11 French Sci-Fi Movies That Were 20 Years Ahead of Hollywood

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  @SciFiGraveyard · 12 days ago · pinned

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  @thomasalbrecht5914 · 9 days ago

  It’s not limited to Sci-Fi. If you made a complete history of American movies that were remakes of much better French ones, it would be quite a book.

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  @Richard-Bird · 11 days ago (edited)

  I love <i>Alphaville</i> . Thanks for helping me find &nbsp;<i>Le Dernier Combat</i> which I saw once 30 years ago and have wanted to see as an adult.

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  @polreamonn · 11 days ago

  La Jetée is a personal favourite of mine.

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  @howardcrook1153 · 9 days ago

  I&apos;ve watched Masters of Time so many times and still have the dvd. It&apos;s a hugely underrated film. Alphaville is a great film as well. Fantastic Planet (planet sauvage) is bizarre but brilliant.

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  @MrTartuVaim · 9 days ago

  <b>Les Maîtres du temps</b> (1982) holds a very specific and nostalgic place in the landscape of film distribution in Estonia—at least for science fiction fans. As a co-production involving the West (France and West Germany), socialist Hungary (the legendary Pannónia studio), and Switzerland, it was a rare sci-fi film that managed to secure a release in the Soviet Union—and thus in the Estonian SSR. It achieved cult status, serving for many as one of the most vivid and peculiar cinema experiences of their childhood.

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  @socrates17 · 12 days ago

  Alphaville is my number 1 all time favorite science fiction film. I have my own list of my favorite 200 SF movies, and Alphaville beats all of them. It&apos;s also one of my 10 favorite movies overall. I did NOT know about the voice of Alpha 60! Thanks for that bit of fascinating backstory. I love it! Science fiction fans are not unaware of it. I saw it originally when it played 1st run in Manhattan, but that was a dubbed print. My research shows that all of the prints distributed to the US for its 1st run were dubbed. This was also the case with The Tenth Victim, which I also saw 1st run with a dubbed print, and I didn&apos;t see it in Italian until the DVD came out in the 2000s. I rank the Italian version 26/200. However, I saw Alphaville in French at a science fiction Worldcon in the late 1970s. I&apos;ve seen it a few time subtitled at rep theaters, including the Walter Reade at Lincoln Center. Of course, I own the DVD.<br>I rank Immortel, ad vitam 96/200. I am quite familiar with Bilal&apos;s bandes dessinées, having read Métal Hurlant even before Heavy Metal came out in the US. I rank Le Dernier Combat 103/200. Je t&apos;aime, je t&apos;aime is WAY up there at 6/200. Resnais is my 3rd favorite director. I have seen every one of his theatrical features, and quite a few of his short films. Le prix du danger has been on my TBW list forever, but no luck. I dislike The Running Man (1987) which is not on my favorites list. I have not seen the Edgar Wright, but I am predisposed to like him because of The Sparks Brothers. