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poster
89
8.1
/28789/
78
/690/
79
/715/
4.4
/59639/
97
/77/
94
/535/
99
/24/

Army of Shadows (1969)
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
poster
83
7.8
/40830/
76
/673/
74
/558/
3.9
/40718/
95
/37/
90
/819/
90
/16/

To Have and Have Not (1945)
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.8
/21443/
75
/471/
75
/355/
4.1
/20045/
94
/18/
89
/207/
80
/16/

The Train (1964)
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
poster
80
7.6
/36240/
77
/2287/
73
/744/
3.8
/29318/
100
/11/
80
/3281/
cc age 14+

Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007)
The Planet Express crew return from cancellation, only to be robbed blind by hideous "sprunging" scam artists. Things go from bad to worse when the scammers hack Bender, start traveling through time, and take Earth over entirely! Will the crew be able to save the day, or will Bender's larcenous tendencies and their general incompetence doom them all?
poster
77
7.1
/46402/
69
/947/
68
/821/
3.5
/30246/
100
/39/
81
/1216/
77
/11/

Sleeper (1973)
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
poster
fuboTV
77
7.5
/36460/
74
/965/
73
/984/
3.7
/18074/
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
7.2
/3701/
66
/64/
66
/45/
3.7
/10925/
77
/13/
78
/111/

Secret Honor (1984)
In his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting to absolve himself of responsibility for Watergate and lambasting President Gerald Ford's decision to pardon him. His monologue explores his personal life and describes his upbringing and his mother. A tape recorder, a gun and whiskey are his only companions during his entire monologue, which is tinged with the vitriol and paranoia that puzzled the public during his presidency.
poster
75
7.0
/15552/
69
/299/
67
/391/
3.5
/5873/
83
/88/
79
/719/
82
/25/
cc age 17+

Days of Glory (2006)
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…
poster
Kanopy
73
7.2
/7917/
76
/189/
69
/245/
3.5
/3851/
85
/61/
79
/147/
59
/16/

My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
poster
fuboTV
71
6.7
/3302/
70
/160/
60
/151/
3.6
/5432/
92
/59/
72
/18/
75
/20/

Microbe and Gasoline (2015)
Two young friends embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves.
poster
70
6.3
/2067/
61
/23/
56
/24/
3.2
/939/
100
/8/
58
/35/

Divorce American Style (1967)
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
poster
69
6.8
/2553/
53
/13/
61
/22/
3.5
/453/
80
/25/
72
/23/
66
/23/

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
7.0
/30296/
70
/1000/
72
/1131/
3.3
/20133/
75
/44/
69
/88/
63
/9/

Suite Française (2015)
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
poster
fuboTV
68
7.5
/4827/
73
/392/
70
/82/
3.5
/5468/
64
/28/
78
/30/
55
/7/

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
poster
Kanopy
67
7.1
/10951/
73
/290/
67
/398/
3.3
/5620/
67
/66/
67
/122/
52
/18/

The Women on the 6th Floor (2011)
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis' family, makes him discover the servants' quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.
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Kanopy
65
6.3
/1448/
59
/70/
61
/144/
3.3
/1604/
67
/43/
52
/3/
57
/12/

Memoir of War (2017)
In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a Resistance fighter and then deported, while she maintains a tense relationship with her ambiguous lover and a dangerous game with a French collaborationist. Even when the Liberation arrives, she must still endure the unbearable pain of waiting.
poster
Kanopy
64
6.3
/6547/
59
/175/
57
/139/
3.4
/13740/
87
/92/
33
/1/
84
/22/

Synonyms (2019)
A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
poster
70
63
6.8
/5539/
68
/138/
72
/218/
3.5
/3461/
75
/8/
71
/42/

Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
poster
Kanopy
83
61
8.0
/2508/
82
/111/
81
/83/
4.0
/6248/
100
/25/
86
/5/
73
/6/

The Silence of Others (2019)
The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.
poster
Kanopy
59
6.6
/6313/
64
/189/
66
/367/
3.2
/17287/
54
/89/
53
/7/
55
/24/

Godard Mon Amour (2017)
In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
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
57
5.8
/169/
46
/3/
51
/12/

French Provincial (1975)
In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family.
poster
61
53
7.0
/47986/
70
/2657/
66
/3481/
3.0
/61978/
41
/1/

Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
51
7.3
/1431/
65
/28/
63
/32/
3.9
/3706/
89
/126/

The Mouth Agape (1974)
Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son remains aloof, and her daughter-in-law wonders if she is witnessing her own decline. They all struggle to express, or feel, their love for one another.
poster
Hoopla
70
51
6.7
/2961/
70
/237/
67
/346/
3.2
/4476/
82
/10/

One Man and his Cow (2016)
An Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture Fair.
poster
Kanopy
83
50
7.8
/963/
76
/19/
80
/41/
4.1
/3608/
93
/15/
90
/8/

The Lovely Month of May (1963)
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
poster
75
48
7.1
/973/
62
/19/
67
/43/
3.8
/1267/
100

Shock Troops (1967)
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
poster
55
47
6.1
/10801/
64
/1159/
58
/1309/
2.6
/22800/
41
/1/

Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
poster
54
46
5.8
/6723/
59
/836/
56
/845/
2.7
/38948/
46
/3/

OSS 117: From Africa with Love (2021)
1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission – more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever – he is forced to team up with a young new colleague, the promising OSS 1001.
poster
45
5.8
/32218/
64
/1012/
58
/636/
2.9
/10130/
12
/17/
35
/423/
33
/13/

Air America (1990)
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
poster
69
42
7.3
/2192/
66
/42/
72
/86/
3.8
/1679/
50
/8/
82
/7/

Happy New Year (1973)
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
53
42
5.8
/2485/
59
/171/
56
/245/
3.0
/4638/
67
/12/
19
/5/

How to Be a Good Wife (2020)
Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities. But while preparations are underway for the best housekeeping competition TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nation-wide protests of May 1968 transform society around them. Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric stepsister Gilberte and strict nun Marie-Therese, Paulette joins forces with the schoolgirls to overcome their suppressed status and become liberated women.
poster
69
40
7.0
/299/
71
/24/
68
/58/
3.4
/10005/

The Money Maker (2026)
In post-war France, Jan Bojarski, a young Polish refugee, became the greatest counterfeiter of all time, the "Cézanne of counterfeit money". For more than fifteen years, this man led a double life, unbeknownst to his family, making counterfeits in a garden shed that were "truer" than the bills issued by the Banque de France... All these years, this peerless counterfeiter managed to avoid being caught by the police, and became the bête noire of Commissaire Mattei in a hunt that, for these two obsessives, turned into a duel.
poster
62
39
6.6
/2430/
60
/46/
63
/68/
3.4
/3826/
57
/8/

Two Men in Manhattan (1959)
Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.
poster
57
33
6.0
/1529/
56
/43/
59
/64/
3.1
/683/
50

The Twin (1984)
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother and will play both characters.
poster
63
31
5.8
/948/
69
/60/
62
/106/
3.2
/1043/

Atlantic Wall (1970)
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
poster
61
30
7.0
/1097/
64
/12/
64
/28/
3.4
/319/
43
/7/
61
/33/

The Last Mitterrand (2005)
A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.
poster
67
28
6.9
/893/
53
/8/
59
/19/
3.6
/385/
71
/7/
81
/13/

And Now My Love (1974)
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
poster
64
25
6.5
/728/
62
/17/
61
/22/
3.3
/1412/

Libido (1965)
A young man visits his ancestral home accompanied by his guardian and their wives, where he is plagued by the memories and influence of his murderous, psychosexual father.
poster
59
22
5.9
/395/
59
/32/
55
/46/
3.2
/556/

My Father's Stories (2021)
Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly follows his father in missions of utmost danger: tailing, spying, delivering top-secret letters. Emile carries out his orders in all seriousness. He even recruits Luca, a new classmate, into his secret combat. But what if the father’s exploits were all phony, and far too dangerous for children?
poster
55
21
5.3
/634/
53
/23/
55
/51/
3.1
/386/

Let's Get Those English Girls (1976)
When their little cheat fails, Alain and Jean-Pierre fail their final high-school exams in English. Their parents deny them the planned vacation to the Côte d’Azur and send them instead to Ramscale in England, to improve their English. However, many other parents had the same idea, so they meet more of their own than English folks and end up more at beach parties than in class. Only with the girls do they seem to have no luck, although they desperately try...
poster
63
17
6.7
/438/
50
/9/
55
/36/
3.5
/266/

The Good and the Bad (1976)
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.
poster
59
15
5.4
/263/
63
/14/
56
/32/
3.2
/241/

Le Jour de gloire (1976)
In 1944, a retired German detachment found itself stranded in a French town. The inhabitants try to live in good harmony with the occupants. But one day kids, playing with a grenade, accidentally cause the death of an SS lieutenant.
poster
66
11
7.1
/254/
66
/12/
57
/11/
3.5
/459/

Half a Life (1982)
Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both before and after the disturbances. He was imprisoned for a short while in 1973. Disillusioned after the failure of the demonstrations and the death of the only woman he had loved, his life seems to have changed from a period of hope and activism to one of bottomless despair. His friend, Romain Goupil wrote and directed this biographical documentary. Death at 30 received the 1982 Cannes Film Festival's Golden Camera Award for "Best First Feature-Length Film."
poster
58
7
5.9
/118/
56
/6/
55
/10/
3.2
/245/

Birth of a Leader (2016)
Vincent, a 20-year-old successful actor, is being offered the leading role in the film of the year: a biopic on Charles de Gaulle in his youth. At the same time, his parents move to Orléans, thus pushing him to live alone. The film follows his first steps towards independence.
poster
?
7.0
/22/

La visite du Général De Gaulle au Québec (1967)
Documentary presenting the different stages of General de Gaulle's trip to Quebec in 1967, accompanied by extracts from his speeches.
poster
?
7.1
/20/

The Fabulous Story of U.S. Dollar (2009)
The story of the dollar is that of a myth, the American dream. The dollar flinches and the world quakes. Are we living the first signs of the end of an empire? The Marvelous History of the US Dollar examines the green back's history, allure, and unique role as a catalyst for globalization, and how the American buck became so almighty that "$" is the most powerful symbol on earth.


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