Top 5 French Films

Number one for me is The 400 Blows. Followed by Playtime and Three Colors: Blue. Two personal favorites are Read My Lips and Camille Claudel.

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Hardly anybody else on here cares about Playtime, so I'm relieved to see that someone else sees Tati's genius with me!
Didn't know you liked Rohmer, have you seen much else from him?


As for myself, it'd be much easier to do this

Jean-Luc Godard (Pierrot le Fou, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her)
Eric Rohmer (The Green Ray, and many others)
Jacques Tati (Playtime is by far his masterpiece, but he has several other achievements)
Jacques Demy (The Young Girls of Rochefort, and many others)
Robert Bresson (A Man Escaped, L'Argent)
Jean Vigo (L'Atalante, Zero for Conduct)
Jacques Rivette once I see more of his films

A little New Wavey but that's okay

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1. Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) - Abdel Kechiche
2. Persepolis (2007) - Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paronnaud
3. Amour (2012) - Michael Haneke
4. Bed & Board (1970) - Francois Truffaut
5. The Hedgehog (2009) - Mona Achache
6. Intouchables (2011) - Olivier Nakache/Eric Toledano
7. L'age D'or (1930) - Luis Bunuel
8. Breathless (1960) - Jean Luc Godard
9. Cache (2005) - Michael Haneke
10. Sans Soleil (1983) - Chris Marker

Still got a lot of older stuff to see but I'm slowly getting through it ...

1. The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut (1959)
2. Au Revoir les Enfants - Louis Malle (1987)
3. The Dinner Game - Francis Veber (1998)
4. Le Trou (the hole) - Jacques Becker (1960)
5. The Wages of Fear - HG Clouzot (1953)
6. Le Cercle Rouge - JP Melville (1970)
7. Diabolique - HG Clouzot (1955)
8. Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources - Claude Berri (1986)
9. That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Bunuel (1977)
10. La Haine - Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)

Le cercle rouge, le trou, diner de cons, diabolique, cet obscure objet du désir, la haine, jean de florette, salaire de la peur

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that's the only one i've seen so far, but after i'm done with the 70s list, he and godard are going to be on my priority list to explore more. i wasn't really huge on the aviator's wife at first, but it's really grown on me since then and i want to go back and watch it once i've seen some of his earlier stuff.

I highly recommend both of them, unfortunately you missed several good films of theirs from the 70s. Claire's Knee, which is from 1970, is one of my favorite Rohmers, his 60s films are very good and his highly lauded Six Moral Tales are invaluable discourse on male psyche, but I much prefer his Comedies and Proverbs series (most of all The Green Ray along with Boyfriends and Girlfriends) which is much more female centric.

My 5 top French films

1. La Belle et La Bete ~ Jean Cocteau
2. Black Moon ~ Louis Malle
3. The 400 Blows ~ François Truffaut
4. Anatomie de l'enfer ~ Catherine Breillat
5. Les visiteurs du soir ~ Marcel Carne

I have far more many french favorites... most of François Ozon are very good for modern French Cinema. Cocteau and Malle are my 2 favorite French directors.

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Carl Theodor Dreyer



2. A Man Escaped (1956) by Robert Bresson



3. Caché (2005) by Michael Haneke



4. Pickpocket (1959) by Robert Bresson



5. Shoah (1985) by Claude Lanzmann



6. The 400 Blows (1959) by François Truffaut



7. Breathless (1960) by Jean-Luc Godard



8. Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Luis Buńuel



9. Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998) by Jean-Luc Godard



10. Orpheus (1950) by Jean Cocteau

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TokeZa's Top 100 Movies through Space and Time

TokeZa's inane ramblings about film

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1. Le Samourai
2. La Haine
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc
4. Pickpocket
5. Au Revoir Le Enfants

Updated. I feel I am going to like a lot of Melville's movies.

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Fear and Loathing in MoFo... The Gunslinger 45's Top 50 Favorite Films

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Sorted by releasedate:

• The Wages of Fear 1953 ‘Le Salaire de la peur’ Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Rififi 1955 ‘Du rififi chez les hommes’ Jules Dassin
• A Man Escaped 1956 ‘Un condamné ŕ mort s'est échappé’ Robert Bresson
• Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville
• Le Samouraď 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville
• Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring ‘Manon des sources’ 1986 Claude Berri
• The Big Blue 1988 ‘Le Grand Bleu’ Luc Besson
• La Haine 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz
• A Summer’s Tale 1996 ‘Conte d'été’ Éric Rohmer
• A Prophet 2009 ‘Un prophčte’ Jacques Audiard

HM:
Diabolique 1955 ‘Les Diaboliques’ Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Intouchables 2011 ‘Intouchables’ Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache

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I've seen handful of French films that I like, not including Van Damme movies. My favorites so far are Elevatotor to the Gallows and Mandibules and PlayTime.

Chronologically

1 - The Passion of Joan of Arc
2 - The Rules of the Game
3 - Mouchette
4 - Le samourai
5 - La Haine

It gets iffy when you consider co-productions with other countries, but these would be five that I would put at the top or close...

• Le jour se lčve
• Rififi
• Diabolique
• Les amants du Pont-Neuf
• La plančte sauvage

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The Passion of Joan of Arc would definitely be Top 3 for me as well.

My top 5:

Sundays and Cybčle (1962)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Rififi (1955)
Pickpocket (1959)
The Piano Teacher (2001)

Very happy to see Costa-Gavras here.

Z, along with a few others like Hitchcock's The Birds or Ford's Stagecoach, gave my teenage self an undying love for movies.

Holy Motors
Jeanne Dielman
Le Million
Le Samourai
Night and Fog
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Rififi
The Wages of Fear
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Z

Holy Motors would probably crack my Top 5 as well, but since it's a French/German co-production, it didn't come up in my filtered list.

Ten in no order:
Duelle(une quarantine)
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Weekend
Rosetta
Children of Paradise
Claires Knee
400 Blows
Cleo From 5 to 7
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Young Girls of Rochefort

Nice list, but Rosetta is Belgian.