Catalogue Dynamics Films
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1. 20 nuits et un jour de pluie (2006)
85 min | Drama
She was fleeing the West, and he the East. She was European, light-skinned, on her way back from Java, at the edge of the world. Once North-Vietnamese, now a proud Frenchman, he had an ... See full summary »
Director: Lâm Lê | Stars: Natalia Wörner, Eric Nguyen, Monic Arijanto, Santha Leng
Votes: 171
2. The Revengers' Comedies (1998)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
Henry is about to jump off a bridge when he hears a cry for help. He helps Karen, who had also planned suicide. They're both on Tower Bridge, London, because somebody wronged them. Revenging each other gives them a reason to live.
Director: Malcolm Mowbray | Stars: Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves
Votes: 1,849
3. Angélique (1964)
TV-14 | 115 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In the first of the Angélique series, the beautiful feisty teenage heroine becomes entangled in a political assassination plot and is betrothed to a stranger who is twelve years her senior and a reputed sorcerer.
Director: Bernard Borderie | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort, Claude Giraud
Votes: 3,021
4. Au nom du père et du fils (1992)
80 min | Drama
Patrice's father was murdered in 1978. Time has done nothing to erase the pain, the anger, the questions and the regrets caused by the tragedy. Twelve years later, Patrice enrolls his son ... See full summary »
Director: Patrice Noïa | Stars: Patrice Noïa, Judicaël Noïa, Carolina Rosi, Pier Paolo Capponi
Votes: 9
5. 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
6. Because of the Cats (1973)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A gang of wealthy ne'er do wells rape and terrorize women for fun and force their husbands to watch. A police detective tries to catch them, but can he break their twisted loyalty to one another?
Director: Fons Rademakers | Stars: Bryan Marshall, Alexandra Stewart, Edward Judd, Sebastian Graham Jones
Votes: 505
7. Ben et Bénédict (1977)
95 min | Drama
Ben obeys, Benedict doesn't. Ben loses, Bénédict wins. This is because Bénédict just embodies Ben's fantasies. If she was real - Bénédict would ask Bernard, a university mate, to offer his ... See full summary »
Director: Paula Delsol | Stars: Françoise Lebrun, André Dussollier, Daniel Duval, Jacqueline Staup
Votes: 11
8. Caligula et Messaline (1981)
109 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Seductive Messalina will stop at nothing to become the most powerful woman in Rome.
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Antonio Passalia | Stars: Vladimir Brajovic, Betty Roland, Françoise Blanchard, Raul Cabrera
Votes: 728
9. Ce que femme veut... (1993)
75 min | Comedy
Cécile is twenty. She is expecting a child from Pierre, who is thirty-five. She goes through her pregnancy with peace of mind. Quite unlike Pierre, who dreads the prospect of fatherhood... ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Jumel | Stars: Caroline Chaniolleau, Karin Viard, Gérard Jumel, François Siener
Votes: 15
10. I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980)
PG | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in ... See full summary »
Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Simone Signoret, Jean Rochefort, Delphine Seyrig, Geneviève Fontanel
Votes: 435
11. Niu-Peng (1989)
86 min | Drama
In August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he's sent to a remote mountain camp in Niu-Peng. There he's called "Four ... See full summary »
Director: Sijie Dai | Stars: Liang Yi Guo, Quan Ngieu Tieu, Cheung Siang Chang, Sam Chi-Vy
Votes: 89
12. Cocotte minute (1990–1993)
26 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Stars: Frank Meschkuleit, Ronnie Burkett, Trish Leeper
Votes: 38
13. Dog's Dialogue (1977)
22 min | Short
A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Eva Simonet, Robert Darmel, Silke Humel, Frank Lesne
Votes: 524
14. Corps et biens (1986)
100 min
The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Dominique Sanda, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Ingrid Held
Votes: 65
15. Daens (1992)
138 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the ... See full summary »
Director: Stijn Coninx | Stars: Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck, Michael Pas
Votes: 4,393
16. Daisy et Mona (1994)
91 min | Comedy
The difficult reunion between a tough young mother and her neglected daughter provide impetus this gritty, but upbeat French drama.
Director: Claude d'Anna | Stars: Marina Golovine, Dyna Gauzy, Lilah Dadi, Caroline Thery
Votes: 14
17. Sweet Killing (1993)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A business man decides to kill his wife but the plan sets off a chain of weird events that cause his life to become a living hell.
