France

• History
• Drama

Miracle of the Wolves

Raymond Bernard · 1924 · France

This silent French court adventure pairs elaborate medieval pageantry with a clear-eyed sense of political maneuvering.

• Music
• Drama

The Threepenny Opera

G.W. Pabst · 1931 · Germany, France

Its songs and stark visual style turn a criminal underworld into a sharp, theatrical portrait of respectability and greed.

• Crime
• Mystery

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Fritz Lang · 1933 · Germany, France

Lang turns a criminal investigation into a chilling puzzle about suggestion, obsession, and the reach of an unseen will.

• History
• Drama

Fabiola

Alessandro Blasetti · 1949 · France, Italy

This early Christian drama is worth finding for its Italian perspective on faith, class, and life under Roman rule.

• Comedy

The Little World of Don Camillo

Julien Duvivier · 1952 · France, Italy

The priest and communist mayor’s feuding friendship gives this village comedy warmth and bite without flattening their political differences.

• Comedy
• Drama

I Vitelloni

Federico Fellini · 1953 · France, Italy

The drifting friends are funny and exasperating in equal measure, while Moraldo’s quiet departure leaves a lingering ache.

• Drama
• Thriller

A Man Escaped

Robert Bresson · 1956 · France

The careful sounds and practical steps of Fontaine’s escape make suspense feel earned, intimate, and entirely dependent on his attention.

• Comedy
• Drama

The Red Balloon

Albert Lamorisse · 1956 · France

A child’s wordless friendship with a balloon turns Paris into a place of wonder without explaining away its magic.

• Documentary

Letter from Siberia

Chris Marker · 1957 · France

Marker’s famously changing voice-over makes you notice how framing and narration can remake the same images.

• Crime
• Drama

Elevator to the Gallows

Louis Malle · 1958 · France

Jeanne Moreau wandering the city beneath Miles Davis’s spare score makes a chain of bad luck feel hauntingly intimate.

• Drama

The 400 Blows

François Truffaut · 1959 · France

Antoine’s small acts of defiance and that unforgettable final look capture childhood abandonment without tidying it into a lesson.

• Crime
• Drama

Purple Noon

René Clément · 1960 · France, Italy

Alain Delon’s cool, watchful Ripley turns every borrowed gesture into a quiet act of menace.

• Drama
• History

Princess of Cleves

Jean Delannoy · 1961 · France, Italy

This spare adaptation lets a young woman’s inward conflict stand against the elaborate codes of the French court.

• Adventure
• History

The Fighting Musketeers

Bernard Borderie · 1961 · France, Italy

This French adaptation finds lively momentum in the comrades’ squabbles as well as their duels.

• Western

The Taste of Violence

Robert Hossein · 1961 · France, Germany

A spare, morally unsettled precursor to the genre, it lets divided loyalties speak through faces and silences.

• Adventure
• Fantasy

The Thief of Baghdad

Arthur Lubin & Bruno Vailati · 1961 · Italy, France

A colorful, fast-moving fantasy adventure whose theatrical set pieces keep the hero’s nimble resourcefulness in view.

• History
• Adventure

The Trojan Horse

Giorgio Ferroni · 1961 · France, Italy

This lesser-seen Italian take on Troy is worth finding for its attention to the human cost behind the legendary siege.

• Drama
• Romance

Jules and Jim

François Truffaut · 1962 · France

The nimble narration and shifting images make this unruly triangle feel like a memory being retold, not a tidy romantic fable.

• Drama

Vivre Sa Vie

Jean-Luc Godard · 1962 · France

Godard’s episodic portraits and direct-to-camera moments let Nana’s life resist easy explanation, finding tenderness in the film’s formal distance.

• Drama

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti · 1963 · France, Italy

The final ball unfolds with such patience that an entire social order seems to fade away inside its glittering rooms.

• Adventure

The Black Tulip

Christian-Jaque · 1964 · Spain, France

Alain Delon’s double role adds playful complications to a Revolution-era tale of masks, mistaken identity, and daring escapes.

• Horror
• Drama

The Demon

Brunello Rondi · 1964 · France, Italy

Its stark portrait of a woman trapped between desire and village superstition leaves room for more than one explanation.

• Western

Arizona Colt

Michele Lupo · 1966 · Italy, France

Its charismatic drifter and carefully staged confrontations make a lively, assured example of the genre’s action side.

• Documentary

Jaguar

Jean Rouch · 1967 · France

Three friends’ improvised journey through Ghana blurs documentary and performance while keeping their wit and changing ambitions at the center.

• Drama

Mouchette

Robert Bresson · 1967 · France

Bresson’s spare gestures and silences make the pressures surrounding a poor rural teenager feel almost unbearably immediate.

• Comedy

PlayTime

Jacques Tati · 1967 · France, Italy

The glass-and-steel city becomes a wordless comic playground, rewarding attention to every background gag and graceful visual pattern.

• Adventure
• Drama

The Last Adventure

Robert Enrico · 1967 · France, Italy

Alain Delon and Lino Ventura bring melancholy weight to a treasure-seeking journey that resists easy heroics.

• Drama
• Thriller

Army of Shadows

Jean-Pierre Melville · 1969 · France, Italy

The Resistance’s quiet routines and morally painful choices are presented with such restraint that the danger never needs announcing.

• Crime
• Drama

Le Cercle Rouge

Jean-Pierre Melville · 1970 · France, Italy

The nearly silent jewel-heist sequence makes patience and precision feel thrilling, while the men’s guarded silences carry the rest.

• Drama
• History

The Wild Child

François Truffaut · 1970 · France

Truffaut’s restrained, observant approach makes the boy’s small gains feel moving without pretending they resolve the deeper question.

• Western
• Comedy

A Girl Is a Gun

Luc Moullet · 1971 · France

This spare, off-kilter take on Billy the Kid trades familiar Western swagger for an odd, elusive desert drift.

• Comedy

Trafic

Jacques Tati · 1971 · France, Italy

Tati finds a whole comedy of human habits in a stalled journey, letting small visual details do the talking.

• Comedy
• Drama

Roma

Federico Fellini · 1972 · France, Italy

Fellini’s Rome arrives as a loose, exuberant procession of images and encounters rather than a tour explained for outsiders.

• Comedy
• Mystery

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Yves Robert · 1972 · France

A mild-mannered musician becomes an unwitting pawn in a spy-service rivalry, and the deadpan contrast does the satirizing.

