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1. Finding Forrester (2000)
PG-13 | 136 min | Drama
Forrester, the author of a famous book, decides to help Jamal, a 16-year-old student, discover his writing prowess by mentoring him and enrolling him into a prestigious private school.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin
Votes: 89,585 | Gross: $66.40M
2. The Grey Zone (2001)
R | 108 min | Drama, History, War
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral gray zone.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 11,424 | Gross: $0.52M
3. My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A story of doomed passion by two mortally ill people: he is physically, she is mentally.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Jacques Dutronc, Valérie Lagrange, Myriam Mézières
Votes: 2,207
4. Harrison's Flowers (2000)
R | 121 min | Drama, Romance, War
When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him.
Director: Élie Chouraqui | Stars: Andie MacDowell, Scott Anton, Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 6,767 | Gross: $1.84M
5. Hannibal (2001)
R | 131 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Living in exile, Dr. Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling, and finds himself a target for revenge from a powerful victim.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta
Votes: 293,211 | Gross: $165.09M
6. The Center of the World (2001)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
A successful computer engineer meets a stripper in a cafe. He offers her $10,000 and she offers three days and nights of no penetration in Vegas.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Shane Edelman, Balthazar Getty, Molly Parker, Peter Sarsgaard
Votes: 5,210 | Gross: $1.10M
7. In a Better World (2010)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Markus Rygaard, Wil Johnson
Votes: 41,690 | Gross: $1.01M
8. Masks (1987)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Hired to write a biography of a television personality, a reporter spends a few days at the man's country estate with the eccentric extended family.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci, Bernadette Lafont, Monique Chaumette
Votes: 1,715
9. Che ora è? (1989)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
The visit of a lawer to his military son is an opportunity to recall the past, discuss the future and find a meeting point between two diametrically opposite personalities.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud, Renato Moretti
Votes: 1,305
10.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
(2005)
Not Rated | 208 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Bob Dylan, B.J. Rolfzen, Dick Kangas, Liam Clancy
Votes: 12,111
11. Out 1 (1971)
Not Rated | 776 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.
Directors: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman | Stars: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Pierre Baillot
Votes: 1,554 | Gross: $0.03M
12. Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang (2014)
105 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary of the life & filmmaking of Jia Zhang-Ke from the Brazilian Walter Salles. Reflections on transformation of Chinese society, towns, family, the cultural revolution and ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Salles | Star: Zhangke Jia
Votes: 275
13. Voyage in Time (1983 TV Movie)
62 min | Documentary
Acclaimed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and his screenwriter Tonino Guerra travel all over Italy to scout locations for the film Nostalghia.
Directors: Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Tonino Guerra, Lora Jabloskina, Andrei Tarkovsky
Votes: 2,091
14. The Killers (1956)
19 min | Short, Drama
Two men besiege a lunch bar looking for a third man they must kill.
Directors: Marika Beiku, Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Yuliy Fayt, Aleksandr Gordon, Valentin Vinogradov, Vadim Novikov
Votes: 3,744
15. Wind from the East (1970)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Allen Midgette
Votes: 703
16. Lotte in Italia (1971)
Not Rated | 62 min | Drama
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | Stars: Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Paolo Pozzesi, Jerome Hinstin, Anne Wiazemsky
Votes: 362
17. Vladimir and Rosa (1971)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
In Godard and Gorin's free interpretation of the Chicago Eight trial, Judge Hoffman becomes Judge Himmler (who doodles notes on Playboy centerfolds), the Chicago Eight become microcosms of ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | Stars: Yves Afonso, Juliet Berto, Frankie Dymon, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 568
18. How Is It Going? (1976)
78 min | Drama
A film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville | Stars: Michel Marot, Anne-Marie Miéville
Votes: 387
19. Soft and Hard (1985)
52 min | Documentary
Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville | Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Votes: 196
20. Tarakanova (1930)
90 min | Drama
Emperess Catherine II wants to get rid of Princess Elisabeth Tarakanova who is to replace her on the throne of Russia. She asks Prince Orloff to travel to Venice so he can seduce Elisabeth ... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral, Olaf Fjord, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 40
21. The Heart of a Nation (1943)
113 min | Drama, War
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Raimu, Michèle Morgan, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Prim
Votes: 144
22. Trente et quarante (1946)
105 min | Comedy, Musical
