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

I’d also recommend This could be the Last Time. It’s got some French in it. I used to watch it with kids. They loved it. My TA used to sit and cry all the way through it, bless her. It’s very watchable on a number of levels.

Man bites dog
Was unusual to say the least.

Some fantastic suggestions here. Where are you able to watch these films? I’ve searched a lot of them on Netflix but without any luck!

No I’ve forgotten the little girl and the egg.

Well quite a few of them I saw in the cinema donkeys years ago 😁.
In terms of streaming - Mubi has quite a good range of foreign language films.

Try Prime and Mubi

Caché

@Grumpyoldpersonwithcats@Placestogo Thanks, will check out both of them

I only saw it because my great grandfather was the sole teacher in a school when he started his career, and wanted to get a feel for what it might have been like.

Nicolas Philibert's subsequent documentaries including On the Adamant are also worth watching.

Yes, I agree - he's amazing, and possibly the most beautiful man to have ever flickered across a screen ❤️

I don’t think anyone has mentioned Priceless yet. It’s an absolute gem of a film with Audrey Tautou. It’s not just one of my favourite French films, it’s one of my favourite films of all time!

trailer here:

@bloominoreilly he really is isn't he ! And yet so much more discreet than more modern so called heart throbs they seem so crass in comparison
His slightest movements are amazing .I'm in thrall of his acting at the moment

So many memories - i had a bit of a phase in the 90s clearly! I want to watch these and so many others listed, again.

les nuits fauves (1992)
Nanou (1986) v early Daniel Day Lewis briefly!
La Reine Margot ((1994)
La Belle Noiseuse (1992)
Trois couleurs: Bleu, (1992)
Madame Bovary (1991) - beautiful Isabelle Huppert

La separation...auteil again

Pink panther

Not a French film but Kings of Pastry - Wikipedia is worth a watch if you're interested in this sort of thing!

Man Bites Dog is Belgian.

Oh thank you
.wrong country
.oops.🙏😁

This is a fabulous film; specially if you’re a foodie.

Les Quatre Cents Coups.

Plein Soleil

La Haine was good.

Can’t and have never understood the liking for Betty Blue. It’s such a male student fantasy film. Urgh.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Le dîner de cons(I Watch with me French husband on repeat, so funny). Les Bronzes font du ski, les intouchables, la haine, so many!

Me too!

Le retour de Martin guerre.

La Nuit Américaine; A nous les petites anglaises; Jean de Florette; Manon des Sources; anything with a young Depardieu in it.

8 Femmes.

Am joking . It's one of the worst films ever . Dd had to watch it for ALevel French. She made me watch also.