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French Films (Original Language)   (783 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
16 Breathless 1960 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
30 Belle de jour 1967 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy D
37 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
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
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
99 L'Âge d'Or 1930 Buñuel, Luis France Y
106 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Ophüls, Max France / Italy D
109 À nous la liberté 1931 Clair, René France D
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
144 Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Rivette, Jacques France Y
146 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
147 Le Jour se lève 1939 Carné, Marcel France V
154 Le Million 1931 Clair, René France D
156 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Demy, Jacques France / West Germany DUS
163 Lola Montès 1955 Ophüls, Max France / West Germany Y
164 Pierrot le fou 1965 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy D
172 La Chienne 1931 Renoir, Jean France Y
174 Un Chien Andalou 1928 Buñuel, Luis France D
180 Day for Night 1973 Truffaut, François France / Italy DS
199 The Double Life of Véronique 1991 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Norway DS
203 Two English Girls 1971 Truffaut, François France YS
205 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Renoir, Jean France D
218 Masculin, féminin 1966 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Sweden D
223 Red 1994 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland / France / Switzerland YS
258 Lola 1961 Demy, Jacques Italy / France Y
278 Night and Fog 1955 Resnais, Alain France Y
300 The Battle of Algiers 1965 Pontecorvo, Gillo Algeria / Italy YS
313 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Franju, Georges France / Italy Y
313 La Roue 1923 Gance, Abel France D
320 Au Revoir, Les Enfants 1987 Malle, Louis France / West Germany D
324 The Wages of Fear 1953 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France / Italy D
355 Hiroshima, mon amour 1959 Resnais, Alain France / Japan Y
358 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Tati, Jacques France DS
373 Mon oncle 1958 Tati, Jacques Italy / France Y
389 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras Algeria / France Y
410 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Arcand, Denys Canada / France D
412 Stolen Kisses 1968 Truffaut, François France D
418 L'Argent 1983 Bresson, Robert France / Switzerland Y
422 Pickpocket 1959 Bresson, Robert France D
450 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Bresson, Robert France / Sweden Y
457 Mon Oncle d'Amérique 1980 Resnais, Alain France Y
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
513 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Malle, Louis France / West Germany / Italy D
533 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Buñuel, Luis France / Spain Y
546 Diva 1981 Beineix, Jean-Jacques France DS
548 Orpheus 1949 Cocteau, Jean France Y
554 Blue 1993 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Switzerland / UK Y
564 My Life to Live 1962 Godard, Jean-Luc France Y
569 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Rappeneau, Jean-Paul France Y
572 Bob le flambeur 1955 Melville, Jean-Pierre France Y
584 My Night at Maud's 1969 Rohmer, Eric France D
594 Two or Three Things I Know About Her 1967 Godard, Jean-Luc France Y
623 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Ophüls, Marcel France / Switzerland / West Germany Y
623 Wild Reeds 1994 Téchiné, André France DU
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
660 Rififi 1955 Dassin, Jules France Y
664 The Unfaithful Wife 1969 Chabrol, Claude Italy / France D
684 Claire's Knee 1970 Rohmer, Eric France D
697 A Man Escaped 1956 Bresson, Robert France Y
708 La Belle Noiseuse 1991 Rivette, Jacques France / Switzerland Y
710 Rosetta 1999 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc France / Belgium Y
717 Vagabond 1985 Varda, Agnès France / UK D
737 The Dreamlife of Angels 1998 Zonca, Erick France D
738 The Baker's Wife 1938 Pagnol, Marcel France Y
744 This Man Must Die 1969 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy Y