The scene is set during the Second Empire. Captain Bitterlin watches jealously over his lovely daughter Madeleine but he cannot prevent nature from demanding its rights and Madeleine soon ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Georges Guétary, André Alerme, Martine Carol, Jean Parédès
Votes: 26
23. The Damned (1947)
Not Rated | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In the last days of World War II, a group of Nazis and their sympathizers try to escape from reckoning using a submarine.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly, Fosco Giachetti
Votes: 1,135
24. Nine Boys, One Heart (1948)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
During the Christmas season, Christine, a singer and her friends find themselves penniless. She falls asleep and dreams that she goes to heaven, followed by her friends. Waking her back on ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Friedland | Stars: Édith Piaf, Les Compagnons de la Chanson, Lucien Baroux, Marcel Vallée
Votes: 33
25. Lady Paname (1950)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Henri Jeanson | Stars: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Henri Guisol, Henri Crémieux
Votes: 144
26. Just Me (1950)
102 min | Comedy, Musical
Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of all things, prices freedom. Which is why ... See full summary »
Director: Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Sophie Desmarets, Odette Barencey, Jacques Baumer
Votes: 66
27. The Moment of Truth (1952)
Approved | 87 min | Drama
On the night of their tenth anniversary, Doctor Rene Richard accidentally discovers that his wife, actress Madeleine Richard, has been having an affair with a disturbed artist, Daniel ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Daniel Gélin, Denise Clair
Votes: 369
28. The Immature Grain (1954)
106 min | Drama
Based on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. But as adolescence segues into puberty, the two youngsters fall in love.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Nicole Berger, Pierre-Michel Beck, Robert Berri
Votes: 243
29. Le défroqué (1954)
107 min | Drama
In a prison camp, Gérard Lacassagne meets Maurice Morand, a mysterious, anticlerical officer. Lacassagne, who aspires to enter religion, discovers that Morand himself was a priest. He swears to bring him back into the fold of the Church.
Director: Léo Joannon | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Pierre Trabaud, Nicole Stéphane, Marcelle Géniat
Votes: 134
30. Flesh and the Woman (1954)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Bankrupt and disbarred, Parisian lawyer Pierre Martel heads for Algiers where he's supposed to rejoin his high-maintenance Italian girlfriend Sylvia but when she fails to show-up a heart-broken Pierre joins the French Foreign Legion.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter van Eyck
Votes: 155
31. On Trial (1954)
110 min | Crime, Drama
In this legal drama, told in flashbacks, the son of a judge, who had sentenced a man who may be innocent to 17 years in prison, tries to investigate the mysterious case.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Madeleine Robinson, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Anton Walbrook
Votes: 313
32. The Red and the Black (1954)
205 min | Drama, Romance
It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post- Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Gérard Philipe, Antonella Lualdi, Antoine Balpêtré
Votes: 694
33. Asterix and the Big Fight (1989)
81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Getafix becomes an amnesiac lunatic after being struck by Obelix's menhir, Asterix tries to cure him, all while his fellow villagers are being conned by a phony soothsayer Prolix.
Directors: Philippe Grimond, George Roubicek, David N. Weiss | Stars: Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Henri Labussière, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 8,807
34. Splendor (1989)
115 min | Drama
Jordan, forced to close his movie theater due to financial problems, recalls the events, the characters and the films that marked his life.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Marina Vlady, Paolo Panelli
Votes: 1,051
35. La Bohème (1988)
106 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Paris, 1910. On Christmas Eve, a young woman knocks on her neighbor's door to borrow some lamp oil. A touching romance is ignited even as the young woman becomes very sick.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Barbara Hendricks, José Carreras, Luca Canonici, Angela Maria Blasi
Votes: 106
36. The Possessed (1988)
116 min | Drama
In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Lampe, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Bernard Blier
Votes: 669
37. La maison assassinée (1988)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Agnès Blanchot, Ingrid Held
Votes: 645
38. I Hate Actors (1986)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.
Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim
Votes: 259
39. Love on the Quiet (1985)
100 min | Comedy
Marc cheats on his wife Jeanne who throws him out and takes a lover (Antoine). Marc then meets Samantha.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Emmanuelle Béart, Sophie Barjac
Votes: 378
40. Death in a French Garden (1985)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy
Votes: 1,812
41. Maine Ocean (1986)
130 min | Comedy
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rozier | Stars: Rosa-Maria Gomes, Abdel Kedadouche, Luis Rego, Bernard Menez
Votes: 320
42. N. Took the Dice (1972)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Horror
This enigmatic narrative and its outre content are pushed several degrees closer to total madness which scrambles an already ambiguous chronology to the point of free form collage.
Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet | Stars: Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer
Votes: 310
43. It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2006)
110 min | Drama, Horror
An orientalist professor researching Delacroix's North African work becomes entangled in an S&M waking dream in Morocco.
Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet | Stars: James Wilby, Arielle Dombasle, Dany Verissimo-Petit, Farid Chopel
Votes: 704
44. Murphy's War (1971)
GP | 107 min | Drama, War
A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson
Votes: 3,947 | Gross: $0.21M
45. The Yacoubian Building (2006)
165 min | Drama
Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Adel Emam, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra, Essad Youniss
Votes: 7,238
46. Le dossier noir (1955)
115 min | Drama
Jacques Arnaud arrives in a small town somewhere in the province. Soon a citizen reports to him that strangers have broken into his house where they stole a mysterious "black dossier".
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Antoine Balpêtré, Bernard Blier, Jean-Marc Bory, Daniel Cauchy
Votes: 183
47. Les aristocrates (1955)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
In Burgundy area, the Marquis De Maubrun, worthy heir of the aristocratic virtues and traditions, reigns over his family and estate. But wind of revolt is about to blow above Maubrun's head.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Brigitte Auber, François Guérin, Georges Descrières
Votes: 92
48. Speaking of Murder (1957)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A garage owner maintains his business as a front for his gang of criminals.
Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi, Albert Dinan
Votes: 653
49. Le chemin des écoliers (1959)
85 min | Drama
Le chemin des ecoliers (The Way of Youth) is a 1959 French film starring Alain Delon. It is based in the novel The Transient Hour by Marcel Ayme.
Director: Michel Boisrond | Stars: Françoise Arnoul, Bourvil, Lino Ventura, Alain Delon
Votes: 430
50. Pusher III (2005)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Zlatko Buric, Marinela Dekic, Slavko Labovic, Ramadan Huseini
Votes: 18,061
51. Mauprat (1926)
88 min | Drama
Set before the French Revolution, the film tells the story of Bernard De Mauprat, a noble orphan, raised by despicable aristocrats, who is saved from the gallows by his cousin Edmée and his... See full summary »
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Sandra Milovanoff, Maurice Schutz, Nino Constantini, René Ferté
Votes: 174
52. F... comme Fairbanks (1976)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
André, a hot-tempered young man, whiles away his spare time by fantasizing about the action films of Douglas Fairbanks.
Director: Maurice Dugowson | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, John Berry, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 303
53. Un papillon sur l'épaule (1978)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
A man who finds there is another world to the one we know.
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Lino Ventura, Claudine Auger, Paul Crauchet, Jean Bouise
Votes: 825
54. Le sucre (1978)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Director: Jacques Rouffio | Stars: Jean Carmet, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud
Votes: 554
55. Don Giovanni (1979)
176 min | Drama, Music
Mozart's opera in lush sets: Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, kills Donna Anna's father. He is then chased by Donna Anna's fiancé, Don Ottavio, as well as Donna Elvira, one of his former conquests. But the real threat lies elsewhere.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa
Votes: 1,315
56. Clara and the Why Not (1981)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Monnet | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Christophe Bourseiller
Votes: 498
57. Querelle (1982)
R | 108 min | Drama
A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet
Votes: 7,423
58. The Party 2 (1982)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Vulnerable and impressionable teenage girl continues to experience sorrows and joys of adult life.
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 5,210
59. Carmen (1984)
PG | 152 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In 1820s Spain the soldier Don José falls in love with the fiery and charismatic factory worker Carmen. Conflicts and grievances multiply, however, as it becomes apparent their views on love and commitment are fundamentally incompatible.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham
Votes: 1,715
60. Standing Tall (2015)
R | 120 min | Drama
A juvenile judge and a special educator are convinced that they can save the young delinquent Malony from himself and his violent ways.
