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1. The Big Blue (1988)
PG | 168 min | Adventure, Drama, Sport
The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Shenar
Votes: 55,121 | Gross: $3.50M
2. The Chorus (2004)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Music
Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.
Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Kad Merad
Votes: 67,197 | Gross: $3.64M
3. Great Performances (1971– )
TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo
Votes: 896
4. Subway (1985)
R | 104 min | Thriller
On improvising a burglary at a shady tycoon's home, Fred takes refuge in the hip and surreal universe of the Paris Metro and encounters its assorted denizens, the tycoon's henchmen and his disenchanted young wife.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru
Votes: 16,361 | Gross: $0.39M
5. The Last Battle (1983)
R | 92 min | Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic future where no one is able to speak, the few remaining humans fight over resources in order to survive.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Jean Reno, Fritz Wepper
Votes: 6,563
6. Starbright
Action, Adventure, Crime | Completed
What happens when Cinderella meets Mean Streets.
Director: Francesco Lucente | Stars: Ted Levine, John Rhys-Davies, Elisabeth Röhm, Christine Ebersole
7. Nicolas Le Floch (2008–2018)
TV-14 | 90 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Nicolas le Floch, doubly a comissaire with the King's Police and the Marquis de Ranreuil, solves crimes during the reign of Louis XV.
Stars: Jérôme Robart, Mathias Mlekuz, François Caron, Michaël Abiteboul
Votes: 479
8. The Lacemaker (1977)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance
A reserved young woman moves into an apartment with a young student she met while on vacation.
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Annemarie Düringer
Votes: 3,025
9. Badland (III) (2019)
R | 165 min | Drama
An American soldier is unable to cope with the realities of daily life after he returns from his tour of duty in Iraq.
Director: Francesco Lucente | Stars: Jamie Draven, Grace Caroline Currey, Vinessa Shaw, Joe Morton
Votes: 534
10. Mima (1991)
84 min | Crime, Drama
Mima and her Italian family live in France. When her grandfather is killed, she discovers that they have a long-running family feud with the mafia.
Director: Philomène Esposito | Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Nino Manfredi, Margarita Lozano, Vittoria Scognamiglio
Votes: 126
11. One Woman or Two (1985)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
A scientist is busy searching for an ancient woman, and does not pay attention to modern ones. Until a day when a businesswoman decided to seduce him in order to use his sensational discoveries for commercial purposes.
Director: Daniel Vigne | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Ruth Westheimer, Michel Aumont
Votes: 438 | Gross: $0.18M
12. Shadow of Angels (1976)
101 min | Drama
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Annemarie Düringer, Adrian Hoven
Votes: 241
13. La petite allumeuse (1987)
105 min | Comedy
Director: Danièle Dubroux | Stars: Roland Giraud, Pierre Arditi, Alice Papierski, Tanya Lopert
Votes: 72
14. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
116 min | Drama
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau, Miou-Miou, Jacques Denis
Votes: 1,188
15. Odette Toulemonde (2006)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Odette dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite writer, for the optimism which she believes emanates from him. The wealthy and seductive writer is going to land in her life in a ... See full summary »
Director: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Stars: Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber, Alain Doutey
Votes: 2,369
16. Robinson Crusoé (2003)
PG-13 | 192 min | Adventure, Drama
A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Stars: Pierre Richard, Nicolas Cazalé, Jean-Claude Leguay, Marie Béraud
Votes: 443
17. Maman (2010)
7 min | Short, Drama
After a long journey, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returns to visit her mother in her apartment in the Beaux-Rivage Palace. He discovers that she is too emotional .
