Favorite French Movies

If you've read my profile you'll know that I don'tclaim to be a film expert, but I do enjoy a good movie. Recently, I started watching foreign movies. French seem to be my favorite. ("I like the way they think"--A.D.) Here's a few of my favs. Any suggestions would be great.

1. Amelie
2. City of Lost Children
3. Cache
4. Three Colors: Blue

OKay, yeah, I just saw that one. I thought it was in French, but I wasn't sure if it was a "French" movie. It was good but profoundly sad.

Have you seen Delicatessen?

i did see it, and liked it enough to purchase it. i really like jean-pierre jeunet. but i think amelie is his best so far.

yea, i totally agree. I think I like Amelie 'cause, i dunno... i kinda feel like i can relate to her general place in life. I feel the same about Lost in Translation. (not French... sorry)

i think i might have seen that at the store yesterday, but wasnt sure what it was all about.

Léon
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Nuit et brouillard
La Jetée
La Règle du jeu
À bout de souffle
Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
La Chinoise
Les Quatre cents coups
Jules et Jim

and so on.

I love Cache as well, and the whole Three Colors trilogy.

A little older, but Diary of a Country Priest is thoughtful and sad as well (plus you can see it in a wonderful Criterion edition).

Irréversible without a doubt.

wonderful! thanks for the info..

Du Rififi Chez les hommes (Rififi) from 1955 is pretty good! :P

1. Amélie
2. Taxi
3. Nikita
4. La Cage Aux Folles
5. Jean de Florette
6. Manon des Sources
7. Three Colours (red, white & Blue)
8. Betty Blue

Some I've seen that haven't been mentioned... a couple of dramas, 'Ponette' & 'Ma Vie En Rose', and a musical crime comedy - '8 Femmes'.

A Very Long Engagement and Amelie great movies =)

Maybe, too much "popular" today but still very good:

1) Le Fabuleux Destin D´Amelie Poulain
2) Banlieu 13

Some introduction to french cinema!!

La passion de Jeanne d'arc (1928)-Dreyer
Un chien Andalou (1929) Buñuel
L'Atalante (1934)J.Vigo
La grand illusion (1937) J.Renoir
le Quai des brumes (1938) M.Carné
La bete humaine (1938) J.Renoir
Regle du jeu (1939) J.Renoir
Les enfants du paradis (1945) M.Carné
Belle et la Bête (1946) J.Cocteau
Orphée (1950) J.Cocteau
Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) R.Bresson
le Salaire de la peur (1953) H-G.Clouzot
Madame de.. (1953) M.Ophüls
les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) J.Tati
les Diaboliques (1955) H-G.Clouzot
Du Rififi chez les hommes (1955) J.Dassin
Un comdamné à mort s'est échappé ou le vent souffle ou il veut (1956) R.Bresson
Et Dieu…créa la femme (1956)R.Vadim
Mon Oncle (1957) J.Tati
Les Quatre cent coups (1959) F.Truffaut
Hiroshima-Mon amour (1959) A.Resnais
Pickpocket (1959) R.Bresson
le Yeaux sans visage (1959) G.Franju
á bout de souffle (1960) J-L.Godard
L´Année dernière à Marienbad (1961) A.Resnais
Jules et Jim (1962) F.Truffaut
Vivre sa vie (1962) J-L.Godard
le Mépris (1963) J-L.Godard
Pierrot le fou (1965) J-L.Godard
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) R.Bresson
playtime (1967) J.Tati
Belle de jour (1967)L.Buñuel
le Samouraï (1967) J-P.Melville
L'Armée des ombres (1969) J-P.Melville
Z (1969) Costa Gavras
le Boucher (1970) C.Chabrol
Souffle au couer (1971) L.Malle
la Grande bouffe (1973)M.Ferreri
Le Locataire (1976) R.Polanski
La Cage aux folles (1978) E.Molinari
Diva (1981) J-J.Beineix
Jean de Florette (1986) C.Berri
Betty Blue (1986) J-J.Beineix
Au revoir les enfants (1987) L.Malle
le Grand Bleu (1988) L.Besson
L'Ours (1988) J-J.Annaud
Cyrano (1990) J-P.Rappeneau
Nikita (1990) L.Besson
Delicatessen (1991) J-P.Jeunet
Les amants du Pont-neuf (1991)L.Carax
Trois Couleurs (1993-1994)Kieslowski
La Haine (1995) M.Kassovitz
La Cité des enfants perdus (1995)J-P.Jeunet
L'Appartement (1996)G.Mimouni
Amélie (2001) J-P.Jeunet
Irréversible (2002) G.Noé
A`la folie…pas du tout (2002)L.Columbani
Les triplettes de Belleville (2003)S.Chomet
Haute Tension (2003) A.Aja
Dédales (2003) R.Manzor
Un long dimanche de fiancailles (2004) J-P.Jeunet
les Choristes (2004)C.Barratier
Caché (2005) M.Haneke
De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (2005) J.Audiard
la Science des réves (2006)M.Gondry
Ils (2006) D.Moreau
Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)J.Schnabel
La Môme (2007)O.Dahan
A L'interieur (2007) A.Bustillo
Un conte de Noël (2008) A.Desplechin
Entre les murs (2008) L.Cantet

