Days of Glory (2006)

White Material (2009)

Summary: Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.

Release Date: March 24, 2010

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Claire Denis

Writers: Claire Denis

, Marie N'Diaye

, Lucie Borleteau

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, France 3 Cinéma, TPS Star, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Les Films Terre Africaine, Cinémage 2, Sofica UGC 1, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep)

Distributor: The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, Cameroon

Language: French

Domestic: $ 304,020

International: $ 1,088,414

Chocolat (1988)

Summary: A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.

Genre: Drama

Director: Claire Denis

Writers: Claire Denis

, Jean-Pol Fargeau

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Caroline Productions, Cerito Films, Cinémanuel, MK2 Productions, TF1 Films Production, Wim Wenders Productions

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Orion Classics, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, Cameroon, West Germany

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 1,300,000

Domestic: $ 2,344,286

Indochine (1992)

Summary: Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.

Release Date: December 23, 1992

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Régis Wargnier

Writers: Erik Orsenna

, Louis Gardel

, Catherine Cohen

Runtime: 2 h 40 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paradis Films, La Générale d'Images, Bac Films, Orly Films, Ciné Cinq, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Club des Investissments, Canal+, Sofica Sofinergie, Sofinergie 2, Investimage 3, Cofimage

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 5,603,158

Production: 2.4.7. Films, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Celluloid Dreams, Sony Pictures Classics, Soficinéma, Sofica Europacorp, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), La Région Île-de-France, Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Agence Nationale de Gestion des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (ANGOA)

Persepolis (2007)

Summary: A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Release Date: February 22, 2008

Genres: Drama, Biography, Animation

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud

, Marjane Satrapi

Writers: Marjane Satrapi

, Vincent Paronnaud

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, United States

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 7,300,000

Domestic: $ 4,445,756

International: $ 18,338,222

Revenge (2017)

Summary: Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.

Release Date: May 11, 2018

Genres: Action, Thriller, Horror

Director: Coralie Fargeat

Writer: Coralie Fargeat

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: M.E.S. Productions, Monkey Pack Films, Charades, Logical Pictures, Nexus Factory, Umedia, uFund, Canal+, Ciné+, Cinémage 12, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Investisseurs Tax Shelter

Distributor: Neon, Shudder, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: France, Belgium

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 102,091

International: $ 835,964

Z (1969)

Summary: The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

Release Date: December 08, 1969

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Costa-Gavras

Writers: Vassilis Vassilikos

, Jorge Semprún

, Costa-Gavras

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: M/PG

Production: Valoria Films, Reggane Films, Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)

Distributor: Cinema V, Janus Films, Rialto Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection, Wellspring Media

Countries: France, Algeria

Language: French

Domestic: $ 83,305

Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed (1989)

Summary: A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.

Release Date: March 22, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Coline Serreau

Writer: Coline Serreau

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Cinéa, Eniloc Films, FR3 Films Production, Soficas, Sofinergie Films, Cofimage, Investimage

Distributor: Miramax, Home Box Office (HBO), Image Entertainment

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 495,063

Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)

Summary: A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.

Release Date: March 09, 1965

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Luis Buñuel

Writers: Octave Mirbeau

, Luis Buñuel

, Jean-Claude Carrière

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Ciné-Alliance, Filmsonor, Spéva Films, Dear Film Produzione

Distributor: Rialto Pictures, Castle Hill Productions, International Classics, Media Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, Italy

Language: French

Cuties (2020)

Summary: Eleven-year-old Amy starts to rebel against her conservative family's traditions when she becomes fascinated with a free-spirited dance crew.

Release Date: September 09, 2020

Genre: Drama

Director: Maïmouna Doucouré

Writer: Maïmouna Doucouré

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Bien Ou Bien Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Canal+

Country: France

Language: French

The Intouchables (2011)

Summary: After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.

Release Date: November 02, 2011

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Directors: Olivier Nakache

, Éric Toledano

Writers: Olivier Nakache

, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo

, Éric Toledano

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Quad, Ten Films, Canal+, Chaocorp, Gaumont, TF1 Films Production

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 9,500,000

Domestic: $ 10,198,820

International: $ 416,391,495

Summertime (2015)

Summary: A young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader in this drama set in 1970s France.

Release Date: August 19, 2015

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Catherine Corsini

Writers: Catherine Corsini

, Laurette Polmanss

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Chaz Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Artémis Productions, Canal+, France Télévisions, Orange Cinéma Séries, Pyramide Productions, Jouror Productions, Tax Shelter Film Funding, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Indéfilms 3, Soficinéma 11, Cinémage 9, Région Limousin, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ciné 8

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: France, Belgium

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 4,800,000

Domestic: $ 35,322

International: $ 3,743,616

The Innocents (2016)

Summary: 1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Release Date: February 10, 2016

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Anne Fontaine

Writers: Sabrina B. Karine

, Alice Vial

, Anne Fontaine

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG-13

Countries: France, Poland, Belgium

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 6,400,000

Domestic: $ 1,065,665

International: $ 6,334,636

Lady Chatterley (2006)

Summary: A French adaptation of the second (and much less well-known) version of D.H. Lawrence's erotic tale.

Release Date: November 01, 2006

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Pascale Ferran

Writers: D.H. Lawrence

, Roger Bohbot

, Pascale Ferran

Runtime: 2 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Maïa Films, ARTE, Saga Film (I), Cofinova 2, Région Limousin, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Saga Film

Distributor: Kino International

Countries: Belgium, France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 687,414

International: $ 2,512,969

Two Days, One Night (2014)

Summary: Liège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep...

Release Date: May 21, 2014

Genre: Drama

Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne

, Luc Dardenne

Writers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne

, Luc Dardenne

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG-13

Countries: Belgium, France, Italy

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,436,243

International: $ 7,580,679

Potiche (2010)

Summary: A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.

Release Date: April 15, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Director: François Ozon

Writers: François Ozon

, Pierre Barillet

, Jean-Pierre Grédy

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mandarin Films, FOZ, France 2 Cinéma, Scope Pictures, Canal+, France Télévisions, TPS Star, Région Wallone, Banque Postale Image 3, La, Cofinova 6, Cinémage 4, Soficinéma 6, SCOPE Invest

Distributor: Music Box Films, Wild Bunch

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 11,216,287

Domestic: $ 1,618,844

International: $ 30,691,037

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Summary: A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.

Release Date: January 21, 1976

Genre: Drama

Director: Chantal Akerman

Writer: Chantal Akerman

Runtime: 3 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Paradise Films, Unité Trois, Ministère de la Culture Française de Belgique, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Distributor: Janus Films, New Yorker Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Belgium, France

Language: French

One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)

Summary: The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

Release Date: March 09, 1977

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Agnès Varda

Writer: Agnès Varda

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Ciné-tamaris, INLC, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), Société Française de Production (SFP)

Countries: France, Belgium, Venezuela, Soviet Union

Language: French

Domestic: $ 19,919

Wild Reeds (1994)

Summary: The fates of two partners are divided.

Release Date: May 10, 1995

Genre: Drama

Director: André Téchiné

Writers: Olivier Massart

, Gilles Taurand

, André Téchiné

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Ima Films, Les Films Alain Sarde, Canal+, IMA Productions, La Sept-Arte, Société Française de Production (SFP), Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Distributor: Altered Innocence, Strand Releasing, Fox Lorber Home Video

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 807,775