Director: Kevin Haefelin | Stars: Nicolas Fantoli, Aude Loring, François Florey, Fabio Poujouly
Votes: 12
18. Cyanide (2013)
103 min | Drama, Romance
A young hopeful teenager is waiting for his unknown and fantasized father to come out of prison. His family dream life is seriously undermined by an exhausted mother and a man who, after so... See full summary »
Director: Séverine Cornamusaz | Stars: Alexandre Etzlinger, Roy Dupuis, Sabine Timoteo, Christophe Sermet
Votes: 218
19. Messidor (1979)
123 min | Crime, Drama
Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Clémentine Amouroux, Catherine Rétoré, Franziskus Abgottspon, Gérald Battiaz
Votes: 547
20. The Middle of the World (1974)
115 min | Drama, Romance
Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Philippe Léotard, Juliet Berto, Denise Péron
Votes: 354
21. 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: 745
22. This Is My Body (2001)
87 min | Drama
Young student Antoine jumps off studies to follow an acting career, and is offered a main role after a boy who killed himself after a fling with the director.
Director: Rodolphe Marconi | Stars: Louis Garrel, Jane Birkin, Elisabeth Depardieu, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 217
23. Les 2 papas et la maman (1996)
90 min | Comedy
Delphine and Jerome want to have a child, but he learns that he is sterile. Together, they will ask Salim - Jérôme's best friend - to donate sperm to allow artificial insemination to the mother-to-be.
Directors: Jean-Marc Longval, Smaïn | Stars: Smaïn, Arielle Dombasle, Antoine de Caunes, Julie Gayet
Votes: 296
24. Isabelle Adjani: Pull marine (1984 Music Video)
5 min | Short, Music
Director: Luc Besson | Star: Isabelle Adjani
Votes: 122
25. Return from Africa (1973)
109 min | Drama
An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Josée Destoop, François Marthouret, Juliet Berto, Anne Wiazemsky
Votes: 182
26. Iran: Days of Crisis (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 180 min | Drama, History
Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Arliss Howard, Jeff Fahey, Alice Krige, Tony Goldwyn
Votes: 63
27. The Penultimate (1981)
12 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
This is about a man's struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Pierre Jolivet, Jean Reno, Fabrice Roche, Luc Besson
Votes: 368
28. Nuit d'ivresse (1986)
87 min | Comedy
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Nauer | Stars: Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Martin, Jean-Claude Dauphin
Votes: 669
29. Les Choristes: Le making of (2004 Video)
72 min | Documentary
A conducteur of an orchestra meets a former teacher of the reform school of his childhood. This visit brings out from his the memories of a failed composer who put joy in their life thanks to music.
Director: Daniel Deleforges | Stars: Christophe Barratier, François Berléand, Marie Bunel, François Chauvaud
Votes: 547
30. Violanta (1977)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Maria Schneider, Lou Castel, Ingrid Caven
Votes: 79
31. The Pupil (1996)
92 min | Drama
Morgan, a sensitive 12-year-old, growing up in richness and royalty, finds a true friend in Julien, a young man hired to tutor him.
Director: Olivier Schatzky | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Caspar Salmon, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Votes: 211
32. Animal Heart (2009)
91 min | Drama
In a remote region of rural Switzerland, a farmer and his wife eke out a harsh existence, appearing to live in a century far removed from our own. Paul is incapable of showing any kindness ... See full summary »
Director: Séverine Cornamusaz | Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Camille Japy, Antonio Buíl, Alexandra Karamisaris
Votes: 196
33. La Paloma (1974)
112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A love story between a "demi-mondaine" kept by various lovers, suffering from tuberculosis, and a young provincial bourgeois. Adaptation from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, "The Lady of the Camellias".
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Ingrid Caven, Peter Kern, Peter Chatel, Jérôme Nicolin
Votes: 138
34. Incontrôlable (2006)
88 min | Comedy
Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.
Director: Raffy Shart | Stars: Michaël Youn, Hélène de Fougerolles, Hippolyte Girardot, Thierry Lhermitte
Votes: 745
35. La nuit sacrée (1993)
110 min | Drama
In the 1920s, the story of the eighth daughter of a Moroccan family whose sex was hidden from everyone and who was raised in the tradition of males until the age of 21 under the name of Ahmed.
