Movies Français >50, a list by Telecino

7.6

/203902/

75

/8092/

75

/3074/

4.1

/1385550/

96

/287/

91

/63/

86

/44/

3.5

age 14+

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

83

7.4

/20419/

73

/800/

71

/436/

4.1

/145941/

97

/219/

81

/39/

93

/37/

4.0

age 10+

After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.

82

7.6

/6057/

75

/381/

74

/343/

4.1

/82506/

100

/62/

83

/16/

3.5

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane recounts his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.

82

7.4

/13677/

74

/535/

72

/489/

4.0

/55492/

99

/172/

79

/38/

86

/36/

4.0

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

81

7.5

/24708/

75

/1616/

74

/863/

4.1

/89283/

99

/70/

87

/32/

85

/17/

3.0

Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.

81

7.4

/7060/

72

/316/

70

/307/

3.8

/20011/

98

/61/

94

/15/

83

/15/

3.5

Julie finally gets an interview for a job where she can raise her children better only to run into a national transit strike.

80

6.9

/10383/

67

/340/

62

/465/

3.6

/65946/

97

/134/

91

/29/

87

/37/

4.0

After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.

80

7.4

/20138/

72

/802/

71

/362/

4.0

/90314/

97

/198/

77

/168/

85

/43/

3.5

age 13+

Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.

80

7.4

/10743/

72

/361/

71

/254/

4.0

/58632/

92

/92/

70

/12/

82

/29/

4.0

Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.

80

7.1

/3865/

73

/248/

74

/450/

3.7

/27488/

100

/14/

81

/3/

3.5

Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her with her stage backup; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance ever again.

79

7.4

/7494/

74

/343/

74

/530/

3.8

/29680/

93

/55/

90

/9/

81

/17/

3.0

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.

78

7.6

/30232/

74

/1466/

75

/1579/

3.8

/80498/

88

/194/

89

/4/

78

/35/

3.0

age 16+

Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel “Les Miserables”. Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada – both experienced members of the team – he quickly discovers tensions running high between local gangs. When the trio finds themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures the encounter, threatening to expose the reality of everyday life.

77

7.3

/6789/

71

/165/

73

/92/

3.7

/66615/

91

/171/

84

/43/

76

/38/

3.0

age 14+

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.

78

77

7.4

/6235/

75

/403/

73

/431/

3.7

/54381/

96

/23/

Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.

77

6.9

/8829/

68

/243/

64

/163/

3.6

/36487/

93

/150/

66

/18/

86

/39/

4.0

age 14+

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

77

6.7

/11109/

67

/417/

67

/273/

3.7

/43899/

96

/159/

64

/26/

85

/30/

4.0

age 15+

Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.

76

7.0

/7961/

71

/705/

70

/682/

3.8

/130658/

95

/19/

78

/7/

73

/6/

3.0

In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.

76

6.8

/6188/

66

/221/

62

/192/

3.8

/33201/

95

/138/

57

/22/

91

/37/

4.0

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

76

6.9

/3908/

69

/264/

70

/339/

3.5

/19994/

94

/62/

95

/11/

71

/17/

3.0

Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.

76

7.2

/3930/

74

/233/

71

/189/

3.5

/6633/

94

/52/

93

/38/

65

/7/

3.0

A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her shocking past.

76

6.9

/522/

62

/16/

57

/7/

3.5

/1773/

97

/32/

86

/10/

87

/9/

3.5

An African refugee's quiet existence in a sleepy mountain town in the south of France is upended by the arrival of a charismatic Catholic priest, whom she recognizes as the warlord who slaughtered her family.

76

7.2

/8796/

72

/343/

71

/581/

3.7

/16893/

96

/98/

74

/16/

75

/21/

3.0

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.

75

6.9

/3894/

66

/182/

66

/216/

3.3

/20660/

97

/64/

75

/17/

74

/12/

3.5

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison.

75

6.7

/26263/

69

/2349/

69

/1347/

3.4

/85652/

98

/54/

80

/58/

79

/11/

age 14+

D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.

75

6.7

/4904/

70

/280/

70

/343/

3.5

/9472/

86

/58/

79

/7/

72

/14/

3.5

A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.

