Category
page 4Films based on French novels

The Nun
1966 film directed by Jacques Rivette

The Road to Glory
1936 film by Howard Hawks

The Girl on a Motorcycle
1968 film by Jack Cardiff

The Children of Captain Grant
1936 film by Vladimir Vajnshtok

Uranus
1990 film by Claude Berri, Arlette Langmann

Jacquou le Croquant
2007 film by Laurent Boutonnat

Limonov: The Ballad
2024 film

The Most Precious of Cargoes
2024 animation film by Michel Hazanavicius

Le Bossu
1959 film by André Hunebelle

An Impossible Love
2018 film directed by Catherine Corsini

The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 film by Jean Renoir

Someone Behind the Door
1971 film directed by Nicolas Gessner

Boulevard du Rhum
1971 film directed by Robert Enrico

Section spéciale
1975 film by Costa-Gavras

Master of the World
1961 film by William Witney

Who You Think I Am
2019 film directed by Safy Nebbou

The Roots of Heaven
1958 film by John Huston

Untamable Angelique
1967 film directed by Bernard Borderie

Thérèse Desqueyroux
2012 film

10:30 P.M. Summer
1966 film by Jules Dassin

La Vache et le Prisonnier
1959 film by Henri Verneuil

Both Sides of the Blade
2022 film directed by Claire Denis

Marie-Octobre
Marie-Octobre is a 1959 French drama mystery film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier and Robert Dalban. It is based on the eponymous novel by Jacques Robert. The entire action takes place in real time over 99 minutes. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. It is also known by the alternative title Secret Meeting The film was remade in 2008 by director Josée Dayan, starring Nathalie Baye.

The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934 film by Harold Young

On Guard
1997 film by Philippe de Broca

Bitter Victory
1957 film by Nicholas Ray

Confessions of a Queen
1925 film by Victor Sjöström

Martin Roumagnac
1946 film directed by Georges Lacombe

The Gypsy
1975 French-Italian film directed by José Giovanni

The Blood of Others
1984 film by Claude Chabrol

Lady J
2018 film directed by Emmanuel Mouret

Anatomy of Hell
2004 film by Catherine Breillat

Beau-père
1981 film by Bertrand Blier

The Ogre
1996 film by Volker Schlöndorff

Rosebud
1975 film by Otto Preminger

Idiot in Paris
1967 film by Serge Korber

Sirocco
1951 film by Curtis Bernhardt

Love Me No More
2008 film by Jean Becker

Paradise
1991 film by Mary Agnes Donoghue

Love at the Top
1974 film directed by Michel Deville

The Horsemen
1971 film by John Frankenheimer

Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969 film by Jesús Franco

Devil in the Flesh
1986 Italian film by Marco Bellocchio

Le chemin des écoliers
1959 film by Michel Boisrond

The Little Sister
2025 film directed by Hafsia Herzi

Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958 film by Yves Robert

The Speech
2020 film directed by Laurent Tirard

Les Enfants Terribles
1950 film by Jean-Pierre Melville

The Stolen Airship
1967 film by Karel Zeman

Romance of Astree and Celadon
2007 film directed by Éric Rohmer

Afterwards
2008 film by Gilles Bourdos

Heal the Living
2016 film by Katell Quillévéré

Les amitiés particulières
1964 film by Jean Delannoy

Mademoiselle Chambon
2009 film directed by Stéphane Brizé

The Long Teeth
1952 French film by Daniel Gélin

The Hedgehog
2009 film by Mona Achache

In Search of the Castaways
1962 film by Robert Stevenson

L'amour dure trois ans
2012 film by Frédéric Beigbeder

A Real Young Girl
1976 film by Catherine Breillat

The Possessors
1958 film by Denys de La Patellière