Movies about France

Movies about France
List of the best movies about France, selected by visitors to our site: A Very Long Engagement, Young & Beautiful, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Midnight in Paris, Rust and Bone, A Good Year, Love Is in the Air, Gangs of New York, Overlord, Hotel Noir.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, detective, military
CountryFrance, USA
Duration02:08

In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But Mathilde refuses to believe it. If Manech had died, she would know. She hangs on to her intuition as tightly as she would onto the last thread of hope linking her to her lover. A former sergeant tells her in vain that Manech died in the no man's land of a trench named Bingo Crepescule, in the company of four other men condemned to die for self-inflicted wounds. Her path ahead is full of obstacles but Mathilde is not frightened. Anything is possible to someone who is willing to challenge fate...

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryFrance
Duration01:33

Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, India, United Arab Emirates
Duration02:02

A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration01:34

    A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Singapore
    Duration02:00

    Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:57

    Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:36

    Antoine is a lawyer living in New York. On his way back to France for the final round of a job interview, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. With a seven-hour flight ahead of them, they are going to have to speak to each other.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy
    Duration02:47

    It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, military
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:45

    France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA

    Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, Monaco, USA
    Duration01:45

    Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:38

    A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:30

    An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    FOR LOVERS ONLY is a story of a MAN and a WOMAN in love. After seeing each other for the first time in years while on separate work assignments in Paris, the LOVERS flee together and travel by train, car and motorcycle, as their love affair takes them across France-from Normandy to St. Tropez. Throughout their trip, both characters experience long periods of carefree bliss and unrepentant joy punctuated by brief moments of guilt and confusion. The final outcome of the affair is left open to interpretation.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium, USA

    A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:57

    A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration02:08

    When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredocumentary, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong’s comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong’s confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, “I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.”

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:05

    Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, USA
    Duration01:34

    A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and competing with his siblings for his mother's approval and affection.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany, France, United Kingdom
    Duration01:50

    The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:39

    In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

    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: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, Belgium, USA, France
    Duration01:56

    The film centres on a retired, widowed professor living in Paris who develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genreaction, drama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA

    American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A group of American GIs work their way through war-torn France during the final days of the Second World War.

    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: 5.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Malta, USA
    Duration01:11

    Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:38

      An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white collar criminal hellbent on retrieving his cash, but soon their greed turns them against each other. A modern re-telling of Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, documentary
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore returns with what may be his most provocative and hilarious film yet: Moore tells the Pentagon to "stand down" — he will do the invading for America from now on.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountrySpain, USA, Malaysia

      After their plane crashes off the coast of a deserted Pacific island, the surviving members of an American soccer team find themselves in the most dire of circumstances with limited resources, dwindling food supply and no rescue coming any time soon. Team spirit evaporates as disagreements cause the group to separate into factions - a violent one lead by an unbalanced ruler, and a compassionate one led by a selfless player.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behind him. But old habits die hard, and temptation is everywhere as Casanova finds a wealth of new opportunity and trouble.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, Belgium, USA
      Duration01:58

      The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, who engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration01:33

      The eighth and last of the Pink Panther series. The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryBelgium, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy
      Duration02:17

      An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, adventure, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      Matrac (Humphrey Bogart) is a freedom-loving French journalist who sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, afraid of the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans. John assumes the identity of the recently deceased waiter to survive.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, adventure, history
      CountrySpain, Panama, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:45

      The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredocumentary, history
      CountryCanada, USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      A supernatural thriller centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:33

      The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

      A unique 16th century woman, Danielle possesses a love of books, and can easily quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. An intriguing mix of tomboyish athleticism and physical beauty, she has more than enough charm to capture the heart of a prince ... after beaning him with an apple.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Czech Republic
      Duration01:33

      When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Inspector Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, family
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:28

      The adventurous, young Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic at solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington decides to sell Madeline's school.




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