French Cinema

From Méliès to Anatomy of a Fall: poetic realism, the New Wave, Bresson and Melville, the cinéma du look, the extremity of the 2000s, and the women who run French film now. Movies only, in order.

110 titles

  1. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
  2. Napoleon (1927)
  3. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  4. L'Atalante (1934)
  5. La Grande Illusion (1937)
  6. Pépé le Moko (1937)
  7. Port of Shadows (1938)
  8. The Rules of the Game (1939)
  9. Children of Paradise (1945)
  10. Beauty and the Beast (1946), Jean Cocteau
  11. Orpheus (1950)
  12. Diary of a Country Priest (1951), Robert Bresson
  13. Forbidden Games (1952)
  14. The Wages of Fear (1953)
  15. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
  16. Rififi (1955)
  17. Diabolique (1955)
  18. A Man Escaped (1956)
  19. And God Created Woman (1956)
  20. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
  21. Mon Oncle (1958)
  22. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
  23. The 400 Blows (1959), François Truffaut
  24. Pickpocket (1959)
  25. Breathless (1960), Jean-Luc Godard
  26. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
  27. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
  28. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
  29. Jules and Jim (1962), François Truffaut
  30. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Agnès Varda
  31. Le Doulos (1962)
  32. Contempt (1963)
  33. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
  34. Band of Outsiders (1964)
  35. Pierrot le Fou (1965)
  36. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
  37. Belle de Jour (1967), Luis Buñuel
  38. Le Samouraï (1967), Jean-Pierre Melville
  39. Playtime (1967), Jacques Tati
  40. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
  41. Weekend (1967)
  42. Stolen Kisses (1968), François Truffaut
  43. Army of Shadows (1969), Jean-Pierre Melville
  44. My Night at Maud's (1969)
  45. Z (1969), Costa-Gavras
  46. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
  47. The Wild Child (1970)
  48. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
  49. Day for Night (1973)
  50. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
  51. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
  52. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
  53. Diva (1981)
  54. Danton (1983)
  55. A Sunday in the Country (1984)
  56. Vagabond (1985), Agnès Varda
  57. Jean de Florette (1986)
  58. Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
  59. The Big Blue (1988)
  60. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
  61. La Femme Nikita (1990), Luc Besson
  62. Delicatessen (1991)
  63. The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
  64. Un Coeur en Hiver (1992)
  65. Three Colors: Blue (1993), Krzysztof Kieslowski
  66. La Haine (1995), Mathieu Kassovitz
  67. Ridicule (1996), Patrice Leconte
  68. The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
  69. Beau Travail (1999)
  70. Amélie (2002), Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  71. Read My Lips (2001)
  72. Swimming Pool (2003)
  73. The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
  74. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
  75. Caché (2005)
  76. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
  77. Tell No One (2006)
  78. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
  79. Persepolis (2007)
  80. The Class (2008)
  81. A Prophet (2009), Jacques Audiard
  82. Of Gods and Men (2010)
  83. The Intouchables (2011), Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
  84. The Artist (2012), Michel Hazanavicius
  85. Holy Motors (2012), Leos Carax
  86. Amour (2012), Michael Haneke
  87. Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
  88. Stranger by the Lake (2013), Alain Guiraudie
  89. Girlhood (2014), Céline Sciamma
  90. Dheepan (2015)
  91. Mustang (2015), Deniz Gamze Ergüven
  92. Elle (2016), Paul Verhoeven
  93. Things to Come (2016), Mia Hansen-Løve
  94. Raw (2017), Julia Ducournau
  95. BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)
  96. Faces Places (2017), Agnès Varda
  97. Custody (2017)
  98. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2020), Céline Sciamma
  99. Les Misérables (2019)
  100. Atlantics (2019), Mati Diop
  101. Titane (2021), Julia Ducournau
  102. Happening (2021)
  103. Petite Maman (2021), Céline Sciamma
  104. Saint Omer (2022), Alice Diop
  105. Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Justine Triet
  106. The Taste of Things (2023), Anh Hung Tran
  107. The Beast (2023)
  108. Emilia Pérez (2024), Jacques Audiard
  109. The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)
  110. Misericordia (2024)