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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