I Got Life! (2017), The Midwife (2017), The Gilded Cage (2013), The Intouchables (2011), Me, Myself and Mum (2013), Crazy Horse (1996), Priceless (2006), My Night at Maud's (1969) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best French Culture movies.
Storyline: Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war, Albert comes in contact with Gabriel, a young man prone to heavy bouts with the bottle. Gabriel is conflicted over visiting his young daughter in a nearby school and in a moment of nostalgia, Albert takes off with him on one major binge -- and havoc results.—EuropaCorp
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, french film, black and white, 1960s, novel adaptation, alcohol ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their children's boarding school. Slowly the widower and widow reveal themselves to each other, with each revelation hidden by a misperception. They become closer and closer, until she reveals that she can't have a lover because her husband's memory is still far too strong. Much of the film is told wordlessly in actions or through hearing each person's thoughts.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: romance, love, french cinema, drama, 1960s, black and white, color ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Édith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's soon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien." The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association.
Plot Keywords: biography, musical, french film, drama, tragedy, romance, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Monsieur Hulot goes on a holiday to a seaside resort, but accidents and misunderstandings follow him where ever he goes. The peace and quiet of the hotel guests don't last very long with Hulot around, because although his intensions are good, they always turn out catastrophically.
Plot Keywords: comedy, french cinema, vacation, beach, slapstick, social satire, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an Israeli penitentiary, a race war threatens to erupt between the two gangs. Jewish criminals, including drug users and rapists, are imprisoned next to Arab war criminals, and the hostility is only escalated by the interference of prison security, who frame the Arabs for the murder of a Jewish prisoner. The two rival camps -- headed by Israeli Uri (Arnon Zadock) and Arab Issan (Mohammed Bakri) -- decide to form an unlikely union that may or may not put a stop to the bloodshed.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, french cinema, lgbt, emotion, 1980s, paris ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A waitress (Cécile De France) observes the lives of a classical pianist (Albert Dupontel), an art collector, an actress (Valérie Lemercier) and other famous clientele.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, french film, music, paris, art, pianist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bertrand Morane's burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel. A film about romantic relationships, the need to charm, and the literary creation.—Yepok and Brian McInnis
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, french cinema, desire, women, erotic, psychological analysis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This gritty police drama shows us the underbelly of the Parisian drug trade. Lulu is a tough streetwise narcotics cop who, like a Frank Serpico or a Dirty Harry Callahan, doesn't play by the rules or kowtow to his weak and/or corrupt superiors. Lulu thrives in this violent world, where sheer guts can overcome his squad's deficiencies of money and equipment. Despite the ruthless environment that he lives and works in every day, he still manages somehow to maintain his humanity.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, police, drugs, french film, realism, social issues, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets. Much later in life, he seeks to repeat his romance by marrying Mathilde - also voluptuous and also a hairdresser - with whom he forms an intimate and consuming relationship in an attempt to blot out the miseries of this world from their lives.—Jasha
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, french film, romantic comedy, marriage, fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two factions of the French Secret Service involve a seemingly normal orchestra player, Francois Perrin, into their battle as one side uses him as a decoy. Soon, agents are all over the place, and one of them, Christine, is sent to seduce Francois. Meanwhile, Francois has his own problems, tangled up in an affair with his best friend's wife.—Kumar
Plot Keywords: comedy, spy, french film, mystery, action, crime, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Odile is looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille just completed her doctoral thesis has fallen in love with an estate agent who is responsible for Odile's apartment and who has an elder employee.—Marco Radke <radke@krypta.aball.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, french film, song and dance, remake, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, french film, aging, loneliness, friendship, literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving...—Happy_Evil_Dude
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, french film, love, cultural clash, politics, humor, sexual liberation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small town, Hélène is a family matriarch who has devoted her life to preserving the legacy of her artist uncle. However, while her eldest son, Frédéric, wants to preserve her home after her passing, she harbors no such illusions as she prepares her legacy. After her death, her children realize what she anticipated as they come to terms with their inheritance's place in their own lives. In the resulting disposition of their mother's assets, treasured heirlooms of a romantic family past drift away even as their changing modern world confronts the value of their memories.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: family, inheritance, french cinema, emotion, memory, art, cultural conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lucie believes Paul, an elderly neurosurgeon, has had an affair.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, french film, psychological, marriage, midlife crisis, emotion ...
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