French movies wantlist
by daviddias1 | created - 06 Jan 2013 | updated - 02 Jun 2020 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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101. Red Lights (2004)
Unrated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.
Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard, Alain Dion
Votes: 3,004 | Gross: $0.05M
102. The Plane (2005)
100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Charlie is waiting for his Christmas gift , a new bicycle. Instead his father gives him a small toy-aeroplane which he had constructed. After his death the plane reveals its magic powers.
Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Roméo Botzaris, Isabelle Carré, Vincent Lindon, Nicolas Briançon
Votes: 420
103. Incendies (2010)
R | 131 min | Drama, Mystery, War
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Mustafa Kamel
Votes: 200,544 | Gross: $6.86M
104. Le Dîner de Cons (1998)
PG-13 | 80 min | Comedy
A few friends have a weekly fools' dinner, where each brings a fool along. Pierre finds a champion fool for next dinner. Surprise.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prévost
Votes: 44,367 | Gross: $4.07M
105. Love Me If You Dare (2003)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.
Director: Yann Samuell | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe, Joséphine Lebas-Joly
Votes: 72,467 | Gross: $0.55M
106. The Lookout (2012)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A detective hunts for the marksman who foiled the plan to catch a notorious team of bank robbers.
Director: Michele Placido | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet, Francis Renaud
Votes: 2,918
107. Familiar Grounds (2011)
90 min | Drama
Benoit and Maryse: a brother and sister with seemingly normal lives. Everything is changed by a series of coincidences... and the arrival of a man claiming to come from the future.
Director: Stéphane Lafleur | Stars: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Michel Daigle, Sylvain Marcel
Votes: 542
108. Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx
Votes: 21,190 | Gross: $2.01M
109. Continental, a Film Without Guns (2007)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
The lives of four people intertwine after the disappearance of a man who wanders into the forest.
Director: Stéphane Lafleur | Stars: Marie-Ginette Guay, Gilbert Sicotte, Fanny Mallette, Réal Bossé
Votes: 680
110. La moitié gauche du frigo (2000)
90 min | Comedy
Christophe agrees to be filmed by his roommate Stéphane, while he is searching for a meaningful engineering job. Since he voluntarily resigned his job when he was to be moved to quality ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Paul Ahmarani, Stéphane Demers, Geneviève Néron, Jules Philip
Votes: 566
111. It's Not Me, I Swear! (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
During the summer of 1968, Leon, a 10-year-old boy, navigates the hardships of young love, his lunatic mother's whims, and his urges to vandalize the house of his neighbors.
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Antoine L'Écuyer, Gabriel Maillé, Catherine Faucher, Suzanne Clément
Votes: 2,401
112. Poetical Refugee (2000)
130 min | Drama
A young illegal immigrant from Tunisia tries to survive in the world of Paris miseries.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez, Bruno Lochet, Aure Atika
Votes: 925
113. En jouant 'Dans la compagnie des hommes' (2003)
121 min | Drama
This is the story of a few men of power and the war they are waging. A story of today's princes, settling their accounts with stock-exchange, financial plots and O.P.A.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Wladimir Yordanoff, László Szabó
Votes: 199
114. La vie des morts (1991)
54 min | Drama
A large family, traumatized by tragic deaths, reunites to wait for news about one of their cousins who is in hospital after a suicide attempt
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Thibault de Montalembert, Roch Leibovici, Marianne Denicourt, Bernard Ballet
Votes: 464
115. A Christmas Tale (2008)
Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Drama
The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny
Votes: 7,566 | Gross: $1.06M
116. La folle histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy (2009)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
A clarinetist is trying to finish his record when his wife and ten year old son reappear in his life.
Director: Jean-Jacques Zilbermann | Stars: Antoine de Caunes, Mehdi Dehbi, Elsa Zylberstein, Judith Magre
Votes: 234
117. Human Resources (1999)
TV-14 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: Jalil Lespert, Jean-Claude Vallod, Chantal Barré, Véronique de Pandelaère
Votes: 2,800 | Gross: $0.12M
118. Hotel Harabati (2006)
95 min | Drama
After 10 years and two children together, Philippe and Marion, finally decide to take a honeymoon Holiday in Venice. At the train station, a abandoned bag filled with money will bring them ... See full summary »
Director: Brice Cauvin | Stars: Laurent Lucas, Hélène Fillières, Anouk Aimée, Julie Gayet
Votes: 172
119. Modern Life (2008)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Third documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: le quotidien (2005)), showing the simple lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.
