Lynx

2021

French

7.6

♡ 8

Laurent Geslin Director

Laurent Geslin as (voice)

In the heart of the Jura mountains, a call resounds through the forest. The silhouette of a Eurasian lynx creeps through the trees. A male is looking for its mate. Suddenly a call answers back. It is the beginning of the story of a lynx’s family we will follow over the seasons. While it is rare to come across this private feline, it is exceptional to discover its daily life in the wild.

The Triplets of Belleville

2003

French

7.7

♡ 16

94%

Sylvain Chomet Director

Patrick Ridremont as Additional voice

Karlijn Sileghem as Additional voice

Michel Robin as 'Champion' adulte

Jean-Claude Donda as Le Géneral de Gaulle / Les commentateurs Sportifs / Le clochard / les Réclames

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc

2017

French

5.9

♡ 4

80%

Bruno Dumont Director

Kyliann Maréchal Tellier as Enfant

Malone Leroy as Enfant

Régine Delalin as Isabeau d'Arc

Anaïs Rivière as Saint Michel

France, 1425. During the Hundred Years’ War, Jeannette, age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear the suffering caused by the English. Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but she is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of the Kingdom of France. Carried by her faith, she will become Joan of Arc.

De Sade

1969

English

4.3

♡ 5

10%

Roger Corman Director

Senta Berger as Anne de Montreuil

Friedrich Schoenfelder as Marquis' Father

Anna Massey as Renée de Montreuil

John Huston as The Abbe

The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.

Chocolat

2000

English

7.2

♡ 70

63%

83%

Action

based on novel or book

chocolate

Drama

france

parent child relationship

Romance

small town

tradition

Lasse Hallström Director

Carrie-Anne Moss as Caroline Clairmont

João Costa Menezes as Gypsy

Johnny Depp as Roux

Peter Stormare as Serge Muscat

A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group of gypsies arrive by riverboat, the Mayor's prejudices lead to a crisis.

With Open Arms

2017

French

5.5

15%

Comedy

france

Philippe de Chauveron Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Daphné Fougerole

Barbara Hellemans as Guest at party

Christian Clavier as Jean-Etienne Fougerole

Oscar Berthe as Lionel Fougerole

Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.

The Scapegoat

1959

English

6.8

♡ 3

50%

Robert Hamer Director

Bette Davis as Countess

Geoffrey Keen as Gaston

Sam Kydd as Man

Harold Kasket as (uncredited)

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

Spoiled Brats

2021

French

6.1

♡ 7

31%

Nicolas Cuche Director

Louka Meliava as Alexandre Bartek

Tom Leeb as Juan Carlos

Camille Lou as Stella Bartek

Stéphane Bern as (voice)

The billionaire is tired of the whims of his own children and decides to teach them a lesson. He announces to them that he has become bankrupt. Now spoiled teenagers will have to do what they have never done: go to work, learn to love and value life.

Devil's Due

2014

English

4.2

♡ 30

21%

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin Director

Robert Aberdeen as Dr. Dylan

Robert Belushi as Mason

Julia Denton as Natalie

Zach Gilford as Zach McCall

An unexpected pregnancy takes a terrifying turn for newlyweds Zach and Samantha McCall.

April and the Extraordinary World

2015

French

7.2

♡ 41

97%

Christian Desmares Director

Marion Cotillard as Avril

Susan Sarandon as Chimène

Mark Camacho as Paul

J.K. Simmons as Rodrigue

It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Madame Bovary

1991

French

♡ 9

63%

60%

adultery

based on novel or book

Claude Chabrol Director

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as (as Louis de Lancquesaing)

Dominique Zardi as Blind Man

Isabelle Huppert as Emma Bovary

Christophe Malavoy as Rodolphe Boulanger

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

The Gleaners & I

2000

French

7.7

♡ 7

Agnès Varda Director

Agnès Varda as Self

François Wertheimer as Self

Jean La Planche as Self

Bodan Litnanski as Self

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

Priceless

2006

French

7.0

♡ 9

82%

Pierre Salvadori Director

Jacques Spiesser as Gilles

Audrey Tautou as Irène

Vernon Dobtcheff as Jacques

Gad Elmaleh as Jean

A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.

The Woman Next Door

1981

French

♡ 12

85%

François Truffaut Director

Muriel Combe as

Gérard Depardieu as Bernard Coudray

Fanny Ardant as Mathilde Bauchard

Catherine Crassac as Woman in the Hotel's Staircase

Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.

Don't Worry, I'm Fine

2006

French

7.3

♡ 13

89%

parent child relationship

sibling relationship

Philippe Lioret Director

Mélanie Laurent as Elise "Lili" Tellier

Aïssa Maïga as Léa

Kad Merad as Paul Tellier

Patrick Sébastien as Self / En personne à la télévision

A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

1996

French

6.7

♡ 1

70%

Édouard Molinaro Director

Claire Nebout as Chevalier d'Eon

José Garcia as Figaro

Michel Piccoli as Prince de Conti

Richard Durden as Smith

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.

A Year in Burgundy

2013

English

6.9

60%

David Kennard Director

Martine Saunier as Self

This documentary follows seven wine-making families in the Burgundy region of France, delving into the cultural and creative process of making wine. You'll never look at wine the same way again.

Happening

2021

French

7.4

♡ 17

99%

full frontal female nudity

History

pregnancy

woman director

Audrey Diwan Director

Anamaria Vartolomei as Anne Duchesne

Leïla Muse as Céline

Julien Frison as Maxime

Pio Marmaï as Professeur Bornec

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

A Perfect Plan

2012

French

6.3

♡ 17

33%

Pascal Chaumeil Director

Hugues Hausman as

Diane Kruger as Isabelle

Dany Boon as Jean-Yves

Laure Calamy as Valérie

Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the altar with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.

All Quiet on the Western Front

1979

English

7.1

♡ 26

100%

Delbert Mann Director

Ewan Stewart as Detering

Ian Holm as Himmelstoss

Kevin Stoney as Hollerstein

Richard Thomas as Paul Baumer

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.

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Lynx

The Triplets of Belleville

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc

De Sade

Chocolat

With Open Arms

The Scapegoat

Spoiled Brats

Devil's Due

April and the Extraordinary World

Madame Bovary

The Gleaners & I

Priceless

The Woman Next Door

Don't Worry, I'm Fine

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

A Year in Burgundy

Happening

A Perfect Plan

All Quiet on the Western Front