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1. The Dreamers (2003)
NC-17 | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 132,193 | Gross: $2.53M
2. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
210 min | Drama, Romance
The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.
Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten
Votes: 6,750
3. Conversation Piece (1974)
R | 121 min | Drama, Romance
A reclusive retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths led by an obnoxious marchesa take up residence in his unused upper residence.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Marsani
Votes: 5,212
4. Godard Mon Amour (2017)
R | 107 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1967, during the making of "La Chinoise," film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Micha Lescot
Votes: 6,022 | Gross: $0.08M
5. Simone: Woman of the Century (2022)
140 min | Biography, Drama, History
Explores the life of Simone Veil -- the famous French figure who survived the Holocaust and went on to become a leading politician, human rights campaigner, and feminist -- through a series of non-chronological memories
Director: Olivier Dahan | Stars: Elsa Zylberstein, Rebecca Marder, Élodie Bouchez, Judith Chemla
Votes: 1,462
6. May Fools (1990)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy, Marcel Bories
Votes: 3,433 | Gross: $1.58M
7. Regular Lovers (2005)
183 min | Drama, Romance
1968 and 1969 in Paris during and after the student and trade-union revolt. 20-year-old François is a poet dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas, Eric Rulliat
Votes: 2,993
8. The Escape (1978)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The lawyer Jean-Philippe Duroc visits his client, Martial Gaulard, sentenced to death for a murder he has not committed. At that moment, a mutiny happens inside the prison.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Pierre Richard, Victor Lanoux, Raymond Bussières, Claude Brosset
Votes: 1,393
9. Two Friends (2015)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two best friends have their relationship tested when Abel tries to help his friend Clement with the latter's love interest Mona.
Director: Louis Garrel | Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Vincent Macaigne, Louis Garrel, Mahaut Adam
Votes: 2,154
10. Nés en 68 (2008)
Unrated | 173 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two young lovers change their lives drastically after the 1968 revolt, leading to choices that move them in different directions.
Directors: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Gaëtan Gallier, Yannick Renier, Yann Trégouët
Votes: 670
11. A Grin Without A Cat (1977)
240 min | Documentary
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Simone Signoret, Jorge Semprún, Davos Hanich, Sandra Scarnati
Votes: 1,115
12. Mourir d'aimer... (1971)
GP | 101 min | Drama
A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of her students Gerard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68. Daniele is a fiery young woman, very involved politically. ... See full summary »
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Annie Girardot, Bruno Pradal, Claude Cerval, Jean Bouise
Votes: 589
13. La faute à Fidel! (2006)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama
A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Director: Julie Gavras | Stars: Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Benjamin Feuillet
Votes: 5,211 | Gross: $0.17M
14. Courage fuyons (1979)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Leroy, Michel Beaune
Votes: 450
15. Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois (2004)
Not Rated | 128 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
Director: Jacques Richard | Stars: Henri Alekan, Catherine Allégret, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold
Votes: 424
16. Mourir à 30 ans (1982)
95 min | Documentary
Romain Goupil records his years of militancy and disappointment as the new world they fought for doesn't come. He praises his missing friend Michel Recanati who committed suicide at 30 years.
Director: Romain Goupil | Stars: Alain Bureau, Pierre Goupil, Romain Goupil, Sophie Goupil
Votes: 243
17. Cocktail Molotov (1980)
R | 100 min | Drama
Paris, May 1968. Anne, a seventeen-year-old high school student of bourgeois origin, loves Frédéric, a boy from a modest background. The teenager runs away and decides to go to work in an Israeli kibbutz with her boyfriend.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Élise Caron, François Cluzet, Philippe Lebas, Geneviève Fontanel
Votes: 156
18. Extérieur, nuit (1980)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Jazz musician Leo and his writer friend Bony get acquainted with a woman taxi driver called Cora.
Director: Jacques Bral | Stars: Christine Boisson, André Dussollier, Gérard Lanvin, Jean-Pierre Sentier
Votes: 257
19. Off Frame Aka Revolution Until Victory (2015)
62 min | Documentary, History, Thriller
A filmmaker watches an archive of films from the period of the Palestinian revolution...
