Movies and TV shows set in france
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in france ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure, light and visually appealing films and TV shows about / with love, relationships, mentor, storytelling, dialogue, runaway, beautiful scenery, catastrophe, love and romance and idealism 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 france: Amelie (2001), One to Another (2006), Cousins in Love (1980), Valmont (1989), Murmur of the Heart (1971), Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), Welcome to the Sticks (2008), Paris Can Wait (2016), Chocolat (2000), The Intouchables (2011).
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| Pheasant Island (2025) | 5.5 | |
| Wild Diamond (2024) | 6.2 | |
| No One Saw Us Leave (2025) | 6.5 | |
| Enzo (2025) | 6.6 | |
| Étoile (2025) | 7.5 |
List of movies set in france
835K
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, sweet, touching, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
loneliness, love, fall in love, imagination, cafe, lifestyle change, life, optimism, female protagonist, love story, love and romance, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, 70s, year 1974, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris, quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A story about bunch of people who live in a town in provincial France. At the center of it all is Pierre, a conceited and vain bisexual musician in his late teens who acts as a magnet, to varying degrees, for a whole array of characters - from his ...
Style:
sexy, sensual, erotic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
brother sister sex, sexual relations, voyeur, sex with brother, brother sister relationship, incest, murder, menage a trois, forbidden sex, forbidden love, lgbt, orgy ...
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teenage Julien (Thierry Tevini) loves his teenage cousin Julia (Anja Shute) among flowers in summer of '39 France.
Style:
sexy, sexual, sensual, erotic, controversial ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
cousin cousin relationship, sexual relations, coming of age, incest, young love, erotica, public nudity, youth, unrequited love, virgin, forbidden love, sex ...
Time:
year 1939, 1930s
Place:
france, europe, south of france
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15K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
infidelity, betrayal, virgin, couple relations, manipulation, seduction, hypocrisy, virginity, tragedy, manipulative woman, love triangle, marriage ...
Time:
18th century, year 1989, georgian era, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
france, paris france, eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.
Style:
sexy, touching, erotic, sentimental, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, coming of age, sexual initiation, oedipus complex, mother son relationship, mother and son, self discovery, sex, exploring sexuality, sexuality, childhood ...
Time:
1950s, year 1954, 20th century, 50s, year 1971 ...
Place:
france, israel, europe, indochina, paris france ...
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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, sexy, sexual, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, sexuality, lesbian love, coming of age, lesbian relationship, lovers, lesbian teen, lesbianism, love, sex, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, california
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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, funny, light, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
village life, culture clash, friendship, fish out of water, postman, prejudice, post office, happy ending, small town, foe turned friend, adaptation, marriage proposal ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, provence, south of france, flanders, europe ...
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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, rom com, sentimental, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
life, travel, on the road, wine, business partner, frenchman, american abroad, film producer, husband wife relationship, affair, love, food ...
Place:
france, paris france
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210K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time:
50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place:
france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
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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:
feel good, inspirational, touching, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
friendship, disability, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, friendship between men, disabled person, human relationship, handicapped, interracial friendship, culture clash, caregiver, friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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10K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cecile, a character who symbolizes desire.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, erotic drama, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, explicit sex, sex scene, sex, looking for sex, sexual promiscuity, sexuality, desire, sexual fantasy, sexual attraction, unsimulated sex, nymphomaniac ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.
Style:
emotional, costume drama, touching, witty, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
poet, love and romance, destiny, love, power of love, unrequited love, friendship, love triangle, duel, swashbuckler, poetry, sword fight ...
