Category
page 7Films based on French novels
The Red Head
1925 French film by Julien Duvivier
The Clearstream Affair
2015 film by Vincent Garenq
The Rain Children
2003 animated feature film directed by Philippe Leclerc
Remi
2018 film by Antoine Blossier
Elle et moi
1952 film by Guy Lefranc
Du Guesclin
1948 film by Bernard de Latour
Thais
1917 American film directed by Hugo Ballin and Frank Hall Crane
David Golder
1930 French film directed by Julien Duvivier
Dear Caroline
1968 film by Denys de La Patellière
The Road to Corinthe
1967 film by Claude Chabrol
Black Magic
1949 film
Le désordre et la nuit
1958 film by Gilles Grangier
La Maternelle
1933 film by Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein
Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause !
1970 film by Michel Audiard
Wild Fruit
1954 film by Hervé Bromberger
Will You Be There?
2016 film by Hong Ji-young
Words in Blue
2005 film by Alain Corneau
Angèle
1934 French film by Marcel Pagnol
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970 film by Anatole Litvak
Sounds of Sand
2006 film directed by Marion Hänsel
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
1990 film by Duccio Tessari
The Hands of Orlac
1960 film by Edmond T. Gréville
Chantecoq
1916 film by Henri Pouctal
The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola
1913 Italian silent film directed by Marcel Perez
Eugenie... the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion
1970 film by Jesús Franco
The Red Siren
2002 film by Olivier Megaton
L'équipage
1935 film by Anatole Litvak
Perfect Nanny
2019 film directed by Lucie Borleteau
Queen to Play
2009 film by Caroline Bottaro
Caroline Chérie
1951 film by Richard Pottier
Diamant 13
2009 film by Gilles Béhat
Yoshiwara
1937 film by Max Ophüls
Just the Two of Us
2023 film directed by Valérie Donzelli
Le Blé en herbe
1954 film by Claude Autant-Lara
Skullduggery
1970 film by Gordon Douglas
Monsieur Lecoq
1914 film by Maurice Tourneur
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967 film by Tony Richardson
13 Days, 13 Nights
2025 French thriller film directed by Martin Bourboulon about the Kabul evacuation.
Du rififi chez les femmes
1959 film by Alex Joffé
Five Ashore in Singapore
1967 film by Bernard Toublanc-Michel
Fanchon the Cricket
1915 film by James Kirkwood
My Friend Sainfoin
1950 film by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
Méphisto
Méphisto is the title of a 1931 French film serial co-directed by Henri Debain and Georges Vinter, starring Jean Gabin and René Navarre. It was Gabin's first role in a long and illustrious career, as well as Viviane Elder's first role. The music was by Casimir Oberfeld with lyrics by Charles L. Pothier, sung by Jean Gabin.
La Dame aux Camélias
1934 film by Abel Gance, Fernand Rivers
Les Intrigantes
1954 French film directed by Henri Decoin
The Loves of Salammbo
1960 film by Sergio Grieco
The Repentant
2002 film by Laetitia Masson
Le Grand Meaulnes
2006 film by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
Promise at Dawn
1970 film directed by Jules Dassin
The Palermo Connection
1990 film by Francesco Rosi
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
2025 film directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Bettina Loved a Soldier
1916 film by Rupert Julian
Lokis
1970 film by Janusz Majewski
Mauprat
1926 film by Jean Epstein
Death is My Trade
1977 film by Theodor Kotulla
The 5th Monkey
1990 film by Éric Rochat
Belle and Sebastian, Friends for Life
2017 film by Clovis Cornillac
The French, They Are a Funny Race
1955 film by Preston Sturges
Body Parts
1991 horror film by Eric Red
Therese and Isabelle
1968 film by Radley Metzger