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MUBI
83
7.6
/33129/
76
/836/
74
/495/
4.1
/112851/
97
/73/
82
/207/
84
/23/

Oslo, August 31st (2011)
A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles with uncertainty about his future. Over the course of one day, he drifts through encounters that reflect his longing for connection and his deep sense of alienation.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.7
/105178/
75
/2443/
75
/3265/
4.1
/150233/
91
/135/
81
/658/
86
/34/
cc age 17+

The Great Beauty (2013)
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
poster
Hulu
83
7.8
/552437/
78
/13136/
76
/7636/
4.2
/1982246/
91
/216/
91
/45115/
80
/36/
cc age 16+

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
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
80
7.4
/3197/
65
/37/
67
/76/
3.8
/2879/
86
/7/
92
/24/

The Lacemaker (1977)
Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.
poster
83
80
7.9
/13016/
80
/324/
78
/241/
4.1
/41350/
96
/456/

Love Letter (1995)
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to be called Itsuki Fujii.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
6.8
/656644/
69
/27108/
69
/10705/
3.7
/5196702/
88
/507/
83
/6747/
80
/67/
cc age 11+

Barbie (2023)
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
poster
MUBI
77
6.9
/15317/
67
/432/
65
/332/
3.8
/26386/
99
/149/
71
/68/
88
/28/

Things to Come (2016)
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
poster
80
76
7.9
/13721/
77
/249/
70
/121/
3.9
/8764/
88
/16/
93
/628/

Auntie Mame (1958)
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
poster
76
7.3
/14755/
72
/227/
72
/348/
3.9
/19999/
61
/18/
82
/233/

Roma (1972)
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
poster
Netflix
74
7.3
/50194/
72
/822/
72
/1025/
3.7
/40821/
73
/37/
82
/709/
62
/19/

Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
7.2
/76198/
71
/1053/
67
/809/
3.5
/46577/
85
/110/
84
/9941/
66
/27/
cc age 17+

Paris Je T'aime (2006)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
poster
Kanopy
71
6.7
/2976/
64
/33/
62
/67/
3.7
/2325/
72
/29/
72
/42/
72
/23/

Time Regained (1999)
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
70
7.6
/6128/
75
/126/
75
/138/
3.9
/10987/
100
/10/
90
/28/

Le Silence de la mer (1949)
In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he speaks to them candidly about his life and hopes for the future of France and Germany.
poster
Kanopy
75
70
6.9
/8938/
71
/209/
69
/230/
3.7
/50368/
95
/20/
73
/55/

La Chinoise (1967)
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.5
/1587/
66
/63/
69
/55/
3.3
/7176/
82
/50/
62
/7/
69
/13/

This Is Not Berlin (2019)
Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground LGBTQ nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty and drugs.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.4
/8930/
62
/228/
61
/141/
3.3
/4690/
89
/152/
57
/190/
73
/29/

Le Week-End (2013)
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.
poster
69
7.2
/219977/
72
/5618/
70
/3081/
3.8
/449254/
57
/224/
82
/12605/
62
/38/
cc age 17+

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.
poster
68
6.7
/8745/
65
/99/
64
/136/
3.4
/6889/
55
/22/
58
/119/
67
/10/

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
poster
Kanopy
68
7.1
/36856/
67
/1676/
66
/1732/
3.5
/30653/
82
/78/
69
/100/
70
/17/

The Brand New Testament (2015)
God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...
poster
Hoopla
67
7.2
/106311/
72
/2282/
71
/1551/
3.4
/93789/
57
/63/
79
/3282/
62
/19/
cc age 16+

The Doors (1991)
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
poster
Netflix
65
7.1
/203060/
70
/7892/
73
/3620/
3.9
/998861/
57
/364/
52
/589/
61
/63/
cc age 17+

Babylon (2022)
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
poster
62
6.1
/1855/
68
/26/
54
/52/
3.3
/541/
65
/31/
49
/24/
59
/15/

Little Lili (2003)
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
poster
74
61
7.3
/3959/
72
/113/
75
/399/
3.8
/11365/

Bianca (1984)
Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
6.5
/22592/
70
/1383/
65
/713/
3.2
/11208/
51
/111/
47
/115/
56
/23/
cc age 14+

Genius (2016)
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
poster
Kanopy
72
60
6.7
/5220/
68
/363/
64
/472/
3.3
/7373/
92
/12/
77
/4/

