French films about ecology

List of the best French films about ecology according to the audience: Salt and Fire, Spread Your Wings, Alice and the Mayor, Struggle for Life, Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story), The Informant, Delicacy, Rabid Dogs, Boule & Bill, Lily Sometimes.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 4.2
Genrethriller
CountryGermany, France, Mexico, Bolivia, USA

A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, adventure, family
CountryFrance, Norway

Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy project: save a species endangered, thanks to the ultralight of Christian! Then begins an incredible and perilous journey ...

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium

The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas, feeling like an existential emptiness. To overcome this, Paul hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann. Then follows a dialogue between two diametrically opposed personalities who will turn their certainties upside down.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance

Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. There, he meets Tarzan, an attractive intern at the National Forestry Office, with whom he’ll get lost on a journey through the jungle that will take him far, far away…

Markimdb: 5.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance

Biarritz. Sixteen-year-old George, the high school hottie, falls in love with Alex. To get his attention, she initiates a group game with Alex, Nikita, Laetitia and Gabriel. They will discover, test, and push the limits of their sexuality.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, crime
CountryFrance, Canada

A story centered on a man who works as an informant for the French border patrol.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:48

A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Canada

After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy, family
CountryFrance, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration01:22

Buddy is an abandoned young cocker spaniel waiting dejectedly in his cage for a kind, new owner to adopt him. Suddenly, Billy, a little boy whose hair is as red as Buddy's, appears. It's love at first sight and the beginning of a great friendship. But for Billy's parents, this is where the trouble begins.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryFrance
Duration01:30

After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:28

Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryFrance

The story of a destiny. Suzanne's and her family's. The ties that bind them, keep them together, and the love she pursues... to the point of leaving everything behind.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryFrance

Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the family when he returns, pursued by a gang of smugglers, he find shelter in his family while reveling them a dark secret. The five brothers, together, will find the energy to defend themself and the means to avenge the memory of their murdered father...

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, adventure, family
CountryNetherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain, France
Duration01:35

Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, biography
CountryFrance

In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryBelgium, Canada, France
Duration02:30

Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFinland, France, Germany
Duration01:33

Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a shoeshiner. As Arletty suddenly becomes seriously ill, Marcel's path crosses with an underage illegal immigrant from Africa, who needs Marcel's help to hide from the police.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration02:06

Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:48

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:45

    A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:47

    She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:21

    Rémi Gaillard is the real character of the World network, troll, provocateur, one of the biggest-selling comic actor in Europe. One and a half milliards of viewing and millions of fans. A day came, and he decided to steady down: got married, settled down on work on a parking place, promised a pregnant wife, that also «goes away to the decree» and gives up the pranks. But how to deafen talent and disorderly conduct of fantasy?. Fans can not assume his care. Gaillard returns.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, drama
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration01:58

    A french police unit that try to stop a group of criminals.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:43

    Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:33

    Covers the love affair between French actress Arletty and a high-ranking German officer during WWII in occupied France.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:39

    In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantasy, drama, biography
    CountryChile, France

    In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him. The response of the Chilean army is devastating.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:51

    The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance

    Pierre, in his thirties, is a breeder of dairy cattle. His life revolves around his farm, his veterinarian sister and his parents whose livestock he took over. As the first cases of a zoonotic outbreak are reported in France, Pierre discovers that one of his animals is infected. He cannot cope with the perspective of losing the whole herd. They are everything he has and he will do whatever it takes to save them.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremusical, documentary
    CountryFrance

    A captured performance by Parisian nude cabaret Crazy Horse, in a surreal show directed by French footwear designer Christian Louboutin. Louboutin calls Crazy Horse “an iconic monument of Paris, a monument to dance, a modern, dream- like idea of the celebration of women for women”.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance

    Willy and Tony have a brilliant idea for getting out of it financially: stealing a dog from the brigade des stups. But everything does not go as planned and the two accomplices will have to rely on the most corrupt of the cops.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance

    The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:52

    A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, sport
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:37

    A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:33

    A hotel clerk searches all over Le Havre for the fairy who made two of his three wishes come true before disappearing.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:39

    One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband several years ago. As she listens to her fantastic story, the policewoman is increasingly less inclined to arrest her. Just why is the woman so eager to confess her crime, and why is the policewoman so reluctant to take her into custody?

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:40

    Michel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He is more the man of the direct approach and he follows his...! The two childhood friends Michel and Vincent, with completely opposite views when it comes to women, soon discover the limits of their respective techniques when they meet Angèle and Nathalie.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Spain
    Duration02:59

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

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration01:39

    Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, music
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:35

    Fatal... c'est Fatal Bazooka, un rappeur bling-bling et hardcore. En fait, un personnage de sketch créé par Michaël Youn dans son show-télé "Morning Live", puis développé dans l'album "T'as vu" vendu à plus de 500 000 exemplaires. Ce film raconte ce que serait devenu ce rappeur s'il en avait vendu... 15 millions ! Fatal est désormais une énorme star. Des millions de fans, des dizaines de tubes, 4 Music Awards de la Musique du meilleur artiste de l'année, une ligne de vêtements, un magazine et prochainement l'ouverture de son propre parc d'attraction : Fataland. Il est le N°1 incontesté...

    Markimdb: 1.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:26

    Mr Guy aussi populaire que loufoque est un animateur à succès d'une émission de télé-achat. Et comme la nature fait quelques fois bien les choses, Mr Guy se trouve malencontreusement et pour son plus grand plaisir embarqué dans une sombre histoire mêlant les services secrets de la république à un réseau de dangereux trafiquants venus de l'Est.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Poland
    Duration01:36

    An enigmatic actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's (Mathieu Amalric) play.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, adventure
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:32

    The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull causes major disruptions to travelers' plans around the world. For Alain and Valérie, it's a catastrophe. Because to make it to the small Greek village in time for their daughter's wedding, this divorced couple, whose mutual hatred knows no bounds, will be obliged to set out on the road together.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:35

    Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance

    When Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume his activity in a law firm, the couple is looking for a nanny. After a severe casting, they engage Louise, who quickly conquers the affection of children and gradually occupies a central place in the home. Gradually the trap of mutual dependence will close, until the tragedy.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium, South Korea
    Duration02:52

    A man tries that his wife fall in love with him again, after to wake up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, family, short
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:35

    In the midst of a divorce, Miriam Besson decides to ask for exclusive custody of her son, in order to protect him from a father that she is accusing of violence. The judge-in-charge of the file grants a shared custody to the father whom it considers abused. Taken as a hostage between his parents, Julien Besson will do everything to prevent the worst from happening.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance

    Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller
    CountryFrance

    Constance, a 40-years-old real estate agent, gets fired from her job. With no options left, she contacts her former boss, from the small agency where she started her career. To her surprise, he is hiring, but explains he may have already found someone. Constance is convinced she will get the job because of her experience and extensive qualifications. But when Audrey, a younger and prettier woman, is hired instead, it proves too much for Constance to take.




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