Top French Movies


The Top French Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top French List". Lists are calculated daily.

161. Four Heads Are Better Than One aka Four Troublesome Heads ( homme de têtes, Un )

Year of Release: 1898
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Georges Méliès
Actors: Georges Méliès
Plot: Mr. Melies throws off his own head only for another to grow back

162. Beautiful Lies ( De vrais mensonges )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila, Stéphanie Lagarde, Judith Chemla, Cécile Boland

163. Diplomacy ( Diplomatie )

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Burghart Klaußner, Robert Stadlober, Charlie Nelson, Jean-Marc Roulot
Plot: On the day a Nazi general is supposed to level Paris, a Swedish ambassador tries to make him see reason.

164. Marguerite

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Actors: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret, Denis Mpunga, Sylvain Dieuaide
Plot: Follows Marguerite Dumont in 1920s Paris. The wealth woman is a patron of the arts, music and opera in particular and, on occasion, she performs for her husband and friends. Though they play along with her fantasty, things take a serious turn when she decides to take her "talent" to the actual stage in front of a live audience.

165. Raw

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Julia Ducournau
Actors: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Bouli Lanners, Joana Preiss
Plot: A young woman who is also a vegetarian is forced to in to participating in a carnivorous hazing ritual. But this act unlocks something buried deep inside, and her craving for meat begins to grow.

166. Mon oncle

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tati
Actors: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis, Betty Schneider, Jean-François Martial
Plot: Monsieur Hulot visits his sister's family - and enters a world driven by technology. it's a world that he doesn't quite fit into - and as he starts to influence his nephew away from this automated world - his brother-in-law decides to employ him at his factory to keep him occupied.

167. My Father's Glory ( gloire de mon père, La )

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Yves Robert
Actors: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Joris Molinas, Pierre Maguelon, Thérèse Liotard

168. Week End ( Weekend )

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Plot: A couple plan a country retreat, but their idyllic plan is ruined by a
monstrous traffic jam, murder, cannibalism and the collapse of the French
bourgeois society.

169. JCVD

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-François Wolff, Anne Paulicevich
Plot: Broke, out of work and stuck in a custody battle, Jean-Claude Van Damme's
life can't get much worse -- until he gets involved in a robbery with the
whole world watching. Part heist thriller, part stream-of-consciousness
dramedy, this is Jean-Claude Van Damme as you've never seen him before:
*as* Jean-Claude Van Damme.

170. Child, The ( enfant, L' )

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Actors: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet, Anne Gerard

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