Frenchman abroad movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant frenchman abroad movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious, serious, captivating and exciting films and TV shows about / with frenchman abroad, husband wife relationship, investigation, couples, love, sex scene, cigarette smoking, bare chested male, restaurant and blood plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in France, USA, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as frenchman abroad: Two Is a Family (2016), Napoleon (2023), The Boys (2019), Addicted to Love (1997), Let My People Go! (2011), The Odyssey (2016), Chinese Puzzle (2013), Umami (2022), Private Benjamin (1980), Ten Little Indians (1974).

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Two Is a Family (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.
Style: feel good, touching, funny, inspirational, sad ...
Plot: single father, parenting, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, terminal illness, child care, responsibility, childhood, abandoned by mother, absent mother, parents, single parent ...
Time: year 2016
Place: africa, france, london
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 6.4
 118K
Napoleon (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 158 min.
Story: A personal look at the French military leader’s origins and swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of Napoleon’s addictive, volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine.
Style: epic, crying, costume drama, period drama
Audience: adult
Plot: french military, psychic, soldier, new beginning, royalty, commander, french army, father son relationship, baby, french revolution, brother brother relationship, sex ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, 1780s, 1800s, 1790s ...
Place: paris france, egypt, moscow russia, france, europe ...
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 8.7
 637K
The Boys (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
Style: entertaining, tense, satirical, bloody, black comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: superhero, superhero team, murder, dark humor, society, super speed, vengeance, superhuman, superheroine, corruption, supernatural power, investigation ...
Time: 2020s, future, 2010s
Place: new york
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Addicted to Love (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life, Linda, leaves him for a suave Frenchman named Anton. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do; go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite ...
Style: clever, melancholic, romantic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: obsession, love, breakup, love triangle, chef, love and romance, vengeance, infidelity, love story, women, fall in love, happy ending ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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Let My People Go! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself, and possibly a murderer to boot. The only person who doesn't know who Ruben is is Ruben himself. ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, dysfunctional family, gays and lesbians, lgbt, family relations, society, homecoming, farce, siblings relations, religions or cults, family problems, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, france, paris france, europe
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 6.6
 6K
The Odyssey (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Biopic of the great French ocean-going adventurer and filmmaker
Style: factual, exciting, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: explorer, sea, biopic, ocean, environmental, diver, love, ship, airplane accident, ecology, fish, diving ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1972, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: paris france, france, new york, antarctica
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 6.9
 15K
Chinese Puzzle (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, romantic, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, friendship, midlife crisis, relationships, starting over, parenthood, life philosophy, love, life, lesbian, longing, old love ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, somalia, usa
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 5.7
 599
Umami (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
Style: semi serious, psychological, culinary, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: chef, restaurant, cooking, food, japanese culture, cookery, culinary arts, satire, cooking and food, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, old friends reunited ...
Place: japan
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Private Benjamin (1980)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Style: sentimental, funny, semi serious, light, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: basic training, wedding, boot camp, self discovery, paratrooper, women, fish out of water, transformation, soldier, female soldier, military life, gender ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: belgium, paris france, usa
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Ten Little Indians (1974)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Spain, UK, Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot: hotel, murder, vigilante, characters killed one by one, paranoia, serial killer, isolation, whodunit, who done it, psychopath, serial murder, doctor ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east
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 6.6
 43K
Wasabi (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his ...
Style: funny, realistic, semi serious, exciting, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: yakuza, father daughter relationship, justice, police brutality, lone hero, investigation, japanese mafia, police detective, youth, tough guy, culture clash, inheritance ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, france, paris france, asia ...
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The French Connection (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
Style: detective, neo noir, atmospheric, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroin, gangster, drug dealer, organized crime, car chase, investigation, chase, smuggling, drug lord, drug smuggling, police, drug ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, israel, brooklyn new york city, washington d.c. ...
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 7.3
 10K
Baptiste (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Julien Baptiste delves into the criminal underworld of the red light district and uncovers a complex web of deceit and lies.
Style: detective, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: murder, private detective, criminal underworld, investigation, gangster, retired cop, missing girl, niece, hitman, dutch mafia, danger, human trafficking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, amsterdam
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Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jesse and Chester, two bumbling stoners, wake up one morning from a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car. They encounter a variety of people while looking for it, including their angry girlfriends, an angry street gang, ...
Style: not serious, parody, hilarious, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: stoner, alien, idiot, friendship, teenager, stupidity, obsessive quest, cannabis, dumb, buddies, memory loss, ostrich ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s, y2k
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 5.2
 5K
Nomads (1986)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: French anthropologist Jean-Charles Pommier and his wife have come to LA so he can take up a position as lecturer. To his surprise he encounters a group of urban nomads. As he investigates things become more unsettling as he realizes the price paid ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, suspense ...
