Category
page 2Films based on French novels

The Man with the Iron Heart
2017 film directed by Cédric Jimenez

Journey to Italy
1954 film by Roberto Rossellini

Le Petit Nicolas
2009 French film directed by Laurent Tirard

Story of O
1975 film by Just Jaeckin

Manon des Sources
1986 French language film directed by Claude Berri

Léon Morin, Priest
1961 film by Jean-Pierre Melville

A Little Romance
1979 film by George Roy Hill

The Last Adventure
1967 drama film directed by Robert Enrico

Mayerling
1968 film by Terence Young

Gates of Paris
1957 film by René Clair

Chéri
2009 film by Stephen Frears

La Tulipe noire
1964 French film by Christian-Jaque

Diary of a Chambermaid
1964 film by Luis Buñuel

Bonjour Tristesse
1958 American film by Otto Preminger

Baise-moi
Baise-moi is a 2000 French erotic crime thriller film written and directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi and starring Karen Lancaume and Raffaëla Anderson. It is based on the novel by Despentes, first published in 1993. The film received intense media coverage because of its graphic mix of violence and explicit sex scenes. Consequently, it is sometimes considered an example of the "New French Extremity".

La Chienne
1931 film by Jean Renoir

Lost Command
1966 film by Mark Robson

Hunting and Gathering
2007 film directed by Claude Berri

Diary of a Country Priest
1951 film by Robert Bresson

Angélique, Marquise des Anges
1964 film by Bernard Borderie

Valmont
1989 film by Miloš Forman

Going Places
1974 film directed by Bertrand Blier

Sarah's Key
2010 film by Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Max et les Ferrailleurs
1971 film by Claude Sautet

The Life Ahead
2020 film directed by Edoardo Ponti

Oslo, August 31st
2011 film by Joachim Trier

Empire of the Wolves
2005 film directed by Chris Nahon

White Dog
1982 film by Samuel Fuller

Mood Indigo
2013 film by Michel Gondry

The Passerby
1982 film by Jacques Rouffio

Le Corps de mon ennemi
1976 film by Henri Verneuil

Goodbye Again
1961 film by Anatole Litvak

The Little Prince
1974 film by Stanley Donen

The Sleeping Car Murders
1965 film by Costa-Gavras

Diabolique
1996 film by Jeremiah S. Chechik

See You Up There
2017 film by Albert Dupontel

Womanlight
Womanlight () is a 1979 film by Costa-Gavras based on the 1977 novel Clair de femme by Romain Gary.

Manon
1949 film by Henri-Georges Clouzot

Un singe en hiver
1962 film by Henri Verneuil

Poison
1991 film directed by Todd Haynes

Up to His Ears
1965 film by Philippe de Broca

To Kill a Cop
1981 French film by Alain Delon

Belle and Sebastian
2013 film by Nicolas Vanier

Night Flight from Moscow
1973 film by Henri Verneuil

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
2017 film by Marjane Satrapi

Mon oncle Benjamin
1969 film by Édouard Molinaro

Babar: The Movie
1989 film by Alan Bunce

Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014 film

La Soupe aux choux
1981 film by Jean Girault

That Night in Varennes
1982 film by Ettore Scola

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
1945 film by Robert Bresson

Lola Montès
1955 film by Max Ophüls

Weekend at Dunkirk
1964 film by Henri Verneuil

Monsieur Hire
1989 film by Patrice Leconte

Samba
2014 film

Delicacy
2011 film by David Foenkinos

99 Francs
2007 film by Jan Kounen

Atomised
2006 film by Oskar Roehler

The Light at the Edge of the World
1971 adventure film directed by Kevin Billington

The Children of the Marshland
1999 film directed by Jean Becker