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Rod Paradot, Benoît Magimel, Sara Forestier
Votes: 3,860 | Gross: $0.02M
61. The Sparrow (1972)
105 min | Drama
Set shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Salah Qabil, Ali El Sherif, Mahmoud Al Meleji, Seif Abdelrahman
Votes: 393
62. Nightwatching (2007)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May
Votes: 3,449
63. The Walk (II) (2015)
PG | 123 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale
Votes: 135,514 | Gross: $10.14M
64. Le coeur et l'argent (1912)
18 min | Drama, Short
The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man. Raymond, the young woman's fiancé, is devastated. After a few ... See full summary »
Directors: Louis Feuillade, Léonce Perret | Stars: Suzanne Grandais, Renée Carl, Raymond Lyon, Paul Manson
Votes: 169
65. La nativité (1910)
Not Rated | 14 min | Drama, Short
Silent tableaux depicting the birth of Christ in a barn and King Herod's attempt to have him killed, following the story in the Gospel.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Renée Carl, Nadette Darson, Alice Tissot, Maurice Vinot
Votes: 125
66. La Possession de l'enfant (1909)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short
In the lobby of a court house, we see a family leaving the court room right after the judge has awarded custody of the child to the father. The mother is heartbroken and begs for the child,... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Renée Carl, Christiane Mandelys, Maurice Vinot
Votes: 157
67. Le nain (1912)
14 min | Drama, Short
A manuscript is mysteriously delivered to a playhouse where it is eventually turned into a major hit with critics calling it a masterpiece. The only problem is that no one knows who wrote ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Delphin, Renée Carl, Suzanne Grandais, Marthe Vinot
Votes: 147
68. Sous la griffe (1912)
26 min | Short
Director: Jean Durand | Stars: Joë Hamman, Gaston Modot, Berthe Dagmar, René Sablon
Votes: 27
69. The Life of Moliere (1910)
20 min | Short, Biography, Drama
We first see Moliere at work in his father's shop, when a boy. All the employees are busy at their appointed tasks, except the youthful playwright, who snatches time to re-read one of his ... See full summary »
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: André Bacqué, Abel Gance, René d'Auchy, Amélie de Pouzols
Votes: 83
70. Le chrysanthème rouge (1912)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A woman tells her two competing suitors she will marry the one who brings her her favourite flowers. When she reveals that these are red chrysanthemums, one of the competitors resorts to desperate measures.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Suzanne Grandais, Léonce Perret, Émile Keppens
Votes: 73
71. The Matrimonial Express (1912)
13 min | Short, Comedy
A man on his way to marry the daughter of a friend of his uncle instead falls for a woman he meets on the train, despite the efforts of her censorious mother.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Valentine Petit, Léonce Perret, Marie Dorly, Émile Keppens
Votes: 54
72. Sur la voie (1913)
14 min | Short, Drama
Love rivalry between railway workers almost leads to tragedy.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Eugène Bréon, Émile Keppens, Valentine Petit
Votes: 46
73. Léonce cinématographiste (1913)
17 min | Short, Comedy
Léonce is busy making a film when his wife Poupette becomes jealous after reading his fan mail. But it turns out her jealousy is misplaced.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Léonce Perret, Suzanne Le Bret, Maurice Vinot, Ernest Bourbon
Votes: 39
74. Léonce aime les morilles (1913)
13 min | Short, Comedy
Beaten to a tasty portion of wild morel mushrooms by a determined Englishman, Léonce and Poupette sneakily substitute the mushrooms for cut-up pieces of sponge, with surprising results.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Léonce Perret, Suzanne Le Bret, Alice Tissot
Votes: 39
75. Oscar et Kiki la midinette (1913)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Oscar drags up to help his beloved Kiki by delivering hats for the shop where she works.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Léon Lorin, Mademoiselle Davrières, Marie Dorly
Votes: 32
76. Oscar au bain (1913)
12 min | Short, Comedy
Oscar courts a new girlfriend on a taxi ride around Paris, and ends up taking an unexpected bath.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Léon Lorin, Marie Dorly, Angèle Lérida
Votes: 30
77. L'hôtel du silence (1908)
11 min | Short
The misadventures of a guest in an automatic hotel.
Directors: Étienne Arnaud, Émile Cohl | Stars: Renée Carl, Maurice Vinot
Votes: 76
78. Les aventures des Pieds-Nickelés (1918)
30 min | Short
An eccentric criminal trio make a series of unlikely escapes from the attentions of a hapless detective.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 45
79. Hommage à Émile Cohl (1989 TV Movie)
32 min | Documentary
Director: Fabien Ruiz | Stars: Raymond Maillet, Jacques Rouxel, Vincent Pinel, Paul Grimault
80. Les chalands (1911)
10 min | Short, Drama
The daughter of a boatman falls in love with a shore-dweller, and runs away in the face of her father's disapproval. This simple film prefigures in its settings Jean Vigo's celebrated L'Atalante.
