1. The Best Is Yet to Come (Le Meilleur reste à venir)
Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time.
It has an average vote of 6.836 on TMDB.
2. Street Flow (Banlieusards)
Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
3. The Specials (Hors Normes)
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations , they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
It has an average vote of 7.846 on TMDB.
4. 15 Minutes of War (L'Intervention)
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
5. An Officer and a Spy (J'accuse)
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
It has an average vote of 7.076 on TMDB.
6. Gloria Mundi (Gloria mundi)
Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted by taxi drivers determined to reduce unfair competition.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
7. The Swallows of Kabul (Les Hirondelles de Kaboul)
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
It has an average vote of 7.779 on TMDB.
8. School Life (La Vie scolaire)
In one of the poorest areas of Paris, a school counselor devotes herself to working with disadvantaged students, while facing challenges of her own.
It has an average vote of 6.908 on TMDB.
9. La Belle Époque (La Belle Époque)
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.
It has an average vote of 7.382 on TMDB.
10. Motherless Brooklyn
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
It has an average vote of 6.706 on TMDB.
11. Deerskin (Le Daim)
A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.
It has an average vote of 6.46 on TMDB.
12. The Translators (Les Traducteurs)
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
13. The Collini Case (Der Fall Collini)
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
It has an average vote of 7.376 on TMDB.
14. Angel-A (Angel-A)
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together... but is their meeting purely coincidence?
It has an average vote of 6.985 on TMDB.
15. Corpus Christi (Boże Ciało)
A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.
It has an average vote of 7.658 on TMDB.
16. A Hidden Life
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
It has an average vote of 7.129 on TMDB.
17. The Aftermath
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
It has an average vote of 6.458 on TMDB.
18. Magical Nights (Notti magiche)
Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.
It has an average vote of 6.098 on TMDB.
19. Speak Up (À voix haute)
Raise the voice, speak eloquently, construct and argue a discourse. Tools so necessary in life as exciting to build. In Paris, the date of Eloquentia, an oratory contest where young people —not exactly privileged— will measure their strength, is approaching.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
20. French Twist (Gazon maudit)
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
