

đ The 101 best sex scenes in movies of all-time Written by Tom Huddleston, Geoff Andrew, Dave Calhoun, Cath Clarke, Trevor Johnston, Joshua Rothkopf, Keith Uhlich and Matthew Singer Even if youâre an espresso-sipping, chain-smoking Francophile, youâre going to find something that surprises you. To make it easier for you to take the leap, weâve ranked the 100 best French movies ever made, from famous crowd-pleasers like AmĂ©lie to the more challenging â but no less rewarding â work of mavericks like Jean-Luc Godard and AgnĂšs Varda. But if you continue to immerse yourself, youâll also discover pleasures unlike those found anywhere else in world cinema. If you dive into the French film canon, youâll encounter plenty of philosophical musings, arty embellishments and impenetrable characters.

But in popular consciousness, âFrench filmâ is effectively a slur â coded language for âpretentiousnessâ. Few countries can claim to have exerted such a strong influence over global cinema the New Hollywood revolution of the 1970s wouldnât have happened without the nouvelle vague. After all, itâs where movie culture, if not moviemaking itself, began: the first commercial film screening in history occurred at the Grand CafĂ© in Paris in 1895. Every serious cinephile eventually finds themselves in France.
