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1. Pièces détachées (2006)
25 min | Short, Thriller
An obsessive casino player, Paul finds himself in debt and is threatened by Benjamin Stern, his creditor.
Director: Sébastien Drouin | Stars: Antoine Coesens, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Philippe Rigot, André Penvern
Votes: 17
2.
Versailles (2011– )
Episode:
Countdown to Revolution
(2011)
49 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Drama-documentary following the life of King Louis XVI and the Court at Versailles. The French people are starving, but the aristocracy is too busy partying inside the gilded palace of Versailles to take much notice.
Directors: Thierry Binisti, Paul Burgess | Stars: Raphaëlle Agogué, Yann Babilée, Carlo Brandt, Gabriel Dufay
Votes: 7
3.
Patriot (2015–2018)
Episode:
Escape From Paris
(2018)
TV-MA | 53 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
All hell breaks loose.
Director: Steve Conrad | Stars: Chris Addison, Gil Bellows, Nicolas Carpentier, Jean-François Cherbonnel
Votes: 388
4.
Les toqués (2009– )
Episode:
Pilote
(2009)
91 min | Comedy
Director: Patrick Malakian | Stars: Ingrid Chauvin, Edouard Montoute, Hubert Benhamdine, Alban Casterman
Votes: 14
5. Smiley's People (1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
The murder of a Soviet defector forces his old handler, British spymaster George Smiley, out of retirement. His investigation leads to an old nemesis, the Soviet spymaster known only as "Karla". This will be their final dance.
Stars: Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Vladek Sheybal
Votes: 4,768
6. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 1,587,043 | Gross: $120.54M
7. Patriot (2015–2018)
TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Follows the complicated life of intelligence officer John Tavner, whose latest assignment--to prevent Iran from going nuclear--requires him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous, non-official cover.
Stars: Michael Dorman, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Chernus, Kathleen Munroe
Votes: 18,093
8.
Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967–1990)
Episode:
Maigret et le voleur paresseux
(1988)
87 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Jean-Marie Coldefy | Stars: Jean Richard, Rufus, Madeleine Barbulée, Annie Bertin
Votes: 9
9. Versailles (I) (2011– )
168 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Follows the life at the Palace of Versailles, home to the three kings Louis (XIV, XV and XVI), their lovers and their queens: 'Louis XIV, The Dream of a King', 'Louis XV, The Palace of Pleasure', and 'Louis XVI, Countdown to Revolution'.
Stars: Cherie Lunghi, Stanley Weber, Samuel Theis, Raphaëlle Agogué
Votes: 77
10.
Smiley's People (1982)
Episode:
A Mother's Assistance
(1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
What is the connection between a penniless Russian woman in Paris and the brutal murder of an old man in a London park? And so begins a new conundrum for George Smiley to sort out.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Curd Jürgens, Eileen Atkins, Dudley Sutton
Votes: 202
11.
Patriot (2015–2018)
Episode:
The Sword and the Hand
(2018)
TV-MA | 41 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Recent events tell a story that could reveal John's plan to assassinate Cantar Walley, so John takes preemptive measures, risking himself to divert attentions and create the illusion that the story is over.
Director: Steve Conrad | Stars: Jay Abdo, Yannis Bougeard, Clément Brossard, Zoë Castle
Votes: 303
12. Maigret (1991–2005)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Frissung, Pierre Diot
Votes: 791
13. Mariage blanc (1985 TV Movie)
99 min | Drama
A 40-year-old emigrant from Poland in France decides to get a fake wedding with a young woman in order to get the documents needed to get a job.
Director: Peter Kassovitz | Stars: Nicole Garcia, Daniel Olbrychski, Geneviève Fontanel, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Votes: 9
14.
Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967–1990)
Episode:
Maigret et le clochard
(1982)
Crime, Drama
Director: Louis Grospierre | Stars: Jean Richard, Catherine Sauvage, Daniel Gélin, Johan Leysen
Votes: 12
15.
Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967–1990)
Episode:
La pipe de Maigret
(1988)
Crime, Drama
Director: Jean-Marie Coldefy | Stars: Jean Richard, André Penvern, Annick Tanguy, Nelly Borgeaud
Votes: 7
16.