746 The Last Metro 1980 Truffaut, François France YS
754 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 Buñuel, Luis Italy / France Y
761 The Testament of Orpheus 1960 Cocteau, Jean France DS
769 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
790 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Schnabel, Julian France / USA D
794 Jesus of Montreal 1989 Arcand, Denys Canada / France Y
795 Partie de campagne 1936 Renoir, Jean France
805 Delicatessen 1991 Caro, Marc / Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France D
822 Bed and Board 1970 Truffaut, François France / Italy D
855 The Clockmaker 1974 Tavernier, Bertrand France D
878 La Ronde 1950 Ophüls, Max France D
883 Yeelen 1987 Cissé, Souleymane Mali / Burkina Faso / France / West Germany Y
890 Pépé le Moko 1937 Duvivier, Julien France D
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894 The Wild Child 1970 Truffaut, François France Y
965 Un Coeur en hiver 1992 Sautet, Claude France D
1000 Army of Shadows 1969 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
1008 Story of Women 1988 Chabrol, Claude France Y
1018 Sundays and Cybele 1962 Bourguignon, Serge France Y
1020 A Man and a Woman 1966 Lelouch, Claude France Y
1030 Small Change 1976 Truffaut, François France Y
1041 The Piano Teacher 2001 Haneke, Michael France / Austria D
1047 La Cérémonie 1995 Chabrol, Claude France / Germany Y
1057 Entre Nous 1983 Kurys, Diane France Y
1064 The Decline of the American Empire 1986 Arcand, Denys Canada Y
1065 Les Misérables 1995 Lelouch, Claude France YUP
1072 The Bride Wore Black 1968 Truffaut, François France / Italy YS
1074 The Cousins 1959 Chabrol, Claude France
1074 Diary of a Chambermaid 1964 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy Y
1077 Mayerling 1936 Litvak, Anatole France Y
1088 Time Regained 1999 Ruiz, Raoul France / Italy / Portugal D
1097 Cleo from 5 to 7 1961 Varda, Agnès France / Italy D
1111 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1976 Akerman, Chantal Belgium / France
1123 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 Ophüls, Marcel France / USA Y
1129 The Two of Us 1967 Berri, Claude France D
1132 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs 1978 Blier, Bertrand Belgium / France Y
1137 Casque d'or 1952 Becker, Jacques France Y
1152 The Lovers 1958 Malle, Louis France D
1154 The Story of Adèle H 1975 Truffaut, François France Y
1169 Monsieur Hire 1989 Leconte, Patrice France D
1175 Irma Vep 1996 Assayas, Olivier France Y
1179 The Gleaners and I 2000 Varda, Agnès France Y
1180 Alphaville 1965 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy Y
1184 Days of Glory 2006 Bouchareb, Rachid France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium D
1189 A Good Marriage 1982 Rohmer, Eric France D
1206 Le Feu follet 1963 Malle, Louis Italy / France
1213 Danton 1983 Wajda, Andrzej France / Poland / West Germany Y
1215 Port of Shadows 1938 Carné, Marcel France Y
1220 Sans Soleil 1983 Marker, Chris France D
1227 Beau Travail 1999 Denis, Claire France Y
1238 Le Voyage Dans La Lune 1902 Méliès, Georges France DU
1244 The Crime of Monsieur Lange 1936 Renoir, Jean France Y
1248 Cousin, Cousine 1975 Tacchella, Jean Charles France Y
1252 Chloe in the Afternoon 1972 Rohmer, Eric France 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
1277 Persepolis 2007 Paronnaud, Vincent / Satrapi, Marjane France DBS
1282 Kameradschaft 1931 Pabst, Georg Wilhelm Germany / France Y
1288 The Devil, Probably 1977 Bresson, Robert France Y
1297 La Guerre est finie 1966 Resnais, Alain France / Sweden Y
1302 Time Out 2001 Cantet, Laurent France Y
1318 Autumn Tale 1998 Rohmer, Eric France V
1331 Man Bites Dog 1992 Belvaux, Rémy / Bonzel, André / Poelvoorde, Benoît Belgium Y
1333 A Tale of Winter 1992 Rohmer, Eric France V
1340 Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir 1970 Renoir, Jean Italy / France Y
1354 Summer 1986 Rohmer, Eric France D
1364 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
1367 Ponette 1996 Doillon, Jacques France Y
1373 Le Trou 1960 Becker, Jacques France / Italy D
1380 The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Epstein, Jean France / USA YU
1381 The Son 2002 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc Belgium / France D
1384 French Cancan 1954 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
