Last Updated: 2015-08-17
These Greatest Movies of the 1960s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success.
Tribute to the french cinema made by the youtube channel The Beauty Of.
The Films in My Life (Les Films de ma Vie) is Truffaut’s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut’s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and Buñuel.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/The-Films-Life-Fran%C3%A7ois-Truffaut/dp/0306805995
The 100 best French Films as chosen by The Times(UK), chosen in groups of ten films: Modern Classics, Modern Cults, Dramas, Romances, Thrillers, Comedies, Nouvelle Vague, Landmarks, Shorts, and Icons.
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20051029151003/http://e-paper.timesonline.co.uk:80/frenchfilm/1/articles/artikel_TMXA_1XA_20050409_1_39.html
The 100 best French films according to a diversified professional jury, published in Timeout France.
Source: https://www.timeout.fr/paris/films/100-meilleurs-films-francais-home
Movies of the 50's, Jürgen Müller (ed.) Taschen.
Box-office success ≠ Good Movie.
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Many of these movies are considered as cult/classics now and were in the past highly influential for cinema and pop culture in general and will be so in the future.
Films, shows, and documentaries created in France or in the French language.
Also including PoW-camp, concentration camp etc. movies. Movies are listed from best to worst.
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Classic must-see movies between 1940 and 1979
my best top 10 fascinating movies centered on escaping from prison
Ranker Top Prison Movies
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