What are your favourite French films?

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I love world cinema especially French but it’s been a few years since I’ve really been able to enjoy films regularly and I want to return to enjoying French cinema. I’d appreciate any recommendations. It doesn’t matter if I’ve seen them so I won’t list them here because it’ll remind me of how much I loved them and to watch them again.

TIA

Also studio canal has some excellent films including foreign films on there.
Me klein is very thought provoking and beautifully made.

Mr Klein !!

De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté (The Beat That my Heart Skipped - I loved this one with Romain Duris.

La Balance

Vagabonde

La Pianiste (dark)

Betty Blue-(spoiler) well my 14 year old self thought this oh so sexy and tormented. Looking back, she has a psychotic episode and her BF unilaterally decides she'd be better off dead and smothers her in hospital WTF!

My favourites and La Reine Margot, so excited it is coming on again at my local cinema again soon.

I’ve just seen Juste une Illusion at the cinema but I’m sure it will be available to stream soon. Lovely, nostalgic, eighties family story

Amelie. It’s the world’s most perfect film!

Polisse is excellent about a group of police officers and some of the things they have to deal with daily - some difficult scenes to watch.

cafe de flore - beautiful film about the relationship of two children.

both have excellent soundtracks too.

My favourite cinema is Cine Lumiere in London - I like going there but also use it as a source for film ideas, generally - it shows fab films - a lot of old and new French films, but also films from other countries (all subtitled in English). A brilliant French film I saw there recently was Souleymane's Story

www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/#/

I love Mr Klein - sticks in your mind for years afterwards, quite heartbreaking.

Also Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958) - brilliantly tense film

It could be The Woman Next Door. I just recall seeing them both dead at the bottom of a staircase. I was only a teenager (15 or 16)
and just learning about crime passionel, then, so it was a bit shocking! I watched French films then to improve my French, worked a charm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Piscine_(film)

Le Huitième Jour (Auteuil again).

When I was teaching we used to watch a super film about a rural teacher and his charges. Beautiful. I cannot remember the name, I’ll try to find it.

Etre et Avoir.

I watched Café de Flore years ago with Vanessa Paradis and it really stuck with me, kind of trippy but I enjoyed it.
Another vote for Hors de Prix, I love that film!

Oh I remember this. It had a class tortoise in it. Utterly charming.

Auteuil is just so good.

I'd forgotten about this - must look it out again and rewatch.

I almost couldn’t recognise Auteuil in his younger days! He does look very French though.

Oh it has Miou Miou in it. My mum used to mention her as being popular when she was younger. And I think it’s similar to slang for cat, minet.

Le mèpris with Bardot

@bloominoreilly Alain delon acting is incredible.

@Gonnagetgoingreturnsagainand the little girl who dropped her egg - do you remember that bit? The teacher was so calm and lovely. I remember too the lad who couldn’t do his sums. It just didn’t sink in! Poor little bugger.

Mon Père, ce Héros. Depardieu. Very light.