1. Kitchen with Apartment (Cuisine et Dépendances)
Jacques and Martine, an ordinary bourgeois couple, invite to dinner a friend whom they have not seen the last ten years. Since then he has become a media star and everything has to go just right at dinner.
It has an average vote of 7.003 on TMDB.
2. Sidewalks of New York
The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a humorous and biting commentary on the game of love -- easy to start, hard to finish.
It has an average vote of 6.107 on TMDB.
3. Providence
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.
It has an average vote of 6.804 on TMDB.
4. Charlie Says (Selon Charlie)
The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
5. Robinson's Place (Du côté de Robinson)
Eustache’s debut film follows two young men near the place de Clichy, looking for fun and whatever trouble comes with it. Unsurprisingly, their attention ultimately falls on a girl. They go to a dancing called "Robinson". Spurned when she decides to go dancing with someone else, their thoughts quickly turn to revenge. Slowly, we discover the layer of despair that sits just under their carefree appearance.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
6. C'est La Vie (La Baule-les-Pins)
A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a close relationship with the imaginary addressee of her daily diary and her parents' disintegrating marriage - all this in a rented house in a summer resort.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
7. Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
This film tells the tale of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
8. Look at Me (Comme une image)
Talented 20-year-old Lolita dreams of a singing career. But her self-esteem is low due to her weight problem and her narcissistic father, Étienne, a literary star with scant interest in his daughter's life. Lolita finds little comfort in the attentions of her vocal coach, suspecting the woman is using her to meet her influential father. Étienne's second wife proves to be Lolita's only trustworthy ally in her private battle to find a sense of worth.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
9. The Specialists (Les Spécialistes)
While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an isolated farmhouse whose owner, Laura, offers them sanctuary. Since the death of her husband, Laura has longed to get her own back on the police and she agrees to help Carella and Brandon in their scheme to rob a casino in Nice. After a shoot out with the casino’s owners, Carella realises that not everything is what it seems. Brandon is not what he appears...
It has an average vote of 6.628 on TMDB.
10. Price Of Parenting (Mes très chers enfants)
Parents with empty nest syndrome find a clever way to make their kids stay interested: winning the lottery.
It has an average vote of 5.257 on TMDB.
11. Courted (L'Hermine)
When a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte Lorensen-Coteret, at a murder trial, their shared past is slowly uncovered.
It has an average vote of 6.156 on TMDB.
12. The Story of Us
Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
It has an average vote of 6.067 on TMDB.
13. Madame Claude (Madame Claude)
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the french political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
It has an average vote of 5.676 on TMDB.
14. The Truth (La Vérité)
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
It has an average vote of 6.015 on TMDB.
15. Family Resemblances (Un air de famille)
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
It has an average vote of 7.28 on TMDB.
16. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté)
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.
It has an average vote of 6.93 on TMDB.
17. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot)
Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.
It has an average vote of 6.994 on TMDB.
18. Earwig and the Witch (アーヤと魔女)
A headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch.
It has an average vote of 5.981 on TMDB.
19. Papicha (Papicha)
Nedjma, an 18-year-old student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War keep her from experiencing a normal life. As the social climate becomes more conservative, she rejects the new bans set by the radicals and decides to put on a fashion show.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
20. Hollywoo (Hollywoo)
Sometimes, when you think you have it all, everything falls apart. That is exactly the story of Jeanne .Just when she is offered the chance to dub famous American actress Jennifer Marshall in a successful American TV Show and her salary is about to triple, Marshall decides to withdraw from the show. So Jeanne makes a crazy decision, fly to Hollywood herself and make Jennifer change her mind about leaving the series...
It has an average vote of 5.371 on TMDB.