• Comedy
• Drama

Day for Night

François Truffaut · 1973 · France, Italy

Its affectionate glimpses of a film crew’s petty crises make filmmaking feel like both a fragile collaboration and a wonderfully messy life.

• Animation
• Science Fiction

Fantastic Planet

René Laloux · 1973 · Czechoslovakia, France

Its strange, patient images make the Draags’ casual domination of the Oms unsettling without reducing the conflict to a tidy moral lesson.

• Drama
• Comedy

La Grande Bouffe

Marco Ferreri · 1973 · France, Italy

Its grotesque feast is staged with such cool formality that the absurdity keeps opening onto questions about appetite, privilege, and despair.

• Drama

The Man Who Sleeps

Bernard Queysanne · 1974 · France, Tunisia

Its dispassionate voice and wandering images make withdrawal feel less like a plot point than a state you inhabit.

• Documentary
• History

The Battle of Chile: Part I

Patricio Guzmán · 1975 · Chile, France

Its street-level footage lets political tensions accumulate in faces, arguments, and gatherings rather than flattening them into hindsight.

• Comedy
• Drama

Small Change

François Truffaut · 1976 · France

Its warmly observed episodes let children’s wit and vulnerability speak for themselves, without turning childhood into a lesson.

• Thriller
• Mystery

The Tenant

Roman Polanski · 1976 · France

Polanski turns the apartment’s everyday details into a claustrophobic puzzle, leaving you unsure where social pressure ends and paranoia begins.

• Drama
• Thriller

The American Friend

Wim Wenders · 1977 · France, Germany

Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper turn an uneasy criminal partnership into a strange, melancholy portrait of friendship under pressure.

• Drama
• Adventure

The Song of Roland

Frank Cassenti · 1978 · France

This spare adaptation treats the medieval epic as a lived tradition, leaving room for its ideals to feel both stirring and troubling.

• TV Movie
• Adventure

The Thief of Baghdad

Clive Donner · 1978 · UK, France

This television-made fantasy adventure still finds charm in its theatrical settings and its hero’s resourceful, streetwise spirit.

• Drama
• Romance

Tess

Roman Polanski · 1979 · France, UK

Nastassja Kinski’s quiet, watchful Tess moves through a beautifully composed world that offers no easy escape from its cruelties.

• Documentary

The Battle of Chile: Part III

Patricio Guzmán · 1979 · Chile, France

Its account of popular resistance and political defeat finds complexity in collective action rather than forcing a triumphant or despairing conclusion.

• Comedy
• Adventure

City of Women

Federico Fellini · 1980 · France, Italy

A train stop sends Marcello Mastroianni into a sprawling, dreamlike maze of desire, bravado, and self-deception.

• Drama
• Romance

The Party

Claude Pinoteau · 1980 · France

Sophie Marceau’s first-love story catches the awkward exhilaration of adolescence amid the music, friendships, and family tensions of a Parisian party.

• Action
• Adventure

The Professional

Georges Lautner · 1981 · France

Jean-Paul Belmondo brings sly warmth to a revenge plot driven as much by bruised pride and old loyalties as by gunplay.

• Drama
• Romance

The Woman Next Door

François Truffaut · 1981 · France

The awkward domestic encounters and the lovers’ volatile pull make this feel less like a tidy romance than a painfully observed emotional trap.

• Drama
• Romance

Pauline at the Beach

Éric Rohmer · 1983 · France

A seaside holiday turns into a dry, observant study of how confidently people misread one another.

• Documentary

Sans Soleil

Chris Marker · 1983 · France

Travel images, memory and a searching voice-over wander into questions the film leaves beautifully unresolved.

• Science Fiction
• Animation

Gwen and the Book of Sand

Jean-François Laguionie · 1985 · France

Its spare, sun-bleached landscapes let a strange world emerge through patient images rather than explanations.

• Action
• Drama

Ran

Akira Kurosawa · 1985 · Japan, France

The battle scenes are vast yet intimate, and Kurosawa lets Lear’s family betrayals land without softening their tragic force.

• Adventure
• Comedy

Pirates

Roman Polanski · 1986 · France, Tunisia

Walter Matthau’s shambling Captain Red makes this scruffy sea adventure funny without sanding off its greed and cruelty.

• Adventure
• Drama

The Mission

Roland Joffé · 1986 · UK, France

The river journey and Morricone’s score give the clash between faith, power, and conscience a solemn beauty without making its costs simple.

• Drama
• Fantasy

Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders · 1987 · Germany, France

Berlin becomes a city of private thoughts and fleeting encounters, and Bruno Ganz gives the angel’s longing a wonderfully grounded tenderness.

• Drama
• History

Camille Claudel

Bruno Nuytten · 1988 · France

Its close attention to Claudel’s work and fraught relationship with Rodin makes the film’s final sense of confinement especially hard to shake.

• Drama
• Romance

Cinema Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore · 1988 · Italy, France

The old projectionist’s friendship with young Salvatore gives the film its warmth, and its ending leaves a tender ache for vanished places.

• Documentary

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories

Jean-Luc Godard · 1989 · France, Switzerland

Godard’s collage of film clips, texts, and sounds treats cinema as a way of thinking through history, not merely illustrating it.

• Documentary

Route One/USA

Robert Kramer · 1989 · France, Italy

A road trip becomes an open-ended portrait of America, attentive to ordinary encounters rather than imposing a tidy thesis.

• Drama
• Comedy

Cyrano de Bergerac

Jean-Paul Rappeneau · 1990 · France

Depardieu gives Cyrano a bruised swagger, and the verse lets longing and wit coexist without flattening either.

• Adventure
• Drama

My Father's Glory

Yves Robert · 1990 · France

Pagnol’s warm, observant memories make childhood wonder and a father’s quiet pride feel vividly lived-in.

• Adventure
• Comedy

My Mother's Castle

Yves Robert · 1990 · France

Its gentle family comedy finds a tender ache in Marcel’s determined return to the hills and the summer he cannot keep.

• Comedy
• Drama

The Hairdresser's Husband

Patrice Leconte · 1990 · France

A man’s lifelong romantic fantasy becomes an intimate, gently comic marriage portrait built from rituals, silences, and small acts of devotion.

• Drama

La Belle Noiseuse

Jacques Rivette · 1991 · France, Switzerland

The long, wordless stretches of painting make artistic creation itself the film’s tense, intimate drama.

