15 Romantic French Movies to Watch and Fall in Love With the Language

You might know Gad Elmaleh has a stand-up comedian. But he has starred in many movies, like Hors de Prix. He plays Jean, a waiter at a luxury hotel, who is mistaken to be a millionaire by Irène (Audrey Tautou), a gold digger. When she discovers the trickery, she teaches him to steal from wealthy old ladies.

Alex has a weird job. Every day, he’s paid to break up relationships, but only when the woman is “not knowingly unhappy”, leading her to leave her toxic relationship to find a better love. When he’s hired to prevent the wedding of Juliette and Jonathan, a seemingly perfect couple, he doesn’t realise he will develop some feelings. Even though this movie is more recent, it’s still one of the classic (and funny) romantic French movies you should watch.

After the death of her husband, Nathalie (Audrey Tautou) goes through life without real joy. But everything changes when she spontaneously kisses her unattractive coworker. Her family and friends don’t understand what she’s seeing in him, while Nathalie herself tries to understand her feelings. It’s a beautiful movie about the fact that beauty isn’t everything, and that kindness and delicacy are way more important.