germany Y
1394 Paradise Now 2005 Abu-Assad, Hany France / Germany / Netherlands / Israel D
1398 Burnt by the Sun 1994 Mikhalkov, Nikita France / Russia Y
1399 La Bête humaine 1938 Renoir, Jean France D
1401 Muriel's Wedding 1994 Hogan, P.J. Australia / France DS
1402 La Promesse 1996 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc Belgium / France / Luxembourg D
1416 Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998 Medem, Julio Spain / France D
1421 Love on the Run 1979 Truffaut, François France D
1422 Under the Roofs of Paris 1930 Clair, René France Y
1425 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Tarr, Béla / Hranitzky, Ágnes Hungary / Italy / Germany / France D
1426 A Simple Plan 1998 Raimi, Sam France / UK / Germany / USA / Japan YS
1427 La Nuit de Varennes 1982 Scola, Ettore France / Italy Y
1427 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005 Jones, Tommy Lee USA / France DU
1438 The Trial 1962 Welles, Orson France / Italy / West Germany / Yugoslavia Y
1444 César 1936 Pagnol, Marcel France D
1444 Fanny 1932 Allégret, Marc France D
1448 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 1989 Greenaway, Peter France / Netherlands / UK Y
1461 Stavisky... 1974 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
1463 Fresh 1994 Yakin, Boaz France / USA Y
1467 Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 Becker, Jacques France / Italy YU
1469 Marius 1931 Korda, Alexander / Pagnol, Marcel France D
1470 Three Brothers 1981 Rosi, Francesco France / Italy Y
1471 Ginger and Fred 1986 Fellini, Federico Italy / France / West Germany D
1473 Caro diario 1994 Moretti, Nanni Italy / France S
1477 Barbarella 1968 Vadim, Roger France / Italy YU
1481 The Memory of Justice 1976 Ophüls, Marcel UK / USA / France / West Germany
1482 The Story of a Cheat 1936 Guitry, Sacha France
1485 Nada 1974 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
1488 La Chinoise 1967 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
1490 Marriage Italian Style 1964 De Sica, Vittorio Italy / France Y
1493 Platform 2000 Jia, Zhang Ke Hong Kong / China / Japan / France D
1498 A Married Woman 1964 Godard, Jean-Luc France
1498 Muriel 1963 Resnais, Alain France / Italy D
1505 An Italian Straw Hat 1927 Clair, René France Y
1507 Trafic 1971 Tati, Jacques France / Italy D
1508 Gabbeh 1996 Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Iran / France D
1508 Loulou 1980 Pialat, Maurice France D
1509 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 Carax, Leos France Y
1511 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Demy, Jacques / Varda, Agnès France YS
1515 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Kiarostami, Abbas France / Iran
1521 The Sacrifice 1986 Tarkovsky, Andrei Sweden / UK / France Y
1523 Circle of Deceit 1981 Schlöndorff, Volker France / West Germany D
1536 The Return of Martin Guerre 1982 Vigne, Daniel France Y
1537 Ridicule 1996 Leconte, Patrice France Y
1540 The Stranger 1967 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France / Algeria
1541 Joyeux Noël 2005 Carion, Christian France / Germany / UK / Belgium / Romania DU
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1544 A Very Long Engagement 2004 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / USA YU
1545 Girl with a Suitcase 1961