Trois couleurs: Bleu(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.



Delicatessen(1991)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.



Nikita(1990)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.



Beau travail(1999)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 68

This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Africa.



Merci pour le chocolat(2000)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 67

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told ...



Rosetta(1999)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 56

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.



La promesse(1996)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Roger uses his son Igor to ruthlessly traffic and exploit undocumented immigrants. When one of the immigrants is killed, Igor is guilt-ridden and wants to care for the dead man's family against his father's orders.



Lumumba(2000)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical ...



Water Drops on Burning Rocks(2000)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 52

In 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man.



Train de vie(1998)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 46

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.



Alice et Martin(1998)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 58

At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They ...



La haine(1995)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 19

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.



Pola X(1999)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark-haired woman who claims to be his long-lost sister and he begin an unusual relationship with her prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fiancée



Sade(2000)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.



Emporte-moi(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Canadian/Swiss/French production that tells the tale of Hannah, a tomboyish 13 year-old hitting puberty in 1963. An unhappy and uncomfortable family life leads Hannah to seek escapism in the world of cinema. Specifically, she repeatedly watches and appears enthralled by Anna Karina, the character from Jean-Luc Godard's "Vivre sa vie" (1962) about a Parisian woman's descent into prostitution. Her ...



La commune (Paris, 1871)(2000)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 51

In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.



Lucie Aubrac(1997)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband, and the ...



Les visiteurs(1993)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A medieval nobleman and his squire are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. He enlists the aid of his descendent to try to find a way to return home, all the...



Les convoyeurs attendent(1999)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Dreaming of more than his routine life, a father pushes his 15 years old son to break a world record: opening and closing a door 40,000 times in 24 hours.