TOP 30 Recent French Movies (2000-2021). I'm a French film buff and that I suggest this list of priorities to people curious about French (art) cinema. I add an exquisite 30' film (missing from IMDb): 'IT WAS ON EARTH THAT I KNEW JOY' by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier. you'll watch it in English on Vimeo.
Here are the top 30 recent French movies (2000-2021)
1. Un conte de Noël (2008)
152 min | Comedy, Drama
7 Rate 84 Metascore
The troubled Vuillard family is not any stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny
Votes: 6.777 | Gross: $1.06M
2. Notre musique (2004)
80 min | Drama
6,9 Rate 77 Metascore
An indictment of recent times divided into three "kingdoms": "Enfer" ("Hell"), "Purgatoire" ("Purgatory") and "Paradis" ("Paradise").
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine
Votes: 2.836 | Gross: $0.14M
3. L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011)
122 min | Drama
6,7 Rate 75 Metascore
At a chic Parisian bordello at the dawn of the 20th century, exists a cloistered world of delight , pain, hope, rivalries, and most of all, slavery.
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca
Votes: 6.494 | Gross: $0.02M
4. Hors Satan (2011)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
6,4 Rate 63 Metascore
In a village on the French Opal Coast, a drifter engages during a perplexing relationship with a girl who has suffered abuse.
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: David Dewaele, Alexandra Lemâtre, Christophe Bon, Juliette Bacquet
Votes: 1.824
5. Caché (2005)
R | 117 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
7,3 Rate 83 Metascore
A marriage is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their porch .
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Votes: 75.349 | Gross: $3.63M
6. Holy Motors (2012)
115 min | Drama, Fantasy
7,1 Rate 84 Metascore
From dawn to dusk, a couple of hours within the shadowy lifetime of a mystic man named Monsieur Oscar.
Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
Votes: 42.494
7. Irène (2009)
83 min | Drama
6,9 Rate
A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little quite his imagination and therefore the happenstance and flow of every day, finally layering during a lifetime of memories.
Director: Alain Cavalier | Stars: Alain Cavalier, Catherine Deneuve, Vanessa Widhoff
Votes: 189
8. Profils paysans: La vie moderne (2008)
88 min | Documentary
7,6 Rate
Third documentary of a trilogy produced on the future (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profiles paysans: le Quotidien (2005)), showing the straightforward lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.
Director: Raymond Depardon | Stars: Paul Argaud, Louis Brès, Marcelle Brès, Germaine Challaye
Votes: 561
9. Le fils (2002)
99 min | Drama, Mystery
7,6 Rate 86 Metascore
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to require a replacement teen as his apprentice, on the other hand, begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart, Nassim Hassaïni
Votes: 9.122 | Gross: $0.07M
10. Le Pornographe (2001)
108 min | Drama
5,2 Rate
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films within the 1970s and '80s, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60s counter-culture, had elevated the whole genre.
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jérémie Renier, Dominique Blanc, Catherine Mouchet
Votes: 2.348
11. Steak (2007)
82 min | Comedy
6 Rate
George is that the scapegoat of his classmates. at some point, he cracks and shoots them. His best and only friend Blaise is accused in his place and sentenced to 7 years in a mental hospital. On the day of his release, Blaise realizes he only has one family: his best friend George. But he does not want to hear about his childhood friend, as he tries to integrate with the "Chivers" a gang whose members wear red jackets and boots, drink milk, drive sport trucks and play an incomprehensible and violent game that mixes cricket and mental arithmetic.
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Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Eric Judor, Ramzy Bedia, Jonathan Lambert, Vincent Belorgey
Votes: 2.286
12. L'heure d'été (2008)
103 min | Drama, Family
7,2 Rate 85 Metascore
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories once they must relinquish the family belongings to make sure their deceased mother's succession.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob
Votes: 7.266 | Gross: $1.64M
13. Les rencontres d'après minuit (2013)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
5,8 Rate
Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid steel themselves against an orgy. Their guests are going to be The Slut, The Star, The Stud, and therefore the Teen.
Director: Yann Gonzalez | Stars: Kate Moran, Niels Schneider, Nicolas Maury, Eric Cantona
Votes: 1.482
14. L'ombre des femmes (2015)
73 min | Drama, Romance
6,5 Rate 74 Metascore
Pierre and Manon are a pair of poor documentary makers, who scrape along with odd jobs. When Pierre meets young trainee Elisabeth, he falls for her but wants to stay in Manon at an equivalent time.