• Drama
• Fantasy

The Double Life of Véronique

Krzysztof Kieślowski · 1991 · France, Norway

The music, faces, and mysterious connection between the two women create a haunting emotional world without pinning it down.

• Action
• Adventure

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Ridley Scott · 1992 · France, Spain

The voyage’s shifting ideals and ambitions make this a useful, visually rich entry point into the contradictions of European expansion.

• Drama
• Romance

A Tale of Winter

Éric Rohmer · 1992 · France

Rohmer lets a woman’s faith in a lost love remain both moving and faintly unreasonable, without making the choice for you.

• Thriller
• Drama

Bitter Moon

Roman Polanski · 1992 · France, UK

The shifting accounts of a couple’s affair make seduction feel like a contest over who gets to tell the story.

• Drama
• Romance

The Lover

Jean-Jacques Annaud · 1992 · France, UK

A spare, sensuous visual approach gives this unequal affair a reflective mood rather than smoothing away its discomfort.

• Comedy
• Drama

Arizona Dream

Emir Kusturica · 1993 · France, USA

Its eccentrics pursue improbable dreams with such conviction that the film’s oddities feel like part of the landscape.

• Documentary

From the East

Chantal Akerman · 1993 · Belgium, France

A sequence of patiently held faces and landscapes turns travel through Eastern Europe into a quietly absorbing study of waiting and change.

• Comedy
• Drama

The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque

Éric Rohmer · 1993 · France

Local politics and lofty ideals make a small French village an unexpectedly rich arena for comic debate.

• Fantasy
• Comedy

The Visitors

Jean-Marie Poiré · 1993 · France

A medieval knight and his servant collide with modern France in a broad, physical culture-clash comedy that commits fully to the absurdity.

• Drama

Three Colors: Blue

Krzysztof Kieślowski · 1993 · France, Poland

Juliette Binoche’s guarded grief and the film’s recurring musical fragments give its questions about freedom and attachment room to breathe.

• Drama
• Thriller

Death and the Maiden

Roman Polanski · 1994 · France, UK

Three performances and a single room turn a question of justice into an unsettling contest over memory, evidence, and power.

• History
• Drama

Farinelli

Gérard Corbiau · 1994 · Italy, France

The gorgeous, unsettling sound design keeps the cost of Farinelli’s fame present beneath the film’s lavish period spectacle.

• Comedy

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

Alain Berbérian · 1994 · France

Its Cannes-set film-within-a-film premise becomes a gleefully oddball farce, packed with deadpan jokes and affectionate movie-world mockery.

• History
• Drama

Joan the Maid I: The Battles

Jacques Rivette · 1994 · France

Rivette follows Joan through practical negotiations and crowded rooms, letting conviction emerge without turning her into a legend.

• Drama
• History

Queen Margot

Patrice Chéreau · 1994 · France, Germany

Its court intrigue is vivid and crowded, but the most lasting moments are the private loyalties surviving beneath the spectacle.

• Western
• Horror

Silent Tongue

Sam Shepard · 1994 · France, Netherlands

Shepard’s spare, haunted frontier tale lets grief and an eerie landscape linger without translating either into easy explanations.

• Comedy
• Drama

The Postman

Michael Radford · 1994 · Italy, France

Troisi makes the postman’s shy discovery of poetry feel tender and particular, and the island’s quiet rhythms give the romance room to breathe.

• Drama
• Mystery

Three Colors: Red

Krzysztof Kieślowski · 1994 · France, Poland

A chance bond between Valentine and the retired judge unfolds with such delicacy that the film’s final convergence feels quietly uncanny.

• Comedy
• Drama

Three Colors: White

Krzysztof Kieślowski · 1994 · France, Poland

Karol’s reinvention plays as both darkly comic revenge and a bruised love story, with the trilogy’s cool, oblique style doing more than the dialogue.

• Adventure
• Romance

The Horseman on the Roof

Jean-Paul Rappeneau · 1995 · France

A restless journey through cholera-stricken France balances adventure with an unusually unsentimental view of fear and privilege.

• Drama
• Romance

Breaking the Waves

Lars von Trier · 1996 · Denmark, France

Emily Watson’s startlingly open performance anchors a formally daring, troubling story that refuses to make faith, love, or sacrifice simple.

• Comedy

Family Resemblances

Cédric Klapisch · 1996 · France

One long restaurant meal lets petty slights and old affections surface through sharp ensemble performances and beautifully controlled conversational chaos.

• Comedy
• Drama

Ridicule

Patrice Leconte · 1996 · France

At Versailles, a perfectly timed remark can change a life, and the film makes wit feel as exhilarating as it is cruel.

• Drama

Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh · 1996 · UK, France

The dinner-table confrontation is painfully funny and raw, as Mike Leigh lets people reveal themselves through awkward pauses and overlapping talk.

• Comedy
• Romance

Black Cat, White Cat

Emir Kusturica · 1998 · France, Germany

Its unruly wedding-day chaos and exuberant visual jokes make even the hustlers’ schemes feel like part of a living carnival.

• History
• Drama

The Emperor and the Assassin

Chen Kaige · 1998 · China, France

A ruler’s unification campaign is complicated by intimate betrayals and political ideals that refuse to stay cleanly separated.

• Drama

Beau Travail

Claire Denis · 1999 · France

Denis turns military routines, bodies, and Galoup’s spare narration into a hypnotic portrait of jealousy and desire.

• Drama
• Thriller

I Stand Alone

Gaspar Noé · 1999 · France

Its abrasive voice and refusal to cushion the Butcher’s ugliness create a harrowing portrait of resentment without asking for easy sympathy.

• TV Movie
• Documentary

One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich

Chris Marker · 1999 · France

Marker’s portrait of Andrei Tarkovsky moves between his films and final days with unusual tenderness and formal freedom.

• Drama

Rosetta

Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne · 1999 · Belgium, France

The handheld immediacy and Émilie Dequenne’s fierce, unsentimental performance leave you inside Rosetta’s exhausting fight for dignity.

• Drama
• Comedy

The Girl on the Bridge

Patrice Leconte · 1999 · France, Turkey

A lonely woman and a knife-thrower strike an oddly touching partnership, with the film’s dry humor keeping its romance off balance.

• Adventure
• Comedy

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Joel Coen · 2000 · France, UK

The brothers' absurd odyssey folds folk songs, biblical echoes, and dry humor into a world that feels wonderfully self-contained.