Director: Eddy Matalon | Stars: Anthony Higgins, Leslie Hope, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Ironside
Votes: 124
18. Diesel (1985)
79 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A prositute (Anges Sorel) tries to change her life after her release from prison, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fole or kill her... See full summary »
Director: Robert Kramer | Stars: Gérard Klein, Agnès Soral, Richard Bohringer, Niels Arestrup
Votes: 72
19. Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenager daughter Élisabeth, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Louis Bertuccelli | Stars: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, François Périer, Isabelle Huppert
Votes: 241
20. Korczak (1990)
Unrated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, War
The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Marzena Trybala
Votes: 1,594
21. Doggy Bag (1999)
85 min | Comedy
A young woman neglected by her mother, who prefers her dog, plunges into a totally crazy dream. She imagines herself getting rid of this unwanted dog in the company of her bizarre driver.
Director: Frédéric Comtet | Stars: Michèle Laroque, Didier Bourdon, Line Renaud, Étienne Chatiliez
Votes: 145
22. Don Juan (1998)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Weber | Stars: Jacques Weber, Michel Boujenah, Emmanuelle Béart, Penélope Cruz
Votes: 519
23. Sweet Inquest on Violence (1982)
98 min | Drama
Kept prisoner by terrorists in an abandoned building in suburbs, a finance worker, Ash, manage to communicate with the outside world because of letters and videos. A film crew go to search him at the same time than police.
Director: Gérard Guérin | Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Élise Caron, Jeanne Herviale, Albert Marcoeur
Votes: 10
24. Downtime (1997)
90 min | Romance, Thriller
Chrissy contemplates suicide with her son. Rob, a former police psychologist, intervenes and asks her on a date. The two, along with Chrissy's son and elderly Pat, become trapped in an elevator after a drunken gang damages it.
Director: Bharat Nalluri | Stars: Paul McGann, Susan Lynch, Tom Georgeson, David Roper
Votes: 264
25. The Common Man (1975)
100 min | Drama
A family holiday turns to tragedy when hostilities between the French holidaymakers and a group of local Arab workers turns violent.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Jean Carmet, Pierre Tornade, Jean Bouise, Michel Peyrelon
Votes: 992
26. Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980)
95 min | Biography, Drama
The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women.
Director: Herbert Vesely | Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann, Kristina van Eyck
Votes: 464
27. To Have (or Not) (1995)
84 min | Drama, Romance
Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been ... See full summary »
Director: Laetitia Masson | Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Roschdy Zem, Jean-Michel Fête
Votes: 299
28. Erendira (1983)
103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in ... See full summary »
Director: Ruy Guerra | Stars: Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michael Lonsdale, Oliver Wehe
Votes: 679
29. La prossima volta il fuoco (1993)
78 min
Prof Amedeo is irritated by a dream full of naked women including his mother, wife and daughter. Awake, he is enervated by his elderly mother, and he becomes really uneasy when his daughter Gloria openly asks him to teach her how to kiss.
Director: Fabio Carpi | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Marie-Christine Barrault, Lila Kedrova, Jacqueline Lustig
Votes: 42
30. Et la lumière fut (1989)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
The film depicts daily life in an Senegalian village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain, et cetera, while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers, is slowly encroaching.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Sigalon Sagna, Saly Badji, Binta Cissé, Marie-Christine Dieme
Votes: 368
31. Couche-moi dans le sable et fais jaillir ton pétrole... (1975)
X | 85 min
A penniless artist has a lot of trouble and in particular a tax employee who does everything he can to lock him up. Meanwhile, he meets an African woman, daughter of King of the State of ... See full summary »
Director: Norbert Terry | Stars: Laure Moutoussamy, François Gabriel, Evelyne Scott, Jean Degrave
Votes: 21
32. Fait d'hiver (1999)
105 min | Drama
Inspired by a news item that upset France, the film tells the story of a divorced father, who barricades himself with his children in his isolated house, refusing to return them to their mother who has custody of them. by court decision.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Charles Berling, Claude Brasseur, Jean-François Stévenin, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 115
33. Fiorile (1993)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama
While traveling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted 200 years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, Michael Vartan, Lino Capolicchio
Votes: 1,180 | Gross: $0.43M
34. Trade Secrets (1986)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?
Director: Claude Faraldo | Stars: Sam Waterston, Marisa Berenson, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Lauren Hutton
Votes: 81
35. Friends (1993)
105 min | Drama, Romance
At the end of the 1980s, three female friends share a house in Johannesburg, South Africa. Each has her own way to live with apartheid. Thoko is a Black teacher and practices non-violent ... See full summary »
Director: Elaine Proctor | Stars: Kerry Fox, Dambisa Kente, Michele Burgers, Marius Weyers
Votes: 140
36. Gamer (2001)
92 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he contacts Valery, GameStar's boss, and offers her a new video game concept.
