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1. Children of Paradise (1945)
Not Rated | 189 min | Drama, Romance
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir
Votes: 21,231
2. The Grand Illusion (1937)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, War
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
Votes: 38,930 | Gross: $0.17M
3. The Rules of the Game (1939)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély
Votes: 31,414
4. The Lovers (1958)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre
Votes: 5,938
5. French Cancan (1955)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
This comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, Anna Amendola
Votes: 4,464
6. L'Age d'Or (1930)
Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Drama
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Votes: 14,840 | Gross: $0.03M
7. Elena and Her Men (1956)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Polish countess Elena falls in love with a French radical party's candidate - a general - in pre-World War I Paris, but another officer pines for her. Starring Ingrid Bergman, with Mel ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer, Jean Richard
Votes: 2,168
8. The Threepenny Opera (1931)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Votes: 2,548
9. Pépé le Moko (1937)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Fernand Charpin
Votes: 8,079 | Gross: $0.15M
10. Casque d'Or (1952)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Three gangsters and an ex-con carpenter all fall for the same beautiful golden-haired woman in Belle Époque France.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières
Votes: 6,240
11. Experiment in Evil (1959 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier's lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people's behavior can be adjusted at will...
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Bilis, Sylviane Margollé, Jean Bertho
Votes: 1,250
12. This is Called Dawn (1956)
102 min | Drama
On a Mediterranean island, an honorable doctor hides a hunted criminal. The doctor is soon hunted by a police commissioner.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosè, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Jacques Delbo
Votes: 949
13. Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry, Edmond T. Gréville, Bill Bocket
Votes: 2,495
14. Antoine & Antoinette (1947)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. In the midst of constantly fending off the unwanted attention of men, especially the grocer Monsieur Roland, Antoinette ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert, Gaston Modot
Votes: 1,130 | Gross: $0.01M
15. La fin du jour (1939)
99 min | Drama
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Victor Francen, Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Ozeray
Votes: 1,032
16. Miracle of the Wolves (1924)
73 min | Drama
King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Vanni Marcoux, Charles Dullin, Yvonne Sergyl, Romuald Joubé
Votes: 98
17. The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
126 min | Comedy, Drama
1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, ... See full summary »
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Françoise Arnoul, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 978
18. Montmartre sur Seine (1941)
110 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer. But Claude's arrival brings trouble to their ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lacombe | Stars: Édith Piaf, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roger Duchesne, René Bergeron
Votes: 47
19. Rendezvous in July (1949)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Auber, Nicole Courcel, Pierre Trabaud
Votes: 456 | Gross: $0.01M
20. La Marseillaise (1938)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, History, Music
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Léon Larive
Votes: 1,395
21. La bandera (1935)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and ... See full summary »
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan, Raymond Aimos
Votes: 735
22. Poison Ivy (1953)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
FBI Agent Lemmy is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.
Director: Bernard Borderie | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Dominique Wilms, Howard Vernon, Darío Moreno
Votes: 333
23. La sultane de l'amour (1919)
83 min | Adventure, Drama
The tale of the tormented loves of Princess Daoulah and Prince Mourad, who had met, she disguised as a girl of the people, he as a poor fisherman, and who could not find each other. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Charles Burguet, René Le Somptier | Stars: France Dhélia, Sylvio De Pedrelli, Paul Vermoyal, Albert Bras
Votes: 36
24. Life Is Ours (1936)
66 min | Drama, History
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing who the comrades help the proletarian people against the capitalists. It also features propagandistic speeches of leading members of the party.
