Tell me your favourite French films please

[Molesworth]

Can we take it Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Etre et Avoir and Amelie as read though?

My local video hire place has a huge selection of French films but I don't know where to start ...

Un air de famille
Le goût des autres
and the other Bacri/Jaoui ones.)
Liberté-Oléron
La Grande vadrouille

Strangely, it is far easier to find and rent old (as in last year +) French films in the UK than it is here in France. Old Rambos, no problem. Dirty dancing? A doddle. Babette's Feast? Quoi?

le grand chemin - best film ever. please please see it and then tell me how much you loved it!

poil de carotte is similar - both about children being rejected

steer clear of the Piano Teacher

she's a right loon

Ooh, yes, Le Grand chemin.
Tanguy (but maybe I only like it because it rings bells: I have a 30 yr-old Tanguy-type brother)

36 quai des orfevres
amelie
girl on the bridge
Cyrano de Bergerac

...I've got a thing for Daniel Auteil

les visiteurs du soir
tous les matins du monde
cyrano de bergerac

loved A la folie...pas du tout

La gloire de mon pere
Le Chateau de ma mere

beautiful films that you can just lose yourself in.

All of mine have already been mentioned- 400 Coups, Cyranno de Bergerac and many more but
I just remembered 'Un Coeur en hiver' and'La Seperation',Daniel Auteiul is such a prolific actor.

Is A la folie the one where she is in love with the doctor? If so, that was filmed in Bordeaux

Yep!

Le boucher
Belleville Rendezvous
La Vieile Dame et les Pigeons

Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien

I really really did not get the triplets of belleville. Did anyone?

Just remembered another
Conte d'hiver.

trois bleu de couleurs

oh, yes, I liked la conte d'hiver too!

Ma Vie En Rose

Also - there are some wonderful French-speaking African and Caribbean films that rate amongst my favourites - would you like to know those?

Le diner des cons (funniest french movie ever)
Tous les matins du monde
Le pacte des loups
Irreversible (yes, I liked it)
Les amants du pont neuf

Betty Blue
400 coups
Jules et Jim
In fact almost anything by Truffaut!

I saw a really cool one a few months ago, with those guys who do building jumping, whatever its called.

The film was District 13. Not to be confused with precint 13 (or it might be the other way round }

Oh and aol, I found Belleville Rendezvous weird too! I thought it would be about Belleville when I went to the cinema, should have read the critiques!

oh and of course. Amelie. I love her hair. I am having mine like that at my >>

Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A very long engagement) - reminds me of the Sebastien Faulks book Birdsong. Another one with Audrey Tatou - big fan of hers since seeing Amelie.