The Mystery of Henri Pick (2019)
In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece. It was written by a certain Henri Pick, a cook who died two years earlier and who, according to his widow, had never read a book in his life or written anything but a shopping list... Did he have a secret life? When the book becomes a huge best-seller, Jean- Michel Rouche, a skeptical and stubborn literary critic, teams up with Joséphine, Pick’s daughter, to unravel the mystery.
poster
Hulu
58
6.7
/225755/
73
/18917/
67
/5786/
3.1
/219371/
52
/211/
62
/1303/
50
/43/
cc age 16+

The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his former partner is murdered.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
6.8
/1307/
69
/85/
66
/145/
3.4
/6333/
64
/25/
46
/6/
37
/4/
cc age 10+

Dilili in Paris (2018)
With the help of her delivery-boy friend, Dilili, a young Kanak, investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing Belle Epoque Paris. In the course of her investigation she encounters a series of extraordinary characters, each of whom provides her with clues that will help her in her quest.
poster
58
6.1
/6811/
62
/192/
61
/299/
3.3
/12795/
63
/84/
40
/45/
52
/29/

Saint Laurent (2014)
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
poster
55
5.8
/2249/
58
/39/
53
/37/
3.2
/1475/
60
/15/
40
/13/
52
/10/

Rich and Famous (1981)
Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
54
6.6
/11938/
65
/344/
64
/237/
3.0
/3604/
44
/93/
50
/133/
49
/26/
cc age 14+

Words and Pictures (2014)
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
poster
Kanopy
69
53
6.8
/2275/
64
/58/
60
/53/
3.4
/1609/
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.
poster
Kanopy
52
6.0
/44585/
59
/1060/
56
/882/
2.9
/30415/
47
/152/
34
/523/
56
/32/
cc age 17+

On the Road (2012)
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
poster
AMC+
51
5.7
/12616/
57
/298/
56
/215/
2.7
/7251/
38
/96/
38
/726/
51
/28/
cc age 18+

Savage Grace (2007)
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
49
6.7
/4832/
67
/88/
62
/101/
3.3
/2797/
58
/21/

Farewell, Friend (1968)
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.
poster
71
49
7.1
/2123/
68
/35/
71
/154/
3.8
/4947/

The Terrace (1980)
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
49
5.8
/46409/
56
/739/
55
/621/
2.7
/21249/
39
/205/
37
/4287/
49
/33/
cc age 15+

Nine (2009)
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.
poster
Kanopy
48
5.6
/7933/
56
/320/
53
/188/
2.9
/4250/
22
/63/
28
/66/
50
/17/

Elles (2011)
A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
48
5.1
/15545/
58
/1391/
56
/712/
2.5
/9767/
46
/26/
21
/50/
56
/9/
cc age 13+

Down a Dark Hall (2018)
Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.
poster
MGM Plus
61
47
6.9
/3487/
69
/48/
66
/80/
3.5
/3712/
40
/10/
55
/22/

The Green Room (1978)
A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, he transforms a chapel into a new shrine to preserve her memory.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
49
45
6.2
/8134/
60
/181/
61
/159/
3.0
/2349/
34
/71/
32
/269/
40
/16/

Good (2008)
When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by powerful political figures in the Nazi party to push their agenda, his career and social standing instantly advance. But after learning of the Reich's horrific plans for the future and the devastating effects they will have on people close to him, John must decide whether or not to take a stand and risk losing everything.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
44
5.0
/25530/
58
/2529/
54
/919/
2.2
/40287/
31
/84/
22
/274/
cc age 14+

Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
poster
Kanopy
69
37
7.0
/1800/
68
/52/
69
/86/
3.5
/1339/

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.
poster
56
36
6.3
/1777/
72
/23/
61
/36/
3.3
/1754/
33
/9/
39
/9/
58
/6/

Getting Straight (1970)
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
66
36
6.2
/898/
69
/13/
59
/17/
3.3
/744/
84
/25/
59
/15/
65
/9/

Bonsai (2011)
A young writer recounts an earlier romance in hopes of attracting his new love interest.
poster
36
5.0
/16856/
55
/369/
51
/216/
2.3
/3404/
10
/58/
30
/931/
25
/19/
cc age 18+

Hell Ride (2008)
Two rival bikers gangs, the Victors and the Six-Six-Six's, refuel their decades-old rivalry.
poster
54
35
5.7
/736/
55
/135/
53
/147/
2.6
/2745/

Presidents (2021)
A former french President, Nicolas, decides to persuade another one, François, to campaign together in order to return to the front stage of politics.
poster
68
35
6.9
/2111/
68
/52/
73
/108/
3.5
/1322/
64
/1/

Last Known Address (1970)
Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.


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