• Drama
• Comedy

The Taste of Others

Agnès Jaoui · 2000 · France

A businessman’s crush opens onto a whole web of class, taste, and friendship, observed with generous humor and no easy villains.

• Thriller
• Drama

Mulholland Drive

David Lynch · 2001 · France, USA

Its shifting identities and eerie Hollywood dreamscape reward patient attention, while Naomi Watts makes hope and heartbreak feel inseparable.

• Action
• Crime

Spy Game

Tony Scott · 2001 · France, Germany

The intercut mentorship and fieldwork turn an intelligence debrief into a tense portrait of loyalty and professional compromise.

• Comedy

The Closet

Francis Veber · 2001 · France

Daniel Auteuil’s timid office worker barely changes his expression as a ridiculous lie rearranges everyone else’s behavior.

• Drama

The Son's Room

Nanni Moretti · 2001 · Italy, France

The family’s grief arrives in awkward, ordinary moments, and Nanni Moretti resists making loss into a neat lesson.

• Documentary

Winged Migration

Jacques Perrin · 2001 · France, Germany

The birds’ long journeys unfold at their own pace, with astonishing flight footage that leaves room for the effort and uncertainty.

• Drama
• Comedy

The Spanish Apartment

Cédric Klapisch · 2002 · France, Spain

A shared flat makes cultural manners, romantic entanglements, and youthful self-invention collide at close quarters.

• Documentary

From the Other Side

Chantal Akerman · 2003 · Belgium, France

Akerman observes the U.S.–Mexico border from both sides, letting landscapes and conversations reveal the human cost of crossing.

• Horror
• Thriller

High Tension

Alexandre Aja · 2003 · France, Romania

Its relentless pursuit through isolated French countryside creates a raw, nerve-tight experience that lingers beyond the final turn.

• Drama
• Mystery

In the Cut

Jane Campion · 2003 · USA, France

Meg Ryan’s guarded, searching performance anchors a thriller that lets desire and suspicion remain tangled.

• Animation
• Science Fiction

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

Kazuhisa Takenouchi · 2003 · France, Japan

Daft Punk’s album becomes a wordless space opera, with the music and vivid imagery doing all the storytelling.

• Comedy
• Drama

The Barbarian Invasions

Denys Arcand · 2003 · Canada, France

Its dying professor’s unruly circle of friends argues about dignity, belief, and care with wit that never erases the sadness.

• Comedy
• Drama

Aaltra

Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern · 2004 · France, Belgium

Two bitter neighbors embark on a sparse, deadpan journey that finds unexpected humor in their stubbornness and mutual dependence.

• Western

Blueberry

Jan Kounen · 2004 · France, Mexico

Its psychedelic vision quests interrupt the frontier action with disorienting images that feel more like memory than explanation.

• Action
• Thriller

District B13

Pierre Morel · 2004 · France

Its parkour pursuits treat walls and rooftops as usable routes, letting the performers’ movement carry the excitement.

• Drama

Machuca

Andrés Wood · 2004 · Chile, France

Two boys’ friendship crosses class lines in a portrait of political upheaval that never turns them into symbols.

• Adventure
• Drama

The Last Trapper

Nicolas Vanier · 2004 · Canada, France

Its close attention to seasonal routines and practical skills makes the wilderness feel like a lived-in home, not merely a threat.

• Drama

The Motorcycle Diaries

Walter Salles · 2004 · Argentina, France

The changing landscapes matter less than the encounters that slowly unsettle the young Guevara’s view of the continent.

• Drama
• Romance

Tropical Malady

Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 2004 · Thailand, France

Its striking shift from a tender romance to a nocturnal forest tale rewards you for letting its images lead.

• Drama

Vera Drake

Mike Leigh · 2004 · UK, France

Imelda Staunton’s gentle, unshowy performance makes Vera’s goodness and the damage around it heartbreakingly hard to simplify.

• Mystery
• Thriller

Black Box

Richard Berry · 2005 · France

A man tries to reconstruct his own past from fragments, and the film makes the act of assembling them part of the suspense.

• Crime
• Drama

Crime Novel

Michele Placido · 2005 · France, Italy

Rome’s criminal rise unfolds as a patient, unsentimental portrait of ambition, loyalty, and the friendships power steadily corrodes.

• Drama
• War

Joyeux Noel

Christian Carion · 2005 · Belgium, France

Its Christmas Eve encounters linger on the small gestures that briefly make enemies recognizable to one another.

• Documentary
• Family

March of the Penguins

Luc Jacquet · 2005 · France

The penguins’ arduous routines speak for themselves in a film whose stark Antarctic setting makes every small movement count.

• Comedy
• Crime

Millions

Danny Boyle · 2005 · UK, France

Two brothers respond to sudden wealth in utterly different ways, and the film lets their argument stay funny, moving, and morally unsettled.

• Drama
• Thriller

The Aura

Fabián Bielinsky · 2005 · Argentina, France

A withdrawn taxidermist’s carefully imagined crime collides with chance, revealing character through choices rather than confession.

• Drama
• Crime

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Jacques Audiard · 2005 · France

A debt collector’s attempt to return to piano gives this underworld drama a delicate counterpoint to its blunt, lived-in violence.

• Drama

The Child

Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne · 2005 · Belgium, France

A young father’s reckless choices unfold with such plainness that the film lets you judge him without telling you how.

• Animation
• Family

The Magic Roundabout

Jean Duval & Frank Passingham · 2005 · France, UK

Its tactile miniature landscapes and gently odd humour make this a distinctly British stop-motion adventure rather than a slickly smoothed-out fantasy.

• Romance
• Drama

Three Times

Hou Hsiao-hsien · 2005 · Taiwan, France

Hou revisits two lovers in three eras, trusting glances, gestures, and historical texture to do the emotional work.

• Drama

Babel

Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 2006 · France, Mexico

Its interlocking lives and language barriers leave space for viewers to feel the distance between people without spelling it out.

• Drama

Don't Worry, I'm Fine

Philippe Lioret · 2006 · France

Its subdued performances and carefully controlled revelations turn a search for a missing brother into a tender portrait of grief.

• Crime
• Action

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Michel Hazanavicius · 2006 · France, Belgium

Jean Dujardin plays OSS 117’s clueless swagger completely straight, making the period spy clichés—and their ugly assumptions—wonderfully sharp satire.