75

6.4

/1202/

67

/49/

59

/16/

3.4

/784/

100

/13/

84

/21/

3.5

age 13+

The Man In The Hat sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500. On the seat beside him is a framed photograph of an unknown woman. Behind him is a 2CV into which is squeezed Five Bald Men. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off? As he travels North through France, he encounters razeteurs, women with stories to tell, bullfights, plenty of delicious food, a damp man, mechanics, nuns, a convention of Chrystallographers and much more, coming face to face with the vivid eccentricities of an old country.

75

6.5

/3056/

65

/90/

66

/82/

3.5

/7714/

96

/105/

62

/12/

82

/23/

4.0

A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.

75

6.9

/23901/

72

/2560/

75

/2112/

3.6

/58790/

92

/12/

73

/69/

age 14+

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

75

7.1

/4005/

75

/233/

77

/272/

3.9

/17246/

88

/32/

73

/4/

69

/6/

3.0

Nedjma, an 18-year-old student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War keep her from experiencing a normal life. As the social climate becomes more conservative, she rejects the new bans set by the radicals and decides to put on a fashion show.

75

7.1

/9086/

70

/468/

66

/312/

3.6

/10327/

93

/56/

78

/9/

69

/13/

3.5

Following the disappearance of the glamorous and secretive Evelyne Ducat during a blizzard in the highlands of southern France, the lives of five people inextricably linked to Evelyne are brought together to devastating effect as the local police investigate the case.

77

74

7.0

/4063/

71

/263/

69

/302/

3.8

/63035/

98

/44/

83

/9/

In the western part of the French Alps: After the drunk driving death of his father, 18-year-old Totone must look after his younger sister. He pursues a €30k Comté cheese award he has no hope of winning. Good thing Marie-Lise takes a liking for him!

74

6.5

/7141/

65

/392/

64

/440/

3.4

/27568/

98

/65/

90

/132/

74

/11/

3.0

In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out.

74

6.9

/3405/

68

/256/

69

/228/

3.7

/28794/

98

/46/

66

/4/

79

/14/

3.0

A second trial begins in November 1975 against French left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman, accused of several armed robberies and the death of two chemists.

74

6.7

/1469/

64

/69/

67

/84/

3.6

/7811/

100

/27/

64

/2/

76

/5/

3.5

The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.

74

6.6

/4724/

67

/302/

67

/366/

3.6

/27569/

98

/44/

82

/11/

68

/12/

3.0

Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship.

74

6.8

/3478/

67

/188/

67

/236/

3.6

/13940/

91

/69/

99

/8/

80

/20/

2.0

Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?

74

6.5

/3272/

61

/133/

63

/78/

3.5

/8685/

98

/47/

66

/11/

88

/16/

3.5

Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under surveillance, a remote duel takes place between two bankers who, despite different methods, are the accomplices of a discreet and merciless form of colonization.

74

6.6

/2446/

68

/116/

66

/129/

3.5

/6699/

100

/61/

60

/7/

77

/13/

3.5

15 year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps, has been accepted to a highly selective ski club whose aim is to train future professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, Fred, ex-champion turned coach, decides to make Lyz his shining star regardless of her lack of experience. Under his influence, Lyz will have to endure more than the physical and emotional pressure of the training. Will Lyz’s determination help her escape his grip?

73

6.6

/14390/

62

/553/

63

/218/

3.5

/115638/

94

/186/

69

/44/

80

/41/

3.5

age 16+

Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.

73

6.6

/1295/

57

/57/

68

/77/

3.5

/6909/

79

/48/

97

/8/

74

/12/

3.0

A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter.

79

73

7.1

/3531/

70

/214/

69

/270/

3.4

/5167/

100

/19/

98

/53/

Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no other choice but to conclude an agreement whose consequences, over the months, will upset the fate of our three characters.

73

6.8

/3303/

67

/112/

66

/159/

3.4

/5481/

91

/69/

74

/4/

68

/21/

3.5

When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life.

73

7.0

/11423/

69

/372/

68

/373/

3.6

/46831/

83

/110/

74

/16/

76

/34/

3.0

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

73

6.7

/29233/

66

/1651/

66

/1114/

3.4

/109968/

84

/199/

90

/6/

75

/38/

3.0

age 17+

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

73

6.7

/3008/

69

/136/

66

/136/

3.7

/12114/

95

/44/

67

/5/

74

/12/

3.0

Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When plans to demolish Gagarin Towers leak out, Yuri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarks on a mission to save their home, which has become his “starship.”

72

6.9

/3582/

69

/133/

69

/176/

3.7

/13989/

90

/31/

65

/2/

69

/11/