The 100 best French films: 60-51
- Une chambre en ville (1982)
- The King and Mister Bird (1980)
- Delicatessen (1991)
- The Cheat (1936)
- La Grande Vadrouille (1966)
Une chambre en ville (1982)
Director: Jacques Demy
The King and Mister Bird (1980)
Director: Paul Grimault
The result of a long collaboration (and tortured production history) between animator Grimault and the respected screenwriter...
Delicatessen (1991)
Director: Marc Caro et Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The near future: taking a job and a bedsit at a shabby rooming-house above a butcher's shop, ex-clown Louison...
The Cheat (1936)
Director: Sacha Guitry
At age 12, our hero is sent to bed supper-less for stealing eight sous. When he wakes up his entire family is dead from food...
La Grande Vadrouille (1966)
Director: Gérard Oury
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The King and Mister Bird (1980)
Director: Paul Grimault
The result of a long collaboration (and tortured production history) between animator Grimault and the respected screenwriter
Delicatessen (1991)
Director: Marc Caro et Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The near future: taking a job and a bedsit at a shabby rooming-house above a butcher's shop, ex-clown Louison
The Cheat (1936)
Director: Sacha Guitry
At age 12, our hero is sent to bed supper-less for stealing eight sous. When he wakes up his entire family is dead from food
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Director: Jacques Demy
In the garage where he works, Guy (Nino Castelnuovo) plans a trip to the opera. His colleague is unimpressed: ‘All that singing’s
Pickpocket (1959)
Director: Robert Bresson
Released in the same year as Godard’s ‘Breathless’ (1959) and filmed on the same sun-dappled Parisian streets, Bresson’s
Un chien andalou (1929)
Director: Luis Bunuel
Prelude: a young woman sits compliantly as Buñuel takes a razor and slices her eye open. What follows is a documentary rendering
The Red Circle (1970)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Melville's special achievement was to relocate the American gangster film in France, and to incorporate his own steely
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