Please recommend me a French film

[UntamedWisteria]

We have been watching Call My Agent which we like a lot, but Saturday is movie night.

So I would like to watch a French film with subtitles to keep up our practice. Please recommend me something good!

@TonTonMacoute un prophète! Yes ! How could I have forgotten that film. Je le kifff

Is there a way to browse French language films on Netflix?

Is there a way to browse French language films on Netflix?

Yes. Download the Netflix LLM add on. It has a catalogue where you sort by the language you’re learning along with their ratings.

I think it's easiest to search on your phone, although if you search by "French" some come up.
I don't find the netflix set up that good for browsing. When you look through European or any films, it doesn't tell you what country they were made in and when searching you have to open up a film to see the plot

@Lessthanaballpark

Is there a way to browse French language films on Netflix?

Yes. Download the Netflix LLM add on. It has a catalogue where you sort by the language you’re learning along with their ratings.

Oh that's helpful.

You can also set up an extra profile in French which will help your language learning by putting all the descriptions in French. I do it for Spanish. It’s great.

Came on to say the same as everyone else - diner des cons (although I hated it - I don't find it funny when people are mean to others), manon des sources, la haine.

Also Belleville-Rendezvous, and I second Le Placard.

Check out films by Eric Rohmer - super realistic and low key and about people and emotions.

I started watching By the Grace of God on netflix yesterday, about adult survivors of abuse by a priest trying to get justice. Seems good

I also hate the Netflix browse functionality!

I know this thread is about films but we are watching Call my agent on Netflix at the moment. Absolutely brilliant.

Tous les matins du monde - lovely music.

La fille sur la pont
The Closet
Le diner des cons
Caché
36

La haine

Cinq fois deux. Beautiful soundtrack too.

There's a nice wee film on Netflix called Blind Date which I enjoyed. Lupin is also good.

L'appartement with Vincent Cassel is fabulous.

Also love Amelie.

@TheVolturi

Breathless, but it's very old! 1960 I think.

Amazing soundtrack by Miles Davies too!

Where are people watching these?

You can watch some on netflix, but some of my favourites I've bought 2nd hand on dvd as my TV has a built in dvd player

I've just remembered the sweetest French film but I have a feeling there's no speaking in it so not great for language practice
Still nice and culturally interesting. It's Les Triplettes de Belleville.

A couple of very old ones
The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie - Luis Buñuel . 70s
La Grande Bouffe - also 70s. With Marcello Mastroianni.
Le weekend - Jean-Luc Godard . A satire on French life. 60s. Weird.

Janina what do you mean? Sunset was trilogy?

Great thread though op!

@SprungisSpringYaY

Janina what do you mean? Sunset was trilogy?

Great thread though op!

Yes, there are 3 films, filmed 9 years apart. Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight. There's talk of a fourth in the series e.g. here.

There are so many brilliant suggestions here! I did my PhD in contemporary French cinema a few years back and these are some of my favourites:

35 Rhums - beautiful film about a widowed dad and his student daughter living in the outskirts of Paris

Vendredi soir - a woman gets stuck in a traffic jam in Paris on a Friday evening and ends up having one magical night

Monsieur Lazhar - French-Canadian film about an Algerian refugee who starts teaching in a Montreal primary school

Lady Chatterley - gorgeous retelling of DH Lawrence in French

And from the 60s, Cléo de 5 à 7, directed by one of France’s greatest filmmakers, Agnès Varda. Beautiful, moving wee film about a young woman’s day in Paris as she awaits medical test results.

I remembered I used to go to film evenings at a branch of the Institut Francais in Oxford and have just looked them up - they seem to have films available to stream for free. Haven't had a go yet but here's the link:
www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/on-demand/