Patriot (2015–2018)
Episode:
American Dimes
(2018)
TV-MA | 49 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
John must make a choice at the train platform - be free from his obligations and adversaries by letting Agathe take the money or pursue her in an effort to protect his brother, father, and country.
Director: Steve Conrad | Stars: Gil Bellows, Cindy Bossan, Yannis Bougeard, Selma Brook
Votes: 369
17. Les cinq dernières minutes (1958–1996)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Marc Eyraud, Jacques Debary, Raymond Souplex, Jean Daurand
Votes: 74
18. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
PG | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel
Votes: 44,992 | Gross: $16.06M
19.
Das Boot (2018– )
Episode:
Verdammt
(2018)
TV-MA | 57 min | Drama, War
Forster tells Simone that U-612 is lost. The resistance risks innocent lives with a risky operation.
Director: Andreas Prochaska | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Tom Wlaschiha, Thierry Frémont, August Wittgenstein
Votes: 359
20. Petit déjeuner compris (1980)
52 min | Comedy
A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.
Stars: Pierre Mondy, Marie-Christine Barrault, Hubert Deschamps, Marthe Villalonga
Votes: 42
21. The Tenant (1976)
R | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Votes: 47,669 | Gross: $1.92M
22. La Vie En Rose (2007)
PG-13 | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
Director: Olivier Dahan | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner
Votes: 90,803 | Gross: $10.30M
23. The French Revolution (1989)
335 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A chronicle of the French Revolution from the calling of the Etats General in 1789 until the end of the Jacobin Terror in 1794.
Directors: Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 1,856
24. The Bohemian Life (1992)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite setbacks and tragedies.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen
Votes: 6,442
25. Das Boot (2018– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, War
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in this WWII drama.
Stars: Franz Dinda, Tom Wlaschiha, Rick Okon, Rainer Bock
Votes: 9,936
26. Le jardin des plantes (1994 TV Movie)
93 min | Comedy
In Paris, near the end of World War II, crotchety professor Fernand Bonnard maintains a zoo and continues his research. He's a coward, as is his debonair son, Armand, who has one daughter, ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Claude Rich, Salomé Stévenin, Rose Thiéry, Samuel Labarthe
Votes: 100
27.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et l'enfant de choeur
(1997)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A child while is going to church to make an altar boy sees a corpse in the street. No one else sees that corpse, and two minutes later, that corpse is disappeared. Later the child claims to... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Stanislas Forlani, Anne Roussel, Ginette Garcin
Votes: 91
28.
Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967–1990)
Episode:
Maigret et les braves gens
(1982)
Crime, Drama
Director: Jean-Jacques Goron | Stars: Jean Richard, Anouk Ferjac, Alix de Konopka, Annick Tanguy
Votes: 11
29. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Crime
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.
Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers
Votes: 78,218 | Gross: $42.04M
30. Maximilian (2017– )
TV-MA | 275 min | Drama, History
In 1477 Charles the Bolds dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule w/o a husband. Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy falls.
Stars: Christa Théret, Jannis Niewöhner, Alix Poisson, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Votes: 1,123
31. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
G | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy
A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Louis de Funès, Miou-Miou, Suzy Delair, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 14,795 | Gross: $0.95M
32. Marie Besnard l'empoisonneuse... (2006 TV Movie)
187 min | Drama
Loudun, October 1947. Leon and Marie Besnard celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary with friends and Ady, a former German prisoner they have "adopted." A few days later, Leon dies. Louise... See full summary »
Director: Christian Faure | Stars: Muriel Robin, Mélanie Bernier, Jean-Yves Chatelais, Mado Maurin
Votes: 105
33.
Mistral's Daughter (1984)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1984)
Drama, Romance
Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Stefanie Powers, Lee Remick, Stacy Keach, Robert Urich
Votes: 27
34. The Days That Made History (2009– )
90 min | History
Stars: Antoine Gouy, Arnaud Bedouët, Michel Vuillermoz, Estelle Skornik
Votes: 38
35. Mail from the Sky (1980– )
80 min | Adventure
A new challenge is offered to the french pilots of the early age of aviation: Forward airmail farther and farther towards Africa and South America.
Stars: Bernard Fresson, Michel Duchaussoy, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Benoît Allemane
Votes: 12
36. Clochemerle (2004 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy
Certain French villagers raise a stink when their mayor announces plans to build a public restroom near the church.
