French films about the relationship between a man and a woman

List of the best French films about the relationship between men and women according to visitors: Amélie, The Lobster, Pride & Prejudice, The Sense of Wonder, French Women, The African Doctor, Another Woman's Life, Submergence, Sand Castles, The Art of Love.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 8.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, Germany
Duration02:02

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration01:36

    In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:09

    Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:41

    Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:56

    A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, children. Every girl has their complexes and virtues. They always look elegant, hiding their inner feelings. Will they reach all the goals and overcome all their difficulties?

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryFrance

    Seyolo Zantoko is a doctor from Congo who wants to get away from dictatorship and he is hired by the mayor of a small village in the north of France. The locals fear Seyolo and his family as they have never seen African people before, and Seyolo and his family struggle to adapt to this new life. But Seyolo is determined to succeed and to win the trust of the villagers.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Belgium
    Duration01:37

    When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her life flash-forwarded fifteen years down the road: Not only has she been married to Paul all this time, but she’s now the mother of a little boy the head of a powerful multinational investment firm and the proprietor of a fabulous apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Quickly Marie discovers that all her achievements have not brought happiness.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, France, Spain, USA
    Duration02:35

    While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance

    Eleanor, thirties, has just lost her father. He bequeathed his house in Brittany in the Cotes d'Armor. She is a photographer, has had some success but business no longer work as before. It is imperative to sell the house. She goes there with Samuel, her former companion which she left some time ago, because she does not feel to go alone and she has not returned since the death of her father. But she is playing with fire - because she knows that their relationship did not exactly appeased, even if it was for some adventures and Samuel lives with Laura. Claire Andrieux, the real estate agent, was busy organizing visits during the two days Samuel and Eleanor will stay in the house. It's a funny weekend that these three are about to spend.A surprising weekend full of surprises, emotions, tensions, memories and shouting matches in melancholy and absurd moments that leave the couple necessarily changed.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:25

    The Art of Love is composed of several chapters, which follows several Parisian couples.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:14

    Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Gerard is tired of being taken for a good apple by his beautiful family. He leaves everything and starts a garage in a village nestled at the bottom of the Gâtinais ... In front of the garage, there is a lovely inn, run by Barbara: a beautiful woman, disconcerting, mysterious, unpredictable. Their encounter will spark ...

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, Luxembourg, France

    Bank manager Frank and writer Patrizia meet by coincidence again and again at the airport. They commute between Dusseldorf and Paris, but behind their travels are two fateful stories. Frank wants to complete the business of his life, Patrizia visits her lover, who is in a coma since a car accident. For both life comes out of joint and they each suffer heavy losses. What connects them is the search for hold, a listener, the need to be needed and the hope that there is a beginning in each end.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare, who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful man. Little by little Jeanne’s illusions are stripped away.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration02:08

    A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance

    François Gautier is stingy! Saving puts the joy, it causes pay sweats. His life is set for the sole purpose of never spend anything. A life that will switch in one day: he falls in love and discovers he has a daughter he did not know existed. Forced to lie in order to hide his terrible default, this will be the beginning for François problems. Because lie can sometimes be expensive. Very expensive…

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryFrance, Canada, Czech Republic
    Duration01:54

    In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Denmark
    Duration01:35

    A story about bunch of people who live in a town in provincial France. At the center of it all is Pierre, a conceited and vain bisexual musician in his late teens who acts as a magnet, to varying degrees, for a whole array of characters - from his sister Lucie, with whom he has a heated incestuous relationship, to a city councilor with whom he participates in gay orgies. When Pierre turns up dead, Lucie investigates the reasons for his demise and charts the network of sadomasochistic relationships that crisscross the town.

    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: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, sport
    CountryArgentina, Uruguay, Russia, Germany, France
    Duration01:40

    After being expelled for a flagrant foul during a match in Primera C (the fourth division in Argentinian football), Patón Bonasiolle, the captain and midfielder from Talleres de Escalada, realizes his career as a footballer has come to an end. At the age of 35, this means the end of a world he has known since he was a child. Together with Ale - his wife - he looks for a fresh new start.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:49

    Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and independent woman, but barely has time to care for their three children. While Sacha and Charlotte are, at first glance, two incompatible beings, when they meet soon discover that they are quite complementary and need each other.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:45

    Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, history
    CountryPoland, United Kingdom, France, Belgium
    Duration02:02

    A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, USA
    Duration01:42

    Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
    CountrySpain, Germany, France

