Films based on French novels

1957 film directed by David Lean

2011 film directed by Rupert Wyatt

2014 film directed by Matt Reeves

2001 film by Tim Burton

1968 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

2017 film directed by Matt Reeves

1958 film by Vincente Minnelli

1962 film by François Truffaut

1967 film directed by Luis Buñuel

2011 film by Jaume Collet-Serra

1999 film directed by Roger Kumble

1953 film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

1975 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

1988 film by Stephen Frears

2024 film directed by Wes Ball

2011 film by Pedro Almodóvar

1974 film by Just Jaeckin

2013 film by Luc Besson

2005 film directed by Mark Waters

2016 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

1952 French film by René Clément

2004 film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

1992 film by Roman Polanski

1955 film by Henri-Georges Clouzot

2008 French film directed by Laurent Cantet

thumb|thumbtime=12|Cabiria (full video) Cabiria is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). It follows the story of an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features an eruption of Mount Etna, religious rituals in Carthage, the alpine trek of Hannibal, Archimedes' defeat of the Roman fleet at the Siege of Syracuse and Scipio maneuvering in North Africa. Apart from being a classic on its own terms, the film is also notable for being the first film

2008 film by Mathieu Kassovitz

1958 French film by Louis Malle

1957 film by Billy Wilder

1988 film by Philip Kaufman

1992 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

1960 film by Claude Sautet, Georges Franju

1969 film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville

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1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix

1952 film directed by John Huston

1969 film by Jacques Deray

1976 French film directed by Roman Polański

1994 film by Patrice Chéreau

1945 film by Fritz Lang

2015 film directed by Pierre Morel

1977 film directed by William Friedkin

1971 film by François Truffaut

Querelle is a 1982 English-language erotic art film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Brad Davis and was adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle of Brest. The plot centers on the Belgian sailor Georges Querelle, who is both a thief and murderer. It was Fassbinder's last film, released shortly after his death at the age of 37.

1977 film directed by Moshé Mizrahi

2000 French film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz

2010 film by Richard Berry

2012 film directed by Benoît Jacquot

1928 silent film by Paul Leni

1987 film directed by Maurice Pialat

1970 film by Claude Sautet

Rififi () is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton's novel of the same name. Directed by American blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin, the film stars Jean Servais as the aging gangster Tony "le Stéphanois", Carl Möhner as Jo "le Suédois", Robert Manuel as Mario Farrati, and Jules Dassin as César "le Milanais". The foursome band together to commit an almost impossible theft, the burglary of an exclusive jewelry shop in the Rue de la Paix. The centerpiece of the film is an intricate half-hour heist scene depicting the crime in detail, shot in near silence, without dialogue or m

1937 film by Julien Duvivier

1960 film by Louis Malle

1963 film by Louis Malle

1967 film by Luchino Visconti

2015 film directed by Saul Dibb

1991 film by Alain Corneau

1953 film by Max Ophüls

1958 film by Louis Malle