1. The Under-Gifted (Les sous-doués)
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
It has an average vote of 6.501 on TMDB.
2. Men Prefer Fat Girls (Les hommes préfèrent les grosses)
Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
3. The Bear (Ursul)
At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their favorite animal so the manager decides to steal the bear and run to the mountains to meet the Germans. A crazy road movie starts following the bear.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
4. Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, le film (Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, le film)
The movie chronicles the long, futuristic voyage of a team of Québécois space explorers looking for a planet capable of sustaining life, in the year 2034, after the destruction of the ozone layer through excessive human pollution, prompting the need for a new planet to welcome humankind. The seven crew members venture outside their own galaxy to explore other star system in search of a new planet large enough to sustain 6 billion people. The few habitable planets encountered are ultimately abandoned either because they are already occupied , or because upon closer inspection they are found to have other problems .
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
5. East/West (Est-Ouest)
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
6. Stadium Nuts (Les fous du stade)
Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through the village. A grocer, charged to prepare a celebration, calls upon the four to help. One of the four falls for the grocer's daughter. However, she runs away after the sportsman carrying the flame. The foursome set of to find her and win her back.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
7. Mes héros (Mes héros)
(Mes héros)
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
8. Clara and Chics Types (Clara et les Chics Types)
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In getting to Paris and back, the characters interact with Aimee's ex-husband and her abrasive, cruel ex-mentor, Louise's would-be lover who turns out to have a husband, Mickey's long-time lover and her children, Bertrand's Germanic wife and their children who speak no French, and Frederic's distant mother. The band also meets Clara, a mercurial free spirit who beguiles Bertrand, then Mickey, then takes up with someone else in the band.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
9. Le Maître d'école (Le Maître d'école)
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
It has an average vote of 6.028 on TMDB.
10. The French Lieutenant's Woman
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
It has an average vote of 6.439 on TMDB.
11. One Deadly Summer (L'Été meurtrier)
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder ; she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
It has an average vote of 6.938 on TMDB.
12. The Miracle Worker
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
It has an average vote of 7.833 on TMDB.
13. Queen Margot (La Reine Margot)
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
14. The Tuche Family: The American Dream (Les Tuche 2 : Le Rêve américain)
Les Tuche, a modest french family, change his life after winning a super lottery. Thanks to the money of his parents, the son, Donald goes to Los Angeles to improve his english. On the L.A. University, he meets Jennifer, daughter of a famous American financier.
It has an average vote of 5.573 on TMDB.
15. Manon of the Spring (Manon des sources)
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
It has an average vote of 7.596 on TMDB.
16. Prime
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
It has an average vote of 5.961 on TMDB.
17. Paris Je T'aime (Paris, je t'aime)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
It has an average vote of 6.784 on TMDB.
18. Carbone (Carbone)
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
It has an average vote of 6.74 on TMDB.
19. La Chèvre (La Chèvre)
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
It has an average vote of 7.138 on TMDB.
20. Blind Date (Un peu, beaucoup, aveuglément)
He invents puzzles. He’s committed body and soul to his work and needs silence to be able to concentrate. She is an accomplished pianist and can’t live without music. She must prepare for a competition that could change her life. They are going to be forced to coexist without seeing each other.
It has an average vote of 6.452 on TMDB.