Director: Georges-André Lacroix
Votes: 40
81. La Marseillaise (1907)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Musical
By 1907, sound experimenter Georges Mendel had devised a system to assure synchronization by mechanically interlocking phonograph and projector. The film was shot to playback but ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Mendel | Star: Jean Noté
Votes: 128
82. La grève des apaches (1908)
10 min | Short
Criminals go on strike in protest at their treatment by the authorities, to the distress of the police and magistrates who find they have nothing to do.
Directors: Étienne Arnaud, Romeo Bosetti
Votes: 30
83. Christopher Columbus (1910)
13 min | Short, Drama
This film presents some of the principal episodes in the life of Christopher Columbus, including the discovery of America. Here we see the meeting with Queen Isabella of Spain and her ... See full summary »
Director: Étienne Arnaud | Star: Renée Carl
Votes: 28
84. Jeux D'Enfants (1913)
12 min | Short, Drama
A spoiled little girl gets a boy who works at her father's factory into unfair trouble. She later needs his help when, playing irresponsibly in the factory, she gets trapped in a hydraulic press.
Director: Henri Fescourt
Votes: 29
85. Un drame de l'air (1913)
18 min | Drama, Short
An aging engineer pursues a scheme to build a flying machine at the expense of his family's health. When his daughter falls ill, he enters a flying competition to win money for her treatment, even though his design is dangerously untested.
Director: René Le Somptier | Stars: Maurice Vinot, Jeanne Marie-Laurent, Armand Dutertre, Georges Melchior
Votes: 29
86. Des pieds et des mains (1915)
17 min | Short
The story of a how a love-struck young man eventually wins over an initially reluctant woman, charmingly told in shots that depict only their hands and feet.
Director: Gaston Ravel | Stars: Kitty Hott, André Roanne
Votes: 39
87. Têtes de femmes, femmes de tête (1916)
37 min | Short
Boulevard comedy in which we never see the feet of any of the actors.A wronged woman gets help from her sister to retrieve her husband, who has been charmed away by a princess.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Kitty Hott, André Roanne, Suzanne Delvé, Georgette Faraboni
Votes: 41
88. Un conseil d'ami (1916)
16 min | Short
Light comedy about a violin virtuoso who gets romantic advice from a friend to set him up with a young American lady.But will things work out, since the musician has admitted he is awkward with social skills?
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Fernand Herrmann, Kitty Hott
Votes: 31
89. Biscot se trompe d'étage (1916)
15 min | Short
Burlesque comedy in which the tipsy Biscot returns to his apartment building but can't find his own place, going floor by floor into every one else's units.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Georges Biscot, Kitty Hott
Votes: 43
90. Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
TV-PG | 283 min | Drama
Ten years within the marriage of Marianne and Johan.
Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom
Votes: 17,275
91. Invincible (2001)
PG-13 | 133 min | Drama, War
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Jouko Ahola, Tim Roth, Anna Gourari, Max Raabe
Votes: 4,544 | Gross: $0.08M
92. Flowing (1956)
117 min | Drama
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta ... See full summary »
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine, Mariko Okada
Votes: 1,187
93. Farewell (1983)
121 min | Drama
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the ... See full summary »
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Stefaniya Stanyuta, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko, Leonid Kryuk
Votes: 764
94. Merry-Go-Round (1980)
Not Rated | 160 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Elizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in NYC and to her younger sister Leo in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate. When Ben and Leo arrive, a mysterious adventure begins.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Maria Schneider, Joe Dallesandro, Danièle Gégauff, Sylvie Matton
Votes: 607
95. Stolen Summer (2002)
PG | 91 min | Drama
A Catholic boy tries to convert a terminally ill Jewish boy, so he will be able to go to Heaven.
Director: Pete Jones | Stars: Amara Balthrop-Lewis, Kevin Pollak, Aidan Quinn, Bonnie Hunt
Votes: 2,891 | Gross: $0.12M
96. The Spy Gone North (2018)
Not Rated | 137 min | Drama, Thriller
In the mid-1990s, a loyal South Korean secret agent is caught in a political vortex plotted by the ruling classes of North and South Korea.
Director: Yoon Jong-bin | Stars: Hwang Jung-min, Lee Sung-min, Cho Jin-woong, Ju Ji-hoon
Votes: 6,195 | Gross: $0.50M
97. A Geisha (1953)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 2,370
98. The Woman of Rumour (1954)
83 min | Drama, Romance
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 1,407
99. Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
TV-PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year's time.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa
Votes: 6,701
100. Bushido (1963)
122 min | Action, Drama
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realizes that he's about to repeat their mistakes.
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 505
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