Director: Nicolas Klotz | Stars: Amina Annabi, Miguel Bosé, Maïté Nahyr, François Chattot
Votes: 31
36. Hitler in Hollywood (2010)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot ... See full summary »
Director: Frédéric Sojcher | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Wim Willaert, Micheline Presle, François Morel
Votes: 196
37. Le bonheur (2013)
87 min | Drama
Alice is 30 years old and lives a simple, uncomplicated life. She is happy, or at least thinks she is. This illusion comes crashing down when she meets Jean by chance and her existence is ... See full summary »
Director: Fabrice Grange | Stars: Julie Wingens, Stéphane Prévost, Sophie Fougère, Thérèse Liotard
Votes: 17
38. Dark Woods (1989)
98 min | Drama
Violette, a beautiful aspiring actress meets a handsome stranger named Gustave. After a whirlwind romance they marry, and move into his ancestral home which they share with Gustave's mother... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Béatrice Dalle, Philippe Volter, Stéphane Freiss, Geneviève Page
Votes: 87
39. The Wonderful Crook (1975)
112 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims.
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Marlène Jobert, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Labourier, Jacques Debary
Votes: 230
40. Genesis (1986)
105 min | Drama
A parable of man's exploitation of his fellow man. A weaver and a farmer live peacefully on the edge of a desert until, one day, a woman wanders into their world, and her presence slowly disrupts their routine existence.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, M.K. Raina
Votes: 141
41. Faces of Love (1977)
90 min | Drama
The director Victor decides to bring Chekhov's play 'The Three Sisters' to the screen. He summons his actresses to rehearse in a city near Lake Geneva.
Director: Michel Soutter | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Delphine Seyrig, Lea Massari, Valérie Mairesse
Votes: 76
42. Le grand soir (1976)
90 min | Drama
In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedicated activist and the group leader's mistress. The police keep a close watch on them and trouble is bound to follow.
Director: Francis Reusser | Stars: Niels Arestrup, Jacqueline Parent, Arnold Walter, François Berthet
Votes: 40
43. Tonight or Never (1972)
78 min | Fantasy
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Ingrid Caven, Voli Geiler, Peter Chatel, Igor Josza
Votes: 61
44. Des jours et des nuits (2005 TV Movie)
90 min | Fantasy
Director: Thierry Chabert | Stars: Stéphane Freiss, Claire Nebout, Caterina Murino, Nicolas Moreau
Votes: 62
45. Win Win (2013)
97 min | Comedy
A Swiss mayor and a Chinese watchmaker living in the Jura decide to organize the semi-finals of Miss China in Switzerland.
Director: Claudio Tonetti | Stars: Jean-Luc Couchard, Xiaoxing Cheng, Anne Comte, Guy Lecluyse
Votes: 46
46. Life (2001)
5 min | Short, Drama
The life of a man from birth to death, in a single shot.
Director: Audrey Schebat | Stars: Pierre Gérald, Xavier Lafitte, Patrick Mazet
47. Bankomatt (1989)
88 min | Drama
With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself to the police, since they don't ... See full summary »
Director: Villi Hermann | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Giovanni Guidelli, Francesca Neri, Omero Antonutti
Votes: 20
48. Der Tod des Flohzirkusdirektors (1973)
111 min | Drama
Ottocaro Weiss (the main character in the film) has a flea circus that, for external circumstances (insecticides), is out "actors". Then he decided to make a show about the bubonic plague.
Director: Thomas Koerfer | Stars: François Simon, Paul Gogel, Norbert Schwientek, Janine Weill
Votes: 39
49. Der Gehülfe (1976)
122 min | Drama
Joseph is hired by an inventor and moves in with his family. Although he doesn't get any salary for his work, he stays on because he believes that the highly dysfunctional family needs to be rescued.
Director: Thomas Koerfer | Stars: Paul Burian, Verena Buss, Ingold Wildenauer, Wolfram Berger
Votes: 39
50. Recto/Verso (1999)
85 min | Comedy
Fred is a popular television host. But one day, he is dismissed by his management and finds himself without resources. He will then pass himself off as a homosexual to try to integrate the program schedule of a gay cable channel.
Director: Jean-Marc Longval | Stars: Smaïn, Michel Muller, Linda Hardy, Sophie Forte
Votes: 193