French Dramas on Netflix

After young Antoine runs away, life on the streets of Paris leads to nothing but trouble and guilt in director François Truffaut's feature debut.

Year: 1959
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 01:35:32
Netflix ID: 70048120 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Jules and Jim are friends who fall for the same woman, sparking a decades-long love triangle that tests and strengthens the bond between the two men.

Year: 1962
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:46:16
Netflix ID: 660602 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Determined to fall in love, 15-year-old Adele is focused on boys. But it's a blue-haired girl she meets on the street who really piques her interest.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:59:59
Netflix ID: 70275600 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel stumbles into a series of misadventures as he picks up random jobs and romances his sweetheart.

Year: 1968
IMDb: 7.7
Runtime: 01:31:17
Netflix ID: 1001511 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:13:17
Netflix ID: 70012795 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When sparks fly for an esteemed literary critic and a flight attendant, they experience romantic turbulence when his marriage heads for divorce.

Year: 1964
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:57:21
Netflix ID: 21236858 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Awaiting her former lover's return, a cabaret chanteuse attracts the affections of a sailor and a childhood friend who begins to fall for her again.

Year: 1961
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:28:07
Netflix ID: 60022281 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the Nazis occupy France, an actress is forced to resist temptation while trying to conceal her husband and put on a show that mirrors reality.

Year: 1980
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:11:16
Netflix ID: 70117083 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A relationship blossoms for a young Frenchman and a sculptress in Wales but when he returns to Paris, his affection starts to shift to another.

Year: 1971
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:09:41
Netflix ID: 1072815 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Years after their affair ended badly, two now-married ex-lovers find themselves living next door to each other — which rekindles their tortured passion.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:45:06
Netflix ID: 20769923 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a naive bank clerk meets a veteran gambler in a Nice casino, he becomes seduced by her unwavering passion and risk-taking lifestyle.

Year: 1963
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:24:01
Netflix ID: 60032925 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A handyman named Germaine befriends 95-year-old Margueritte and finds himself bewildered by the literature that gives Margueritte such pleasure.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:22:18
Netflix ID: 70165459 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A middle-aged man suddenly snaps on his birthday and begins voicing his unvarnished, cutting opinions, quickly dismantling his life and career.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:24:47
Netflix ID: 80108761 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Happily escaping a dictatorship, a Congolese doctor transplants his family to a small French village, where culture shock sets in for everyone.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:33:34
Netflix ID: 80123740 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This vibrant biopic traces the tumultuous life of pop superstar Claude François, from his early years and meteoric rise to his tragic death.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:28:46
Netflix ID: 80004281 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Disillusioned with life at school and at home, a cynical teenager drops out, joins a gang and begins an arduous search for independence.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:53:18
Netflix ID: 80013602 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Following a near-death experience, a popular rock star attempts another visit to the afterlife to undo personal heartbreak.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 01:35:01
Netflix ID: 81251918 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Spirited young Jessica arrives in Paris and lands a job as a waitress at a café where the eccentric customers need her for counsel more than coffee.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:44:56
Netflix ID: 70061492 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After 18 years of calculated deception, a respected doctor and father attempts to avoid being exposed in this drama inspired by a true story.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 02:09:21
Netflix ID: 80221715 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Left without a home in their native land, three Algerian brothers split from their mother and seek separate lives. But fate brings them back together.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 02:18:30
Netflix ID: 70139513 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Years after being imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-convict returns to take revenge on the wealthy patrician family that framed him.

Year: 1976
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 02:01:09
Netflix ID: 81304139 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With their spouses back home, a French actress and composer take a romantic jaunt across America after a chance meeting on a film set in Los Angeles.

Year: 1969
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:51:56
Netflix ID: 81304177 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this fact-based drama, a prominent socialite and financier in 1930s France is exposed as a con man, whose fall ultimately takes down the government.

Year: 1974
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:57:14
Netflix ID: 81304219 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After his wife inexplicably disappears, a man takes their two children and relocates to his hometown in an attempt to end their grief and move on.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:28:04
Netflix ID: 80011026 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Newlyweds Chloé and Colin find their young love tested when Chloé suffers a mysterious illness that causes a flower to grow in her lung.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 02:10:43
Netflix ID: 70301013 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two sisters with little in common reunite for three days, but their strained relationship turns the reunion into a nightmare of sibling rivalry.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:32:26
Netflix ID: 80010629 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A womanizing musician travels to India, where he composes a Bollywood film score and unexpectedly falls for the wife of the French ambassador.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:54:29
Netflix ID: 80081374 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a tour of duty, two female soldiers must take decompression leave at a resort where recuperation includes revisiting the trauma of combat.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:42:05
Netflix ID: 80115109 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Raw talent lands a 16-year-old prodigy a spot in a prestigious soccer club's training program, but he conceals a secret that could derail his dreams.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:30:14
Netflix ID: 80182700 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Steve hires France to clean his apartment. Unbeknownst to them both, Steve is the reason France lost her job and had to seek work in the first place.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 5.8
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:48:53
Netflix ID: 70184155 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In Thailand, an aspiring mahout must help a domesticated elephant readapt to the wild, and convince his master to teach him his ancestors' secrets.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:35:55
Netflix ID: 80221714 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After being arrested for drug possession, Alice begins a relationship with a cop who brings her severely dysfuntional family's neuroses into the open.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 5.7
Runtime: 01:41:02
Netflix ID: 70207978 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three young women contend with family tensions, school drama and confusing romance as they navigate adolescence in the final year of middle school.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 5.1
Runtime: 01:26:33
Netflix ID: 80053550 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the guise of a Chilean refugee, Chouchou leaves North Africa and finds shelter in a church in Paris -- and a chance to refashion his identity.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 4.6
Runtime: 01:44:41
Netflix ID: 80221692 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An aspiring rapper hustles for fame with the help of a hairdresser-turned-producer, despite his mother's dreams of a more conventional career for him.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 4.4
Runtime: 01:38:02
Netflix ID: 80191307 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

At a Paris hotel, a pair of private eyes investigate a murder as a guest deals with his unhappy wife and looks to settle a debt with a fight promoter.

Year: 1985
Runtime: 01:38:13
Netflix ID: 81304143 · Watch on Netflix

In a crusade that spans decades, a grieving father goes to extremes to bring his daughter's suspected murderer to justice. Based on a true story.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 01:26:22
Netflix ID: 81275008 · Watch on Netflix

As spiritual guardian of his tiny French town during the Nazi occupation, priest Leon Morin is convinced that anyone can be saved. So, when communist militant Barny barges into his church and tears his religion apart, he reacts with compassion.

Year: 1961
Runtime: 02:08:26
Netflix ID: 70007185 · Watch on Netflix