some of my favorites french movies

isabelle, who has only 17y old lost her virginity during a quick holiday. when she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.

nana, a young parisian record store worker, is disillusioned by poverty and her crumbling marriage. hoping to become a famous actress, she is disappointed once again and surrenders to a dark life of prostitution.

beautiful young housewife severine serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband pierre

set in a magnificent villa near a sun drenched st. tropez, lovers jean paul and marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday.

a small time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. wanted by the authorities, he attends to persuade a girl to run away to italy with him

cinephile slackers franz and arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of hollywood noirs and westerns while pursuing the lovely odile.

a bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

this simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. guy foucher, a 20-year-old french auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old geneviève emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop.

longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

genial, bumbling monsieur hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs.

in the aftermath of WWI, a young german who grieves the death of her fiancé in france meets a mysterious french man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.

miiddle-class parisian suburbs: blanche and léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. léa is going out with fabien, but is thinking of leaving him.

1968 and 1969 in paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. françois is 20, a poet, dodging military service. he takes to the barricades, but won't throw a molotov cocktail at the police.

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.