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poster
Criterion Channel
88
8.1
/30341/
79
/611/
79
/592/
4.3
/66750/
100
/43/
93
/288/

A Man Escaped (1956)
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
8.0
/38244/
78
/673/
75
/704/
4.2
/52258/
97
/36/
93
/731/
88
/18/
cc age 12+

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.9
/31213/
78
/633/
75
/672/
4.1
/69765/
93
/60/
91
/448/
94
/16/

Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/8304/
72
/120/
69
/157/
3.8
/7550/
100
/10/
85
/86/

Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.8
/11411/
77
/200/
76
/237/
4.2
/27732/
82
/11/
90
/129/

The Fire Within (1963)
Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.5
/11530/
70
/263/
70
/206/
3.8
/13196/
94
/18/
86
/173/
7.1
/5136/
cc age 18+

Murmur of the Heart (1971)
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
7.2
/3611/
74
/57/
68
/93/
3.7
/2798/
100
/6/
76
/18/

May Fools (1990)
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.3
/41483/
74
/896/
69
/633/
3.6
/20995/
85
/98/
80
/1005/
76
/22/

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.
poster
73
6.7
/22296/
65
/422/
65
/648/
3.3
/23556/
80
/25/
73
/311/
71
/28/

Damage (1992)
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
65
6.9
/7220/
69
/127/
66
/182/
3.7
/14345/
78
/18/
77
/101/

Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
poster
61
7.1
/243/
40
/3/
61
/13/
3.6
/212/

Return from Africa (1973)
A young Swiss couple, Vincent and Françoise, plan to leave Geneva and settle in Africa: a friend of theirs living in Algeria promises to give them a job there.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
57
7.2
/2858/
64
/46/
65
/55/
3.7
/3169/
82
/839/

Young Törless (1966)
At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil's acclaimed novel, Young Törless launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff.
poster
Criterion Channel
57
53
6.1
/6588/
61
/210/
60
/156/
3.3
/10274/
42
/12/
53
/106/

Black Moon (1975)
There is a global civil war between men and women. A teenage girl tries to escape this reality and arrives at a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old, bedridden woman who stays in contact with the world through her radio.
poster
60
50
6.3
/4360/
64
/65/
60
/103/
3.3
/3467/
60
/5/
47
/38/

Viva Maria! (1965)
1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
46
5.7
/115291/
60
/3700/
58
/2728/
2.5
/55286/
27
/98/
39
/2659/
35
/15/
cc age 11+

The Three Musketeers (2011)
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
poster
65
39
6.8
/2514/
61
/39/
67
/80/
3.5
/1741/
61
/7/

The Thief of Paris (1967)
In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. In retaliation, Georges steals the fiancé's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a lifetime of burglary.
poster
Hoopla
66
38
6.5
/1010/
59
/21/
67
/38/
3.4
/1236/
92
/12/
46
/6/

Le Combat dans l’île (1962)
The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s ratted out after a failed assassination attempt on a prominent politician, Clément and his long-suffering wife Anne flee Paris to the idyllic country home of his childhood friend, pacifist print-maker Paul. As affection blossoms between Paul and Anne, the emotional, as well as political tensions, soar and eventually explode.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
33
7.4
/1034/
69
/22/
67
/23/
3.8
/1592/

Vive Le Tour (1962)
A short documentary about the 1962 Tour-de-France. Topics covered include: crowds of people and motorcycles, drinking raids and feeding, pileups, doping, "the charge," and the mountain stages.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
19
7.2
/813/
65
/14/
65
/13/
3.5
/934/
73
/6/

Calcutta (1969)
When he was cutting "Phantom India," Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
13
6.9
/502/
58
/7/
67
/11/
3.5
/594/
100
/2/

Place de la République (1974)
Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.
poster
Criterion Channel
55
13
6.4
/516/
53
/11/
57
/11/
3.3
/921/
38
/1/

A Human Condition (1974)
Louis Malle’s meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant.
poster
?
5.6
/7/
10
/1/
63
/3/

It Comes, It Goes (1972)
Areski and Elijah, two childhood friends (an Arab and a Jew) suburban neighbors working on a construction site of Place des festivals (Belleville) and thus participating in what has driven the city face a wildcat strike providing transportation to one of them "under the imponderable."
poster
?
7.0
/73/
20
/1/

Petty Crimes (2002)
A French pickpocket living illegally in New York City falls in love with an American law student.
poster
?
6.7
/7/
65
/1/

Jusqu’au 23 Juillet (2018)
Documentary about the making of Louis Malle's 1963 film "The Fire Within".
poster
?
6.2
/61/
10
/1/
46
/5/

Jaune, Le Soleil (1971)
The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female character establishes the dialogue between these individuals and comments on the ideology of each; Until the final scene where everyone seems to rally to a common idea.


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