The Green Ray(Le rayon vert)

Stolen Kisses
(Baisers volés)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1968
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel

Antoine knows what he wants to do ... his problem is doing it.

Contempt
(Le Mépris)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1963
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube

A vivid display of conflict between passion and art.

Vivre Sa Vie
(Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1962
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffman, Monique Messine
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel, Kanopy, HBO Max

A young Parisian woman’s existential crisis — and eventual turn to sex work.

Jules and Jim
(Jules et Jim)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1962
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Sabine Haudepin, Vanna Urbino
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Kanopy, HBO Max

Close friends Jules and Jim both fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

Claire's Knee
(Le genou de Claire)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1970
• Director Éric Rohmer
• Cast Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Michèle Montel, Gérard Falconetti
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel

A Good Marriage
(Le Beau Mariage)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1982
• Director Éric Rohmer
• Cast Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Arielle Dombasle, Thamila Mezbah, Féodor Atkine, Vincent Gauthier
• Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Masculin Féminin
(Masculin féminin)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Sweden • 1966
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Evabritt Strandberg
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Jean-Luc Godard's swinging look at youth and love in Paris

Hiroshima Mon Amour
(Hiroshima mon amour)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Japan • 1959
• Director Alain Resnais
• Cast Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
• Genre Drama, History, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

The story of a young French actress and her affair with a Japanese man while on assignment in Hiroshima.

Pauline at the Beach
(Pauline à la plage)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1983
• Director Éric Rohmer
• Cast Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine, Simon de La Brosse, Rosette
• Genre Romance, Comedy, Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

It was supposed to be a normal holiday...

L'Eclisse
(L'eclisse)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1962
• Director Michelangelo Antonioni
• Cast Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, Rossana Rory, Louis Seigner
• Genre Romance, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video

… the ache and ecstasy of love…

As Tears Go By
(旺角卡門)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Hong Kong • 1988
• Director Wong Kar-wai
• Cast Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Alex Man, Ronald Wong Ban, Wong Aau
• Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Available on Criterion Channel

Falling for his cousin, a mobster is compelled to start a new life, but that means leaving his partner in crime for good.

Full Moon in Paris
(Les Nuits de la pleine lune)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1984
• Director Éric Rohmer
• Cast Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini, Virginie Thévenet, Christian Vadim, László Szabó
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on FlixFling

The Aviator's Wife
(La Femme de l'aviateur)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1981
• Director Éric Rohmer
• Cast Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury, Mathieu Carrière, Philippe Caroit, Coralie Clément
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Metrograph

A young sees his girlfriend walking out of her apartment with another man, and secretly follows the man to investigate.

A Tale of Springtime
(Conte de printemps)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1990
• Director Éric Rohmer
• Cast Anne Teyssèdre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel, Eloïse Bennett, Sophie Robin, Marc Lelou
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A Summer's Tale
(Conte d'été)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1996
• Director Éric Rohmer
• Cast Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon, Aurelia Nolin, Alain Guellaff, Evelyne Lahana
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Summer romances aren't all what they're cracked up to be...

My Night at Maud's
(Ma nuit chez Maud)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1969
• Director Éric Rohmer
• Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Léonide Kogan, Guy Léger
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max

The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during one night with a divorced woman.

Boyfriends and Girlfriends
(L'Ami de mon amie)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1987
• Director Éric Rohmer
• Cast Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, François-Eric Gendron, Éric Viellard, Anne-Laure Meury
• Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
• Available on Metrograph

Anaïs in Love
(Les amours d'Anaïs)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 2021
• Director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
• Cast Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès, Grégoire Oestermann, Bruno Todeschini
• Genre Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Alamo on Demand, YouTube

Anaïs falls in love with her older married boyfriend's wife.

Fire of Love

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Canada, United States • 2022
• Director Sara Dosa
• Cast Miranda July
• Genre Documentary
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things: each other, and volcanoes.