Best family French movies in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
66 movies in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.7. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity; showing the top 30.
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1. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Movie · French · 2h 31m · UA · Thriller, Mystery · IMDb 7.6 (2.4L votes)
TwistyEdge-of-seatDark & grittyCold & detached
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
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2. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Movie · French · 1h 30m · Drama · IMDb 7.8 (32.5K votes)
Slow-burn
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by
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3. Sans Soleil (1983)
Movie · French · 1h 40m · Documentary · IMDb 7.7 (13.3K votes)
Slow-burnTwistyLow-stakesVisually stunning
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
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4. The Gleaners and I (2000)
Movie · French · 1h 22m · Documentary · IMDb 7.7 (10.4K votes)
Slow-burnFamily-friendlyLow-stakes
Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of nece
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5. The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Movie · French · 1h 50m · Documentary · IMDb 8.0 (5.4K votes)
Slow-burnTwistyLow-stakesHeartwarming
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professio
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6. The Summit of the Gods (2021)
Movie · French · 1h 35m · Animation, Adventure · IMDb 7.5 (11.9K votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatTwistySerious
A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
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7. Petite Maman (2021)
Movie · French · 1h 12m · Drama, Fantasy · IMDb 7.3 (21.4K votes)
Slow-burnHeartwarmingFamily-friendlyLow-stakes
After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.
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8. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025)
Movie · French · 1h 17m · Animation, Drama · IMDb 7.6 (6.3K votes)
Slow-burnHeartwarmingFamily-friendlyLow-stakes
The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family's housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her famil
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9. 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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10. Asterix and Cleopatra (1968)
Movie · French · 1h 12m · Family, Animation · IMDb 7.2 (16.2K votes)
FunnyLight-heartedFamily-friendlyVisually stunning
Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with Caesar wagering the project cannot be completed in a few weeks time. With the help of a magic potion, Asterix comes to the rescue of the Que
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11. Antoine and Colette (1962)
Movie · French · 30m · Romance, Drama · IMDb 7.4 (7.4K votes)
Slow-burnLow-stakesLight-heartedHeartwarming
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Lo
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12. Arco (2025)
Movie · French · 1h 29m · Adventure, Animation · IMDb 7.2 (9.6K votes)
Visually stunningFamily-friendlyHeartwarmingLight-hearted
Ten-year-old Arco lives in a far future. During his first flight in his rainbow suit, he loses control and falls into the past. Iris, a girl his age from 2075, comes to his rescue and tries by any means to help send him back to his own era.
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13. Asterix in Britain (1986)
Movie · French · 1h 19m · Family, Animation · IMDb 7.1 (13.8K votes)
FunnyLight-heartedFamily-friendly
One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedius Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potio
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14. Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Movie · French · 1h 31m · Documentary · IMDb 7.4 (4.1K votes)
Slow-burnLow-stakesFamily-friendlyDialogue-driven
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.
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15. Colours of Time (2025)
Movie · French · 2h 6m · History, Drama · IMDb 7.2 (5.2K votes)
TwistyHeartwarmingSlow-burnLight-hearted
When four distant cousins inherit a 19th-century home in Normandy, they decide to visit and examine their family history. No one has lived there since the 1940s, and the cousins are intrigued by all of the items they find there, little things that help them to understand their ancestor, Adèle Vermillard. Jumping back a
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16. Daguerréotypes (1978)
Movie · French · 1h 20m · Documentary · IMDb 7.6 (2.4K votes)
Slow-burnFamily-friendlyLow-stakesLight-hearted
An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years.
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17. Miraculous World: Paris, Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir (2024)
Movie · French · 48m · Animation, Family · IMDb 8.4 (1.1K votes)
Visually stunningFast-pacedFamily-friendlyLight-hearted
Ladybug and Cat Noir discover the existence of a parallel universe in which they're supervillains determined to seize the Butterfly Miraculous.
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18. Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods (2014)
Movie · French · 1h 25m · Animation, Comedy · IMDb 6.9 (17.3K votes)
FunnyVisually stunningLight-heartedFamily-friendly
In order to wipe out the Gaulish village by any means necessary, Caesar plans to absorb the villagers into Roman culture by having an estate built next to the village to start a new Roman colony.
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19. Hello Cubans (1963)
Movie · French · 30m · Documentary · IMDb 7.5 (2.1K votes)
Slow-burnFamily-friendlyLow-stakesStraightforward
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island.
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20. Along the Coast (1958)
Movie · French · 26m · Documentary · IMDb 7.4 (2.1K votes)
Slow-burnFunnyFamily-friendlyLight-hearted
Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of
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22. Valparaiso (1964)
Movie · French · 27m · Documentary · IMDb 7.5 (1.7K votes)
Slow-burnFamily-friendlyLow-stakesVisually stunning
In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …A Valparaíso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portrait of the city, built on 42 hills, with its wealth and poverty, its daily life o
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23. Asterix vs. Caesar (1985)
Movie · French · 1h 19m · Comedy, Animation · IMDb 6.8 (11.6K votes)
FunnyVisually stunningLight-heartedFamily-friendly
Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love arrives to visit her. However, the lovers are kidnapped by Romans; Asterix and Obelix set out to rescue them on a dangerous journey that will involve gladiators, slavers and beauracracy - and a personal encounter with the
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24. Letter from Siberia (1957)
Movie · French · 1h 2m · Documentary · IMDb 7.4 (1.2K votes)
Slow-burnFamily-friendlyCold & detachedLow-stakes
A faceless traveller takes a journey through the barren reaches of a Siberia caught between tradition and modernity, imparting his philosophical musings on its people and places, wildlife and culture.
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25. The Bus: A French Football Mutiny (2026)
Movie · French · 1h 21m · Documentary · IMDb 7.0 (1.9K votes)
Cold & detachedStraightforwardFamily-friendlySerious
This documentary revisits the French football team's controversial 2010 World Cup and the bus strike that sparked global headlines and national outrage.
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26. Universal Language (2024)
Movie · French · 1h 29m · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 6.8 (3.4K votes)
Slow-burnTwistyFunnyLow-stakes
Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government a
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27. Dahomey (2024)
Movie · French · 1h 8m · Documentary · IMDb 6.7 (3.5K votes)
Slow-burnFamily-friendlyLow-stakesSerious
Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documentary follows the journey of 26 of the treasures as told by cultural art
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28. Winter in Sokcho (2025)
Movie · French · 1h 44m · Drama · IMDb 6.8 (1.9K votes)
Slow-burnLow-stakesSeriousFamily-friendly
In the snowy seaside town of Sokcho, 25-year-old Soo-Ha works at a guesthouse. She drifts between her mother’s fish stall and her boyfriend until a French artist’s arrival stirs questions about her identity. As winter deepens, Soo-Ha and the artist form an unspoken connection through food and art.
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29. Charles, Dead or Alive (1970)
Movie · French · 1h 33m · Drama · IMDb 7.2 (806 votes)
Slow-burnDialogue-drivenFamily-friendly
On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva, Charles Dé the founder's 50-year-old grandson has had it: he speaks eccentrically to a reporter, recognizing his grandfather as a craftsman and his son as a businessman, but is evasive about himself. He gives his family the slip and moves in w
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30. Nino (2025)
Movie · French · 1h 36m · Drama · IMDb 6.9 (1.3K votes)
Slow-burnStraightforwardSerious
Nino is a young man on a journey to reconnect with the world and himself in the streets of Paris, following the suggestion of his doctors. In three days, he will face a major challenge.
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