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Kanopy
85
7.6
/94173/
74
/1844/
74
/1966/
3.9
/277004/
95
/82/
90
/2243/
96
/24/

Breathless (1960)
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.5
/10412/
68
/158/
73
/284/
4.2
/19486/
100
/28/
82
/161/

La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.5
/27261/
74
/562/
73
/547/
3.9
/73456/
93
/46/
84
/388/

Pickpocket (1959)
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
poster
82
7.6
/28672/
73
/477/
75
/595/
3.9
/63876/
94
/51/
91
/746/
93
/22/

Band of Outsiders (1964)
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.
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
Kanopy
82
7.5
/17140/
75
/497/
74
/371/
4.3
/89414/
95
/64/
77
/145/
94
/16/

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
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
80
7.2
/6930/
72
/177/
70
/169/
3.9
/23020/
95
/22/
80
/19/

A Tale of Winter (1992)
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.1
/8686/
69
/158/
69
/182/
3.6
/24184/
81
/21/
73
/105/
97
/5/

Le Petit Soldat (1963)
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement.
poster
79
7.5
/6233/
75
/143/
70
/126/
4.1
/24011/
100
/13/
81
/31/

Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to know Fabien.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.4
/5709/
71
/131/
71
/118/
4.0
/19742/
82
/11/
84
/21/

The Aviator's Wife (1981)
A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
poster
Criterion Channel
78
7.3
/17763/
70
/470/
70
/347/
4.1
/124082/
87
/47/
76
/166/
91
/20/

Beau Travail (2000)
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
7.4
/16934/
72
/276/
71
/325/
3.9
/33517/
90
/31/
83
/162/
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.
poster
MUBI
76
7.0
/8012/
71
/718/
70
/688/
3.8
/133116/
95
/19/
78
/6/
73
/6/

Yannick (2023)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
7.1
/6441/
67
/142/
68
/162/
3.7
/21419/
88
/17/
76
/21/

A Tale of Springtime (1990)
The story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party and determines to match her off with her father, despite the latter's already having a lover of his own.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
6.5
/9262/
62
/194/
62
/209/
3.5
/26975/
94
/34/
72
/179/

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
poster
79
70
7.9
/5435/
77
/182/
78
/131/
4.2
/42019/

The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.
poster
69
7.2
/962/
68
/7/
67
/39/
3.8
/1271/
71
/4/

The Salamander (1971)
Pierre and Paul, journalist and writer respectively, team up to write a screenplay based on the real story of a young woman accused by her uncle of trying to kill him. They decide to meet her.
poster
fuboTV
76
68
7.4
/7951/
73
/123/
71
/204/
3.7
/7080/
82
/11/
84
/118/

The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
poster
76
67
7.4
/6253/
71
/116/
71
/254/
3.8
/13087/
92
/1068/

The Things of Life (1970)
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
poster
Kanopy
66
5.5
/217/
37
/7/
69
/4/
2.9
/1556/
85
/33/
74
/13/

A Couple (2022)
"A Couple" is a film about a long term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia. They were married for 36 years, had 13 children, nine of whom survived. Each kept a diary. Although they lived together, in the same house, they wrote letters frequently to each other. Leo Tolstoy insisted that they read their diaries aloud to guests at dinner parties. The Tolstoy’s were also a dysfunctional couple, arguing frequently and being very unhappy with each other while occasionally enjoying passionate moments of reconciliation. The film is Sophia’s monologue about the joys and struggles of their life together, loosely drawn from their letters to each other and their diary entries.
poster
77
66
7.0
/5193/
69
/74/
70
/124/
3.7
/11070/
93
/14/
89
/33/

That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.
poster
Kanopy
65
7.1
/10671/
68
/295/
66
/484/
3.5
/11595/
71
/14/
86
/112/

Going Places (1974)
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
poster
Kanopy
64
6.1
/1480/
62
/104/
59
/125/
3.0
/3226/
81
/26/
58
/3/
42
/8/

Two Tickets to Greece (2023)
As teenagers, Blandine and Magalie were inseparable. Years passed and they lost sight of each other. As their paths cross again, they decide to take the trip together that they have always dreamed of. Direction Greece, its sun, its islands but also its galleys because the two former best friends now have a very different approach to holidays... and to life!
poster
Criterion Channel
76
64
7.1
/4083/
71
/79/
69
/92/
3.6
/6880/
100
/9/
76
/30/

Le Beau Serge (1959)
After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
poster
77
64
7.3
/5894/
71
/119/
67
/126/
3.8
/14710/
100
/14/
78
/19/