Time:
17th century, medieval times, ancient times, year 1990, 18th century
Place:
france, paris france, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
Style:
erotic, sexual, sexy, atmospheric, controversial ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
prostitute, lust, teenage girl, sex scene, older man younger woman relationship, youth, coming of age, prostitution, call girl, sex with a minor, first sexual experience, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, paris france, california, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, sweet, touching, cute ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, restaurant, food, culture clash, chef, interracial relations, prejudice, interracial romance, beautiful scenery, small town, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2014, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
france, india, mumbai india, paris france, switzerland ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
Style:
funny, romantic, light, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, interracial relations, stereotypes, couples, sister sister relationship, happy ending, racism, family bonds, family drama, couple relations, family relations, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, africa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the ...
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, epic, visually appealing ...
Plot:
royalty, french history, renaissance, male nudity, religion, sex, intrigue, female nudity, forbidden love, politics, queen, passionate sex ...
Time:
middle ages, 16th century, ancient times, medieval times, year 1994
Place:
france, paris france, europe, poland, england ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise, but her hand in marriage is promised to the ...
Style:
serious, stylized, emotional, romantic drama, period piece ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love affair, jealous husband, royal court, society, aristocracy, unfaithful wife, heir, tudors, passion, french history, duke ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, a local sawmill worker. When not lusting after him, Alice fills the hours with such pursuits as writing her name on a mirror with vaginal secretions and wandering the fields with ...
Style:
sexy, controversial, sensual, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
puberty, eroticism, controversy, erotica, country girl, nymph, sex, coming of age, voyeur, animal sex, taboo sex, sawmill ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, romantic, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupied france, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, wartime, fall in love, wartime life, war, occupied france, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, germany, england ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
Style:
meditative, witty, melancholic, art house, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wine, friendship, kick-butt women, autumn, women, matchmaking, starting over, midlife crisis, human nature, parents and children, love, wedding ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
france, south of france, europe, london, paris france ...
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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:
romantic, feel good, sexy, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, couples, wooing, love story, womanizer, hotshot, love, farce, stereotypes, cons and scams, love and romance, wedding preparations and rituals ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
france, monte carlo, french riviera, monaco, morocco ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
erotic, tense, captivating, crying, period drama
Plot:
sex, prostitute, lesbian sex, madam, female nudity, prostitution, woman, bondage, criminal, women, brothel, outlaw gang ...
Time:
60s
Place:
france, paris france
Is relevant?
106K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wine, vineyard, countryside, fall in love, love story, character change, inheritance, love and romance, workaholic, stock broker, starting over, doubts and hesitations ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
provence, france, europe, england, london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, teenage love, family problems, love and romance, relationships, love story, first love, teenage life, friends, youth ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, normandy, tokyo, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Spain, USA
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, romantic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, painter, literature, artist, bohemian life, magic realism, love and romance, love story, writers, nostalgia, writer's life, art ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
paris france, france, versailles, europe, montmartre paris ...
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, twists and turns, missing person, gas station, obsession, road trip, disappearance, murder, literary, police investigation, character study ...
Time:
20th century, near future, 80s, year 1988
Place:
france, europe, holland, netherlands, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
French Kiss is director Kasdan’s best film since the Bodyguard. The plot involves a couple in love and one woman’s attempt to fly to Paris to get her lover back from a business trip and marry him. On the way she unknowingly smuggles something of ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, romantic, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
fall in love, unlikely couple, couple relations, unlikely partners, love and romance, smuggling, wine, destiny, vineyard, breakup, escapades, true love ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, riviera, south of france ...
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29K
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist, and as they weave ...
Style:
satirical, surreal, humorous, witty, funny ...
Plot:
tourist, nothing goes right, culture clash, skyscraper, airport, chaos, farce, goofy hero, misfit, city life, human existence, fish out of water ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, witty, feel good, detective ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
policewoman, female detective, police, workplace situations, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, female protagonist, family relations, woman, new job, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, french riviera
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development into the Sun King. Historical and fictional characters guide us in a world of betrayal and ...
Style:
captivating, costume drama, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
royal family, rivalry, intrigue, royal court, king, ambition, betrayal, political intrigue, rise to the top, state affairs, king of france, royalty ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times
Place:
france, versailles
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