1Elevator to the Gallows
TMDB7.6
1958·703 votes
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
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2The Fire Within
TMDB7.6
1963·248 votes
Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.
3My Dinner with Andre
TMDB7.5
1981·464 votes
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
4Lacombe, Lucien
TMDB7.0
1974·165 votes
In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.
5The Lovers
TMDB6.6
1958·136 votes
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.
6Damage
TMDB6.6
1992·693 votes
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
7Spirits of the Dead
TMDB6.3
1968·184 votes
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
8Au Revoir les Enfants
TMDB7.5
1987·730 votes
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
9Pretty Baby
TMDB7.0
1978·411 votes
In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
10Atlantic City
TMDB6.8
1980·297 votes
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
11Murmur of the Heart
TMDB7.0
1971·215 votes
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
12Zazie dans le Métro
TMDB6.6
1960·186 votes
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
13Black Moon
TMDB6.0
1975·161 votes
There is a global gender war between men and women. A teenage girl tries to escape this reality and arrives at a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old, bedridden woman who stays in contact with the world through her radio.
14Viva Maria!
TMDB6.1
1965·109 votes
1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.