• Drama
• Thriller

Tell No One

Guillaume Canet · 2006 · France

The chase stays propulsive without losing its tenderness, and the clues make you reconsider what the characters believe about one another.

• Drama
• Thriller

The Good Shepherd

Robert De Niro · 2006 · USA, France

Matt Damon’s restrained performance lets decades of secrecy show through small absences and guarded family moments.

• Drama
• History

The Queen

Stephen Frears · 2006 · France, Italy

Helen Mirren makes the Queen’s carefully controlled silences as revealing as her rare moments of warmth during a week of public upheaval.

• Thriller
• Drama

The Unknown Woman

Giuseppe Tornatore · 2006 · Italy, France

A woman’s guarded efforts to enter a family life leave you weighing the difference between survival, manipulation, and care.

• Documentary

Earth

Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield · 2007 · France, UK

Its patient tracking of three animal families lets the changing seasons—not a human storyline—supply the drama.

• Animation
• Horror

Fear(s) of the Dark

Blutch & Lorenzo Mattotti · 2007 · France

Its sharply different black-and-white nightmares give each director room to unsettle you in a distinct way.

• Horror

Inside

Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo · 2007 · France

A confined home and a fiercely committed lead performance make this French home-invasion slasher feel both intimate and frighteningly relentless.

• Music
• Drama

La Vie en Rose

Olivier Dahan · 2007 · Czech Republic, France

Marion Cotillard’s performance makes Piaf’s shifts between fierce stage presence and private fragility feel startlingly lived-in.

• Drama
• Romance

Love Songs

Christophe Honoré · 2007 · France

Parisian streets and wistful songs carry a tender, unconventional portrait of love that refuses to fit a neat shape.

• Action
• Crime

Mad Detective

Johnnie To & Wai Ka-Fai · 2007 · Hong Kong, France

A missing-officer investigation bends police procedure through a detective’s unnerving intuition without losing its investigative momentum.

• Comedy
• Romance

Shall We Kiss?

Emmanuel Mouret · 2007 · France

A near-kiss spins into a funny, thoughtful conversation about desire, friendship, and the stories people tell themselves.

• Drama
• Romance

Water Lilies

Céline Sciamma · 2007 · France

Sciamma catches the painful precision of teenage desire in glances exchanged around a swimming pool.

• Drama
• History

Frost/Nixon

Ron Howard · 2008 · France, UK

The interviews turn into a tense duel of performance and evasion, with both men’s vanity and intelligence kept fully in view.

• Drama

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Rémi Bezançon · 2008 · France

Five snapshots across twelve years reveal how one family changes through departures, private disappointments, and shared rituals.

• Drama

The Sky, the Earth and the Rain

José Luis Torres Leiva · 2008 · Chile, France

Its still landscapes and unforced performances give four isolated lives room to brush against one another.

• Drama
• Romance

The Wrestler

Darren Aronofsky · 2008 · USA, France

Mickey Rourke makes Randy’s small routines and backstage silences as affecting as the bruising spectacle in the ring.

• Drama
• Romance

Two Lovers

James Gray · 2008 · USA, France

Joaquin Phoenix gives a painfully divided man an inner life that resists the easy logic of romantic choice.

• Music
• Documentary

Björk: Voltaïc

Russell Thomas & Björk · 2009 · France

The performance’s unusual percussion and visual textures make this feel like an artist shaping a concert on her own terms.

• Crime
• Action

OSS 117: Lost in Rio

Michel Hazanavicius · 2009 · France

Dujardin’s magnificently oblivious spy turns international intrigue into a deadpan joke about ego, prejudice, and old-school masculinity.

• Thriller
• Mystery

The Ghost Writer

Roman Polanski · 2010 · France, Germany

A ghostwriter’s interviews and discoveries build a satisfying political mystery, with Ewan McGregor’s watchful outsider anchoring the unease.

• Documentary

Photographic Memory

Ross McElwee · 2011 · France, USA

A father’s attempt to reconnect with his grown son opens into a thoughtful contrast between youthful memory and present-day distance.

• Animation
• Family

Ernest & Celestine

Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar · 2012 · Belgium, France

Ernest and Celestine’s warm, scruffy partnership shines through delicate watercolor animation and wonderfully unforced humor.

• Comedy
• Drama

In the House

François Ozon · 2012 · France

Its nested writing games keep shifting the balance of power between teacher, student, and the family being watched.

• Drama
• Romance

Laurence Anyways

Xavier Dolan · 2012 · Canada, France

The lovers’ changing clothes, faces, and rhythms make their years together feel lived-in, messy, and impossible to reduce to a lesson.

• Documentary

Planet Ocean

Michael Pitiot & Yann Arthus-Bertrand · 2012 · France

Its shifting scale—from ocean life to human impact—offers an expansive, visually attentive invitation to look closely at the sea.

• Drama
• Comedy

Reality

Matteo Garrone · 2012 · France, Italy

The father’s growing fixation is both farcical and unsettling, as the film watches ordinary family life bend around the fantasy of being watched.

• Action
• History

The Last Supper

Lu Chuan · 2012 · China, France

This austere account of the fall of an ancient order dwells on the uneasy boundary between political necessity and betrayal.

• Comedy
• Animation

The Suicide Shop

Patrice Leconte · 2012 · Belgium, France

Its morbid musical-comedy premise gets a sly, unsettling treatment rather than the tidy uplift you might expect.

• Documentary

Three Sisters

Wang Bing · 2012 · France, Hong Kong

The girls’ routines in a remote mountain village accumulate into a moving portrait of childhood without explanatory framing.

• Romance
• Drama

Blue Is the Warmest Color

Abdellatif Kechiche · 2013 · Belgium, France

The intimate dinner-table scenes and the lovers’ changing silences make the relationship feel lived-in, tender, and difficult to contain.

• Documentary

Leviathan

Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel · 2013 · France, UK

Its shifting cameras immerse you in the sounds and labor of a fishing vessel without turning the sea into a narrated spectacle.

• Drama
• Science Fiction

The Congress

Ari Folman · 2013 · Belgium, France

Its shift from lived-in drama to animated fantasia sharpens its questions about performance, ownership, and escaping reality.

• Drama
• Fantasy

The Dance of Reality

Alejandro Jodorowsky · 2013 · Chile, France

Jodorowsky folds childhood memories, political history, and startling visions together without sanding down their contradictions.