Director: Patrick Levy | Stars: Saïd Taghmaoui, Camille De Pazzis, Alexis Loret, Bruno Salomone
Votes: 338
37. North Star (1996)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every mining claim that becomes available, usually ... See full summary »
Director: Nils Gaup | Stars: James Caan, Christopher Lambert, Catherine McCormack, Burt Young
Votes: 1,358
38. Hard Men (1996)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Crime
A Cockney thug becomes a daddy just before he and his two colleagues are supposed to put the screws to some unfortunate deadbeat. The new dad decides that he has had enough killing and ... See full summary »
Director: J.K. Amalou | Stars: Layla Aldridge, Victoria Bensted, Ross Boatman, Keith Brown
Votes: 590
39. Histoire d'Adrien (1980)
95 min | Drama
In the Périgord, at the beginning of the century, Adrien, illegitimate child, is adopted by his grandmother. When the First World War ended, he becomes a railway man, and takes part in the strikes of 1920.
Director: Jean-Pierre Denis | Stars: Bernard Sautereau, Serge Dominique, Pierre Dienade, Marcelle Dessalles
Votes: 25
40. Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu (1973)
120 min | Drama
An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party. Are the photographs fake or genuine ?
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Annie Girardot, Mireille Darc, Bernard Fresson, Michel Bouquet
Votes: 174
41. Il pleut sur Santiago (1975)
112 min | Drama, Thriller
A depiction of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: John Abbey, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bibi Andersson, Annie Girardot
Votes: 341
42. Inca de Oro (1997 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
Alba lives in Paris. She is the daughter of a Chilean who was murdered under Pinochet. On TV, she discovers the face and name of the executioner of her mother. She decides to go to Chile for revenge.
Director: Patrick Grandperret | Stars: Yvonne Kerouedan, Florence Thomassin, Antoine Chappey, Julio Jung
Votes: 10
43. Invitation au voyage (1982)
R | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Young lovers ask, "What would you do if I died?" In this case, the young lovers are twins, Nina and Lucien, brother and sister. He answers, "I'll make you live again." Then, in an accident,... See full summary »
Director: Peter Del Monte | Stars: Laurent Malet, Corinne Reynaud, Mario Adorf, Aurore Clément
Votes: 181
44. Je suis Pierre Rivière (1976)
82 min | Drama
The story about Pierre Riviere, who tired of the constants demands of her mother to her father decides to kill her, but also his brother and his sister.
Director: Christine Lipinska | Stars: Jacques Spiesser, André Rouyer, Max Vialle, Francis Huster
Votes: 78
45. Jesuit Joe (1991)
100 min | Adventure, Western
Canada, 1911. Narrated by a vulture, the story of Jesuit Joe, a mixed-race who belongs to a rebel Indian family, which have pay a lot for the defense of their territory. After having ... See full summary »
Director: Olivier Austen | Stars: Peter Tarter, John Walsh, Laurence Treil, Geoffrey Carey
Votes: 73
46. Dear Diary (1993)
Unrated | 100 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Neiwiller, Claudia Della Seta
Votes: 9,119 | Gross: $0.47M
47. Karmen Gei (2001)
86 min | Musical, Romance, Drama
Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire.
Director: Joseph Gaï Ramaka | Stars: Djeïnaba Diop Gaï, Magaye Niang, Stephanie Biddle, Thierno Ndiaye Doss
Votes: 257
48. La bande du Rex (1980)
100 min | Drama
What do Patricia, Badou, François, Dingo and P'tit Jeannot have in common? They live in the Paris suburbs, they are young, they are on the verge of breaking away from school, from the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Henri Meunier | Stars: Charlotte Kid, Dominique Pennors, Willy Pierre, Pierre Pradinas
Votes: 27
49. The American Beauty (1961)
104 min | Comedy
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertible by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Dhéry, Pierre Tchernia | Stars: Alfred Adam, Colette Brosset, Robert Burnier, Pierre Dac
Votes: 700
50. La Bonzesse (1974)
98 min | Drama
La bonzesse is a light soft porn erotic film, directed by Francois Jouffa and staring the gifted French film writer Sylvie Matton, who with her husband Charles Matton, wrote the excellent ... See full summary »
Director: François Jouffa | Stars: Sylvie Matton, Bernard Verley, Olga Valéry, Betty Berr
Votes: 83
51. La brigade (1975)
108 min | Drama, War
During WWII, in a North of France town occupied by German forces, a group of volunteer resistance fighters, snipers and partisans from Poland fight with efficiency. A dangerous mission is ... See full summary »
Director: René Gilson | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Edward Wojtaszek, Jean Bouise, Marcel Cuvelier
Votes: 16
52. Lady Caliph (1970)
96 min | Drama
As strikes upset Italy, the Califfa's husband is killed and she becomes a passionate militant of the strikers. She opposes the factory manager Doverdo who used to be himself a worker.
