La princesse de Montpensier(2010)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 68

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...



Laissez-passer(2002)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 62

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 ...



Quai d'Orsay(2013)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is tall and impressive, a man with style, attractive to women. He also happens to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the land of enlightenment: France. With ...



Ça commence aujourd'hui(1999)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Daniel is schoolmaster of a kindergarten in a small French town. The local economy, which depended entirely on coal production, has been mired in a depression ever since the mines were ...



In the Electric Mist(2009)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of friendly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.



'Round Midnight(1986)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...



Coup de torchon(1981)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his...



La fille de d'Artagnan(1994)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story begins on the autumn of 1654 in South France. Eloise lives in a cloister. Her famous father left her there. The young lady is enthusiastic about honour, faithfulness, affection to...



La mort en direct(1980)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run ...



Un dimanche à la campagne(1984)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. ...



L'horloger de Saint-Paul(1974)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.



L.627(1992)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This gritty police drama shows us the underbelly of the Parisian drug trade. Lulu is a tough streetwise narcotics cop who, like a Frank Serpico or a Dirty Harry Callahan, doesn't play by ...



L'appât(1995)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Three adolescents, a girl who serves as the priming and two boys, kill two men cold blooded who were known by the girl only for to steal the money of them. With the money the three want to ...



Capitaine Conan(1996)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.



Le juge et l'assassin(1976)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.



La vie et rien d'autre(1989)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Intense character study of men and women driven by an overpowering obsession with the past.



Que la fête commence...(1975)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

France, 1719. Four years after Louix XIV's death, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent for the nine-year-old Louis XIV. Philippe is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an ...



Holy Lola(2004)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The trials and tribulations of a French couple's efforts to adopt an orphan baby in Cambodia.



Une semaine de vacances(1980)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.



La passion Béatrice(1987)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance ...




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