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. 18.
    Quai des Orfevres (The Criterion Collection)
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

  18. 19.
    Orpheus (Original French) [Criterion Collection]
    by Jean Cocteau

  19. 20.
    Casque d'Or (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Becker

  20. 21.
    Le Plaisir
    by Max Ophuls

  21. 22.
    Earrings of Madame de...
    by Max Ophuls

  22. 23.
    ?
    Rue de l'estrapade (1953)
    by Jacques Beck

  23. 24.
    M. Hulot's Holiday (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati

  24. 25.
    French Cancan - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

  25. 26.
    The Grand Maneuver [Region 2]
    by René Clair

  26. 27.
    ...And God Created Woman (The Criterion Collection)
    by Roger Vadim

  27. 28.
    ?
    Pot-Bouille (1957)
    by Julien Duvivier

  28. 29.
    Elevator to the Gallows (The Criterion Collection)
    by Louis Malle

  29. 30.
    Breathless
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  30. 31.
    Hiroshima Mon Amour (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais

  31. 32.
    Jules and Jim (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  32. 33.
    Cleo from 5 to 7 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Agnès Varda

  33. 34.
    Les Tontons Flingueurs (Original French ONLY Version)
    by Georges Lautner

  34. 35.
    The Fire Within (The Criterion Collection)
    by Louis Malle

  35. 36.
    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
    by Jacques Demy

  36. 39.
    Belle de Jour
    by Luis Buñuel

  37. 40.
    Le Samourai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

  38. 41.
    Les choses de la vie (1969)
    by Claude Sautet

  39. 42.
    La Maman et la putain
    by Jean Eustache

  40. 43.
    India Song
    by Marguerite Duras

  41. 44.
    ?
    Monsieur Klein (1976)
    by Joseph Losey

  42. 45.
    ?
    La chambre verte
    by François Truffaut

  43. 46.
    Buffet Froid
    by Bertrand Blier

  44. 47.
    ?
    Coup de tête (1979)
    by Jean-Jacques Annaud

  45. 48.
    Série noire (1980)
    by Alain Corneau

  46. 49.
    Mon Oncle D'Amerique
    by Alain Resnais

  47. 50.
    ?
    Le Roi et l'Oiseau (Original French Version)
    by Paul Grimault

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Comments

Untitled — 3 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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