Director: Alberto Bevilacqua | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Romy Schneider, Marina Berti, Roberto Bisacco
Votes: 413
53. The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Patrick Dewaere, Lia Tanzi
Votes: 1,046
54. Llanto por un bandido (1964)
100 min | Drama, History, Western
José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Francisco Rabal, Lea Massari, Philippe Leroy, Lino Ventura
Votes: 209
55. The Key Is in the Door (1978)
98 min | Drama
The life of Marie, a French teacher, is completely upset by the arrival in her class of a hectic schoolboy.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Annie Girardot, Patrick Dewaere, Stéphane Jobert, Eléonore Klarwein
Votes: 139
56. La compagnie de Sarah (1989 TV Movie)
Director: Stéphane Loison | Stars: Maria Pacôme, Serge Bourrier, Josine Comellas, Stéphane Hillel
57. La dilettante (1999)
118 min | Comedy
Pierrette Dumortier, a woman of character but weak-willed and defenseless against boredom, decides one fine day to leave her husband and her bourgeois life in Switzerland to return to Paris... See full summary »
Director: Pascal Thomas | Stars: Catherine Frot, Sébastien Cotterot, Barbara Schulz, Jacques Dacqmine
Votes: 729
58. Austern mit Senf (1979)
90 min | Comedy
Luc and Gaston are French bus drivers who would do almost anything for pretty girls. Thus they "borrow" one of their firms busses in order to bring some girls to Kitzbuehel for skiing.
Director: Franz Antel | Stars: Stéphane Hillel, Sascha Hehn, Olivia Pascal, Consuelo De Haviland
Votes: 58
59. La fausse suivante (2000)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Pierre Arditi, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 251
60. La jeune morte (1965)
84 min | Drama
A man who goes out from jail tries to understand the death of his wife.
Directors: Claude Faraldo, Roger Pigaut | Stars: Françoise Fabian, Ivo Garrani, Huguette Hue, Muni
61. La lumière du lac (1988)
90 min | Drama
An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include an elderly man with a penchant for ... See full synopsis »
Director: Francesca Comencini | Stars: Nicole Garcia, Wadeck Stanczak, Francesca Prandi, Jean-Louis Barrault
Votes: 17
62. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
PG | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A thirteen-year-old girl, who lives with her absentee father, befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.
Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman
Votes: 18,067
63. Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
Not Rated | 126 min | Comedy, Drama
A bank cashier who's allergic to banknotes quits his job after an armed robbery. He decides to start a new life--as a thief. He starts by targeting a popular former client, a butcher. But being a neurotic Marxist has its drawbacks.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Flavio Bucci, Daria Nicolodi, Mario Scaccia
Votes: 1,307
64. The Punishment (1973)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
Britt, deluxe call-girl, is punished by the brothel owner because she was not accomodating enough to a customer. From now on, she must obey to all customers sadistic wishes, or else.
Director: Pierre-Alain Jolivet | Stars: Karin Schubert, Georges Géret, Amidou, Claudie Lange
Votes: 358
65. La seconda volta (1995)
80 min | Drama
Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the... See full summary »
Director: Mimmo Calopresti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Milillo, Simona Caramelli
Votes: 637
66. La septième dimension (1988)
82 min | Fantasy, Horror
Henri, pharmacist, is secretly in love with Helene, a 50's movie star. One night, Louis, old partner of the actress, knocks on his door. The two men enter the seventh dimension, the fantastic world of Helene's movies.
Directors: Olivier Bourbeillon, Manuel Boursinhac, Laurent Dussaux, Benoît Ferreux, Stéphan Holmes, Peter Winfield | Stars: Jean-Michel Dupuis, Francis Frappat, Marie-Armelle Deguy, Michel Aumont
Votes: 24
67. La véritable histoire d'Artaud le momo (1994)
170 min | Documentary
This three-hour-long French documentary chronicles the life and personality of famed French poet, actor and intellectual Antonin Artaud, who passed away in 1948 when he was only 50 years old.
