Best French movies of 1999

Actors : Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet, Michel Subor, Denis Lavant,
Directors : Claire Denis,

This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Africa.

Actors : Olivier Gourmet, Anne Yernaux, Fabrizio Rongione, Émilie Dequenne,

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

Actors : Delphine Chuillot, Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Leos Carax,

A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark-haired woman who claims to be his long-lost sister and he begin an unusual relationship with her prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fiancée

Actors : Alexandre Mérineau, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Karine Vanasse, Pascale Bussières,
Directors : Léa Pool,

Canadian/Swiss/French production that tells the tale of Hannah, a tomboyish 13 year-old hitting puberty in 1963. An unhappy and uncomfortable family life leads Hannah to seek escapism in the world of cinema. Specifically, she repeatedly watches and appears enthralled by Anna Karina, the character from Jean-Luc Godard's "Vivre sa vie" (1962) about a Parisian woman's descent into prostitution. Her ...

Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Dominique Baeyens, Morgane Simon, Bouli Lanners,
Directors : Benoît Mariage,

Dreaming of more than his routine life, a father pushes his 15 years old son to break a world record: opening and closing a door 40,000 times in 24 hours.

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche, Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier,
Directors : François Ozon,

After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost - much like the fairy-tale plight of ...

Actors : Sandrine Bonnaire, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Antoine de Caunes, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the ...

Actors : Catherine Mouchet, Philippe Bianco, José Garcia, Philippe Harel,
Directors : Philippe Harel,

Story of a man whose misanthropy goes out of control due to a business trip together with a colleague.

Actors : Mélanie Thierry, Vincent Elbaz, Richard Berry, Patrick Timsit,
Directors : Patrick Timsit,

Quasimodo the hunchback is mistaken as the serial killer of El Paris. Can he clear his name?

Actors : Valérie Dréville, Dominique Reymond, Cécile Arnaud, Albert Dupontel,
Directors : Michel Deville,

This is a story about the world of a doctor called Bruno Sachs.He wrote a book called 'La Maladie DE Sachs' in which he describes his consultations with different patients.

Actors : Jacques Dacqmine, Sébastien Cotterot, Barbara Schulz, Catherine Frot,
Directors : Pascal Thomas,

Pierrette Dumortier, a woman of character but weak-willed and defenseless against boredom, decides one fine day to leave her husband and her bourgeois life in Switzerland to return to Paris...

Actors : Daniel Duval, Xavier Beauvois, Jacques Lassalle, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Philippe Garrel,

Hélène is unhappy with her marriage but finds some comfort and relief with Paul, a young art student. They reflect on their differences of age, backgrounds and also what truly connects them...

Actors : Sylvie Moreau, Hélène Loiselle, Gabriel Arcand, Sarah Lecomte-Bergeron,
Directors : Louis Bélanger,

A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.

Actors : Michel Jonasz, Mitchell David Rothpan, Tchéky Karyo, Maria de Medeiros,
Directors : Gérard Pullicino,

Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a huge tower to...

Actors : Marcial Di Fonzo Bo, Samuel Le Bihan, Claire Nebout, Catherine Vinatier,
Directors : Emilie Deleuze,

Alain tests video games. He's married, his wife Pascale loves him, and they have a spirited young daughter. But he's unhappy and wants a change, to what he's not sure. He quits. A job ...

Actors : Antoine Chappey, Florence Vignon, Philippe Duquesne, Mathilde Seigner,
Directors : Stéphane Brizé,

Solange is unhappy. She's a meter maid in Tours, working in the rain, subject to verbal abuse from those she cites. Her husband Patrick is consumed by the work of finishing their new house:...

Actors : Luc Picard, Serge Houde, Michel Goyette, Julien Poulin,
Directors : Richard Ciupka,

A Montreal police officer goes to Arkansas to solve the murder of his brother.