The Mother and the Whore (1973)

Bed & Board (1970)

Summary: Antoine Doinel works dying flowers in the courtyard outside his apartment. He is married to Christine, who is pregnant. He has an affair with a Japanese woman, jeopardising his marriage.

Release Date: September 09, 1970

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: François Truffaut

Writers: François Truffaut

, Claude de Givray

, Bernard Revon

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: 14+

Production: Les Films du Carrosse, Valoria Films, Fida Cinematografica

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Countries: France, Italy

Language: French

Domestic: $ 509

La Chinoise (1967)

Summary: A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Release Date: August 30, 1967

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Writer: Jean-Luc Godard

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Anouchka Films, Les Productions de la Guéville, Athos Films

Distributor: Koch Lorber Films, Kino Lorber

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 36,488

Elizabeth (1998)

Summary: The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

Release Date: February 19, 1999

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Writer: Michael Hirst

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: R

Production: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films, Channel Four Films

Distributor: PolyGram Video, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,082,699

International: $ 52,067,943

36 fillette (1988)

Summary: A night in the life of a young woman who wishes to learn and experience more of life. The men she meets have as much to learn from her as they can offer her, or more.

Release Date: January 06, 1989

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Catherine Breillat

Writers: Catherine Breillat

, Roger Salloch

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Production: CB Films, French Productions

Distributor: Circle Films, Fox Lorber Home Video

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 410,109

Alphaville (1965)

Summary: An agent wrecks the main computer on another planet.

Release Date: May 05, 1965

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Writers: Jean-Luc Godard

, Paul Éluard

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: André Michelin Productions, Filmstudio, Chaumiane, Athos Films

Distributor: Pathé Contemporary Films, Connoisseur Video Collection, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures, HBO Max, Janus Films, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, Italy

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 220,000

Domestic: $ 47,696

International: $ 18,380

Masculin Féminin (1966)

Summary: A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.

Release Date: March 22, 1966

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Writers: Jean-Luc Godard

, Guy de Maupassant

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Anouchka Films, Argos Films, Sandrews, Svensk Filmindustri (SF), Argos Films

Distributor: Royal Films International, New Yorker Video, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Countries: France, Sweden

Language: French

Domestic: $ 200,380

International: $ 5,163

Out 1 (1971)

Summary: Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.

Release Date: November 18, 2015

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Directors: Jacques Rivette

, Suzanne Schiffman

Writers: Jacques Rivette

, Suzanne Schiffman

, Honoré de Balzac

Runtime: 12 h 56 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sunchild Productions, Les Films du Losange, Ministère de la Culture

Distributor: Carlotta Films US

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 31,539

International: $ 6,204

Day for Night (1973)

Summary: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Release Date: September 07, 1973

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: François Truffaut

Writers: François Truffaut

, Jean-Louis Richard

, Suzanne Schiffman

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Les Films du Carrosse, PECF, Produzione Intercontinentale Cinematografica (PIC)

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Countries: France, Italy

Language: French

Domestic: $ 509

Personne ne m'aime (1994)

Summary: Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.

Release Date: March 09, 1994

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Marion Vernoux

Writers: Nicolas Errèra

, Marion Vernoux

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Production: Bloody Mary Productions, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), France 2 Cinéma, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Countries: Switzerland, France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 147,970

Love on the Run (1979)

Summary: Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical...

Release Date: April 06, 1979

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: François Truffaut

Writers: François Truffaut

, Marie-France Pisier

, Jean Aurel

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Les Films du Carrosse

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, Fox Lorber, Warner Home Video

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 509

Pigsty (1969)

Summary: A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.

Release Date: October 10, 1969

Genre: Drama

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writer: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: I Film Dell'Orso, Internazionale Nembo Distribuzione Importazione Esportazione Film (INDIEF), IDI Cinematografica, C.A.P.A.C.

Distributor: New Line Cinema, Movietime

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Le Havre (2011)

Summary: When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.

Release Date: September 08, 2011

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Writer: Aki Kaurismäki

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Sputnik, Pyramide Productions, Pandora Filmproduktion, Finnish Film Foundation, Canal+, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Yleisradio (YLE), CinéCinéma, ARTE, Région Haute-Normandie, Pôle Image Haute-Normandie

Distributor: The Criterion Collection

Countries: Finland, France, Germany

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 3,850,000

Domestic: $ 611,709

International: $ 12,347,997

Made in USA (1966)

Summary: In the near future, leftist writer Paula goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cité when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P. Is she there to investigate? On the surface, faces are beautiful...

Release Date: January 27, 1967

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Writers: Jean-Luc Godard

, Donald E. Westlake

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Anouchka Films, Rome Paris Films, S.E.P.I.C.

Distributor: Pathé Contemporary Films, HBO Max, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 50,000

Domestic: $ 95,209

International: $ 95

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

Summary: A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.

Release Date: February 07, 1973

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Writers: Bernardo Bertolucci

, Franco Arcalli

, Agnès Varda

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA), Les Productions Artistes Associés

Distributor: VidAmerica, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, RCA (II), CBS/Fox, Key Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 1,250,000

Domestic: $ 36,144,000

International: $ 39,066

Irma Vep (1996)

Summary: A Hong Kong actress, Maggie Cheung playing a fictional version of herself, is cast in France to star in a remake of Les Vampires (1915), but petty intrigues and clashing egos plague the production.

Release Date: April 30, 1997

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Olivier Assayas

Writer: Olivier Assayas

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Dacia Films, Canal+

Distributor: Kino Lorber, Janus Films, Fox Lorber, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 282,310

International: $ 32,705

What Time Is It There? (2001)

Summary: A watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris and becomes infatuated, so he begins to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time.

Release Date: September 26, 2001

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

Writers: Tsai Ming-liang

, Pi-ying Yang

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Arena Films, Homegreen Films

Distributor: WinStar Cinema, Wellspring Media

Countries: Taiwan, France

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 195,760

International: $ 69,717

The Dreamers (2003)

Summary: A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.

Release Date: February 20, 2004

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer: Gilbert Adair

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Fiction, Peninsula Films, Medusa Film, Tele+

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Television

Countries: United Kingdom, France, Italy, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,532,228

International: $ 21,137,430

Deux de la Vague (2010)

Summary: Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, their careers, their friendship and their impact on the French New Wave of the 1960s.

Release Date: May 19, 2010

Genre: Documentary

Director: Emmanuel Laurent

Writer: Antoine de Baecque

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Films à Trois, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Angoa-Agicoa, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Distributor: Lorber Films

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 28,808