Director: Daniel Losset | Stars: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Jérôme Anger, Jean-François Dérec, Éric Berger
Votes: 28
37.
Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967–1990)
Episode:
Maigret chez le ministre
(1987)
80 min | Crime, Drama
Maigret gets involved in a political scandal involving some very dirty tricks.
Director: Louis Grospierre | Stars: Jean Richard, Guy Tréjan, Alain Mottet, Corinne Marchand
Votes: 13
38.
Maximilian (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2017)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, History
Put under pressure by King Louis, the citizens of Ghent storm Marie's palace and make her sign a contract to marry Louis' son Charles. She sends Joan, her lady-in-waiting, to make contact with Maximilian.
Director: Andreas Prochaska | Stars: Christa Théret, Jannis Niewöhner, Alix Poisson, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Votes: 58
39.
Maximilian (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2017)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, History
King Louis won't allow Marie to bury her father's body in Burgundy. Instead, he forces her counselors to accept him as their lawful ruler, when Marie refuses to marry Charles, French troops invade Burgundy.
Director: Andreas Prochaska | Stars: Christa Théret, Jannis Niewöhner, Alix Poisson, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Votes: 57
40. Around the World in 80 Days (2021– )
PG | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
Gentleman adventurer Phileas Fogg sets out on a quest to travel around the world and back home in a period of 80 days.
Stars: David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, Leonie Benesch, Jason Watkins
Votes: 12,166
41. Les dossiers secrets de l'inspecteur Lavardin (1988–1989)
90 min | Crime
Inspector Lavardin, a deadpan police detective known for his unkind manners, conducts his investigations in his own particular way, not always to everyone's taste.
Stars: Jean Poiret, Thomas Chabrol, Mario David, Bruno Cremer
Votes: 54
42. The Brides of Bourbon Island (2007– )
190 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the seventeenth century , beautiful women of Madagascar are unwillingly sent beyond the seas to distant French colonies and married off to wealthy French colonials.
Stars: Jean-Yves Berteloot, Sara Martins, Cécile Cassel, Marie Piot
Votes: 28
43. Mateo Falcone (2004)
17 min | Short, Drama
Director: Olivier Volpi | Stars: Sacha Bourdo, Ballatore Clara, Daniel Duval, André Penvern
Votes: 6
44.
Imogène (1989–1996)
Episode:
Ne vous fâchez pas, Imogène
(1989)
Imogène Le Dantec, daughter of the admiral Le Dantec, works in the Ministry of the Navy and must carry from Paris to Plouguirec (Brittany) a parcel with samples of a special metal.
Director: François Leterrier | Stars: Dominique Lavanant, Roger Miremont, Gérard Loussine, Gérard Darier
Votes: 7
45.
Nestor Burma (1991–2003)
Episode:
En garde, Burma!
(1998)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A friend of Burma's asks him for help investigating threats against a top member of his fencing team.
Director: Jean Marboeuf | Stars: Guy Marchand, Pierre Tornade, Patrick Guillemin, Jeanne Savary
Votes: 7
46.
Mistral's Daughter (1984)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1984)
Drama, Romance
Directors: Kevin Connor, Douglas Hickox | Stars: Stefanie Powers, Lee Remick, Stacy Keach, Robert Urich
Votes: 23
47.
Das Boot (2018– )
Episode:
Geheime Missionen
(2018)
TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, War
While the crew is itching for combat, Kapitänleutnant Hoffmann is adamant on performing more drills first. Meanwhile Simone tries to make sense of last night's events on the streets of La Rochelle.
Director: Andreas Prochaska | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Tom Wlaschiha, Thierry Frémont, Rick Okon
Votes: 443
48. Nestor Burma (1991–2003)
TV-14 | 85 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Nestor Burma (Guy Marchand) is a cynical private detective, a serial monogamist, and an inveterate saxophone player. Burma investigates murders, missing persons, and kidnapping and ... See full summary »
Stars: Guy Marchand, Pierre Tornade, Patrick Guillemin, Michel Fortin
Votes: 153
49. Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967–1990)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Jean Richard, François Cadet, Annick Tanguy, Jean-François Devaux
Votes: 127
50. 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: 175