Full Moon in Paris (1984)
Feeling suffocated by a possessive boyfriend, work and suburban life, a young woman starts spending the weekends in her Paris apartment in order to reclaim some of her lost freedom.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
62
7.4
/2884/
70
/54/
71
/82/
3.9
/7163/
100
/5/
78
/24/

Naked Childhood (1969)
Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.
poster
Kanopy
62
6.3
/4015/
65
/86/
63
/85/
3.7
/9327/
75
/12/
63
/53/

Hail Mary (1985)
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
poster
MUBI
67
59
6.3
/4863/
63
/86/
59
/108/
3.6
/8448/
88
/8/
61
/44/

First Name: Carmen (1983)
The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robbery she falls in love with a security guard. The film intercuts between Carmen's escape with the guard, her uncle's attempt to make a comeback film, and a string quartet attempting to perform Beethoven.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
56
6.1
/2878/
59
/68/
63
/86/
3.7
/9394/
86
/7/
65
/30/

India Song (1975)
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.
poster
Hoopla
77
54
7.2
/2420/
71
/56/
70
/83/
3.9
/6384/
100
/9/
73
/7/

We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)
Jean, a married 40-year-old filmmaker, and his young working class lover, Catherine, engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative reunions, their mutual desire a fire that burns them again and again.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
54
6.8
/2066/
66
/36/
59
/46/
3.6
/3552/
79
/24/
75
/26/
70
/22/

Late August, Early September (1999)
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
poster
Kanopy
51
5.0
/2501/
63
/55/
50
/50/
3.0
/4114/
55
/11/
25
/8/
62
/6/

A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
poster
Kanopy
70
50
6.3
/1851/
61
/97/
68
/70/
3.4
/10074/
88
/52/
72
/4/
71
/16/

Disco Boy (2023)
After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei, a Belarusian, joins the Foreign Legion in France and clings to a confused hope of a European identity. Jomo, a Nigerian, fights for the survival and durability of his people in the Niger Delta and is ready to die to defend his ideas. These two young people who are sacrificed and smashed together will, against all odds, meet and their destinies will merge to continue across borders, bodies, life and death...
poster
Criterion Channel
79
47
7.3
/1006/
70
/15/
64
/34/
4.0
/3694/
100
/11/
92
/8/

L'Amour fou (1969)
A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.
poster
64
47
6.3
/2206/
58
/22/
54
/27/
3.3
/985/
75
/55/
55
/64/
79
/20/

Gabrielle (2005)
Wealthy but arrogant writer Jean Hervey comes home one day to find that his wife, Gabrielle, has left him for another man. Realizing her mistake, Gabrielle returns, and the pair begin a merciless analysis of their marriage as the relationship comes undone.
poster
59
46
6.5
/1841/
64
/79/
64
/167/
3.5
/15172/
50
/20/
44
/7/

Forever Young (2022)
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.
poster
69
46
6.5
/989/
63
/19/
64
/24/
3.7
/2541/
86
/14/
41
/3/
92
/6/

Almayer's Folly (2012)
A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
45
6.8
/657/
60
/11/
73
/26/
3.5
/2773/
100
/37/

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1966)
Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
43
6.7
/1381/
53
/25/
60
/34/
3.7
/4956/
100
/6/
74
/1/

No Fear, No Die (1990)
Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
poster
74
42
7.2
/943/
74
/19/
69
/47/
3.6
/821/
86

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff (1977)
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
poster
74
41
7.4
/1648/
70
/31/
74
/58/
3.8
/1896/
78
/9/

A Bad Son (1980)
Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.
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
67
37
7.1
/845/
57
/4/
64
/41/
3.9
/1789/

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December (1995)
Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art.
poster
MUBI
60
36
6.1
/1683/
65
/32/
63
/40/
3.6
/3389/
42
/12/

Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)
This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.
poster
61
35
5.4
/746/
52
/21/
65
/30/
3.8
/2214/

Too Early / Too Late (1982)
Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant struggle and liberation from Western colonization, and link it to class tensions in France shortly before the Revolution of 1789, quoting texts by Engels as well as the pioneering nonfiction film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).
poster
68
35
6.1
/731/
53
/13/
56
/31/
3.4
/463/
100

A Woman at Her Window (1976)
Greece, 1936. An aristocratic woman engages in a series of loveless affairs before finding herself falling for a political activist.
poster
Kanopy
58
34
5.9
/1650/
59
/22/
57
/50/
3.6
/3839/
45
/7/

Mad Love (1985)
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.


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