Director: Raymond Depardon | Stars: Paul Argaud, Louis Brès, Marcelle Brès, Germaine Challaye
Votes: 609
120. In Your Hands (2010)
81 min | Drama
An act of revenge takes an unexpected turn in this psychological drama from French Writer and Director Lola Doillon. Anna (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) flees a house on the outskirts of Paris... See full summary »
Director: Lola Doillon | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Pio Marmaï, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Marie-Sohna Condé
Votes: 805
121. Lovers (1999)
100 min | Drama
A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.
Director: Jean-Marc Barr | Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Sergej Trifunovic, Madeleine Barr, Mathias Benguigui
Votes: 746
122. Lonely Child (2005)
50 min | Drama
William is constantly shooting video journals of his life to have as souvenirs for himself. Feeling the end of his relationship with Médéric, his young lover, William spends two days ... See full summary »
Director: Pascal Robitaille | Stars: Dhanaé Audet-Beaulieu, Pierre-Luc Blais, Sylvie Bouchard, Francis Ducharme
Votes: 41
123. The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Middle-aged Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet, Bettina Kee
Votes: 1,935
124. Betty Blue (1986)
Unrated | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix | Stars: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon, Consuelo De Haviland
Votes: 23,354 | Gross: $2.00M
125. The Moon in the Gutter (1983)
R | 137 min | Drama
He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They try hard to get together... or do they?
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Bertice Reading
Votes: 1,538
126. Le sucre (1978)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Director: Jacques Rouffio | Stars: Jean Carmet, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud
Votes: 554
127. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Carole Laure, Patrick Dewaere, Michel Serrault
Votes: 4,289
128. Delicacy (2011)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Directors: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos | Stars: Audrey Tautou, François Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Mélanie Bernier
Votes: 13,913
129. French Fried Vacation (1978)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Josiane Balasko, Luis Rego, Marie-Anne Chazel, Michel Blanc
Votes: 7,711
130. French Fried Vacation 2 (1979)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
Eight tourists who met in a holiday camp on the Ivory Coast are reunited for a skiing holiday.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier
Votes: 9,137
131. The Nun (2013)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
1760s France. Suzanne is shocked when her bourgeois family sends her to a convent. There she faces oppression and torment, leading her to fight back and expose the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.
Director: Guillaume Nicloux | Stars: Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Louise Bourgoin, Martina Gedeck
Votes: 1,994
132. Outside Satan (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
In a village on the French Opal Coast, a drifter engages in a perplexing relationship with a young woman who has suffered abuse.
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: David Dewaele, Alexandra Lemâtre, Christophe Bon, Juliette Bacquet
Votes: 2,090
133. On My Way (2013)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
Facing a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant, a woman hits the road for a trip with her grandson.
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Némo Schiffman, Gérard Garouste, Camille
Votes: 2,588 | Gross: $0.31M
134. Les sanguinaires (1997)
67 min | Drama
In December of 1999, François organizes a retreat to a small island for himself, some friends, and their children to avoid the craziness of Paris during the turn of the millennium. Things ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: Frédéric Pierrot, Catherine Baugué, Jalil Lespert, Marc Adjadj
Votes: 163
135. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (2012)
Not Rated | 143 min | Crime, Drama
Set in the 1950s, a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: Raven Adamson, Katie Coseni, Madeleine Bisson, Claire Mazerolle
Votes: 2,378
136. The Son (2002)
103 min | Drama, Mystery
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart, Nassim Hassaïni
Votes: 10,095 | Gross: $0.07M
137. Chocolat (1988)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet, Jean-Claude Adelin
Votes: 4,483 | Gross: $2.32M
138. White Material (2009)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Votes: 8,429 | Gross: $0.30M
139. Boarding Gate (2007)
R | 106 min | Drama, Thriller
A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Kelly Lin, Carl Ng
Votes: 4,159 | Gross: $0.05M
140. Après lui (2007)
Unrated | 94 min | Drama
A woman becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident.
Director: Gaël Morel | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Thomas Dumerchez, Guy Marchand, Élodie Bouchez
Votes: 706
141. Under Another Sky (2002)
78 min | Drama
Samy (Nicolas Cazalé), a young Franco-Algerian, hits a policeman at a roadblock and must flee France. He takes refuge with his grandfather (Mohamed Majd) in Algeria. But he does not speak ... See full summary »
Director: Gaël Morel | Stars: Nicolas Cazalé, Amira Casar, Mohamed Majd, Kheireddine Defdaf
Votes: 144
142. Sale comme un ange (1991)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A middle-aged tough cop, George, is trying to help and protect a criminal, Manoni, that he has known since they were both young. He orders his younger colleague and friend, Didier, who has ... See full summary »
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Lio, Nils Tavernier, Roland Amstutz
Votes: 352
143. Happy End (2009)
130 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm, a story that becomes increasingly ... See full summary »
Directors: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Frot, Karin Viard, Sergi López
Votes: 1,122
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