Best French movies

Actors : Bérénice Bejo, Féodor Atkine, Romain Duris, Déborah François,
Directors : Régis Roinsard,

1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world.

Actors : Isabelle Carré, Lou de Laâge, Joséphine Japy, Claire Keim,
Directors : Mélanie Laurent,

Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there's nothing average about how she feels.

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 : Sabine Azéma, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi, Isabelle Carré,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

Actors : Adèle Haenel, Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère, Warren Jacquin,
Directors : Céline Sciamma,

Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and desire make a sudden, dramatic appearance.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Guillaume Marquet, Ludivine Sagnier, Patrick Mille,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Ruthless executive Christine brings on Isabelle as her assistant, and she takes delight in toying with the young woman's innocence. But when the protégé's ideas become tempting enough for ...

Actors : Magne-Håvard Brekke, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Valérie Bonneton, Lola Créton,
Directors : Mia Hansen-Løve,

A chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivan's 8-year absence from exploring the world.

Actors : Laura Smet, Charlotte Le Bon, Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne,
Directors : Jalil Lespert,

A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.

Actors : Adèle Haenel, Louka Minnella, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier,

A woman gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.

Actors : Steve Tientcheu, Bakary Koné, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Jean Cyrille Digbeu,
Directors : Philippe Lacôte,

A young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.

Actors : Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles, Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.

Actors : Gaspard Ulliel, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Mélanie Thierry,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century. Based on a novella...

Actors : Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Candelier, Jason Flemyng,
Directors : Anne Fontaine,

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only ...

Actors : Zinedine Soualem, Carole Franck, Sara Forestier, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Michel Leclerc,

A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.

Actors : Christa Théret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret, Michel Bouquet,
Directors : Gilles Bourdos,

Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his ...

Actors : Laurent Poitrenaux, Léa Drucker, Mathieu Amalric, Stéphanie Cléau,
Directors : Mathieu Amalric,

A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other. In the afterglow, they share a few sweet nothings. At least the man ...

Actors : Paul Beauvais, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet, Anna Karina,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist ...

Actors : Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon, Jean-Marc Thibault, Aure Atika,
Directors : Stéphane Brizé,

Jean, his loving wife and son live a simple, happy life. At his son's homeroom teacher Madamoiselle Chambon's request, he volunteers as substitute teacher and starts to fall for her ...

Actors : Oliver Bodart, Victor Polster, Tijmen Govaerts, Arieh Worthalter,
Directors : Lukas Dhont,

Lara is a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina.

Actors : Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana, Michèle Bernier,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller.