French movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant french movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, romantic, sincere, emotional, humorous and touching films and TV shows about / with love, love and romance, couples, kiss, death, love story, fall in love, european, friendship and family relations plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in France, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as french: The Dreamers (2003), Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), Rust and Bone (2012), Humanity (1999), Welcome to the Sticks (2008), The Dinner Game (1998), Allied (2016), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), The Spanish Apartment (2002), The Intouchables (2011).

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 7.1
 131K
The Dreamers (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style: sexy, erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: incest, sexuality, protest, rebellion, couples, youth, sex, love triangle, nudity, friends, brother sister incest, sexual relations ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Style: erotic, sexual, emotional, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, sexuality, lesbian love, coming of age, youth, lovers, lesbian relationship, lesbian teen, lesbianism, adolescence, gays and lesbians ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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 7.4
 70K
Rust and Bone (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Singapore
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Style: heartbreaking, sad, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: disability, love, depression, illegal fistfight, female nudity, sex with neighbor, opposites attract, disabled person, family drama, redemption, orca, amputee ...
Time: year 2012, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, cote d'azur, french riviera, europe, riviera ...
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 6.8
 5K
Humanity (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, erotic, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: small town, masturbation, female nudity, female pubic hair, lust, voyeur, sex, orgasm, murder, dead body, strike, rape ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, flanders, europe
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Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a ...
Style: humorous, witty, light, funny, satirical ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick
Plot: village life, friendship, fish out of water, culture clash, postman, prejudice, post office, small town, foe turned friend, happy ending, social satire, provincial life ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, provence, south of france, flanders, europe
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The Dinner Game (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
Style: humorous, funny, feel good, light, hilarious ...
Plot: misfit, screwball, food, farce, dinner, friendship, nothing goes right, goofy hero, ambition, disorder, mistaken identity, manners ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 7.1
 168K
Allied (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style: sexy, emotional, suspense, intense, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, spy, nazi, double agent, female agent, espionage, love, betrayal, war, husband wife relationship, british secret service, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, future, 1900s, 2010s ...
Place: london, france, england, south africa, north africa ...
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The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Veronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Veronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with ...
Style: emotional, sexy, non-linear, surreal, visual ...
Plot: doppelganger, music, music teacher, self discovery, puppeteer, female protagonist, opera singer, heart disease, love story, lookalikes, photograph, encounter ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, year 1990
Place: poland, france, paris france, europe, eastern europe
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The Spanish Apartment (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, romantic, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: travel, friendship, infidelity, student, roommate, prejudice, relationships, youth, college life, coming of age, college, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: france, spain, barcelona, paris france, europe ...
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The Intouchables (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, emotional, motivational ...
Audience: date night, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: friendship, disability, friendship between men, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, disabled person, lifestyle change, human relationship, handicapped, culture clash, friends, interracial friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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 8.3
 791K
Amelie (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: loneliness, love, magic realism, fall in love, imagination, female protagonist, cafe, love and romance, optimism, lifestyle change, surrealism, life ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 90s, year 1974, 20th century ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris, quebec
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Midnight in Paris (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Style: feel good, melancholic, surreal, romantic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: time travel, magic realism, painter, literature, art history, bohemian life, love and romance, writers, artist, nostalgia, fall in love, writer's life ...
Time: 2010s, 19th century, year 2011, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: paris france, france, versailles, europe, iran ...
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Marie Antoinette (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, France, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Style: costume drama, period piece, visual, melancholic, visually stunning ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: queen, french revolution, historical character, princess, french history, royal family, royal court, aristocracy, decadence, biopic, fashion, royalty ...
Time: 18th century, year 2006, victorian era, ancient times, georgian era ...
Place: france, versailles, europe, austria, vienna ...
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Happiness Never Comes Alone (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and independent woman, but barely has time to care for their three children. While Sacha and Charlotte are, at first glance, two incompatible beings, ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: single mother, couples, love and romance, opposites attract, mother daughter relationship, fall in love, urban, jazz, male female relationship, broadway, family relations, pianist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, montmartre paris, manhattan new york city
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The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, ...
Style: exciting, suspense, dramatic, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: vengeance, sword fight, treason, treasure, corruption, betrayal, lone hero, prison, greed, revenge, twists and turns, confined ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 18th century, 1800s, year 2002 ...
