Favourite french films

By: fiona_h​uffman

I try to do tops 20s, but I’ll make an exception for french films because I have too many favourites. They are not really in order; I may attempt to put them in order later on, and this list is subject to change, of course.

• 01
  Jules and Jim
  François Truffaut
• 02
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 03
  Le samouraï
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 04
  Purple Noon
  René Clément
• 05
  Les hautes solitudes
  Philippe Garrel
• 06
  Magnet of Doom
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 07
  The Lacemaker
  Claude Goretta
• 08
  Cléo from 5 to 7
  Agnès Varda
• 09
  Z
  Costa-Gavras
• 10
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 11
  César and Rosalie
  Claude Sautet
• 12
  Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 13
  Contempt
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 14
  Two English Girls
  François Truffaut
• 15
  Grand Illusion
  Jean Renoir
• 16
  The Wages of Fear
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 17
  Danton
  Andrzej Wajda
• 18
  Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  Jean Delannoy
• 19
  Violette
  Claude Chabrol
• 20
  Ballet mécanique
  Fernand Léger
• 21
  Diva
  Jean-Jacques Beineix
• 22
  Spirits of the Dead
  Federico Fellini
• 23
  Jean de Florette
  Claude Berri
• 24
  Manon of the Spring
  Claude Berri
• 25
  Last Tango in Paris
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 26
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  Jacques Demy
• 27
  Donkey Skin
  Jacques Demy
• 28
  Stolen Kisses
  François Truffaut
• 29
  Bed and Board
  François Truffaut
• 30
  The Mother and the Whore
  Jean Eustache