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6.2

♡ 20

71%

Patrice Leconte Director

Pierre-François Martin-Laval as Le joli garçon

Eric Métayer as Le SDF

Jacques Mathou as Monsieur Calmel / Monsieur Dead for Two

Jules Poisson as Un copain d'Alan

In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.

Desire Me

1947

6.1

♡ 5

36%

George Cukor Director

Sidney D'Albrook as Assistant

Ian Wolfe as Dr. Poulin

Hans Schumm as German voice

Robert Mitchum as Paul Aubert

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

1939

husband wife relationship

6.9

♡ 9

86%

H.C. Potter Director

Frank Faylen as Adjutant

Frank Coghlan Jr. as Boy in Montage

Donald MacBride as Hotel Manager

Bill Patton as Undetermined Secondary Role

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

The Man Who Cried

2000

6.1

♡ 17

35%

Sally Potter Director

Johnny Depp as Cesar

Cate Blanchett as Lola

Bernard Spear as Man in Sweatshop

Christina Ricci as Suzie

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

The Way

2010

parent child relationship

♡ 14

82%

Emilio Estevez Director

Tchéky Karyo as Captain Henri

Emilio Estevez as Daniel

Ramon Estevez as Man Behind Tom in Marrakech

Spencer Garrett as Phil

When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.

There's a Girl in My Soup

1970

5.7

♡ 8

38%

Roy Boulting Director

Diana Dors as His Wife

Gabrielle Drake as Julia Halforde-Smythe

Aileen Lewis as Wedding Guest

Marianne Stone as Woman Reporter at London Airport

TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.

404 Error

1961

♡ 4

actor playing multiple roles

Pierre Tchernia Director

Jacques Balutin as Balutin

Jean-Marc Thibault as L'effeminé / Effeminate Young Man

Robert Seller as Le majordome de Mme Lucanzas

Jean Carmet as Le malandrin / The Burglar

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All's Well

1972

6.5

♡ 7

50%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Cristiana Tullio-Altan as (as Chris Tullio)

Vittorio Caprioli as Factory Manager

Jane Fonda as Her, Suzanne

Anne Wiazemsky as Leftist woman

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.

The Story of Louis Pasteur

1936

7.3

♡ 4

90%

William Dieterle Director

Edward Van Sloan as Chairman of Medical Society

Josephine Hutchinson as Marie Pasteur

Walter Kingsford as Napoleon III

Bill Elliott as Reporter

A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.

The Song of Bernadette

1943

7.6

♡ 11

87%

80%

Henry King Director

Jean Del Val as Estrade

Ian Wolfe as Minister of the Interior

Vincent Price as Prosecutor Vital Dutour

Gladys Cooper as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous

In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady to be the Virgin Mary. Pompous government officials think the girl is insane, doing their best to suppress her and her followers, while the church wants nothing to do with the matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the town, ultimately transforming their lives.

Cartagena

2009

6.7

♡ 9

alcoholic

Alain Monne Director

Julian Iragorri as Homme bagarre

Christopher Lambert as Léo

Margarita Rosa de Francisco as Lucia

Sophie Marceau as Muriel

Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. Initially out of his depth, Leo slowly wins Muriel's trust. As Muriel teaches him to read, he forces her to confront the joys beyond her window.

Jean de Florette

1986

8.1

♡ 25

93%

95%

avarice

Claude Berri Director

Yves Montand as Cesar Soubeyran dit 'Le Papet'

Gérard Depardieu as Jean de Florette

Clement Cal as Méderic

Daniel Auteuil as Ugolin

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.

The Hundred-Foot Journey

2014

7.3

♡ 48

69%

81%

Lasse Hallström Director

Hélène Cardona as French Food Critic

Clément Sibony as Jean-Pierre

Helen Mirren as Madame Mallory

Farzana Dua Elahe as Mahira

A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.

Camille Claudel

1988

7.2

♡ 12

89%

Bruno Nuytten Director

Gérard Depardieu as Auguste Rodin

Isabelle Adjani as Camille Claudel

Katrine Boorman as Jessie Lipscomb

François Berléand as Le docteur Michaux

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.

The Josephine Baker Story

1991

7.1

♡ 6

74%

Brian Gibson Director

Rubén Blades as Count Giuseppe Pepito Abatino

David Dukes as Jo Bouillon

Lynn Whitfield as Josephine Baker

Craig T. Nelson as Walter Winchell

Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder

Something in the Air

2012

6.4

♡ 4

81%

Olivier Assayas Director

Johnny Flynn as

Paul Spera as Carl

Lola Créton as Christine

India Menuez as Leslie

During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.

Yamakasi

2001

♡ 7

63%

Julien Seri Director

Alain Brochery as

Camille Cottin as

Williams Belle as Les Yamakasi - L'Araignée Simran

Simran as Simran

Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs who battle against injustice in the Paris ghetto. They use parkour to steal from the rich in order to pay off medical bills for a kid injured copying their techniques.

Claire's Camera

2017