• Science Fiction
• Adventure

The Last Days

David Pastor & Àlex Pastor · 2013 · Spain, France

A citywide fear of the outdoors turns familiar streets into a tense, inventive maze.

• Drama
• Mystery

The Past

Asghar Farhadi · 2013 · France, Italy

As each character’s version of the past comes into view, the film builds moral tension through patient conversations rather than tidy revelations.

• Adventure
• Drama

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet · 2013 · Canada, France

A young mapmaker’s cross-country trip reveals a family’s grief in the margins of his elaborate drawings and inventions.

• Drama
• Fantasy

The Zero Theorem

Terry Gilliam · 2013 · France, Romania

Christoph Waltz’s isolated mathematician anchors a garish corporate future with an unexpectedly tender loneliness.

• Drama
• Comedy

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Roy Andersson · 2014 · France, Germany

Its fixed, pale tableaux let everyday cruelty and loneliness surface in jokes that linger after the laugh.

• Comedy
• Adventure

Paddington

Paul King · 2014 · France, UK

Paddington's earnest politeness meets London’s comic indifference in a gentle, sharply observed story with a lovely sense of kindness.

• Drama

All Your Faces

Jeanne Herry · 2023 · France

Its carefully staged conversations let victims and offenders speak without flattening either side into a lesson.

• Documentary
• Drama

Four Daughters

Kaouther Ben Hania · 2023 · France, Germany

Ben Hania’s shifting use of reenactment and family testimony makes absence palpable while keeping the women’s voices and contradictions in view.

• Fantasy
• Horror

The Vourdalak

Adrien Beau · 2023 · France

A stranded aristocrat’s encounter with a remote household gives an old Slavic vampire legend an eerie, handmade strangeness.

• Comedy
• Drama

Yannick

Quentin Dupieux · 2023 · France

One furious audience member hijacks a bad play, and the film’s taut theatrical setup keeps the comedy nervy and unpredictable.

• Drama
• Comedy

A Missing Part

Guillaume Senez · 2024 · Belgium, France

The long, patient search through Tokyo gives this father-daughter story room for its ache and small, hard-won moments of connection.

• Drama

Bird

Andrea Arnold · 2024 · France, UK

Andrea Arnold lets Bailey’s restless gaze lead, balancing rough-edged family life with moments of strange, generous wonder.

• Documentary

Dahomey

Mati Diop · 2024 · France, Senegal

A returned statue’s imagined voice turns restitution into a vivid, unsettled conversation between history and contemporary Benin.

• Animation
• Fantasy

Ghost Cat Anzu

Yoko Kuno & Nobuhiro Yamashita · 2024 · Japan, France

Anzu’s shambling, rotoscoped presence gives this odd-couple fantasy a lived-in looseness, while Karin’s grief stays prickly rather than neatly explained.

• Drama
• Romance

Girls Will Be Girls

Shuchi Talati · 2024 · France, India

Its close, patient attention to Mira and her mother turns a schoolgirl's awakening into a subtle study of inherited longing and control.

• Drama
• Adventure

Grand Tour

Miguel Gomes · 2024 · China, France

Miguel Gomes turns pursuit into an elegant, wandering travelogue, mixing staged scenes and archival textures into a playful study of colonial-era longing.

• Drama
• Comedy

Holy Cow

Louise Courvoisier · 2024 · France

Totone’s clumsy attempts to keep the farm and his little sister afloat give this rural coming-of-age story a lovely, unpolished tenderness.

• Drama
• History

I'm Still Here

Walter Salles · 2024 · Brazil, France

Fernanda Torres makes a family’s uncertain, everyday endurance feel quietly profound, with political violence registered through what it leaves unsaid.

• Comedy
• Drama

Jim's Story

Jean-Marie Larrieu & Arnaud Larrieu · 2024 · France

Its patient, humane view of fatherhood and belonging gives the family’s shifting bonds room to surprise you.

• Thriller
• Drama

Motel Destino

Karim Aïnouz · 2024 · Brazil, France

Its tense motel setting and shifting power between Dayana and Heraldo make desire feel dangerous rather than tidy.

• Drama
• Comedy

My Favourite Cake

Behtash Sanaeeha & Maryam Moghaddam · 2024 · France, Germany

A quiet Tehran afternoon becomes a gently defiant love story, carried by intimate performances and the pleasure of two people discovering each other.

• Fantasy
• Adventure

Riddle of Fire

Weston Razooli · 2024 · France, USA

Its kids’ woodland quest feels delightfully handmade, with deadpan performances and oddball detours that never lose their sense of childhood logic.

• Drama

Souleymane's Story

Boris Lojkine · 2024 · France

The urgent street-level pacing and exhausted performance make a bureaucratic interview feel like a whole life compressed into two days.

• Documentary
• History

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Johan Grimonprez · 2024 · Belgium, France

Its montage makes jazz, colonial power, and Cold War maneuvering collide into a history that feels startlingly alive.

• Crime
• Drama

The Kingdom

Julien Colonna · 2024 · France

The tense father-daughter bond unfolds amid Corsican violence with a quietness that makes every glance feel consequential.

• Drama
• Thriller

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mohammad Rasoulof · 2024 · France, Germany

The family’s tightening domestic standoff turns political fear into something intimate and frightening, without offering easy moral distance.

• Drama

Vermiglio

Maura Delpero · 2024 · Italy, France

Its patient attention to a mountain family’s routines makes the soldier’s arrival—and the community’s changing emotional weather—feel quietly consequential.

• Drama
• Thriller

When Fall Is Coming

François Ozon · 2024 · France

Ozon lets everyday kindness and buried resentments sit uneasily together, turning a village visit into a quietly unsettling family reckoning.

• Comedy
• Drama

Nouvelle Vague

Richard Linklater · 2025 · France, USA

The playful black-and-white recreation of Godard finding his way through Breathless makes film history feel like a lively, unruly experiment.

• Drama
• Thriller

Sirāt

Oliver Laxe · 2025 · Spain, France

Its search party drifts through rave culture and stark Moroccan landscapes, building toward an unnerving meditation on grief and chance.

• Drama
• Comedy

Sorry, Baby

Eva Victor · 2025 · USA, France

Its chaptered structure and Agnes’s dry, unforced humor make room for grief and recovery without turning either into a tidy lesson.

