1. The Outsider (Le marginal)
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
It has an average vote of 6.962 on TMDB.
2. The Professional (Le Professionnel)
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.
It has an average vote of 7.24 on TMDB.
3. The Wise Guys (Les Grandes gueules)
Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...
It has an average vote of 8.012 on TMDB.
4. The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La Vengeance du serpent à plumes)
An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
It has an average vote of 4.6 on TMDB.
5. Brief Crossing (Brève traversée)
A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
6. Our Daily Bread (Unser täglich Brot)
Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
7. Mohawk
An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when a vengeful settler manages to get the army and the braves at each other's throats his troubles really begin.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
8. Letters of a Novice (Lettere di una novizia)
The nun tells the priest about her past and then a long flashback begins...
It has an average vote of 6.409 on TMDB.
9. Marines
The cold war is over. East and West are fighting together against illegal secretly heavily armed terrorists, criminals and resistance fighters. During one of these missions, four soldiers are kidnapped and seems like a great international crisis to emerge. The highest military bosses in America and Russia are in panic. The well-known cover-up must offer a solution. But ... Marines are not just aside and decisions without official support to do everything to liberate their comrades. Additional help comes from an unexpected angle, but whether this will be enough ...
It has an average vote of 4.1 on TMDB.
10. Actors (Les acteurs)
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
11. A Room in Town (Une chambre en ville)
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
12. A Monkey in Winter (Un singe en hiver)
The story of a man who has stopped drinking- and then dreaming- and who thanks to a young man who tries to forget a lost love in alcohol will turn drunk again during an exciting night.
It has an average vote of 7.583 on TMDB.
13. Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté)
A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.
It has an average vote of 7.335 on TMDB.
14. Jupiter's Thigh (On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter)
Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
15. The Confession (L'Aveu)
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
It has an average vote of 7.27 on TMDB.
16. Season's Beatings (La Bûche)
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?
It has an average vote of 5.929 on TMDB.
17. The Brain (Le cerveau)
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
18. The Magnificent One (Le Magnifique)
A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.
It has an average vote of 7.046 on TMDB.
19. Disclaimer (Toute ressemblance…)
Since his sensational arrival at the head of the 20 Hours, Cédric Saint Guérande, known as "CSG" is THE favorite presenter of the French. His insolent audiences stoke the jealousy even within La Grande Chaîne which he is the undisputed star. His thirst for power is limitless, which displeases the new president of the chain. The war is declared between the two men for the great pleasure of CSG. Power games, networking, manipulations and low shots: the fight will be merciless, and the outcome necessarily spectacular. Welcome to the media circus games.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
20. Turf (Turf)
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek , Fifi , Fortuné and Freddy . They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag…
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
