Top French Movies


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

161. 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.

162. My Life to Live ( Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux )

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffman, Monique Messine

163. 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.

164. 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.

165. 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

166. 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.

167. Lola

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Demy
Actors: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott, Elina Labourdette, Margo Lion

168. 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.

169. 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

170. Brotherhood of the Wolf ( pacte des loups, Le )

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Horror/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christophe Gans
Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Émilie Dequenne, Jérémie Renier, Mark Dacascos
Plot: In 1765 strange killings were happening in France. The "beast" that was stalking people became so notorious that the King of France hired hunters to find and slay the beast.

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