But the new girl in his life finds out that Manon has a lover. When she tells Pierre, the time comes for difficult decisions all around.
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Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Clotilde Courau, Stanislas Merhar, Lena Paugam, Vimala Pons
Votes: 1.349 | Gross: $0.05M
15. Choses secrètes (2002)
115 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
6,1 Rate 55 Metascore
Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex is often won't to their advantage, and pleasure. Both find positions in the office of a large bank, where bored, under-stimulated, prey are easy pickings. After making their way through several layers of executives at the bank, with destructive, and lucrative, results, they approach Christophe, scion to the bank director. What they don't know is that he is a manipulative voyeur, whose last two lovers set themselves on fire when he rejected them. A connoisseur of high-class orgies, he is only interested in new talent to satisfy the appetites of all whom he controls. In him, the girls have found an opponent who knows all their wiles and will challenge their simple under-class friendship with levels of jealousy and ecstasy that they have never experienced before. Will they survive?
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Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau | Stars: Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Roger Miremont, Fabrice Deville
Votes: 4.685 | Gross: $0.10M
16. Va savoir (2001)
PG-13 | 154 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
6,9 Rate 79 Metascore
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around one another during a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism, and theft.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles
Votes: 2.341 | Gross: $0.91M
17. Lady Chatterley (2006)
R | 168 min | Drama, Romance
6,7 Rate 80 Metascore
A French adaptation of the second (and much less well-known) version of D.H. Lawrence's erotic tale.
Director: Pascale Ferran | Stars: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot, Hélène Alexandridis
Votes: 4.353 | Gross: $0.69M
18. Orléans (2012)
58 min | Drama
6 Rate
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Director: Virgil Vernier | Stars: Julia Auchynnikava, Damien Bonnard, Andréa Brusque, Hélène Chevallier
Votes: 53
19. Le placard (2001)
R | 84 min | Comedy
7 Rate 72 Metascore
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the help of his neighbor, to stop his imminent firing at his work.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Depardieu , Thierry Lhermitte, Michèle Laroque
Votes: 16.822 | Gross: $6.67M
20. Elle (I) (2016)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
7,1 Rate 89 Metascore
A successful businesswoman gets trapped during a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling
Votes: 62.426
21. Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
122 min | Drama, History
6,1 Rate 51 Metascore
In the 16th century within the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a cheerful family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises military and puts the country to fireside and sword so as to possess his rights restored.
Director: Arnaud des Pallières | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot, David Kross
Votes: 7.865
22. Entre les murs (2008)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
7,5 Rate 92 Metascore
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau play a version of himself as he negotiates a year together with his racially mixed students from a troublesome Parisian neighborhood.
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio, Arthur Fogel
Votes: 34.283 | Gross: $3.77M
23. La pianiste (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama
7,5 Rate 79 Metascore
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic music teacher.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Votes: 58.052 | Gross: $1.90M
24. 120 battements par minute (2017)
143 min | Drama
7,4 Rate 84 Metascore
Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the govt and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic within the early 1990s.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz
Votes: 13.880 | Gross: $0.13M
25. L'Anglaise et le duc (2001)
PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, History, Romance
6,9 Rate 72 Metascore
During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Alain Libolt, Charlotte Véry
Votes: 2.588 | Gross: $0.33M
26. Les herbes folles (2009)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Romance
6,2 Rate 65 Metascore
A quirky woman who spends her free time as a pilot has her purse stolen; when a mysterious man finds her wallet, they start a peculiar romance.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny, Emmanuelle Devos
Votes: 3.600 | Gross: $0.40M
27. La graine et le mulet (2007)
151 min | Drama
7,4 Rate 83 Metascore
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker alongside his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche
Votes: 7.039 | Gross: $0.09M
28. Qu'ils reposent en révolte (Des figures de guerre) (2010)
150 min | Documentary
7,1 Rate
Ode, in black and white, to immigrants, from Calais, from elsewhere.
Director: Sylvain George
Votes: 37
29. De l'origine du XXIe siècle (2000)
13 min | Short, Documentary
7,2 Rate
Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes festival to form an opening-night short commemorating cinema because it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi" and Godard's own "À bout de souffle."
—Josh Martin <jmartin@netarrant.net>
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Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Pierre Guyotat, Ronald Chammah
Votes: 492
30. Un lever de rideau (2006)
30 min | Short, Drama, Romance
6,8 Rate
A young Frenchman is decided to dump his girlfriend thanks to her invariable excessive tardiness.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Louis Garrel, Vahina Giocante, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 734
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