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82
7.5
/10480/
70
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75
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4.0
/9415/
88
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85
/171/
86
/18/

The Son (2002)
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.
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Kanopy
80
7.4
/29335/
73
/450/
70
/442/
3.9
/21729/
96
/133/
77
/404/
87
/33/
cc age 16+

The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.3
/17174/
73
/226/
71
/350/
3.7
/11133/
97
/96/
82
/242/
82
/32/

Read My Lips (2001)
She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
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Criterion Channel
79
7.4
/16828/
72
/273/
71
/324/
3.9
/31080/
90
/31/
83
/161/
76
/19/

Rosetta (1999)
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.
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Kanopy
79
7.3
/8922/
74
/668/
71
/348/
3.7
/13958/
97
/59/
77
/74/
85
/17/
cc age 9+

April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
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Amazon Prime Video
77
7.4
/32151/
74
/849/
72
/918/
3.7
/14730/
81
/88/
82
/598/
72
/18/

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)
After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media attention and public adoration, Mesrine becomes increasingly paranoid and isolated, leading to a dramatic confrontation with the law that ultimately seals his fate as the nation's most infamous public enemy.
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fuboTV
77
7.5
/36349/
74
/960/
73
/970/
3.7
/16904/
81
/88/
82
/598/
71
/23/

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
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Kanopy
76
7.3
/4022/
77
/291/
74
/517/
3.7
/10864/
80
/30/
95
/9/
61
/7/

Cyrano, My Love (2018)
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.
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Kanopy
76
7.3
/51944/
69
/1295/
69
/981/
3.9
/52512/
96
/182/
77
/415/
89
/38/

Two Days, One Night (2014)
Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
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Criterion Channel
75
6.9
/1696/
65
/20/
64
/32/
3.5
/783/
76
/37/
79
/7/
82
/15/

Safe Conduct (2002)
During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
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Criterion Channel
81
75
7.7
/8888/
73
/135/
72
/174/
4.0
/11110/
95
/22/
90
/104/
82
/17/

La Promesse (1996)
Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.
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Kanopy
74
6.9
/5184/
70
/100/
68
/143/
3.7
/5566/
93
/30/
67
/11/
67
/12/

Home (2008)
Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isolated from the rest of the world. The arrival of a construction vehicle, however, pierces their tranquil, hermetic existence—before long a disused highway has been re-opened, and the family finds their home situated in the midst of rush-hour traffic. While the privileges of clean air, quietude and privacy are thus denied them, Marthe remains determined to stay no matter the cost.
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74
7.1
/9379/
65
/111/
68
/156/
3.7
/5002/
85
/97/
69
/271/
80
/24/

Lorna's Silence (2008)
Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.
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74
7.5
/10552/
73
/183/
73
/303/
3.6
/5422/
67
/6/
88
/185/

The Eighth Day (1996)
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
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77
73
7.3
/2153/
74
/136/
75
/160/
3.6
/24774/
93
/14/

Colours of Time (2025)
United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family history by retracing their ancestor's steps.
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76
72
7.4
/20009/
71
/212/
71
/272/
3.9
/16046/
84
/113/
72
/659/
87
/34/

The Child (2005)
A poor young Belgian mother wants her petty thief of a boyfriend to be gainfully employed to raise their newborn child, but he has other ideas.
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Kanopy
70
6.7
/3185/
67
/84/
61
/147/
3.3
/2065/
88
/89/
76
/11/
66
/24/

The Midwife (2017)
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.
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75
68
7.3
/8881/
73
/159/
69
/202/
3.7
/4108/
80
/5/
82
/123/

The Ax (2005)
Bruno is a former paper mill worker who has been unemployed for three years. Concluding that there is too much competition in his line of work, he decides to eliminate his competition permanently.
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Kanopy
67
6.6
/7704/
68
/351/
68
/318/
3.4
/16420/
63
/51/
71
/28/
62
/14/

The Young Karl Marx (2017)
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
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Kanopy
73
67
7.0
/8569/
69
/485/
68
/742/
3.4
/9636/
100
/23/
68
/15/

Chocolat (2016)
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.
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Kanopy
63
6.5
/10911/
62
/332/
61
/417/
3.4
/16776/
73
/95/
49
/15/
65
/21/

The Unknown Girl (2016)
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can't identify the young woman.
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Hulu
62
6.3
/3323/
65
/394/
67
/208/
3.2
/8377/
81
/26/
54
/8/
55
/9/

Mayhem! (2023)
Sam is a professional boxer about to get released from prison. While on parole, his past catches up with him and he has no choice but to flee. Five years later, he has rebuilt a simple life on an exotic island in Thailand with his wife and her daughter, but when he gets blackmailed by a dangerous local godfather, he must embark on a dangerous drug smuggling mission which results in a tragedy. Now he has only one purpose: to seek merciless vengeance.
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Kanopy
65
61
6.4
/12144/
63
/174/
61
/202/
3.5
/13091/
66
/53/
64
/252/
71
/20/

Time of the Wolf (2003)
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
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Fandor
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60
6.8
/3128/
70
/74/
65
/116/
3.5
/2811/
100
/5/
62
/39/

Black Venus (2010)
The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
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Amazon Prime Video
58
6.4
/15923/
66
/850/
59
/1152/
3.0
/16794/
43
/88/

