Best French Movies of all time

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The Hole (The Night Watch) (1960)
- 8.4
  13,654
- Jacques Becker
- Philippe Leroy, Marc Michel, Michel Constantin ...
1
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- 8.3
  10,719
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Maurice Schutz ...
2
A Man Escaped (1956)
- 8.1
  9,532
- Robert Bresson
- François Leterrier, Roland Monod, Charles Le Clainche ...
3
The Wages of Fear (1953)
- 8.1
  10,596
- H.G. Clouzot
- Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Véra Clouzot ...
4
Children of Paradise (1945)
- 8.1
  3,793
- Marcel Carné
- Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir ...
5
The 400 Blows (1959)
- 8.0
  32,953
- François Truffaut
- Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy ...
6
Rififi (1955)
- 8.0
  7,210
- Jules Dassin
- Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel ...
7
The Intouchables (2011)
- 8.0
  112,748
- Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
- François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny ...
8
Diabolique (1955)
- 8.0
  11,234
- H.G. Clouzot
- Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse ...
9
Napoleon (1927)
- 8.0
  3,052
- Abel Gance
- Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële ...
10
Grande Illusion (1937)
- 7.9
  8,806
- Jean Renoir
- Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay ...
11
The Rules of the Game (1939)
- 7.9
  8,175
- Jean Renoir
- Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir ...
12
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
- 7.8
  3,005
- Jean Eustache
- Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Bernadette Lafont ...
13
The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)
- 7.8
  3,836
- Max Ophüls
- Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica ...
14
L'Atalante (1934)
- 7.8
  5,444
- Jean Vigo
- Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo, Michel Simon ...
15
Hate (1995)
- 7.8
  33,761
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui ...
16
Persepolis (2007)
- 7.8
  44,725
- Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
- Animation, (Voice: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve) ...
17
Amelie (2001)
- 7.8
  158,528
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus Magloire ...
18
Goodbye Children (1987)
- 7.8
  15,819
- Louis Malle
- Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fetjo, Francine Racette ...
19
Forbidden Games (1952)
- 7.8
  3,980
- René Clément
- Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée ...
20
Three Colours: Red (1994)
- 7.7
  20,733
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Lorit ...
21
The River (1951)
- 7.7
  4,181
- Jean Renoir
- Patricia Walters, Adrienne Corri, Nora Swinburne ...
22
Casque d'or (1952)
- 7.7
  4,255
- Jacques Becker
- Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin ...
23
Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) (1962)
- 7.7
  8,097
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe ...
24
The Fire Within (1963)
- 7.7
  3,433
- Louis Malle
- Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Jeanne Moreau ...
25
Day for Night (1973)
- 7.7
  11,143
- François Truffaut
- Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jacqueline Bisset, Nathalie Baye ...
26
Jean de Florette (1986)
- 7.7
  2,450
- Claude Berri
- Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil ...
27
Carnival in Flanders (1935)
- 7.6
  2,142
- Jacques Feyder
- Françoise Rosay, Jean Murat, Louis Jouvet ...
28
The Chorus (2004)
- 7.6
  86,185
- Christophe Barratier
- Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier ...
29
The Artist (2011)
- 7.6
  60,148
- Michel Hazanavicius
- Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, James Cromwell ...
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