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1. The Cursed (2021)

R | 111 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger - and exorcise some of his own demons in the process.

Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran

Votes: 16,728

2. Overlord (2018)

R | 110 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.

Director: Julius Avery | Stars: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbæk

Votes: 106,595 | Gross: $21.70M

3. The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

PG | 122 min | Comedy, Drama

The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon

Votes: 87,642 | Gross: $54.24M

4. Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

Unrated | 86 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

After being raped by an evil feudal lord and subsequently getting banished from her village, a peasant girl makes a pact with the Devil to gain magical powers and take her revenge.

Director: Eiichi Yamamoto | Stars: Aiko Nagayama, Chinatsu Nakayama, Masaya Takahashi, Masakane Yonekura

Votes: 7,769 | Gross: $0.11M

5. Wings (1927)

PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance, War

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

Directors: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston

Votes: 14,547 | Gross: $6.59M

6. One Deadly Summer (1983)

R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery

A young woman who oozes sensuality arrives in a small town and marries the local mechanic. Was it love at first sight? What links her enigmatic presence to the family's piano? Is it curiosity or is it something far more sinister?

Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Clève

Votes: 5,361

7. Departure (III) (2015)

Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance

A nuclear family unravels in the South of France.

Director: Andrew Steggall | Stars: Juliet Stevenson, Alex Lawther, Phénix Brossard, Finbar Lynch

Votes: 2,806

8. Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama

A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli, Daniel Ivernel

Votes: 9,777 | Gross: $0.02M

9. The Hussy (1979)

90 min | Drama

Misfit François kidnaps young Mado and takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents' home. A strange relationship evolves till the police comes upon them.

Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Claude Hébert, Madeleine Desdevises, Paulette Lahaye, Juliette Le Cauchoix

Votes: 694

10. Faces Places (2017)

PG | 94 min | Documentary, Adventure

Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Directors: JR, Agnès Varda | Stars: Agnès Varda, JR, Jeannine Carpentier, Clemens Van Dungern

Votes: 13,614 | Gross: $0.95M

11. King of Hearts (1966)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy

Votes: 4,342 | Gross: $0.02M

12. The Saviour (1971)

105 min | Drama, War

In 1943, rural French teenager Nanette meets an injured British airman and decides to give him shelter at her family's farm after falling in-love with him.

Director: Michel Mardore | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Muriel Catalá, Hélène Vallier, Roger Lumont

Votes: 278

13. Maniac (1963)

Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

An American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.

Director: Michael Carreras | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse

Votes: 1,552

14. Breakthrough (1979)

PG | 115 min | Drama, War

In 1944 a German sergeant gets involved in an anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Helmut Griem, Klaus Löwitsch

Votes: 1,479

15. Mademoiselle (1966)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama

Residents of a small French town are quick to accuse Manou of arson because he seduced most of the town's women. No one suspects the real culprit, a woman committing random crimes, all in an attempt to draw Manou's attention to herself.

Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Keith Skinner, Umberto Orsini

Votes: 1,632

16. War of the Buttons (2011)

PG-13 | 109 min | Adventure, Family

Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.

Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Guillaume Canet, Jean Texier, Ilona Bachelier

Votes: 2,361 | Gross: $0.05M

17. Fear(s) of the Dark (2007)

Unrated | 83 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery

Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.

Directors: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire | Stars: Aure Atika, Guillaume Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Gil Alma

Votes: 3,233 | Gross: $0.08M

18. Love Battles (2013)

99 min | Drama

A woman returns to her village after her father's death, who has never loved. She meets a man who spends his days cultivating the land and writing. Each of their meetings will culminate in a need for them to confront physically.

Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Sara Forestier, James Thierrée, Louise Szpindel, Mahault Mollaret

Votes: 666

19. Jour de Fête (1949)

Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy

A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.

Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli

Votes: 9,057

20. La femme enfant (1980)

96 min | Drama

Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years, their bond grows stronger, as Marcel seems to be the only person she can connect to.

Director: Raphaële Billetdoux | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Pénélope Palmer, Michel Robin, Hélène Surgère

Votes: 172

21. Teddy (I) (2020)

88 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

In a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.

Directors: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma | Stars: Anthony Bajon, Christine Gautier, Ludovic Torrent, Guillaume Mattera

Votes: 1,859

22. Les granges brûlées (1973)

98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.

Director: Jean Chapot | Stars: Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, Paul Crauchet, Bernard Le Coq

Votes: 1,220

23. Zombie Lake (1981)

R | 90 min | Horror

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.

Directors: Jean Rollin, Julian de Laserna | Stars: Howard Vernon, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Anouchka, Antonio Mayans

Votes: 3,587

24. The Widow Couderc (1971)

TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Drama, Romance

John, an escaped convict, takes refuge on the farm of Widow Couderc. He becomes the older woman's lover and admits that he's on the run. The widow's in-laws, who despise her,

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean Tissier

Votes: 2,089

25. The Judge and the Assassin (1976)

128 min | Crime, Drama, History

An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy

Votes: 2,329

26. The Conquering Power (1921)

TV-G | 89 min | Drama, Romance

After losing his father, a playboy moves in with his miserly uncle, who seeks to cheat him out of his inheritance.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Alice Terry, Rudolph Valentino, Eric Mayne, Ralph Lewis

Votes: 539

27. Up from the Beach (1965)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, War

After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US Army platoon liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.

Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons, Irina Demick, Marius Goring

Votes: 145

28. Hearts of the World (1918)

TV-PG | 117 min | Drama, War

Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron, Adolph Lestina

Votes: 1,105

29. Sealed Verdict (1948)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

A former U.S. special prosecutor, Major Robert Lawson, begins to suspect that a Nazi war criminal on death row, General Otto Stiegman, has been wrongfully convicted of leveling a French village along with all of its inhabitants in WWII.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Ray Milland, Florence Marly, John Hoyt, Norbert Schiller

Votes: 76

30. Elles et moi (2008)

222 min | Drama

January 1939. The downfall of Barcelona confirms the default of the Spanish republicans. 500,000 of them had chosen the exile. Once arrived in France, men are disarmed and put in camps: ... See full summary »

Stars: Ariadna Gil, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Danielle Darrieux, Alex Brendemühl

Votes: 37

31. Where the Truth Lies (1962)

83 min | Thriller

François is a vet surgeon on the Noirmoutier island. He is married to Catherine. One day, he is called by a mysterious attractive woman, Myriam, whose leopard is sick. They become lovers. ... See full summary »

Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Juliette Gréco, Liselotte Pulver, Jean-Marc Bory, Georges Chamarat

Votes: 120

32. L'école est finie (2018)

87 min | Comedy

Agathe Langlois, Parisian, has everything to be happy and she has just been established as an English teacher. But when she learns that she is transferred hundreds of kilometers from her home, in the countryside, it is the cold shower

Director: Anne Depétrini | Stars: Bérengère Krief, Grégory Fitoussi, Marilou Berry, Anne Depétrini

Votes: 434

33. Cornelius, the Howling Miller (2017)

107 min | Drama

A village is visited by a mysterious visitor, Cornelius Bloom, who starts building a mill. The new miller is welcomed at first, but unfortunately he has a flaw: every night he howls at the moon, preventing the villagers from sleeping.

Director: Yann Le Quellec | Stars: Bonaventure Gacon, Anaïs Demoustier, Gustave Kervern, Christophe Paou

Votes: 146

34. The Last Englishman (1995 TV Movie)

60 min | Biography, Comedy, War

Biopic about a real eccentric ultra-patriotic British army officer and war hero called Lt. Col. Alfred D. Wintle, who fought in both World Wars against both the enemy and his higher-ups with the same passion.

Director: John Henderson | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Tony Haygarth, Matthew Ashforde, James Warrior

Votes: 64

35. Assignment in Brittany (1943)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War

A French captain (Jean-Pierre Aumont) poses as a Nazi to pinpoint a U-boat base off the coast of France, while assuming the identity of a look-a-like French citizen.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters, Margaret Wycherly, Signe Hasso

Votes: 288

36. Vampire Night (2001 Video Game)

T | Action, Fantasy, Horror

Vampire Night (Vanpaia Naito) is a light gun shooter from Sega and Namco for arcades and PS2. In a alternate 2006, two mysterious vampire hunters arrive in a French village that's been attacked by vampire forces of the local vampire count.

Votes: 63

37. Byli jednou dva písari (1972– )

446 min | Comedy

France, 19th century: One afternoon, two elderly gentlemen, Bouvard and Pécuchet, meet on a park bench and engage in a conversation. They discover that they are both scribes and have less ... See full summary »

Stars: Jirí Sovák, Miroslav Hornícek, Otakar Brousek, Klára Jerneková

Votes: 127

38. Om en cirkus (1965)

25 min | Documentary, Short

A look at a visiting circus in small French village of Saint-Agrève, in the Ardèche - from the arrival, to the show and then the departure of the troupe.

Director: Eric M. Nilsson

39. Zelnacka (1996 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

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Director: Pavel Hása | Stars: Josef Somr, Jan Skopecek, Kamil Halbich, Petr Kostka

Votes: 15

40. Zvonokosy (1990 TV Movie)

101 min | Comedy, Musical

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Director: Jan Bonaventura | Stars: Zlata Adamovská, Jirí Bartoska, Vlastimil Bedrna, Zuzana Bydzovská

Votes: 14

41. Héros (I) (2013)

22 min | Short, Comedy, Family

A small French town is in uproar. Over night a stranger has sprayed graffiti onto the wall of the main square. The slogans criticize the mayor, who sympathizes with the nationalists. The ... See full summary »

Director: Benoît Martin | Stars: Thomas Collange, Marie Thelen, Lizie Weltin, Charles Leckler

Votes: 23

42. Combat! (1962–1967)
Episode: Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd (1962)

60 min | Action, Drama, War

A bitterly disturbed tank Sgt. escorts Lt. Hanley's men to a French town that seems to have been abruptly abandoned.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Rick Jason, Vic Morrow, Jeffrey Hunter, Steven Rogers

Votes: 146

43. Monsieur Spade (2024)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2024)

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Spade arrives in Bozouls and he falls for a local vineyard owner. Years later, Spade remains, a widower and retiree quietly living out his golden years in peace, but the return of his adversary changes everything.

Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Clive Owen, Cara Bossom, Denis Ménochet, Louise Bourgoin

Votes: 526

44. Team Bachstad (2012– )
Episode: Episode #9.3 (2022)

35 min | Documentary, Comedy

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Directors: Øystein Bache, Rune Gokstad | Stars: Øystein Bache, Rune Gokstad

45. Ellan matkassa (2018– )
Episode: Ostereita ja meriteitä (2023)

30 min

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Director: Ilkka Saari | Star: Ella Kanninen

46. The Bourne Identity (1988)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1988)

Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A mysterious man with amnesia is fished out of the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, and must piece together his identity.

Director: Roger Young | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Anthony Quayle, Donald Moffat

Votes: 74