1388 Queen Margot 1994 Chéreau, Patrice France / Italy / Germany Y
1399 La Bête humaine 1938 Renoir, Jean France D
1402 La Promesse 1996 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc Belgium / France / Luxembourg D
1422 Love on the Run 1979 Truffaut, François France D
1423 Under the Roofs of Paris 1930 Clair, René France Y
1428 La Nuit de Varennes 1982 Scola, Ettore France / Italy Y
1434 Ceddo 1977 Sembene, Ousmane Senegal
1444 César 1936 Pagnol, Marcel France D
1444 Fanny 1932 Allégret, Marc France D
1463 Stavisky... 1974 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
1467 Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 Becker, Jacques France / Italy YU
1469 Marius 1931 Korda, Alexander / Pagnol, Marcel France D
1482 The Memory of Justice 1976 Ophüls, Marcel UK / USA / France / West Germany
1483 The Story of a Cheat 1936 Guitry, Sacha France
1487 Nada 1974 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
1490 La Chinoise 1967 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
1500 A Married Woman 1964 Godard, Jean-Luc France
1500 Muriel 1963 Resnais, Alain France / Italy D
1503 Girl on the Bridge 1999 Leconte, Patrice France D
1507 An Italian Straw Hat 1927 Clair, René France Y
1509 Trafic 1971 Tati, Jacques France / Italy D
1510 Loulou 1980 Pialat, Maurice France D
1511 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 Carax, Leos France Y
1514 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Demy, Jacques / Varda, Agnès France YS
1539 The Return of Martin Guerre 1982 Vigne, Daniel France Y
1540 Ridicule 1996 Leconte, Patrice France Y
1544 The Stranger 1967 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France / Algeria
1545 Joyeux Noël 2005 Carion, Christian France / Germany / UK / Belgium / Romania DU
1548 A Very Long Engagement 2004 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / USA YU
1549 Girl with a Suitcase 1961 Zurlini, Valerio Italy / France YS
1549 The Judge and the Assassin 1976 Tavernier, Bertrand France
1549 The Well-Digger's Daughter 1940 Pagnol, Marcel France
1572 Every Man for Himself 1980 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Austria / West Germany / Switzerland
1573 The Chorus 2004 Barratier, Christophe France / Switzerland / Germany Y
1574 La Femme Nikita 1990 Besson, Luc France / Italy Y
1575 Toni 1935 Renoir, Jean France
1576 Un Carnet de Bal 1937 Duvivier, Julien France
1578 Calle 54 2000 Trueba, Fernando Spain / France / Italy Y
1580 Beauty and the Devil 1950 Clair, René France / Italy Y
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1586 Lumumba 2000 Peck, Raoul France / Belgium / Germany / Haiti DS
1589 Gervaise 1956 Clément, René France / Italy Y
1595 C.R.A.Z.Y. 2005 Vallée, Jean-Marc Canada D
1596 La Vie en Rose 2007 Dahan, Olivier France / UK / Czech Republic DU
1597 Caché 2005 Haneke, Michael France / Austria / Germany / Italy DU
1599 Mouchette 1967 Bresson, Robert France D
1601 The Fantastic Planet 1973 Laloux, René Czechoslovakia / France D
1603 The Silent World 1956 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves / Malle, Louis Italy / France
1608 The Invitation 1973 Goretta, Claude Switzerland / France Y
1623 Band of Outsiders 1964 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
1624 L'Enfant 2005 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc Belgium / France DU
1626 La Jetée 1962 Marker, Chris France D
1632 Black and White in Color 1976 Annaud, Jean-Jacques Ivory Coast / France / West Germany / Switzerland Y
1636 Purple Noon 1960 Clément, René France / Italy YS
1640 The Man Who Loved Women 1977 Truffaut, François France Y
1652 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Malle, Louis France DS
1669 Indochine 1992 Wargnier, Régis France Y
1672 I'm Going Home 2001 de Oliveira, Manoel France / Portugal Y
1677 The Man on the Train 2002 Leconte, Patrice France / Germany / UK / Switzerland YU
1680 Mélo 1986 Resnais, Alain France D
1686 My Father's Glory 1990 Robert, Yves France Y
1688 India Song 1975 Duras, Marguerite France
1694 Chocolat 1988 Denis, Claire France / West Germany / Cameroon Y
1701 Tous les matins du monde 1991 Corneau, Alain France DS
1703 Méditerranée 1963 Pollet, Jean-Daniel / Schlöndorff, Volker France
1703 A Tale of the Wind 1989 Ivens, Joris / Ivens, Marceline Loridan France / UK / West Germany / Netherlands
1705 Zazie dans le métro 1960 Malle, Louis France / Italy
