And at 187 minutes running time, it’s an edifice indeed, Les Enfants du Paradis, built from a rambunctious cast of characters–ranging from pickpockets and prostitutes to aristocrats and actors–whose lives intersect around the Theatre des Funambules, a popular Parisian theater on the Boulevard du Crime, during the 1840s. (The title refers to the poor who can only afford seats in the upper galleries of the theater.)

The heart of the plot is a love story between mime artiste Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault) and streetwalker Garance (the magnificent, sand-paper-voiced Arletty). When Garance is falsely accused of pickpocketing, Baptiste provides a mimed alibi for her to the police (one of the film’s most famous set pieces). The rose she later throws him in gratitude sets off a romantic obsession, one of several that structure the film, as do love triangles, duels, and tortured confessions of feeling.

IMDB Rating : 8.0/10

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French cult-director Jean-Luc Godard made this masterpiece way in 1963 but it is still as captivating as it was then. Le Mepris, Featuring superstar Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli as her husband- screenwriter who is hired to write a screenplay based on the ancient Greek myth “The Odyssey”.

The story deals with the creative process of film making as viewed by Godard, but also focuses on the breakdown of a marriage by the growing contempt of Bardot for her husband , whom she feels is selling out to greedy US producer Jack Palance.

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Alain Delon is the coolest killer to hit the screen, a film noir loner for the modern era, in Jean-Pierre Melville’s austere 1967 French crime classic. Delon’s impassive hit man, Jef Costello, is the ultimate professional in an alienated world of glass and metal.

Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he’s seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.

IMDB Rating : 8.2/10

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A very unique movie which words can not easily tell the highest level of quality!

Pierro escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl, who is chased by hit-men from Algeria.

They lead a unorthodox live, always on the run. One of the best Belmondo classics.

IMDB Rating : 7.5

Hailed as one of the finest French films ever made, legendary director Francois Truffaut’s early masterpiece Jules and Jim charts the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession over the course of twenty-five years.

Francois Truffaut’s Jules et Jim was a very popular art-house movie in the early sixties. If you like character-driven stories about unconventional people, you’ll enjoy Jules and Jim.

IMDB Rating : 7.8

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