French Films - A Guide to the Cinema of France

Bienvenue dans le monde fabuleux du cinéma français

French movies have always had an enormous global appeal, and few countries can match La Belle France for the diversity and quality of its cinema. This guide was created to increase awareness of French cinema and help humans and other intelligent sentient beings discover the cinematic jewels that France has given us over the past 100 years. This site contains thousands of original articles that will guide you through France's rich legacy of film, and also keep you up to date with recent releases.

French films to rediscover




Cinema classics worth revisiting





A little light reading

Some recommended books to help get you through the present period of mental strife...

Best French films by genre

French cinema's main attraction is its remarkable diversity. It offers not only a cornucopia of auteur masterpieces, which explore complex themes and push back the boundaries of film art, but also a dazzling array of commercial movies catering for just about every taste.

Best French films by decade

The history of France since 1895, the year in which cinema is reputed to have been born, is vividly reflected in the country's 'moving picture' output, which sheds some valuable insights on the psyche of the nation across a turbulent and traumatic century.
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Best films by director

Explore the work of some of the world's great filmmakers, many of whom just happen to be French...
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French Film Pioneers

Who were the artistic visionaries who made cinema such an enduring and popular art form?

Directors of the French New Wave

Discover the great luminaries of La Nouvelle Vague......
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Best films by actor

Rediscover the work of some of France's finest and most famous actors:
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Best films by actress

And who can resist the great actresses that have graced French cinema over the decades?:
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World cinema classics

Of course, France does not hold the monopoly on great cinema and it would be a crime to omit those magnificent pieces from other countries, be they timeless Hollywood classics or astonishing works of art from such legendary cineastes as Sergei Eisenstein, Akira Kurosawa and Satyajit Ray.
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