French Dramas on Netflix
Last updated April 29, 2024
The Good Thief
2003 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsIn acclaimed director Neil Jordan's remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's classic Bob le Flambeur, Nick Nolte stars as Bob Montagnet, a middle-aged gambler caught up in the seedy underworld of Nice, France. When a last-ditch effort to free himself from his self-destructive spiral of drugs and gambling falls through, Montagnet faces his toughest hand yet. Tcheky Karyo also stars in this stylish neo-noir crime thriller.
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Swimming Pool
2003 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsFamous British mystery writer Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) needs a break, so when her publisher, John Bosload (Charles Dance), offers to let her use his vacation home in southern France during the off-season, Sarah deems it the perfect opportunity for a breather. Her hopes for a carefree idyll are shattered, however, when John's shiftless and brazenly promiscuous daughter (Ludivine Sagnier) arrives and sweeps Sarah into her reckless world.
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Last Tango in Paris
1972 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAn American expatriate living in Paris is still reeling from his estranged wife's suicide. While searching for an apartment, he encounters an equally despondent Frenchwoman, and the couple embarks on an anonymous, no-strings-attached sexual liaison.
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Love Songs
2007 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsIsmael (Louis Garrel) and Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) become involved in a three-way relationship when they both fall for Alice (Clotilde Hesme), but the complicated emotional entanglements unravel after a tragedy. Trying to soothe his pain, Ismael drifts from one meaningless encounter to another, until he meets a young man who tries to help him overcome his loss.
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The Swimming Pool
1969 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhile on vacation at a villa near St. Tropez, lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul find trouble when they're visited by Marianne's old flame and his sexy teen daughter. When Jean-Paul gets too cozy with the nubile young guest, grave consequences follow.
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Dirty Money
1972 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen nightclub owner and criminal mastermind Simon (Richard Crenna) pulls off a stunning heist in a small seaside town, the police detective sent to investigate the crime is none other than his good friend Commissaire Coleman (Alain Delon). Worse, as Coleman begins to unravel the case, Simon's girlfriend starts an affair with the cop. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, this intense French film noir co-stars Catherine Deneuve.
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A French Gigolo
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsJosiane Balasko's part farce, part drama centers on Judith (Nathalie Baye), an entrepreneur in her 50s who gets caught in a tangle of emotions with sensitive, money-strapped prostitute Patrick (Eric Caravaca) and his cute wife, Fanny (Isabelle Carré). While financially supporting relatives in the Paris projects, Patrick begins to despair until Fanny, who has learned of her husband's secret profession, drives him back to Judith's arms and money.
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Ricky
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsKatie (Alexandra Lamy) and Paco (Sergi López) are astonished when their seemingly normal newborn son, Ricky (Arthur Peyret), develops a functional pair of wings and begins to flit around the house, in this fantastical family drama from French director François Ozon. As the couple learns to adapt to Ricky's amazing skills, they also begin to appreciate the magic that goes into creating and sustaining a content family.
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The Beautiful Person
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter transferring to a new high school, beautiful Junie (Léa Seydoux) starts dating fellow student Otto (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), but she soon finds herself falling for Nemours (Louis Garrel), an Italian teacher already entangled in secret affairs with a pupil and colleague. Loosely based on Madame de Lafayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves, this French drama explores the great pain that often accompanies love.
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Don't Look Back
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter Jeanne -- a married mother of two -- starts to notice strange changes in her body, she finds a photograph that leads her on a journey to Italy. There, the rapidly transforming woman begins to learn more about her true identity. Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci star in this beguiling psychological drama from director and co-writer Marina de Van, which screened as an official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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Father of My Children
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen a man who seemingly has everything takes his own life, the question on everyone's mind is, why? This drama penned and helmed by Mia Hansen-Løve explores that quandary by recounting the weeks before and after a film producer's suicide. With an adoring family, a job that fulfills him completely and a charismatic bearing that masks all woes, producer Grégoire Canvel appears at the top of his game. But underneath the surface, trouble is brewing.
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A Heavenly Vintage
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsIn this romance set in 19th-century France, peasant winemaker Sobran Jodeau sets about to create the perfect vintage as he grapples with his love for both his passionate wife and a smart baroness. Luckily for him, Sobran has an angel on his side.
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White Material
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWriter-director Claire Denis returns to Africa -- her childhood home and the site of her 1988 film, Chocolate -- to spin this tale of a country torn apart by civil war, as African soldiers force French nationals to abandon their land. At the center of the story is Maria (Isabelle Huppert), a white woman who ignores her family's fears and steadfastly refuses to leave her coffee plantation. Isaach De Bankolé and Christopher Lambert also star.
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Student Services
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsNineeten-year-old Laura (Déborah François) is stressed by her first year at college when money worries distract her from her studies and so, desperate for cash, she answers an online advertisement for intimate companionship that leads her down a dangerous path. Despite her vow to repent, the easy money and sometimes pleasurable sensations entice Laura deeper into the life of prostitution until she abandons school and is overwhelmed by depravity.
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The Conquest
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsThis fact-based drama recounts the events surrounding the 2007 election of French president Nicolas Sarkozy through an ironic lens, contrasting Sarkozy's dynamic public profile with his inability to save his marriage to his second wife, Cécilia.
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Dust of Life
1995 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsShortly after the fall of Saigon, North Vietnamese soldiers roam the streets picking up orphans for transport to rehabilitation camps. Three boys attempt to escape the deplorable conditions by building a raft and riding the rapids to freedom.
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The Fairy
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter Fiona, a woman claiming to be a fairy, arrives at the tiny hotel where Dom works the night shift, the two form a bond and engage in a series of charming high jinks. But when Fiona vanishes, Dom goes on a desperate search for her.
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Declaration of War
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter fatefully named actors Roméo and Juliette fall in love and have a baby, the stars in their eyes are dimmed when their son falls gravely ill. But as they cling to their image of the perfect family, they can't ignore the devastating truth.
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17 Girls
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsBased on true events, this drama tells the story of 17 teenage girls from the same school in small-town France who get pregnant at the same time, baffling the adults -- and the boys -- in their lives.
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Code Unknown
2000 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis drama interweaves the stories of an actress, her photojournalist boyfriend, a young teacher of African descent and a Romanian illegal immigrant. On a bustling Paris street corner, their lives intersect for a fleeting moment.
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Time Out
2001 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsVincent is fired from his job but goes to great lengths to convince his family that he spends busy days at work. He even ends up convincing himself, and us, that he's telling the truth, and the resulting psychological trickery is positively creepy.
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Irreversible
2002 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen a woman is brutally violated, her angered boyfriend and ex-boyfriend team up to track down the rapist and take justice into their own hands. This French thriller chronicles the unspeakable horror of rape and the aftermath of revenge.
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Certified Copy
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's captivating meditation on art and love, British writer James Miller meets a beautiful gallery owner in Tuscany and begins -- or possibly continues -- a romance with her.
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Elles
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhile investigating a story about students who become prostitutes to pay their way through university, a middle-aged French journalist befriends two of her subjects, whose strong personalities cause her to reevaluate her own bourgeois life.
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Augustine
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen teenager Augustine -- diagnosed as a "hysteric" -- is incarcerated in a hospital for the mentally ill in 1885, she becomes the pet patient of prominent neurologist Professor Charcot in this drama based on the real relationship between the two.
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