Place: france, ireland, marseille, europe, paris france
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 7.0
 36K
Angel-A (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together...but is their meeting purely coincidence?
Style: reflective, philosophical, black and white, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, love story, life philosophy, loneliness, gangster, disorder, transformation, relationships, redemption, twists and turns, destiny, existentialism ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, y2k
Place: paris france, tibet, europe, france
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 6.7
 77K
High Tension (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, gory, macabre, home invasion, psycho killer, kidnapping, torture, insanity, survival, killing spree, disturbed individual, murder ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place: france, south of france, europe
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 5.8
 10K
Paris Can Wait (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman at a crossroads traveling to Cannes along with her successful film producer husband, finds herself on a two-day road trip with his business associate. What follows is a carefree journey replete with diversions involving picturesque sites, ...
Style: road movie, sentimental, captivating, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot: travel, on the road, life, wine, husband wife relationship, film producer, american abroad, frenchman, fall in love, couple relations, love interest, marital problem ...
Place: france, paris france
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 8.1
 337K
Before Sunrise (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. ...
Style: philosophical, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, chance meeting, destiny, relationships, fall in love, tourist, young lovers, conversation, coincidence, love story, travel, teenage girl ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: austria, europe, france, vienna, los angeles ...
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The Impressionists (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Three hour mini-series tells the intimate history of a most illustrious brotherhood of Impressionist artists - Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Manet. Entirely based on documentary evidence, special effects transport the viewer inside some of the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, historical drama ...
Plot: bohemian life, painting, painter, artist, historical character, career, art, talented, poverty, rise and fall, lifestyle, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century
Place: france, britain, paris france
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Love Me If You Dare (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might ...
Style: feel good, heartbreaking, romantic, surreal, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: youth, love hate relationship, game, friendship, relationships, friends, best friends in love, love story, lovers, music box, prank, childhood love ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, europe, belgium
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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
Style: intense, suspense, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mob boss, chase, organized crime, mafia, prison, biopic, heist, character study, against the rules, notoriety, realism ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, year 2008, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style: exciting, tense, period piece, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, sea battle, sea, military, leadership, friendship, naval battle, heroic mission, expedition ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place: britain, england, america, brazil, europe ...
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Lifelong friends and national idols Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr. have earned their NASCAR stripes with their uncanny knack of finishing races in the first and second slots, respectively, and slinging catchphrases like "Shake and bake!" ...
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, exciting, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: car race, racing, farce, sport competition, stupidity, auto racing, betrayal, satire, competition, comeback, championship, teamwork ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, alabama, usa
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 6.6
 14K
Delicacy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: cafe, unlikely couple, love and romance, love triangle, office romance, love affair, loss of loved one, elevator, death of husband, employer employee relationship, cemetery, bereavement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 7.5
 345K
Les Misérables (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Style: inspirational, epic, emotional, period piece, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, adult
Plot: rebellion, redemption, orphan, suicide, parole, historical character, revolution, adaptation, broadway, father daughter relationship, dying man, prostitute ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2012, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place: france, paris france, seattle, europe
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The King's Daughters (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free ...
Style: captivating, touching, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: royalty, women's rights, boarding school, hysteria, mistress, human spirit, nobility, society, obsessive quest, idealism, youth, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, paris france
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 6.7
 28K
Heartbreaker (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Monaco, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sexy, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, fall in love, love story, wooing, womanizer, couples, farce, stereotypes, cons and scams, love and romance, wedding preparations and rituals, hotshot ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, monte carlo, french riviera, monaco, morocco
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 6.4
 6K
Crime Spree (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the ways of the American underworld, it is not long before they have the mafia, the FBI and a couple of ...
Style: humorous, funny, witty, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: heist, gangster, organized crime, mafia, robbery, caper, fbi, brutality, comedy of errors, gang, partner, fish out of water ...
Time: year 2003
Place: chicago, usa, france, europe
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What Time Is It There? (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, art house, stylized, non-linear ...
Plot: obsession, isolation, death in the family, estrangement, lifestyle, unfulfillment, loneliness, drinking, father son relationship, drinking alcohol, death, hotel ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, east asia, asia, paris france ...
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