Director: Mohanad Yaqubi | Stars: Yasser Arafat, Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 66
20. L'an 01 (1973)
90 min | Comedy
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop ... See full summary »
Directors: Jacques Doillon, Alain Resnais, Jean Rouch | Stars: Véronique Alain, Romain Bouteille, François Béranger, Cabu
Votes: 613
21. L'après-midi d'un jeune homme qui s'ennuie (1968)
33 min | Short
Images of barricades and police movements in the street. In his bedroom, a young man indulges in daydreams that invade the whole space.
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau | Star: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Votes: 24
22. Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970)
90 min | Drama
Dom, a member of a small trotskyist group, lives in a flat overlooking the British Museum in London. He goes to meetings and sleeps with as many attractive women as possible. The May '68 ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Hatton | Stars: John Thaw, Edina Ronay, Louis Mahoney, Anthony Villaroel
Votes: 22
23. Fucking in Love (2015)
72 min | Documentary
From a marriage proposal to a broken condom. A journey in flesh and emotion where submitting oneself to the other ignites an affirmation of the self.
Director: Justine Pluvinage | Star: Justine Pluvinage
Votes: 63
24. 68 (2008 TV Movie)
110 min | Documentary, History, War
From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to London, a wave of demonstrations shakes the world. 68 travels back in time to war torn Vietnam, freed and occupied Prague, Paris demonstrating, revolution in the Americas.
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Édouard Balladur, The Beatles, Claude Berri, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 66
25. O caso Dora (2016)
70 min | Drama
O caso Dora establishes a distorted mirroring between the happenings of May 1968, in Paris, and the protests of June 2013, in São Paulo, reflecting on the sense of helplessness experienced in contemporaneity.
Director: Dora Longo Bahia | Stars: Jan Fjeld, Sofia Maruci, Camila Mota, Isabella Rjeille
26. Mai 68 (1974)
190 min | Documentary
Montage of archive images and interviews with actors of the May 1968 events.
Directors: Jérôme Kanapa, Gudie Lawaetz | Stars: Maurice Clavel, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Christian Fouchet, Alain Geismar
27. Vive la France (1974)
84 min | Documentary
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Michel Audiard, Andrex, Josephine Baker, Léon Blum
Votes: 54
28. On n'arrête pas le printemps (1971)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: René Gilson | Stars: Gilda Albertoni, Marc Chapiteau, Gaston Floquet, René Gilson
29. Film-Tract n° 1968 (1968)
3 min | Short
A still red background. Then a camera movement reveals that such color is a paint moving to a white background. Red is taking over the white. Another movement, this time more distantly, ... See full summary »
Directors: Gérard Fromanger, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 131
30. The Revolution Is Only a Beginning: Let's Continue Fighting (1968)
22 min | Short
Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May '68 and in Rome where the actor was featuring in the film Partner by Bertolucci.
Director: Pierre Clémenti | Stars: Tina Aumont, Yves Beneyton, Balthazar Clémenti, Margareth Clémenti
Votes: 75
31. 1968. Yo viví el mayo español (2008 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Montse Fernández Villa | Stars: Ramón Arcusa, Teddy Bautista, Emma Cohen, Manuel de la Calva
32. Mai ***8 (2009)
8 min | Short, Drama
For the 40th anniversary of the Parisian turmoils of May the movie tries to reflect the necessity of recollection and about document-able trails of current ideological mirroring of the past... See full summary »
Director: Björn Last | Star: Jacob Weigert
Votes: 27
33. Actua I (1968)
6 min | Short
May 68 events seen through various 16 & 35mm shots, anonymous images made by young protesters who were filming during the night.
Director: Philippe Garrel
Votes: 75
34.
The Romantics and Us (2020)
Episode:
Passions of the People
(2020)
60 min | Documentary, History
Simon explores how the Romantics were involved in fueling ideas of rebellion and imaginative passion that clashed with Enlightenment ideals of reason and mechanical logic.
Director: Hugo Macgregor | Stars: Simon Schama, Michèle Katz, Testament, Michael Gorman
Votes: 26