Best French movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Alexandre Tharaud, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Actors : Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Laurent Lafitte, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.

Actors : Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Lubna Azabal, Mustafa Kamel,
Directors : Denis Villeneuve,

Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history, and fulfill their mother's last wishes.

Actors : Abel Jafri, Ibrahim Ahmed, Layla Walet Mohamed, Toulou Kiki,
Directors : Abderrahmane Sissako,

A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.

Actors : Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Mohamed Fellag, Danielle Proulx,
Directors : Philippe Falardeau,

At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.

Actors : Patrick d'Assumçao, Hakim Faris, Alfonso Arfi, Victoire Du Bois,
Directors : Jérémy Clapin,

A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, François Périer, Irene Papas, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.

Actors : Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Gustav De Waele, Eden Dambrine,
Directors : Lukas Dhont,

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.

Actors : Vincent Perez, Jean Yanne, Catherine Deneuve, Linh Dan Pham,
Directors : Régis Wargnier,

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was ...

Actors : Judith Godrèche, Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Actors : Françoise Christophe, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.

Actors : Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (...