The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Top French Films

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This chronological listing was posted on the French Ministry of Foreign Affair’s website c. 2000.

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  1. 1.
    Poil de carotte (1925)
    by Julien Duvivier

  2. 2.
    A Nous La Liberte (The Criterion Collection)
    by René Clair

  3. 3.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

  4. 4.
    ?
    Pension Mimosas (1935)
    by Jacques Feyder

  5. 5.
    ?
    Toni (1935)
    by Jean Renoir

  6. 7.
    Le roman d'un tricheur (The Story of a Cheat) (1936)
    by Sacha Guitry

  7. 8.
    ?
    Regain (Harvest) (1937)
    by Marcel Pagnol

  8. 9.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  9. 10.
    Daybreak
    by Marcel Carné

  10. 11.
    ?

  11. 12.
    ?
    Douce/Love Story
    by Claude Autant-Lara

  12. 13.
    ?
    Le ciel est à vous
    by Jean Grémillon

  13. 14.
    Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  14. 15.
    Children of Paradise (The Criterion Collection)
    by Marcel Carné

  15. 16.
    La Bataille du Rail
    by Rene Clement

  16. 17.
    Beauty and The Beast (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Cocteau

  17. 19.
    Orpheus (Original French) [Criterion Collection]
    by Jean Cocteau

  18. 20.
    Casque d'Or (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Becker

  19. 21.
    Le Plaisir/House of Pleasure (1951)
    by Max Ophüls

  20. 22.
    The Earrings of Madame de...
    by Max Ophuls

  21. 23.
    ?
    Rue de l'estrapade (1953)
    by Jacques Beck

  22. 24.
    M. Hulot's Holiday (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati

  23. 25.
    French Cancan - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

  24. 26.
    The Grand Maneuver [Region 2]
    by René Clair

  25. 27.
    ...And God Created Woman (The Criterion Collection)
    by Roger Vadim

  26. 28.
    ?
    Pot-Bouille (1957)
    by Julien Duvivier

  27. 30.
    Breathless
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  28. 31.
    Hiroshima Mon Amour (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais

  29. 32.
    Jules and Jim (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  30. 33.
    Cleo from 5 to 7 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Agnès Varda

  31. 34.
    Les Tontons Flingueurs (Original French ONLY Version)
    by Georges Lautner

  32. 36.
    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
    by Jacques Demy

  33. 37.
    Pierrot le fou
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  34. 39.
    Belle de Jour

  35. 40.
    Le Samourai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

  36. 41.
    Les choses de la vie (1969)
    by Claude Sautet

  37. 42.
    La Maman et la putain
    by Jean Eustache

  38. 43.
    India Song
    by Marguerite Duras

  39. 44.
    ?
    Monsieur Klein (1976)
    by Joseph Losey

  40. 45.
    ?
    La chambre verte
    by François Truffaut

  41. 46.
    Buffet Froid
    by Bertrand Blier

  42. 47.
    ?
    Coup de tête (1979)
    by Jean-Jacques Annaud

  43. 48.
    ?
    Série noire (1980)
    by Alain Corneau

  44. 49.
    Mon Oncle D'Amerique

  45. 50.
    ?
    Le Roi et l'Oiseau (Original French Version)
    by Paul Grimault

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Untitled — 2 years ago

Seems crazy that there’s no Abel Gance on this list, especially given some of the mediocrities included here.




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