Directors: Jacques Becker, Jacques B. Brunius, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Maurice Lime, Pierre Unik, André Zwobada, Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Dasté, Jacques B. Brunius, Simone Guisin, Teddy Michaud
Votes: 320
25. The Ship of Lost Men (1929)
121 min | Drama, Thriller
Vela, cynical captain of a slow, decrepit sailing ship, sells passage out of Germany to fugitives. His crew are no angels either. Cheyne, a young American doctor visiting the ship, is ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Marlene Dietrich, Robin Irvine, Vladimir Sokoloff
Votes: 135
26. Beauty and the Devil (1950)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valère
Votes: 1,821
27. Man About Town (1947)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
1910. A friend leaves his daughter, Madeleine, with Emile a French film producer. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his young friend Jacques returns from military service ... See full summary »
Director: René Clair | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien, Dany Robin
Votes: 582
28. Carmen (1926)
110 min | Drama
Carmen has neither a past nor a future. She lives only in the present. For her love is of no importance, just a passing whim. Love's essence is precisely the variability that Don José hate ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Raquel Meller, Fred Louis Lerch, Gaston Modot, Jean Murat
Votes: 107
29. Monte Cristo (1929)
223 min | Adventure
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them
Director: Henri Fescourt | Stars: Jean Angelo, Lil Dagover, Gaston Modot, Jean Toulout
Votes: 158
30. July 14 (1933)
86 min | Comedy, Romance
Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to the bal. Many events (Pola's come back,... See full summary »
Director: René Clair | Stars: Annabella, Jorge Rigaud, Raymond Cordy, Paul Ollivier
Votes: 474
31. Sirocco (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Drama
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Viviane Romance, Louis Jouvet, Pierre Renoir, Jany Holt
Votes: 160
32. Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
93 min | Drama, History, Romance
At the end of the 15th Century, Rome is ruled ruthlessly by power mad and sex hungry Cesare Borgia, the eldest son of Pope Alexander VI. Following the advice of his chief adviser Niccolo ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Gabriel Gabrio, Maurice Escande, Roger Karl
Votes: 279
33. Fantômas (1932)
91 min | Crime, Thriller
The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham who also came to bring her a significant sum of money. The mysterious Fantômas kills the ... See full summary »
Director: Pál Fejös | Stars: Thomy Bourdelle, Tania Fédor, Jean Worms, Jorge Rigaud
Votes: 155
34. Father, Mother, the Maid and I (1954)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
The film tells how a young lawyer Robert Langlois fell in love with a student Catherine and how they both managed to "tame" their parents and get their consent to marriage.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Robert Lamoureux, Gaby Morlay, Fernand Ledoux, Nicole Courcel
Votes: 318
35. The Trump Card (1942)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau, Pierre Renoir, Noël Roquevert
Votes: 225
36. Street of Shadows (I) (1937)
116 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Roger Karl
Votes: 141
37. La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc (1929)
125 min | Drama
Biography of Joan of Arc from her departure from Domremy until her death in Rouen.
Director: Marco de Gastyne | Stars: Simone Genevois, Fernand Mailly, Georges Paulais, Jean Debucourt
Votes: 101
38. Secrets of the Orient (1928)
90 min | Drama
A cobbler dreams that he is a prince, in this takeoff on an Arabian Nights style romance.
Director: Alexandre Volkoff | Stars: Nicolas Koline, Iván Petrovich, Dimitri Dimitriev, Gaston Modot
Votes: 22
39. Cargaison blanche (1937)
100 min | Drama
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Votes: 112
40. Conte cruel (1930)
40 min
The escape of a man during the Spanish Inquisition.
Director: Gaston Modot | Star: Gaston Modot
Votes: 11
41. Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1949)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A professor's daughter is attacked in her sealed bedroom.Evidence points to her fiance but a cub journalist finds the surprising true culprit.
Director: Henri Aisner | Stars: Serge Reggiani, Hélène Perdrière, Pierre Renoir, Marcel Herrand
Votes: 56
42. Le parfum de la dame en noir (1949)
100 min | Crime
Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much alive. Taking refuge to her castle, ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Daquin | Stars: Serge Reggiani, Hélène Perdrière, Marcel Herrand, Lucien Nat
Votes: 51
43. Le joueur d'échecs (1938)
70 min | Drama, Fantasy
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Françoise Rosay, Conrad Veidt, Bernard Lancret, Micheline Francey
Votes: 69
44. Éternel conflit (1948)
95 min | Drama
Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new world, he meets a beautiful acrobat ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lampin | Stars: Annabella, Fernand Ledoux, Louis Salou, Michel Auclair
Votes: 53
45. Coral Reefs (1939)
95 min | Adventure, Drama
The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White).
Director: Maurice Gleize | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Saturnin Fabre, Gina Manès
Votes: 202
46. Accord final (1938)
73 min | Music, Romance
A young American violinist is betting with his European organisor that he will marry the tenth girl he meets the next day within 2 months. If he fails, he looses his Stradivari, if he wins ... See full summary »
Directors: Ignacy Rosenkranz, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry, Jorge Rigaud, André Alerme
Votes: 53
47. Les Menteurs (1961)
92 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Dawn Addams, Jean Servais, Claude Brasseur, Francis Blanche
Votes: 36
48. The Gangsters (1957)
105 min | Comedy, Crime
In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the town mayor. The story develops into a history of the watch-thievery business, told in anecdotal fashion.
Director: Carlo Rim | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Noël-Noël, Jean Richard, Yves Robert
Votes: 36
49. Fièvre (1921)
43 min | Short, Drama
Topinelli, who runs a bar in a harbor in Marseille with his wife Sarah, begin to quarrel in conflict when a sailor, who turns out to be a past lover of Sarah, dances with her on arrival to the bar.
Director: Louis Delluc | Stars: Ève Francis, Edmond Van Daële, Gaston Modot, Elena Sagrary
Votes: 365
50. L'Homme de Londres (1943)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Maloin has been working all his life for 2,500 measly Francs a month. One day he finds a case full of money, after watching a gangland killing. "I'd have to work a hundred years to make ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Fernand Ledoux, Suzy Prim, Jules Berry, Mony Dalmès
Votes: 106