Banlieu 13 gets a definite vote from me, if you love action movies.

My Top-15.

1. Week End (by Jean-Luc Godard)
2. The Double Life of Véronique (by Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. 400 Blows (by François Truffaut)
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
5. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Three Colors: Blue (by Kszysztof Kieslowski)
7. Au Revoir, les Enfants (by Louis Malle)
8. Pierrot le Fou (by Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Breathless (by Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Jules and Jim (by François Truffaut)
11. Hiroshima mon amour (by Alain Resnais)
12. Shoot the Piano Player (by François Truffaut)
13. Alphaville (by Jean-Luc Godard)
14. Band of Outsiders (by Jean-Luc Godard)
15. Lift to the Scaffold (by Louis Malle)

Oh. Only Malle, Kieslowski, Godard and Truffaut? No wait! There is one from Schnabel and one from Resnais also! Still, such a shame.

Well, Banlieu 13 don't get a vote from me! But "Banlieue 13" in the other hand ;)

Oh, i love "Jeux D`enfants" one of my all time favorites. Also "Ensemble, c'est tout" has a really nice story.And now recent,i have a thing for " Coco avant Chanel" , a really good movie with great actors.

Oh, i love "Jeux D`enfants" one of my all time favorites. Also "Ensemble, c'est tout" has a really nice story.And now recent,i have a thing for " Coco avant Chanel" , a really good movie with great actors.

pufred's got a great list, but I would add Clouzot's Le Corbeau and Truffaut's La Nuit americaine to it.

I've just seen "La Haine"! It went right up as an favorite of French Movies! :)

My Top 20 (all rated 8 and above)

1. Léon: The Professional (1994)
2. The Big Blue (1988)
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
4. Irreversible (2002)
5. I Stand Alone (1998)
6. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
7. Bed and Board (1970)
8. Antoine et Colette (1962)
9. The Chorus (2004)
10. Three Colors: White (1994) (haven't seen the other two so far...shame on me)
11. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
12. The Fifth Element (1997)
13. The 400 Blows (1959)
14. Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
15. High Tension (2003)
16. Amélie (2001)
17. Oscar (1967)
18. The City of Lost Children (1995)
19. Delicatessen (1991)
20. An Andalusian Dog (1929)

He loves me He loves me not is my favourite french film, Switchblade romance is also pretty cool.

A quick top-10:

01. The 400 Blows
02. The Double Life of Veronique
03. Week End
04. Contempt
05. Le Samourai
06. Playtime
07. La Haine
08. Le Salaire de la peur
09. Hiroshima mon amour
10. Jules et Jim

Belle et la Bete 1946
Brotherhood of the Wolf

i see
D-13
and
Taxi

both so good
but it hard to find them in my country

For now this;
Du rififi chez les hommes, Le samouraï, Taxi and Banlieue 13...