1. Les Biches (Les Biches)
Bored bisexual millionaire Frédérique picks up a young street artist named Why, and whisks her away to her villa in St. Tropez for the winter season. They soon meet dashing architect Paul and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
2. A Dirty Story (Une sale histoire)
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
It has an average vote of 6.462 on TMDB.
3. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.
It has an average vote of 5.373 on TMDB.
4. The Curse of the Cat People
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
It has an average vote of 6.246 on TMDB.
5. The Spider's Stratagem (Strategia del ragno)
A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
6. Marketa Lazarová (Marketa Lazarová)
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
7. The Witness (我是证人)
A blind woman and a delivery boy attempt to solve a hit-and-run case the police have been unable to solve.
It has an average vote of 7.543 on TMDB.
8. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau)
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality. An undisputed classic of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating is a delightful movie about the spiritual journey of a pair of young women, told with a playful approach to the cinematic form. A masterpiece of cinematic creativity, Rivette, the same mind behind 1969’s L’amour fou, effortlessly draws the viewer into the whimsical world of the titular protagonists.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
9. The Devil, Probably (Le Diable probablement)
A group of disillusioned young Parisians look for satisfaction in political activism, religion, romance, music, and drugs.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
10. Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges)
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
11. One Deadly Summer (L'Été meurtrier)
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder ; she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
12. The Bride Wore Black (La mariée était en noir)
Julie Kohler, whose husband was inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding, is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her.
It has an average vote of 7.108 on TMDB.
13. L'Âge d'or (L'Âge d'or)
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
It has an average vote of 6.802 on TMDB.
14. Antoine and Colette (Antoine et Colette)
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” .
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
15. Five Easy Pieces
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
It has an average vote of 7.145 on TMDB.
16. The Sacrifice (Offret)
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
It has an average vote of 7.701 on TMDB.
17. Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria)
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
It has an average vote of 7.983 on TMDB.
18. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Hiroshima mon amour)
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
It has an average vote of 7.728 on TMDB.
19. Pierrot le Fou (Pierrot le fou)
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
It has an average vote of 7.418 on TMDB.
20. Force Majeure (Turist)
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
It has an average vote of 6.866 on TMDB.