Best dark & gritty French movies on MUBI in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
29 movies on MUBI in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.9. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity.
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1. Night and Fog (1956)
Movie · French · 32m · Documentary, History · IMDb 8.6 (23.8K votes)
Slow-burnTwistyDark & grittyMature
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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4. Fantastic Planet (1973)
Movie · French · 1h 12m · Animation, Science Fiction · IMDb 7.6 (43.7K votes)
Slow-burnVisually stunningTwistyCold & detached
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile
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5. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Movie · French · 1h 36m · Drama · IMDb 7.7 (25.3K votes)
Slow-burnCold & detachedDark & grittyMature
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fat
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6. Vagabond (1985)
Movie · French · 1h 46m · Drama · IMDb 7.6 (16.2K votes)
Slow-burnTwistyCold & detachedDark & gritty
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona
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7. It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Movie · French · 1h 43m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 7.4 (40.3K votes)
TwistyMatureEdge-of-seatCold & detached
An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.
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9. 13 Tzameti (2006)
Movie · French · 1h 33m · Action, Thriller · IMDb 7.3 (18.8K votes)
TwistyMatureCold & detachedEdge-of-seat
Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental cha
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10. Black Girl (1966)
Movie · French · 1h 5m · Drama · IMDb 7.4 (7.7K votes)
Slow-burnTwistyCold & detachedDark & gritty
Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
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11. La Grande Bouffe (1973)
Movie · French · 2h 10m · Drama, Comedy · IMDb 7.0 (16.3K votes)
Slow-burnMatureDark & grittyCold & detached
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
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12. Black Panthers (1968)
Movie · French · 28m · Documentary · IMDb 7.4 (3.1K votes)
Dialogue-drivenCold & detachedStraightforwardDark & gritty
A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America’s attention.
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13. Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)
Movie · French · 1h 57m · Drama · IMDb 7.0 (4.3K votes)
Slow-burnTwistyCold & detachedDark & gritty
In the seacoast town of Boulogne, antique furniture saleswoman Hélène lives with her stepson, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit, Alphonse, with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, where he ran a café. Bernard speaks of his fiancée, Muriel, whom Hélè
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14. Benedetta (2021)
Movie · French · 2h 11m · History, Drama · IMDb 6.7 (30.8K votes)
MatureDark & grittyTwistyVisually stunning
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
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16. Paris Belongs to Us (1961)
Movie · French · 2h 21m · Mystery, Drama · IMDb 6.7 (3.0K votes)
TwistySlow-burnCold & detachedDark & gritty
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
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17. Boro in the Box (2014)
Movie · French · 40m · Drama, Fantasy · IMDb 7.2 (780 votes)
Slow-burnTwistyMatureVisually stunning
A fantasized portrayal of Polish auteur Walerian Borowczyk, Boro discovers a cruel and obscene world. He experiences banal yet colorful adventures, caressing erotic birds and organic cameras in a phantasmagorical alphabet.
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18. God Is Shy (2026)
Movie · French · 16m · Animation, Mystery · IMDb 7.6 (387 votes)
Slow-burnTwistyDark & grittyCold & detached
During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. Yet, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.
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19. Azor (2021)
Movie · French · 1h 40m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 6.5 (3.4K votes)
Cold & detachedSlow-burnDark & grittyTwisty
Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under surveillance, a remote duel takes place between two bankers who, despite d
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20. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
Movie · French · 1h 27m · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 6.5 (9.5K votes)
Slow-burnTwistyMatureCold & detached
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
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21. Special Flight (2011)
Movie · French · 1h 43m · Documentary · IMDb 7.3 (277 votes)
Slow-burnDark & grittyStraightforwardCold & detached
Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years,
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22. Titane (2021)
Movie · French · 1h 48m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 6.4 (68.1K votes)
MatureTwistyDark & grittyCold & detached
A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
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23. Pacifiction (2022)
Movie · French · 2h 46m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 6.3 (4.3K votes)
Slow-burnTwistyVisually stunningCold & detached
Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints.
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24. As Long as Shotguns Remain (2014)
Movie · French · 30m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 5.8 (322 votes)
Cold & detachedMatureDark & gritty
Two young men in a nearly abandoned suburban landscape deal with the suicide of one of their friends by shotgunning beers and joining a gang.
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25. The Capsule (2012)
Movie · French · 36m · Drama, Fantasy · IMDb 5.8 (854 votes)
Slow-burnTwistyCold & detachedDark & gritty
Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.
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26. Annette (2021)
Movie · French · 2h 20m · Drama, Romance · IMDb 6.3 (24.6K votes)
TwistyMatureVisually stunningSlow-burn
In present-day Los Angeles, controversial stand-up comedian Henry McHenry and internationally renowned opera singer Ann Defrasnoux form the façade of a happy couple in the spotlight. Ann gives birth to a baby girl named Annette, who possesses an exceptional gift that will change all of their lives forever.
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28. Liberté (2019)
Movie · French · 2h 12m · Drama, History · IMDb 4.5 (1.7K votes)
MatureSlow-burnCold & detachedLow-stakes
1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the legendary Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy
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29. Emilia Pérez (2024)
Movie · French · 2h 12m · A · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 5.3 (1.4L votes)
TwistyMatureVisually stunningDark & gritty
Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.
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