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 ...

Patrice leconte - what was the film with Daniel auteuil as a knife thrower and johnny depp's wife?

My god I'm shit at names!!!

Bienvenu chez les chtis - good comedy
Les choristes
Couscous

Ne le dit a personne - tell noone is brilliant. I also liked 'les petits mouchoirs''. Lots of others but tell noone my all time fave. Actually if you like scary there is a great film called 'ils' them...

La règle du jeu (Jean Renoir)

À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard)

Le bonheur (the one by Agnes Varda)

Le Boucher. I love that film.

Le Passe

Alphaville

Au revoir, les enfants

I started watching L'Apartement on Saturday night & have up. Should I try again?

Les Garçons et Guillaume a Table

YES YES to untouchable. Best film (Not just French) I saw last year.

The Hairdresser's Husband is the most amazing, beautiful film about love.

Untouchable is an amazing film. Also "the players" not sure of the French translation (this one is on Netflix)

Les Ripoux is excellent. Lots of understated humour and starring Thierry Lhermitte (who I've always had a bit of a soft spot for) and Philippe Noiret, who is brilliant as ever.

Plotwise, it's a bit of a buddy movie (but done in the French way): an idealistic young country police recruit gets partnered with a cynical wine-swilling 'ripou' (i.e. bent cop).

City of the Lost Children -- surreal steampunk fantasy, a bit strange, but very nice

Au Revoirs Les Enfants

Armour
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Agree with PP who said 'spiral' excellent French cop drama series, available on Netflicks

Jean de Florette/Manon Des Sources

La Vie en Rose is simply amazing and marvellous - Marion Cottillard deserved her Oscar and then some for her performance. I just don't know how she did it.

Rust & Bone, Two Days, One Night, both also with Marion Cottilard.

A Prophet by Jacques Audiard

Spiral in on my Netflix list, as is The Untouchables.

My daughter has discovered the films of Xavier Dolan and highly recommends "Mommy" (out earlier this year)

Mesrine Part 1 & 2 with Vincent Cassel are supposed to be very good

Yes yes yes to Le Chateau de ma Mere and La Gloire de Mon Pere.

Is Cinema Paradiso French?

Oh Betty Blue
God it's so beautiful and so sad. The soundtrack is beautiful. Heartbreaking.

And Le diner des cons is hilarious. I think it was remade by Hollywood but the French film is a scream.

Cinema paradiso is Italian but one of the best films ever. The ending is such a misfire of joy and sadness, so bittersweet.
(Sorry - wine has been had...)

Loved Mesrine Part 1 and Part 2 with Vincent Cassell. Based upon the true story of a French gangster in the 60s and 70s.

Rust and Bone is really powerful. I watched it having not read anything about it and it was amazing.

Days of Glory was very moving; North Africans fighting for the French army in WWII.

All fairly bleak choices!