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pigmode
11-12-2007, 06:03 PM
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Children Of Paradise
La ceremonie
A Heart In Winter
Vagabond
Diary of a Chambermaid
Pickpocket
Belle de Jour
Natalie
Beauty And The Beast
Blue
Amelie
My Life To Live
Band Of Outsiders
jstraw
11-12-2007, 06:29 PM
The Triplets of Belleville
The Battle of Algiers
Jules and Jim
Breathless
The Wanderer
11-12-2007, 06:43 PM
The Mad Adventures Of Rabbi Jacob
Yankee8156
11-12-2007, 07:01 PM
Breathless, The Rules of the Game, Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Beauty and the Beast and Le Samourai.
pig whisperer
11-12-2007, 07:05 PM
Le Trou.


My introduction to French films is mainly through the Criterion Collection.

I recently saw the 1937 comedy "drole de drame" and it was interesting. I want to try more French comedies like "Playtime".
Robert Campion
11-12-2007, 07:06 PM
The 400 Blows
zobalob
11-13-2007, 04:42 AM
L'Age D'or
Ken_McAlinden
11-13-2007, 05:09 AM
Les Diaboliques (Diabolique)
Le Salaire de la Peur (Wages of Fear)
Du Rififi Chez les Hommes (Rififi)

Regards,
il pleut
11-13-2007, 05:14 AM
zazie dans le metro.

may not make anyone's "best" list, but i love it.
jstraw
11-13-2007, 05:28 AM
Grand Illusion
Phlo
11-13-2007, 05:33 AM
Lacombe, Lucien
Stolen Kisses
Contempt
Bob Le Flambeur
Jules & Jim
Mouchette
Dr Faustus
11-13-2007, 05:35 AM
There are a lot, but for a start: The Closet, Double Life of Veronique, Hidden, The Girl on the Bridge, Les Enfants du siècle. There are a lot more no doubt!
Radiotron
11-13-2007, 05:49 AM
I could list so many but one that comes to mind is "Au revoir, les enfants" by Louis Malle.
Mal
11-13-2007, 05:51 AM
Possibly my favourite film of all time:
PreciousRicky
11-13-2007, 05:56 AM
Les Visiteurs
Three Colors: Red
Mal
11-13-2007, 05:59 AM
"Je n'aime pas Beethoven!"
jojopuppyfish
11-13-2007, 06:07 AM
Les Diaboliques (Diabolique)
What a great film!
evenreven
11-13-2007, 06:19 AM
My two favourites have already been mentioned, Zazie dans le métro and Diva. Amazing films. I really like Godard's Le week-end too.
bhazen
11-13-2007, 07:35 AM
Breathless
Alphaville
Amelie
Diva
willy
11-13-2007, 08:59 AM
Delicatessen
Foutaises
The Tenant
City of Lost Children
The Red Balloon
Evan L
11-13-2007, 11:12 AM
Diva
My New Partner
Jules et Jim

Diva, especially, just blew me away when I first saw it.

Evan
Djoek
11-13-2007, 11:40 AM
"Jean de Florette" and the sequel "Manon des Sources"
deem
11-13-2007, 12:15 PM
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups)
El Bacho
11-13-2007, 03:51 PM
À nous la liberté by René Clair (huge influence on Chaplin's "Modern Times")
Le Roman d'un tricheur by Sacha Guitry (huge influence on "Citizen Kane")
Max Ophüls's Le Plaisir
Almost anything by Jean-Pierre Melville (The Red Circle, The Samourai, Army of Shadows)
Godard's Le Mépris (Contempt)
La Collectionneuse by Éric Rohmer
Shoot The Piano Player by François Truffaut (one of Bob Dylan's favorite movies)
Coup de torchon (French adaptation of Jim Thompson's "Pop. 1280")
Série noire (ditto for Thompson's "A Hell of a Woman")

If you love "Manon des sources", check the original movie by Marcel Pagnol. Pagnol then novellized his movie and wrote a prequel. These were the base for the 80's two-parter.

Concerning French comedy, you have to check at least one or two good movies starring Louis de Funès, a truly amazing comedian, such as Don't Look Now, We're being shot at or The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob. Check also the original "The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe" (remade as "The Man With One Red Shoe") or early 60's cult hit "Les Tontons flingueurs" (Think "Big Deal on Madonna Street" or "Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels" for France)
butch
11-13-2007, 04:10 PM
1Mr Hire-A film by Patrice LeConte that plays with the idea of love,trust.loyalty ,death, murder, and guile.In the end,Mr Hire's guile and smarts above all win the day against a seemingly dark ending.
2 La Femme D'a Cote'(Woman on the Corner)-This is Truffaut at his most Hitchcockian albeit not in a direct way but in a subtle fashion. It features Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant as two starcrossed lovers who have a secret and dark past.The shock ending is out of left field .Georges Delerue's score is a beautiful diversion as well.
3One Deadly Summer- The hot Frenchette, Isabelle Adjani of Algerian-German descent,does an interesting turn as a sexually charged town tramp out on a mission of revenge.It is an interesting revenge story with a twist here and there that only the French can do.