Plot: anthropologist, ghost, doctor, scientist, obsession, murder, danger, mentally unstable woman, ancient mystery, anthropology, hospital, vampire ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.3
 1K
The Slap (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Parisian teacher (Lino Ventura) loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, student, father daughter relationship, love and romance, youth, social relations, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, marital separation, driving lesson, exam ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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Let's Get Those English Girls (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When their little cheat fails, Alain and Jean Pierre fail their final high-school exams in English. Their parents deny them the planned vacation to the Cote D'azur and send them instead to Ramscale in England, to improve their English. However ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: beach party, topless woman, high school, party, group of friends, practical joke, drunkenness, teenager, beach, holiday, teenage sexuality, group of teenagers ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1959
Place: england, paris france
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 135K
The Walk (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
Style: breathtaking, inspirational, suspense, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: skyscraper, world trade center manhattan new york city, life philosophy, biopic, tightrope walker, ambition, obsession, transformation, happy ending, planning, danger, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2015, 2010s, year 1973 ...
Place: new york, paris france, america, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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 7.5
 36K
Contempt (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker ...
Style: art house, philosophical, erotic, grindhouse, visual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, screenwriter, satire, femme fatale, film producer, writers, relationships, marriage, female nudity, estranged couple, film industry, passive aggression ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, rome italy, italy, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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 6.3
 26K
Green Card (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay ...
Style: romantic comedy, light, romantic, rom com, happy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: marriage of convenience, love, immigration, immigrant, pretend relationship, lawyer, destiny, enemies to lovers, green card, fake relationship, fake marriage, cons and scams ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, america, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 8K
The Sucker (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Audience: kids
Plot: car chase, anti hero, hitchhiker, gangster, odd couple, dishonesty, partner, disorder, drug dealing, criminal heroes, chase, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france, naples italy, rome italy, southern italy ...
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Captain Conan (1996)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, warrior and wolf, leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Their motto: "We forgot to take prisoners, Captain." At war's end, the unit goes to Bucharest, ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot: world war one, french army, military life, brutality, society, heroism, great war, insubordination, danger, interwar period, world war, european ...
Time: year 1918, 20th century, year 1996, 1910s, year 1919 ...
Place: macedonia, bulgaria, romania, europe, balkan ...
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Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Brenda moved to London to begin living those intoxicated fantasies that all young women imagine city life to offer. Soon after her arrival she begins a relationship with Peter with whom she is tremendously happy. When she becomes pregnant ...
Style: psychotronic, noir, independent film, psychological thriller, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, female psychopath, castle, dog, woman in danger, psychopath, nudity, murder of a nude woman, female nudity, kidnapping, pregnancy ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom, liverpool
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The Cheap Detective (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the ...
Style: parody, spoof, detective, funny, slapstick ...
Plot: private detective, world war two, nazi, murder, law enforcement, femme fatale, whodunit, death, private investigator, mysticism, pianist, nightclub ...
Time: year 1978, 1940s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1939
Place: san francisco, california, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.9
 766K
Knives Out (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his ...
Style: atmospheric, exciting, captivating, detective, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, kids, teens, boys' night ...
Plot: murder mystery, investigation, whodunit, murder, death, murder investigation, mansion, mystery killer, eccentric family, large family, plot twist, suspect ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts
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One on Top of the Other (1969)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead.
Style: realistic, sexy, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: doppelganger, infidelity, love triangle, murder, investigation, who done it, sexual fantasy, false accusation, death row, killer, plot twist, lookalikes ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, paris france, san francisco
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The Coed and the Zombie Stoner (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a sorority girl falls in love with a zombie, it's only a matter of time before a zombie apocalypse is unleashed on campus. The sorority girl discovers that weed is the cure. Now, she must smoke out the whole school before it's too ...
Style: sexy, parody, not serious, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, fraternity, zombie attack, love and romance, supernatural, youth, social relations, chaos and mayhem, college life, silly humor, sorority, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, year 1985, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 3.8
 184
Spindl (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Story: When on the mountains, so to Špindl. In the snowy Špindlerův Mlýn the sisters Eliška, Katka and Magda go to the women's ride in the full-length winter comedy Špindl. They plan to enjoy relaxation, fun and perhaps a bit of love adventure. ...
Style: romantic
Plot: mountain, fake identity, winter, snow, husband wife relationship, promiscuous woman, painting, chase, pharmacist, older man younger woman relationship, low self esteem, waiter ...
Place: prague
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 703K
Now You See Me (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Style: surprise ending, clever, entertaining, suspense, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, twists and turns, fbi, scheme, perfect crime, outsmarting, bank robbery, con artists, teamwork, cons and scams, mind game, thief ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, new orleans, new york, paris france, usa ...
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Someone I Loved (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story: One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the woman he left to instead follow an easier path in life.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, love affair, couples, love, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, children, breakup, sexual content, nudity ...
Time: year 2009, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, montreal, hong kong
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