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France

This is every film that was produced by a French film production company (that I've seen), so there are some weird outliers (e.g. the French company StudioCanal produced Mulholland Drive after ABC indefinitely shelved Lynch's pilot; Kurosawa was struggling to secure Japanese funding in his later career, and reached out to French producer Serge Silberman to make his epic Ran). Not intending to create an essentialist portrait of some ineffable French essence, just looking at what French producers think is worth giving money. Tiered by rating then sorted chronologically within each tier, 5 stars first oldest to newest, then 4, etc..

Film by country

Block or Report
  • A Trip to the Moon
  • Un Chien Andalou
  • Rififi
  • A Man Escaped
  • Elevator to the Gallows
  • The 400 Blows
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • Eyes Without a Face
  • La Dolce Vita
  • Breathless
  • L'Avventura
  • Last Year at Marienbad
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • Vivre Sa Vie
  • 8½
  • The Leopard
  • Contempt
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Diary of a Chambermaid
  • Blood and Black Lace
  • Pierrot le Fou
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • Le Samouraï
  • PlayTime
  • The Great Silence
  • Army of Shadows
  • The Conformist
  • Le Cercle Rouge
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  • Love and Anarchy
  • F for Fake
  • The Phantom of Liberty
  • One Way or Another
  • That Obscure Object of Desire
  • Nosferatu the Vampyre
  • Possession
  • Sans Soleil
  • Paris, Texas
  • Ran
  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  • The Double Life of Véronique
  • Three Colors: Blue
  • Three Colors: Red
  • La Haine
  • Histoire(s) du cinéma
  • The Hole
  • eXistenZ
  • Beau Travail
  • Platform
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Unknown Pleasures
  • Dogville
  • Tropical Malady
  • 2046
  • Southland Tales
  • Inland Empire
  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  • A Touch of Sin
  • The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
  • The Lobster
  • Raw
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • The Sisters Brothers
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • L'Âge d'Or
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
  • The Wages of Fear
  • I Vitelloni
  • That Is the Dawn
  • Bob le Flambeur
  • Death in the Garden
  • Fever Mounts at El Pao
  • Pickpocket
  • Shoot the Piano Player
  • Lola
  • The Assassin
  • Jules and Jim
  • La Jetée
  • L'Eclisse
  • Le Doulos
  • The Trial
  • Bay of Angels
  • Black Sabbath
  • Band of Outsiders
  • Alphaville
  • Juliet of the Spirits
  • Le Deuxième Souffle
  • Made in U.S.A
  • 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
  • Belle de Jour
  • La Chinoise
  • Weekend
  • If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
  • Cemetery Without Crosses
  • Z
  • Donkey Skin
  • A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
  • Sacco & Vanzetti