Best French movies

Actors : Kévin Azaïs, Adèle Haenel, Brigitte Roüan, Antoine Laurent,
Directors : Thomas Cailley,

Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud's summer looks set to be a peaceful one. Peaceful until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque, a concrete block of ...

Actors : Marc Susini, Bernard Belin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick d'Assumçao,
Directors : Albert Serra,

Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers.

Actors : Emmanuelle Seigner, Grégory Gadebois, Louis Garrel, Jean Dujardin,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.

Actors : Muriel Combeau, Noée Abita, Marie Denarnaud, Jérémie Renier,
Directors : Charlène Favier,

Under the guidance of a strict ex champion, a promising 15 year old girl trains as a professional skiing star.Will she be able to endure the physical and emotional pressures?

Actors : Catherine Hiegel, Olivier Gourmet, Sandrine Kiberlain, Emmanuelle Devos,
Directors : Martin Provost,

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the ...

Actors : Lazare Herson-Macarel, Elisabeth Ventura, Damien Boisseau, Eric Herson-Macarel,
Directors : Patrick Imbert,

A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.

Actors : Jean Reno, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué, Mélanie Laurent,
Directors : Rose Bosch,

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Actors : Vahina Giocante, Moa Khouas, Karim Ben Haddou, Lotfi Chakri,
Directors : Ziad Doueiri,

Two inner-city teenagers engage in an obsessive, innocent flirtation fueled by Lila's sexually explicit overtures.

Actors : Mélusine Mayance, Mads Mikkelsen, David Kross, Delphine Chuillot,
Directors : Arnaud des Pallières,

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

Actors : Sixtine Murat, Gaspard Schlatter, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz,
Directors : Claude Barras,

After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Actors : Thierry Lhermitte, Patricia Kaas, Alessandra Martines, Jeremy Irons,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.

Actors : Elia Suleiman, George Khleifi, Kareem Ghneim, Tarik Kopty,
Directors : Elia Suleiman,

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

Actors : Marion Keller, Jean-Luc Vincent, Armelle Leroy-Rolland, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Bruno Dumont,

Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.

Actors : Déborah Lukumuena, Oulaya Amamra, Jisca Kalvanda, Kevin Mischel,
Directors : Houda Benyamina,

A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.

Actors : Charlotte Kady, Marie Desgranges, Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in ...

Actors : Julie Sokolowski, Karl Sarafidis, Yassine Salime, David Dewaele,
Directors : Bruno Dumont,

The aspirant nun Céline vel Hadewijch is invited to leave the convent where she studies and she returns to the house of her mother in Paris. Céline meets her outcast Muslim teenage friend ...

Actors : Radha Mitchell, Roschdy Zem, Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier,
Directors : Pascale Ferran,

In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up in his room. Soon, fate draws him and a young French maid together.

Actors : Hamza Meziani, Vincent Rottiers, Manal Issa, Finnegan Oldfield,
Directors : Bertrand Bonello,

Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before to take shelter for a night in a shopping center.

Actors : Grégoire Colin, Anne Parillaud, Ashley Wanninger, Roxane Mesquida,
Directors : Catherine Breillat,

A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other.

Actors : Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Chafia Boudraa, Jamel Debbouze,
Directors : Rachid Bouchareb,

A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.