1. The Tiger Brigades (Les Brigades du Tigre)
The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
2. The French Minister (Quai d’Orsay)
Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity, and efficacy. Enter Arthur Vlaminck. Hired to write the minister's speeches, Arthur must contend with the sensibilities of his boss and the dirty dealings within the Quai d'Orsay, the ministry's home.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
3. The Greatest Show on Earth
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
4. Arctic Heart (Le secret des banquises)
A timid young grad student madly in love with her scientist boss offers her body to his research.
It has an average vote of 4.8 on TMDB.
5. The Scapegoat
Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, The Scapegoat tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
6. Bizarre
Maurice, a reticent young homeless man, somehow manages to get by in Brooklyn; he spends his nights in parked cars until he finds himself at Bizarre, an underground club renowned for its burlesque shows. Maurice is fascinated by the club’s playful revues celebrating self-determined sexuality and creative otherness, and the two female club owners both adore him. He soon becomes a part of their self-selected family, and begins to bond with introverted Luka. But Maurice turns his back on Luka’s growing affection. Running away from his true emotions he drifts aimlessly through the city. He tries to find his feet at a boxing club, where he meets Charlie. Unable to withstand the pressure of his repressed feelings, Maurice unleashes a mounting foment of emotions, pervaded by tenderness and menace.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
7. 7 Days in Havana (7 días en La Habana)
A young American boy is trying to break into the acting business, and goes to Cuba during a film festival.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
8. Saint-Jacques... La Mecque (Saint-Jacques... La Mecque)
Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
9. The Big Night (Le Grand Soir)
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
10. Tokyo Fiancée (Tokyo Fiancée)
A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
11. Queens of the Ring (Les reines du ring)
More than anything, 30-year-old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickaël, her estranged 11-year-old son who has been placed with a foster family and blames his mother for their long separation. When she discovers that Mickaël is crazy about wrestling, Rose thinks she's found a way to melt the ice: she'll put together a tag team with three girlfriends from the store where all four work as checkout girls...
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
12. Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
Lizzie Borden Took An Ax chronicles the scandal and enduring mystery surrounding Lizzie Borden, who was tried in 1892 for axing her parents to death. As the case rages on, the courtroom proceedings fuel an enormous amount of sensationalized stories and headlines in newspapers throughout the country, forever leaving Lizzie Borden’s name in infamy.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
13. Sky
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
14. Les Gazelles (Les Gazelles)
Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision...
It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.
15. It's a Disaster
Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.
It has an average vote of 6.324 on TMDB.
16. The Hairdresser's Husband (Le Mari de la coiffeuse)
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however, we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a hairdresser.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
17. Yves Saint Laurent (Yves Saint Laurent)
A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
18. The Italian (L'italien)
Dino Fabrizzi is the number one seller of the Maserati dealership in Nice. At 42, he arrives at a turning point in his life, the position of director is openly proposed and his companion for a year, Helen, has the firm intention to marry her. For Dino, life is great, except that this perfect life was built on a lie. Dino is actually called Mourad Ben Saoud. Neither his boss nor Helen and even less his parents are aware of this false identity. In ten days begins Ramadan and Mourad who passes every year will this time assume the promise made to his sick father. Taking part in Ramadan, For Dino - the Italian - it will not be easy.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
19. The Crimson Pirate
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
It has an average vote of 6.966 on TMDB.
20. A Better Life (Une vie meilleure)
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