1710 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Rouch, Jean / Morin, Edgar France
1710 La Souriante Madame Beudet 1922 Dulac, Germaine France
1710 Land Without Bread 1933 Buñuel, Luis Spain Y
1710 Les Maîtres fous 1955 Rouch, Jean France
1712 And Now My Love 1974 Lelouch, Claude France / Italy Y
1717 Toto the Hero 1991 van Dormael, Jaco France / Belgium / Germany Y
1726 The Hairdresser's Husband 1990 Leconte, Patrice France Y
1736 Beau-père 1981 Blier, Bertrand France
1737 Blood of a Poet 1930 Cocteau, Jean France YS
1757 Read My Lips 2001 Audiard, Jacques France D
1758 Quai des Orfèvres 1947 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France Y
1760 To Be and To Have 2002 Philibert, Nicolas France D
1766 World Without Sun 1964 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves France / Italy / USA
1773 Milou in May 1990 Malle, Louis France / Italy
1782 Harvest 1937 Pagnol, Marcel France
1784 Four Nights of a Dreamer 1971 Bresson, Robert France
1786 Rendezvous in Paris 1995 Rohmer, Eric France V
1790 Man's Hope 1945 Malraux, André / Peskine, Boris Spain / France
1790 Numéro deux 1975 Godard, Jean-Luc France Y
1790 Poil de Carotte 1932 Duvivier, Julien France Y
1797 Carnival in Flanders 1935 Feyder, Jacques France / Germany Y
1800 Madame Rosa 1977 Mizrahi, Moshé France Y
1807 Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others 1974 Sautet, Claude France / Italy
1820 Le Plaisir 1952 Ophüls, Max France D
1820 The Tenant 1976 Polanski, Roman France / USA Y
1821 Under the Sand 2000 Ozon, François France D
1827 La Symphonie Pastorale 1946 Delannoy, Jean France Y
1828 Cartouche 1962 de Broca, Philippe France / Italy D
1828 Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 1976 Tanner, Alain France / Switzerland V
1828 La Marseillaise 1938 Renoir, Jean France D
1828 Le Corbeau 1943 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
1828 Viva María! 1965 Malle, Louis France / Italy D
1832 Betty Blue 1986 Beineix, Jean-Jacques France Y
1843 Menage 1986 Blier, Bertrand France Y
1848 The Mystery of Picasso 1956 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
1849 Fat Girl 2001 Breillat, Catherine France / Italy D
1854 Coup de Torchon 1982 Tavernier, Bertrand France Y
1855 Germinal 1993 Berri, Claude Belgium / France / Italy
1859 Rider on the Rain 1969 Clément, René Italy / France D
1864 A Gentle Creature 1969 Bresson, Robert France V
1864 Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1959 Vadim, Roger Italy / France Y
1864 Les Parents terribles 1948 Cocteau, Jean France
1864 A Woman Is a Woman 1961 Godard, Jean-Luc Italy / France D
1865 A Self-Made Hero 1996 Audiard, Jacques France
1866 Sugar Cane Alley 1983 Palcy, Euzhan France Y
1881 Safe Conduct 2002 Tavernier, Bertrand Spain / France / Germany D
1883 Camille Claudel 1988 Nuytten, Bruno France Y
1884 La Balance 1982 Swaim, Bob France D
1900 Jacquot de Nantes 1991 Varda, Agnès France
1900 Les Biches 1968 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
1903 La Sortie des usines Lumière 1895 Lumière, Louis France Y
1903 L'Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat 1895 Lumière, Auguste / Lumière, Louis France Y
1921 Olivier Olivier 1992 Holland, Agnieszka France
1921 A Single Girl 1995 Jacquot, Benoît France V
1937 JLG/JLG 1995 Godard, Jean-Luc France Y
1941 Beauties of the Night 1952 Clair, René France / Italy V
1941 Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train 1998 Chéreau, Patrice France D
1943 Thieves 1996 Téchiné, André France Y
1945 Innocents with Dirty Hands 1975 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy / West Germany D
1946 Monsieur Vincent 1947 Cloche, Maurice France D
1951 Jofroi 1933 Pagnol, Marcel France
1956 Occupe-Toi d'Amélie 1949 Autant-Lara, Claude France
1958 My Favorite Season 1993 Téchiné, André France D
1962 8 Women 2002 Ozon, François France / Italy Y
1965 Tango 1993 Leconte, Patrice France
1971 That Man from Rio 1964 de Broca, Philippe Italy / France YS
1977 La Captive 2000 Akerman, Chantal France / Belgium
1977 Le Dernier Combat 1983 Besson, Luc France D
1977 No Fear, No Die 1990 Denis, Claire France / West Germany VS
1977 Sombre 1998 Grandrieux, Philippe France
1977 Three Lives and Only One Death 1996 Ruiz, Raoul France / Portugal V
1991 Will It Snow for Christmas? 1996 Veysset, Sandrine France V
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