What is the best French New Wave film of all time?
A wave of French directors tore up the studio rulebook in the late 1950s and 1960s, shooting on real streets with jump cuts and handheld cameras.
1The 400 BlowsFrançois Truffaut's 1959 debut following a troubled Parisian boy, the movement's founding masterpiece.
2BreathlessJean-Luc Godard's 1960 jump-cut crime romance that broke classical film grammar.
3Jules and JimTruffaut's 1962 love triangle spanning decades, prized for its restless narration.
4Hiroshima Mon AmourAlain Resnais's 1959 meditation on memory and the atomic bombing, told through a doomed affair.
5Cléo from 5 to 7Agnès Varda's 1962 real-time portrait of a singer awaiting a medical diagnosis.
6Vivre sa vieGodard's 1962 twelve-chapter study of a woman drifting into prostitution in Paris.
7ContemptGodard's 1963 CinemaScope drama about a marriage collapsing on a film set in Capri.
8Le SamouraïJean-Pierre Melville's 1967 minimalist hitman thriller, a stylistic touchstone for the movement's edges.
9Last Year at MarienbadAlain Resnais's 1961 puzzle film set in a chateau, famous for its disorienting timeline.
10Pierrot le FouGodard's 1965 road movie starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, shot in vivid color and fragmented form.
11Band of OutsidersGodard's 1964 crime caper best remembered for its impromptu Madison dance scene.
12The Umbrellas of CherbourgJacques Demy's 1964 sung-through musical about young lovers separated by war.
13Army of ShadowsJean-Pierre Melville's 1969 drama of the French Resistance, austere and unsentimental.
14Le Beau SergeClaude Chabrol's 1958 film often credited as the movement's opening shot.
15Les CousinsChabrol's 1959 companion piece to Le Beau Serge, contrasting provincial and city life.
16La JetéeChris Marker's 1962 photo-novel science-fiction short about time travel and memory.
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