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1. Yannick (2023)
67 min | Comedy, Drama
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard comedy, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin, Sébastien Chassagne
Votes: 4,398
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Not Rated | 202 min | Drama
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Votes: 13,941 | Gross: $0.02M
3. Disco Boy (2023)
92 min | Drama
After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, in the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family.
Director: Giacomo Abbruzzese | Stars: Morr Ndiaye, Wahab Oladiti, Salem Kisita, Mutamba Kalonji
Votes: 1,239
4. Two Tickets to Greece (2022)
110 min | Comedy
When childhood friends Magalie and Blandine cross paths after many years, they decide to finally take their dream vacation to Greece.
Director: Marc Fitoussi | Stars: Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte, Kristin Scott Thomas, Alexandre Desrousseaux
Votes: 1,029
5. The Fire Within (1963)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps
Votes: 10,480
6. The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
77 min | Drama
A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.
Director: Bernard Queysanne | Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 4,659
7. Forever Young (2022)
126 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows a troupe of young students at one of France's most prestigious performing arts academies as they navigate the ups and downs of art and love.
Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Sofiane Bennacer, Louis Garrel, Micha Lescot
Votes: 1,392
8. Detective (1985)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
At a Paris hotel, a hotel detective fired after a murder took place there continues to investigate, helped by his inspector nephew and girlfriend. A boxing manager, owing money to a couple and the mafia, rides on a match next day.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye
Votes: 2,339
9. Full Moon in Paris (1984)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Louise is a suburban young interior decorator divided between a boyfriend, a lover (who is married) and the wish of having some fulfillment and some balance in her life. A change to reach ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini, Virginie Thévenet
Votes: 5,393 | Gross: $0.01M
10. The Aviator's Wife (1981)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
A young 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 lover.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury, Mathieu Carrière
Votes: 5,180
11. A Couple (2022)
63 min | Drama
The film follows a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.
Director: Frederick Wiseman | Star: Nathalie Boutefeu
Votes: 160
12. A Dirty Story (1977)
50 min | Documentary, Drama
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals.
Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Douchka, Jean-Noël Picq, Laurie Zimmer
Votes: 423
13. Tapage nocturne (1979)
97 min | Drama
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Dominique Laffin, Bertrand Bonvoisin, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Joe Dallesandro
Votes: 263
14. French film
90 min | Drama, Romance | Post-production
Sam and Léna, two actors, are in love. Sam wants to completely possess Léna. She gives herself entirely to him. Yet their relationship deteriorates to the point of disaster.
Director: Claude Chamis | Stars: Luca Colucci, Pauline Miocekovitz, Augustin De Winter, Nathan Moreira
15. Une femme à sa fenêtre (1976)
110 min | Drama
Margot Santorini is an aristocratic woman in 1936 in Greece, who amuses herself pursuing a shallow loveless affair with a nobleman, but unexpectedly falls in love with a political activist.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux, Umberto Orsini
Votes: 643
16. Before We Collapse (2023)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Tristan, campaign manager for a legislative candidate, is shocked by an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test.
Directors: Benoît Volnais, Alice Zeniter | Stars: Niels Schneider, Ariane Labed, Souheila Yacoub, Myriem Akheddiou
Votes: 84
17. The Salamander (1971)
125 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis, Véronique Alain
Votes: 862
18. Les photos d'Alix (1982)
18 min | Short
A woman shares important moments of her life with a man.
Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Alix Clio-Roubaud, Boris Eustache
Votes: 190
19. Le père Noël a les yeux bleus (1966)
50 min | Drama
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.
Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Gérard Zimmermann, Henri Martinez, René Gilson
Votes: 511
20. The Diary of Lady M (1993)
113 min | Drama
Lady M. gives up everything to follow Diego on an aimless journey. On the way, she learns that he is married to a woman of color and has a child.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Myriam Mézières, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Félicité Wouassi, Nanou
Votes: 232
21. The Truck (1977)
76 min | Drama, Romance
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the ... See full summary »
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 454
22. No Man's Land (1985)
110 min | Drama
Jean, a young Swiss whose watchmaking skills no longer prove useful in the real world, dawdles his time away either in his parents' farm or in Lucie's restaurant-bar.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Hugues Quester, Myriam Mézières, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Betty Berr
Votes: 223
23. Cage of Gold (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
In post-WW2 Britain, a young woman marries an old flame but after he disappears, and is later declared dead, she re-marries, only to be blackmailed by the supposedly-dead first husband who suddenly re-appears in her life, in need of money.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Madeleine Lebeau
Votes: 550
24. Le joli mai (1963)
Not Rated | 165 min | Documentary
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme | Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 878 | Gross: $0.02M
25. Third Side of the Coin (1960)
60 min | Documentary
A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Ali, Père Gauthier, Monsieur Klein, Yaakov Malkin
Votes: 232
26. A Girl Is a Gun (1971)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Billy the Kid pursues the witness of a heist in order to eliminate him.
Director: Luc Moullet | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Rachel Kesterber, Jean Valmont, Bruno Kresoja
Votes: 184
27. Emergency Kisses (1989)
90 min | Drama
The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life, and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such a project in which she wanted to play herself.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Brigitte Sy, Philippe Garrel, Louis Garrel, Anémone
Votes: 354
28. Les enfants du placard (1977)
105 min | Drama
Nicolas has an appointment with his sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy secret of childhood: their mother committed suicide while their father had charged Nicolas to keep her. Since ... See full summary »
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Jean Sorel, Georges Marchal
Votes: 82
29. Mon cas (1986)
92 min | Drama, Fantasy
Four versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film, third in the perspective of a film of the 50s and finally in a biblical philosophical perspective.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Luís Miguel Cintra, Axel Bogousslavsky, Fred Personne
Votes: 222
30. Je m'abandonne à toi (2023)
95 min | Drama
Paul, Padre in the Foreign Legion, is immersed in the sufferings of war. He is solicited by families of the dying, tormented soldiers. Paul also tries to comfort a loved one: his mother.
Director: Cheyenne Carron | Stars: Johnny Amaro, Anne Sicard, Laurent Borel, Pierre-Yves Touzot
31. Le grand soir (1976)
90 min | Drama
In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedicated activist and the group leader's mistress. The police keep a close watch on them and trouble is bound to follow.
Director: Francis Reusser | Stars: Niels Arestrup, Jacqueline Parent, Arnold Walter, François Berthet
Votes: 40
32. Anatomie d'un rapport (1976)
82 min | Documentary, Drama
A woman's feminist awakening drives a couple to a relationship crisis.
Directors: Luc Moullet, Antonietta Pizzorno | Stars: Luc Moullet, Marie-Christine Questerbert, Antonietta Pizzorno, Viviane Berthommier
Votes: 178
33. Aventure de Catherine C. (1990)
100 min | Drama
In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a film shoot in Vienna, Catherine stays with ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Beuchot | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Hanna Schygulla, Robin Renucci, André Wilms
Votes: 59
34. Gabriel Rose (2021)
16 min | Short, Comedy
A dark comedy about a beauty influencer.
Director: Léopold Kraus | Stars: Paolo Luka Noé, Apollonia Luisetti, Marie Colomb, Anne Charrier
35. Journal de Rivesaltes 1941-1942 (1997)
77 min | Documentary
During the last world war, Friedel Bohny-Reiter, a Swiss Red Cross nurse, worked in the Rivesaltes accommodation camp. Thanks to this young woman, many children were saved from certain death at Auschwitz.
Director: Jacqueline Veuve | Stars: Claudia Dieterle, Friedel Bohny-Reiter, Catherine Gaxet, Ernest Marx
36. Cyril & Louise (2022)
12 min | Short, Drama
Cyril and Louise love each other dearly. Today they celebrate the fourth anniversary of their wild love. Tonight there will be a forest party. Louise and Cyril are planning to go. They ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandre Schild | Stars: Cyril Metzger, Mélodie Adda, William Frey, Arcadi Radeff
37. The Musician Killer (1975)
124 min | Drama
After the conductor of the orchestra he has been playing in commits suicide, a young clarinettist is left with a quite valuable violin.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Anna Karina, Joël Bion, Philippe March, Hélène Coulomb
Votes: 49
38. Chronique paysanne en Gruyère (1991)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary
Conrad and Louise Bapst are little farmers from the Swiss alpine living in autonomy and sharing the same estate with their three sons. They make Gruyère by hand, as it has been produced for three hundred years.
