Here is a list of the most loved and known French films
- La règle du jeu (1939)
The Marquis de la Chesnaye is organizing a hunting party on his Sologne estate. A host of guests arrives at the castle including André Jurieu, national hero since his crossing of the Atlantic in 23 hours. A feat achieved for the beautiful eyes of the Marquise Christine La Chesnaye, in vain. In a society where nobles and servants are subject to the rule of convention, Jurieu, with this love, turns the game upside down.
- La Vérité (1960)
Dominique Marceau is accused of having premeditatedly killed his lover, Gilbert Tellier, a talented musician who was also engaged to his sister, Annie. Before the assize jury, Dominique defends himself while everything accuses him: his difficult childhood, his free mores. Dominique decided to seduce Gilbert to annoy his sister, the too wise and studious Annie. Then, having become Gilbert’s mistress, she got caught up in the love-passion trap.
- La Grande Vadrouille (1966)
In 1942, an English plane was shot down by the Germans over Paris. The three pilots jump by parachute and land in different places of the capital. They are helped by two French civilians, a conductor and a house painter who agree to lead them into the free zone; they thus become, in spite of themselves, actors of the Resistance.
- La Maman et la Putain (1973)
The life of Alexander, interspersed with gossip, between his wife and his mistress.
- Léon (1994)
A hired killer by the name of Leon takes under his wing Mathilda, a little girl of 12 years old, the only survivor of the massacre of her family. Soon, Leon will make Mathilda a `cleaner ‘like him. The girl can then avenge her little brother.
- Intouchables (2011)
Everything opposes them and it was unlikely that they would meet one day, and yet. Philippe, a wealthy aristocrat who became quadriplegic after a paragliding accident, will hire Driss, a young man of Senegalese origin straight out of prison, as a home assistant. Why him ? Simply because he does not look at Philippe with the same look of pity as the other candidates.
Some vocabulary :
- une comédie : a comedy
- un film d’auteur : an author’s film
- un film d’horreur : a horror movie
- un film d’action : an action film
- émouvant : moving
- poignant : heart touching
- triste : sad
- un film d’épouvante : a scary movie
- un personnage principal : a main character
- un personnage secondaire : a secondary character
- un rôle : a role
