Critically acclaimed French movies of 2010s

Portrait of a Lady on Fire(2019)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 94

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.



Amour(2012)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 91

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.



Elle(2016)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 89

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



Blue Is the Warmest Colour(2013)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 87

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.



Deux jours, une nuit(2014)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Liège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.



Holy Motors(2012)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 84

From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the shadowy life of a mystic man named Monsieur Oscar.



Timbuktu(2014)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 83

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.



Climax(2018)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 83

French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.



BPM (Beats Per Minute)(2017)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.



Monsieur Lazhar(2011)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 78

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.



Incendies(2010)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 77

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



De rouille et d'os(2012)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.



Night of the Kings(2020)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.



Happy End(2017)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A drama about a family set in Calais with the European refugee crisis as the backdrop.



The Truth(2019)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A stormy reunion between scriptwriter Lumir with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, against the backdrop of Fabienne's autobiographic book and her latest role in a Sci-Fi picture as a mother who never grows old.



Le Havre(2011)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 75

When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.



L'inconnu du lac(2013)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this but wants to live out his passion anyway.



Mommy(2014)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.



Bande de filles(2014)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self confidence in the process. However, she soon finds that this new life does not necessarily make her any happier.



Frantz(2016)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 75

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.




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