Director: Jacqueline Veuve | Stars: Conrad Bapst, Louise Bapst, Romain Bapst, Jacques Bapst
Votes: 5
39. Seuls (1981)
100 min | Drama
Jean, 35, stumbles across a photo of a young woman in a photo booth that looks like her mother, who died shortly after birth. Troubled by this picture, he begins to fantasize about the identity of this unknown and makes unusual encounters.
Director: Francis Reusser | Stars: Niels Arestrup, Christine Boisson, Michael Lonsdale, Bulle Ogier
Votes: 38
40. Derborence (1985)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Antoine loves Thérèse. He is a shepherd and tends the animals with his uncle Séraphin. Thérèse works in the village with her mother. One day, a landslide buries Antoine and Séraphin.
Director: Francis Reusser | Stars: Isabel Otero, Jacques Penot, Maria Machado, Jean-Marc Bory
Votes: 100
41. Fuis-moi, je te suis! (2022)
34 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Adèle and Thibault play the dangerous game of desire. But Adèle is not sure of her feelings or those of her lover.
Director: Abigaëlle Janssens-Rivallain | Stars: Victor Perret, Abigaëlle Janssens-Rivallain, Severine Leus, Sabine Rivallain
42. J'avais un camarade (2021)
16 min | Short, Drama
Upon his arrival at a prestigious military high school, Woyzeck, an officer's son, meets Bakary, a student of modest origins with whom he will share his room.
Director: Janloup Bernard | Stars: Alseni Bathily, Nathan Gruffy, Valentin Byls, Wesley Norris
43. Legio Patria Nostra (2022)
37 min | Short, Action
Indochina, 1947. Foreign Legion troops secure a railway line in Viet Minh territory. After the death of one of them, a new recruit is sent there.
Director: Kevin Favillier | Stars: Killian Merly, Jalal Altawil, Victor Pontecorvo, Mathieu Ziegler
44. Les sacrifiés (1983)
In 1955, Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities. At the age of 27, he landed in the Algerian shantytown of Nanterre in France.
Director: Okacha Touita | Stars: Miloud Khetib, Sid Ali Kouiret, Djamel Allam, Patrick Chesnais
Votes: 29
45. Casse couille (2022)
17 min | Short, Drama
Amber goes to a cool party with friends with a girlfriend and her boyfriend. They realize they forgot to bring cannabis. Amber lets them go and decides to wait for them in the house with the "friends".
Director: Philémon Antoine | Stars: Onur Aydin, Elias Azzaoui-Ihda, Emma Ladeuze, Milton Riche
46. Le garçon sur le quai (2023)
13 min | Short, Drama, Romance
One night, on a bridge in Paris, a young man wants to kill himself. But a young woman prevents him from ending his life.
Director: Claude Chamis | Stars: Farid Deghiche, Alicja Jablonska
47. Situation du théâtre au Québec (1970)
112 min | Documentary
A documentary about theater in Québec at that time interviewing important artists in that field.
Director: Jacques Gagné | Stars: Guy Beaulne, André Brassard, Paul Buissonneau, Yvan Canuel
48. Femme de la rue (2012)
24 min | Documentary, Short, News
Two years ago, master student 'Documentary film' Sofie Peeters moved to Brussels. She was faced with a very frustrating phenomenon. On a daily basis, she was treated with disregard by ... See full summary »
Director: Sofie Peeters
Votes: 15
49. Telesma (2021)
Short
When a woman meets her soulmate, she spends time with the man who is madly in love with her. But as the days go by, the woman realizes she might be happier on her own.
Director: Lada Egorova | Stars: Louise Greggory, Victor Perret
50. En Apnée (2021)
15 min | Short, Drama
Tom is a young man in a relationship with Alice. As Alex comes back into his life by chance, Tom is confronted with his inner conflicts, his desires and his questions. Between memories, dreams and fantasies, Tom is alone with himself.
Director: Victor Estivant | Stars: Alice de Broqueville, Erwan Brezillon Garnier, Victor Estivant