    Successful architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to the Tokyo International Airport by a chatty girl called Texel Textor. She is a strange young woman who seems to be looking for captive victims whom she forces to listen to her strange stories. Jeremy loses the flight because of Texel and once they are installed in the lounge area, he will not be able to get rid of the annoying stranger. Although the meeting seems fortuitous, soon there be a turn that will transform the character of that encounter into something much more sinister and criminal.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:28

    A summer heat wave and a series of sexual encounters connect a group of New Yorkers.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:49

    The second film from the Le Boum series about a young French teenage girl who after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:38

    Guillaume Canet is told by a young co-star that he's no longer Rock'n' Roll and can't sell films anymore. He then tries to prove her wrong and gets help from his girlfriend, Marion Cotillard.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryAustralia, France
    Duration01:51

    Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:23

    Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Republic of Ireland, USA
    Duration01:52

    In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France

    Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea, France
    Duration01:38

    On a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee is accused of being dishonest and fired. A teacher named Claire goes around taking photos with a Polaroid camera. She gets to know Manhee and sympathizes with her. Through taking photos, Claire has acquired the ability to look slowly at things and to transform objects.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genremelodrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Lebanon

    A man and a woman are brought together by chance for several months. He is younger than she is, married, Russian, officially a diplomat stationed in Paris. She is a beautiful teacher and researcher, with her feet firmly on the ground. The film follows the evolution of their love, from the beginning to end.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:39

    Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Sweden
    Duration01:50

    With Masculin féminin, ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard introduces the world to "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola," through a gang of restless youths engaged in hopeless love affairs with music, revolution, and each other. French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as Paul, an idealistic would-be intellectual struggling to forge a relationship with the adorable pop star Madeleine. Through their tempestuous affair, Godard fashions a candid and wildly funny free-form examination of youth culture in throbbing 1960s Paris, mixing satire and tragedy as only Godard can.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, France

    Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, France, Canada
    Duration01:54

    Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, Germany

    A woman has disappeared. The day after a snowstorm, her car is found on a road leading to a plateau with with nothing but a few scattered farms. The gendarmes have nothing to go on, while five individuals well know they have something to do with the woman's disappearance. They all keep their secrets to themselves, but no one suspects that the whole story began far from these windswept wintry peaks: on another continent, in the burning sun, where poverty doesn't stop desire from taking the law into its own hands.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryRomania, Germany, France
    Duration01:57

    Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. But, because of Ana's mental illness, their relationship slowly collapses.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryItaly, Germany, France
    Duration01:58

    Prime numbers are divisible only by one and themselves. These numbers are solitary and incomprehensible to others. Alice and Mattia are both "prime", both haunted by the tragedies that have marked them in childhood: a skiing accident for Alice which has caused a defect in her leg, and the loss of his twin sister for Matthew.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:44

    Even at the age of 40, Juliette is used to other people making decisions for her. When she meets two guys she likes, she has to finally make her own decision.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Italy, West Germany

    Rosalie, a beautiful young woman gets involved with successful businessman Cesar. One day, Rosalie's former flame David appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a jealous intensity never before seen by Rosalie, and because of that, she returns to David. She remains conflicted regarding her choice of partner, but eventually, one of the men does something which resolves the situation.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance

    Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a palpable sense of placelessness and it doesn't take long before the hunter's dog disappears and he finds himself lost.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryPortugal, France, Poland, USA

    Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the consequences of time.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:30

    When Thomas Platz is suddenly made the guardian of a baby - then pretends to be its real father in order to win back Marie, the girlfriend who dumped him a year before. Stuck between staying a man-child forever, and proving he is ready to take the next steps of marriage and family with the love of his life, Thomas goes on an unexpectedly hilarious adventure getting the girl of his dreams to believe he has changed.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:38

    Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance

    A narcissistic plastic surgeon, who prefers women of a certain high quality, meets an everyday woman who questions his morals, his methods and his meaning to life.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium, USA

    French filmmaker Eric Lartigau directs the anarchic buddy comedy Bullit and Riper, originally released as Mais qui a tue Pamela Rose? French comedic television stars Kad Merad and Olivier Barroux are both the protagonists and the screenwriters. As a parody of Hollywood cop films, the story is set somewhere in the American Midwest as fabricated by the French. After losing his regular partner, FBI agent Richard Bullit (Merad) gets assigned to the book-learned cop Riper (Barroux) to investigate the death of a stripper. American movie stereotypes abound, such as shock jock Phil Canon (Gérard Darmon) and sheriff Steve Marley (Jean-Paul Rouve).

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Hungary, Netherlands
    Duration02:37

    After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.




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