Favorite French New Wave Movies?

So I have been kind of hooked into this scene for months, but feel like I am just beginning with it. I have seen at least one movie from each of the Cahiers du cinéma directors with the exception of Claude Charbol. The only Left Bank directors I have seen a movie of were the couple(Demy and Varda). I have yet to see ones like Band a Parte, Le Boucher, and also Paris Belongs to Us(I tried to watch it one day but got bored and gave up after an hour).

Let me list the current movies I have seen by director and their ratings:
Godard(RIP): Breathless, Contempt, A Woman Is A Woman, Alphaville , Weekend
Rohmer: Claires Knee, My Night At Mauds
Truffaut: 400 Blows bordering on , Jules & Jim, Stolen Kisses
Rivette: Celine and Julie Go Boating, Duelle, La Belle Noiseuse, Paris Belongs To Us , OUT1.
Varda: Cleo From 5 To 7 and One Sings the Other Doesn't
Demy: Umbrellas of Cherbourg bordering on and Young Girls of Rochefort, Lola , Bay of Angels
Louis Malle: Zazie dans le Metro

I feel like I have seen most of the essential ones by now, and feel interested in checking out more. The top 3 for now are:
1. Rivette - He blew me away with two movies that nobody has ever made before and since him. I love a critic(Johnathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin) who actually acknowledge this guy and his films. He is not for everybody as I am pretty sure some of those long scenes(ex. the reenactment scenes in Out 1) in those films could make somebody go to sleep.
2. Truffaut - He was more consistently good. The 400 Blows I loved for its more conventional plot when compared to most FNW movies as well as having a different type of protagonist. Jules and Jim had that love triangle plot as well as the shocking ending with the car driving over the bridge. Stolen Kisses was just a fun and innocent movie featuring the same protagonist from 400.
3. Godard - He was more consistently good. I feel bored watching him and amused at the same time as well. Even without subtitles, I could feel the pressure of Contempt through the usage of that one theme as well as the idea that this once happy couple's relationship has fallen apart throughout the production of the movie. Breathless I thought was pointless until I saw A Woman Is A Woman in which I finally recognized both of them for being very groovy as well as stylistic. He is the only director in which I saw 4 of their movies from start to finish. Hopefully I can do that with Rivette, Fassbinder, and Fellini.

What are your favorite movies of this movement?

my favorite french movies would be taxi movie trilogy

Me: Scared I will confuse a Left Bank director with a French New Wave one
@xSookieStackhouse: Openly claiming the Taxi series to be French New Wave

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i dont know what a french new wave is? thought he talking bout favorite french movies?

I think the RYM description is quite good.

The Sign of the Leo
400 Blows
Le Petit Soldat

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Wasn’t the Left Bank a part of the New Wave? Just a distinct group as I recall? Different themes maybe, but still a part of it, correct?

I’m still churning through the rather massive amount of films associated with it. Of what I’ve seen, I’ve enjoyed the few Godard films, and the Truffaut films, although I prefer Godard so far.

Have not seen anything from Chabrol yet, or earlier (pre 1970’s) Rohmer yet.
*sigh*
Still so much to watch.

Dunno. Pretty much like most new waves in the history of cinema, the French New Wave is quite a forced concept. While there were some common ideas, the films of Godard, Rohmer, Truffaut, Chabrol, and Rivette are all disparate. At least it's not as forced as the Japanese New Wave. Oh well.

oh okay i never heard of it :/

Godard: Alphaville, Masculine/Feminine, Hail Mary, Contempt, Weekend, Pierrot le Fou, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Made in America, A Married Woman, Every Man For Himself, A Woman Is A Woman, My Life to Live, Band of Outsider's


Truffaut: 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, Story of Adele H, Shoot the Piano Player, The Soft Skin, The Bride Wore Black, The Green Room


Eric Rohmer: Claire's Knew, Pauline at the Beach, A Summers Tale, My Night at Mauds, La Collectioneuse, Chloe in the Afternoon, Boyfriends and Girlfriends


Claude Chabrol: This Man Must Die, La Boucher, La Ceremonies, Les Biches, La Bonnes Femmes, Les Cousins, The Unfaithful Wife, La Beau Serge's, La Double Tours


Alain Resnais Night and Fog, Last Year at Marienbad,


AGNES Varda: Les Creatures, Gleaners and I, Vagabond

Last Year at Marienbad for me.

My two absolute faves would be La Collectioneuse & Breathless.

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I saw two more Jacques Demy movies. I found Lola to be a rather disappointing affair especially since it preceded those two French New Wave classics. Bay of Angels I expected to be disappointed by, but instead I had such a fun time watching this one. Its always fun with Jacques Demy it looks like, even when he is not directing a musical.