Nothing to Declare (2010)
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
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Kanopy
56
6.7
/1333/
65
/63/
63
/67/
3.4
/588/
41
/22/
54
/7/
45
/11/

Come What May (2015)
In may 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of a small village of Pas-de-Calais decide on the recommendations of the prefecture, to give up everything to go on the road, fleeing to the coast.
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Kanopy
69
53
6.9
/2262/
64
/56/
60
/53/
3.4
/1572/
86
/49/
68
/22/
72
/14/

Violette (2013)
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
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64
52
6.2
/3118/
62
/80/
56
/138/
3.1
/4219/
89
/28/
44
/16/
73
/6/

Grand Central (2013)
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
51
6.8
/1777/
72
/204/
78
/369/
3.8
/28178/
71
/14/
74
/1/

Simone: Woman of the Century (2022)
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
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Kanopy
64
51
6.6
/3007/
68
/270/
68
/326/
3.4
/3721/
53
/9/

SK1 (2015)
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
50
6.8
/1802/
70
/127/
69
/273/
3.5
/2859/

Conviction (2019)
Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office, and fearing a miscarriage of justice, she convinces a leading lawyer to defend him during his second trial, on appeal. Together, they will put up a tenacious fight against injustice.
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Amazon Prime Video
50
5.7
/9274/
60
/387/
56
/413/
2.8
/11106/
43
/68/
27
/63/
52
/19/
cc age 15+

Madame Bovary (2015)
The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, who engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status.
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64
49
6.7
/3108/
65
/89/
64
/141/
3.5
/3105/
54
/25/

The Minister (2011)
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.
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66
47
6.6
/1391/
68
/145/
67
/165/
3.2
/3306/

The Colors of Fire (2022)
February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire of which she is the heiress. But she has a son, Paul, who with an unexpected and tragic gesture will place her on the path to ruin.
poster
64
45
6.3
/2076/
61
/26/
60
/40/
3.4
/1082/
63
/16/
72
/36/

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998)
A group of mourners travels by train to bury a recently deceased artist in Limoges. As they journey, secrets and desires unfold, with relationships shifting, past loves resurfacing, and personal connections revealed. At the funeral and afterward, tensions rise among the group, leading to further emotional complexities at the artist’s family home.
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69
44
6.7
/1398/
65
/106/
63
/159/
3.2
/1652/
100
/6/
56
/1/

The Royal Exchange (2017)
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate an era of peace and prosperity that will heal the economies of both nations: his intention is to build a solid network of marriage alliances that will involve four children of very different ages who know nothing of betrayals and power games…
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
43
6.1
/2271/
63
/213/
61
/285/
2.9
/3169/
40
/10/
25

De Gaulle (2020)
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
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69
43
6.9
/972/
65
/58/
62
/87/
3.4
/931/
83

Those Who Work (2018)
Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he’s on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system to which he gave his all, he has to progressively question himself to save the one connection that still matters to him: the bond he’s managed to maintain with his youngest daughter, Mathilde.
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71
43
7.0
/1012/
70
/21/
63
/26/
4.0
/1725/
77
/372/

The Bridge of Arts (2004)
The film is a love story which tells the impossible tale of two youths who have never before met. The action unrolls in Paris between 1979 and 1980.
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Hoopla
63
42
6.4
/1944/
66
/59/
66
/143/
3.1
/1075/
61
/68/

Jacquou the Rebel (2007)
In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...
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68
39
6.7
/752/
64
/12/
60
/21/
3.4
/269/
90
/20/
69
/32/
62
/8/

When the Sea Rises (2004)
An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him in his plays.
poster
66
38
6.4
/252/
70
/23/
66
/28/
3.3
/9484/

Fanon (2025)
Frantz Fanon, a French psychiatrist from Martinique, has just been appointed head of department at the psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algeria. His methods contrast with those of the other doctors in a context of colonization. A biopic in the heart of the Algerian war where a fight is waged in the name of Humanity.
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Fandango at Home Free
71
37
6.6
/600/
69
/29/
65
/72/
3.4
/1573/
80
/5/
83
/1/

Red Soil (2021)
Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.
poster
54
37
5.8
/2098/
63
/139/
58
/183/
3.1
/1092/
30
/40/

Go Fast (2008)
Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" method. A fleet of high-powered speedboats and cars races across the Mediterranean to Spain and then France, loaded with drugs.
poster
74
35
7.1
/1729/
78
/66/
66
/108/
3.4
/1528/
87
/1/

A Wedding (2017)
Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.
poster
64
35
6.3
/1940/
70
/41/
66
/98/
3.4
/1633/
56
/4/

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003)
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
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65
34
6.6
/291/
60
/25/
67
/35/
3.4
/2337/

The Asembly Line (2023)
A few months after May '68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a far-left activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a line worker. Like other comrades, he wants to infiltrate the factory to rekindle the revolutionary fire, but the majority of workers no longer want to hear about politics. When Citroën decides to pay back the Grenelle Agreements by requiring workers to work 3 hours overtime per week for free, Robert and some others see the possibility of a social movement.
poster
58
34
5.8
/1781/
62
/34/
52
/77/
3.2
/1118/
56
/26/

Peut-être (1999)
Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ako who affirms he is his son and that he wants to exist. Otherwise he will vanish into the air. Arthur is still hesitant because his life is an unfulfilled one: a has a little lucrative job, is uncertain about his future and things are getting out of hand when Ako discovers the passage and interferes in the party.


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