Directors: Gérard Mordillat, Jérôme Prieur | Stars: Anie Besnard, Marthe Robert, Paule Thevenin, Henri Thomas
Votes: 32
68. La vie continue (1981)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife.
Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Pierre Dux, Michel Aumont
Votes: 70
69. L'affaire Marcorelle (2000)
96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant.
Director: Serge Le Péron | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Khorsand
Votes: 187
70. Bonjour Amour (1977)
98 min | Drama
Adolescent French suburban lower-middle-class nerd Marc Morel was happy being the teacher's pet and school representative in a Latin competition. Until he meets and instantly falls in love ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Andrieux | Stars: Pascal Meynier, Guilhaine Dubos, Bruno Raffaelli, Alix Mahieux
Votes: 54
71. Pierscionek z orlem w koronie (1992)
104 min | Drama, War
A young resistance fighter tries to deal with the harsh reality of post-war Poland, where Communists have come to power.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Rafal Królikowski, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Cezary Pazura, Jerzy Kamas
Votes: 327
72. L'année du bac (1964)
94 min | Drama
In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the preparation of high school diploma.
Directors: Maurice Delbez, José-André Lacour | Stars: Jean Desailly, Simone Valère, Paul Amiot, Jacques Rispal
Votes: 13
73. L'Autrichienne (1990)
98 min | Biography, Drama, History
Last days of queen Marie Antoinette stunningly portrayed by a director who's clearly done a massive historical research. An accurate plot and a very moving rendering.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Ute Lemper, Patrick Chesnais, Daniel Mesguich, Philippe Leroy
Votes: 124
74. L'auvergnat et l'autobus (1969)
90 min | Comedy
After getting an inheritance in Strasbourg, a good and naive countryman from Auvergne, decides to bring it to full fruition by buying a bus.
Director: Guy Lefranc | Stars: Fernand Raynaud, Julien Guiomar, Christiane Minazzoli, Jean Richard
Votes: 52
75. Le Bal (1983)
109 min | History, Musical
Dance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier
Votes: 3,028
76. Le chien fou (1966)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Eddy Matalon | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Jacques Monod, Olivier Hussenot, Howard Vernon
Votes: 28
77. Le coeur à l'envers (1980)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Paris and finds a brand new woman when he sees his mother.
Director: Franck Apprederis | Stars: Annie Girardot, Laurent Malet, Charles Denner, Stéphane Audran
Votes: 70
78. Le coeur fou (1970)
100 min | Drama
Georges Menessier, a 45-year-old celebrity press writer, smuggles into a mental hospital to take pictures of...his ex-wife Clara Noël, once a great film star now confined to this clinic for... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco | Stars: Michel Auclair, Ewa Swann, Madeleine Robinson, Brigitte Auber
Votes: 62
79. Le coup de grâce (1965)
101 min | Drama
During WWII, Bruno has given many people away to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face given by plastic surgery, he is back and becomes friend with his victims' relatives or friends.
Directors: Jean Cayrol, Claude Durand | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, Olivier Hussenot, Florence Guerfy
Votes: 69
80. Peggio di così si muore (1995)
90 min | Comedy
Back from their honeymoon, Carlo and Anna mistakenly take the wrong suitcase at the airport and find half a billion Lire in it. They decide to keep the money and buy an apartment; but ... See full summary »
Director: Marcello Cesena | Stars: Carla Signoris, Maurizio Crozza, Ugo Dighero, Mauro Pirovano
Votes: 110
81. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
NC-17 | 124 min | Crime, Drama
At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard
Votes: 41,711 | Gross: $7.72M
82. Le destin de Juliette (1983)
109 min | Drama
A farmer's daughter marries a railway worker to insure that her family is well cared for. Her new husband proves to be a sluggardly alcoholic and eventually, she decides her own personal happiness comes before the welfare of her family.
Director: Aline Issermann | Stars: Laure Duthilleul, Richard Bohringer, Véronique Silver, Pierre Forget
Votes: 34
83. The Sunday of Life (1967)
100 min | Comedy
After five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where Valentin sells frames, while his wife becomes fortune teller. One day, Valentin replaces her, and predict a terrible event which will happen.