• Crime
• Thriller

The Mohican

Frédéric Farrucci · 2025 · France

Corsica’s rugged landscape and a shepherd’s quiet defiance give this crime story the weight of a lived-in community under pressure.

• Drama

The Ties That Bind Us

Carine Tardieu · 2025 · Belgium, France

Its family takes shape through small, awkward acts of care, letting the characters’ conflicting desires breathe rather than forcing a tidy answer.

• Drama
• History

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Kaouther Ben Hania · 2025 · France, Tunisia

The confined calls between the volunteers and Hind make helplessness immediate, while the film’s restraint lets the real voices carry the weight.

• Science Fiction
• Adventure

U Are the Universe

Pavlo Ostrikov · 2025 · Belgium, France

Its lonely space-trucker setup becomes a tender, funny two-hander, letting silence and small rituals carry the vastness between its characters.

• Documentary

Whispers in the Woods

Vincent Munier · 2025 · France

Munier’s patient attention to forest sounds and animal traces makes the wilderness feel present rather than explained.

• Animation
• Action & Adventure

The Magic Roundabout

Serge Danot · 1964 · 2 seasons · France

Its leisurely, surreal garden visits trust children to enjoy odd characters and gentle absurdity without a hurried lesson.

• Action & Adventure
• Drama

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Jean-Paul Carrière · 1965 · 1 season · France

This spare, atmospheric retelling makes isolation and improvisation feel like the adventure, rather than rushing from one peril to the next.

• Western
• Drama

The Big Valley

A.I. Bezzerides & Louis F. Edelman · 1965–1969 · 4 seasons · France, USA

Barbara Stanwyck’s Victoria Barkley anchors a family drama where a woman’s authority feels central to the ranch, not an exception to its rules.

• Animation
• Comedy

Les Shadoks

Jacques Rouxel · 1968–2001 · 4 seasons · France

Its absurd, hand-drawn universe makes repetition and bureaucratic nonsense feel like a sly, surprisingly open-ended philosophy.

• Documentary

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau · 1968–1975 · 1 season · France

Its patient underwater explorations made the ocean feel like a place to encounter, not merely a backdrop for animal facts.

• Action & Adventure
• Drama

Arsène Lupin

Jacques Nahum · 1971–1974 · 2 seasons · France

This French take on the gentleman thief favors ingenious disguises and social maneuvering over brute force.

• Animation

Chapi Chapo

Italo Bettiol & Stefano Lonati · 1974 · 1 season · France

Its tiny wordless adventures turn simple shapes, bright colors, and careful timing into a distinctive visual language.

• Animation
• Drama

Once Upon a Time… Man

Albert Barillé · 1978–1979 · 1 season · France

Follow Maestro and his companions through history as the series makes big ideas vivid without sanding away their contradictions.

• Kids
• Animation

Ulysses 31

Jean Chalopin & Yoshitake Suzuki · 1981–1982 · 1 season · France

Greek myth becomes lonely, striking space travel, with each encounter carrying the weight of an old tale retold.

• Documentary

Strip-Tease

Marco Lamensch & Jean Libon · 1985–2019 · 28 seasons · Belgium, France

In this Belgian series, awkward encounters and telling silences make everyday life stranger than any tidy explanation.

• Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Crime

Beauty and the Beast

Ron Koslow · 1987–1990 · 3 seasons · USA, France

Vincent’s hidden world beneath New York gives this romantic fantasy a melancholy sense of community and a genuine pull toward the light.

• Animation
• Kids

Once Upon a Time... Life

Albert Barillé · 1987–1988 · 1 season · France

Its hand-drawn body-world turns biology into memorable visual storytelling, making room for curiosity rather than treating facts as a quiz.

• News
• Comedy

The News Puppets

Alain Duverne & Alain de Greef · 1988–2016 · 30 seasons · France

Its puppet caricatures turn political news into a strange, sustained comedy of public image and power.

• Comedy

La Télé des Inconnus

Bernard Campan & Pascal Légitimus · 1990–1993 · 1 season · France

This French trio’s sharp parodies of television formats reward you for noticing how expertly they mimic the real thing.

• Comedy
• Talk

Les Nuls, l'émission

Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia and Chantal Lauby · 1990–1992 · 2 seasons · France

This French troupe’s playful genre parodies and recurring bits make a rewarding detour beyond the usual British and American canon.

• Crime
• Mystery

Maigret

Georges Simenon · 1991–2005 · 1 season · Belgium, France

Bruno Cremer’s Maigret solves crimes through attention to rooms, routines and people, letting atmosphere do as much work as clues.

• Animation
• Action & Adventure

The Adventures of Tintin

Stéphane Bernasconi · 1991–1992 · 3 seasons · France

Its clean visual storytelling and globe-trotting mysteries let Tintin’s investigations unfold with the satisfying clarity of a well-made adventure.

• Animation
• Kids

Lucas et Lucie

Jiří Trnka · 1995– · 3 seasons · France

Its delicate insect world and patient puppet animation offer a quieter, folkloric counterpoint to stop-motion comedy.

• Documentary
• Crime

The Staircase

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade · 2004–2018 · 1 season · France

The long-form courtroom access leaves competing accounts unresolved, and its accumulated footage makes every judgment feel provisional.

• Action & Adventure
• Crime

Spiral

Alexandra Clert & Guy-Patrick Sainderichin · 2005–2020 · 8 seasons · France

Its Parisian courts and police stations feel shaped by class and bureaucracy, not just by the cases moving through them.

• Comedy
• Family

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça

Thierry Bizot & Anne Giafferi · 2007–2017 · 9 seasons · France

Two families with opposing parenting styles make an engaging, affectionate subject for a camera that notices how ideals fray in daily life.

• Animation

The Owl

Alexandre So · 2007 · 1 season · France

Its pink, perpetually irritated bird is funniest when the short episodes let visual absurdity escalate on its own terms.

• Drama
• War & Politics

A French Village

Frédéric Krivine & Philippe Triboit · 2009–2017 · 7 seasons · France

A small occupied French town becomes a patient study of compromise, survival and complicity, with choices that keep their moral weight.

• Documentary
• War & Politics

Apocalypse: The Second World War

Isabelle Clarke & Daniel Costelle · 2009 · Miniseries · France

Its carefully assembled wartime footage gives the conflict an immediate, unsettling texture without losing sight of its human cost.

• Drama
• Crime

Carlos

Daniel LeConte & Olivier Assayas · 2010 · Miniseries · France

Assayas follows Carlos across borders and decades with restless, immersive form, letting the gaps between revolutionary rhetoric and self-serving violence speak for themselves.

• Family
• Animation

The Little Prince

Matthieu Delaporte · 2010–2016 · 2 seasons · France

The Prince’s encounters with strange worlds preserve the book’s open-ended curiosity, inviting reflection instead of spelling out every lesson.

• Documentary
• War & Politics

Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler

Daniel Costelle & Isabelle Clarke · 2011 · Miniseries · France

Its archival footage and careful chronology show how political failure and public fear made Hitler’s rise possible.

• Drama
• Crime

Tony's Revenge

Virginie Brac · 2011 · 1 season · France

This French crime miniseries links generations of gangsters without losing sight of the ordinary lives their choices consume.

• Drama
• War & Politics

Spin

Charline de Lépine & Frédéric Tellier · 2012–2016 · 3 seasons · France

This French campaign thriller finds suspense in the advisers, journalists and strategists shaping the story voters hear.

• Mystery
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Returned

Fabrice Gobert · 2012–2015 · 2 seasons · France

The Returned lets grief and guilt haunt an unnervingly quiet town, trusting atmosphere and unanswered questions to do the heavy lifting.

• Mystery
• Drama

Murders in...

Lionel Bailliu · 2013– · 13 seasons · France

This French anthology turns a different town and its local history into the setting for each self-contained murder puzzle.

• Action & Adventure
• Crime

The Tunnel

Ben Richards · 2013–2018 · 3 seasons · France, UK

A body on the Channel Tunnel border launches a murder case that turns national tensions into intimate, morally messy pressure.

• Documentary
• War & Politics

Apocalypse: World War I

Isabelle Clarke & Daniel Costelle · 2014 · Miniseries · France

Its broad sweep of colorized archival footage brings neglected fronts of the war into view alongside the familiar battles.

• Documentary

Capitalism

Ilan Ziv · 2014 · 1 season · Canada, France

Its global scope and historical detours make capitalism a contested political system rather than a natural backdrop.

• Crime
• Drama

The Missing

Harry Williams & Jack Williams · 2014–2016 · 2 seasons · Belgium, France

The two timelines let grief settle into every relationship, and the quiet, unresolved aftermath matters as much as the investigation.

• Comedy

A Very Secret Service

Jean-François Halin & Claire Lemaréchal · 2015–2018 · 2 seasons · France

Its clueless French intelligence agents turn Cold War bureaucracy into a precise, dry comedy about national myths and institutional self-deception.

• Documentary
• War & Politics

Apocalypse: Stalin

Isabelle Clarke & Daniel Costelle · 2015 · Miniseries · France

The series traces Stalin’s rule through the machinery of power and the people caught inside it.

• Comedy
• Drama

Call My Agent!

Dominique Besnehard & Fanny Herrero · 2015–2020 · 4 seasons · France

The agency’s carefully managed celebrity crises make a nimble satire of image-making, while the staff’s own ambitions keep complicating the joke.

• Crime
• Drama

The Bureau

Éric Rochant · 2015–2020 · 5 seasons · France

Its intelligence officers live inside their cover identities, and the strain shows in intimate, unshowy detail.

• Animation
• Drama

The Long, Long Holiday

Delphine Maury & Olivier Vinuesa · 2015 · 1 season · France

Two children’s wartime experience is told with restraint, letting small acts of care carry the emotional weight.

• Mystery
• Crime

Witnesses

Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux · 2015–2017 · 2 seasons · France

A series of bodies staged in empty homes gives this French investigation a chilly, uncanny mood and space for patient detection.

• Documentary
• War & Politics

Apocalypse: Verdun

Daniel Costelle & Isabelle Clarke · 2016 · 1 season · France

A focused account of Verdun uses restored footage to convey both the battle’s scale and its grinding human cost.

• Drama
• Crime

Baron Noir

Éric Benzekri & Jean-Baptiste Delafon · 2016–2020 · 3 seasons · France

Philippe Rickwaert’s maneuvering through French party politics is both exhilarating and corrosive, with each victory reshaping his loyalties.

• Animation
• Action & Adventure

Lastman

Laurent Sarfati & Léonie de Rudder · 2016–2022 · 2 seasons · France

A bruising boxing story slips into fantasy without losing its grounded, complicated affection for its damaged characters.

• Drama
• Crime

Midnight Sun

Måns Mårlind & Björn Stein · 2016 · Miniseries · France, Sweden

A murder in a remote mining town becomes a clash of histories and loyalties beneath the midnight light.

• Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Missions

Ami Cohen & Henri Debeurme · 2017–2022 · 3 seasons · France

A Mars mission becomes a strange, unsettling puzzle, and the crew’s personal histories matter as much as the unanswered signals.

• Drama
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Ad Vitam

Thomas Cailley & Sébastien Mounier · 2018 · Miniseries · France

In a society where aging has been conquered, a detective story becomes an unnerving inquiry into who gets to imagine a future.

• Documentary

November 13: Attack on Paris

Gédéon Naudet & Jules Naudet · 2018 · Miniseries · France

Survivors’ and first responders’ accounts keep the focus on lived experience, finding humanity without turning the attacks into spectacle.

• Drama

SKAM France

Julie Andem · 2018–2023 · 12 seasons · France

Its close, present-tense attention to a different teenager each season captures the awkward silences and shifting loyalties that make adolescence feel immediate.

• Crime
• Mystery

The Chalet

Alexis Lecaye & Camille Bordes-Resnais · 2018 · Miniseries · France

A remote Alpine village links a present-day disappearance to an older tragedy, with the shifting timelines rewarding close attention.

• Crime
• Mystery

The Crimson Rivers

Jean-Christophe Grangé · 2018–2022 · 4 seasons · France

Two mismatched investigators follow murders into closed communities where local history proves as important as forensic evidence.

• Mystery

Marianne

Samuel Bodin · 2019 · 1 season · France

A horror writer’s return home turns an old fictional witch into an unnerving mystery tied to the people she left behind.

• Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Drama

Twice Upon a Time

Nathalie Leuthreau & Guillaume Nicloux · 2019 · Miniseries · France

A grieving man’s strange device offers a route back to his lost relationship, but the series keeps the emotional consequences ahead of the gadget.

• Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Drama

War of the Worlds

Howard Overman · 2019–2022 · 3 seasons · France