Director: Jean Herman | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Olivier Hussenot, Françoise Arnoul
Votes: 76
84. Le double de ma moitié (1999)
95 min | Comedy
With the help of a hidden twin sister, a couturier tries to take revenge on his wife who cheats on him with his partner.
Director: Yves Amoureux | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Zabou Breitman, Marc Lavoine, Jacky Nercessian
Votes: 139
85. Traffic Jam (1979)
128 min | Drama
A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Patrick Dewaere
Votes: 1,189
86. The Wanderer (1967)
G | 103 min | Drama, Romance
Rural France, the 1890s. Always in motion, Augustin wanders three times. First, as a youth, while a boarder near Bourges, he's lost in the woods and finds a chateau where an engagement ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Jean Blaise, Alain Libolt, Alain Noury
Votes: 294
87. Le juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977)
112 min | Crime, Drama
The young judge Fayard is not afraid of anybody as he does his work honestly.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Aurore Clément, Philippe Léotard, Michel Auclair
Votes: 743
88. Le maître nageur (1979)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A cruel fable about the relationships of a gold digger proletarian woman and her old-fashioned/has-been crooner husband, who is hired as a lifeguard by a nasty, disabled and self-sufficient billionaire at his estate in the South of France.
Director: Jean-Louis Trintignant | Stars: Guy Marchand, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Claude Brialy, Moustache
Votes: 156
89. Le mouton noir (1979)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Moscardo | Stars: Jacques Dutronc, Hélène Rollès, Tanya Lopert, Arthur Wilkins
Votes: 25
90. Le petit matin (1971)
120 min | Drama
Nina lives with her family in a superb property in the French region of Landes. She loves her cousin Jean who is overprotected by his possessive mother, Eva. There is war and, after the French defeat, Jean wants to join London.
Director: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco | Stars: Catherine Jourdan, Mathieu Carrière, Madeleine Robinson, Jean Vilar
Votes: 40
91. Sotto falso nome (2004)
105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.
Director: Roberto Andò | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Anna Mouglalis, Greta Scacchi, Giorgio Lupano
Votes: 955
92. The Saint Lies in Wait (1966)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for his daughter, Sophie. But the plans are ... See full summary »
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Jean Marais, Jess Hahn, Jean Yanne, Danièle Evenou
Votes: 81
93. The Unknown Soldier (1985)
197 min | Drama, War
This film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the ... See full summary »
Director: Rauni Mollberg | Stars: Risto Tuorila, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Paavo Liski, Mika Mäkelä
Votes: 3,042
94. Le soleil en face (1980)
95 min | Drama
Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns he is diagnosed with cancer, she tries to hide the truth. But Marat doesn't take time to know.
Director: Pierre Kast | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stéphane Audran, Alexandra Stewart, Pierre Vaneck
Votes: 26
95. Le testament d'un poète juif assassiné (1987)
90 min | Drama
Paltiel Kossover leaves his home country Russia because of the Jewish persecutions. From Berlin to Paris, he will discover politics, poetry, love before coming back to his native land.
Director: Frank Cassenti | Stars: Michel Jonasz, Erland Josephson, Wojciech Pszoniak, Philippe Léotard
Votes: 25
96. Le trouble-fesses (1976)
86 min | Comedy
Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.
Director: Raoul Foulon | Stars: Michel Galabru, Bernadette Lafont, Vittorio Caprioli, Anicée Alvina
Votes: 45
97. Le vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort (1977)
114 min | Drama
A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women.
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Marcel Sabourin, Anouk Ferjac, Myriam Boyer, Roger Blin
Votes: 37
98. The Thief of Baghdad (1978 TV Movie)
100 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A resourceful thief helps a handsome Prince fight an evil wizard, and win the hand of a beautiful Princess.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Kabir Bedi, Daniel Emilfork, Frank Finlay, Ian Holm
Votes: 487
99. L'eau vive (1958)
96 min | Drama
Old Félix, a prosperous land owner in Haute Provence, will be expropriated because a dam is being built on the River Durance and his estate is to be flooded. He receives thirty million ... See full summary »
Director: François Villiers | Stars: Pascale Audret, Charles Blavette, Henri Arius, Odette Barencey
Votes: 74
100. Léaud l'unique (2001 TV Special)
59 min
Léaud is a French actor form La Nouvelle Vague (French New Wave). To work with this actor activates a remote strength, a presence, even before the shooting, it's doing something quite mysterious but linked to cinema.
Director: Serge Le Péron | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, Serge Le Péron, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 26
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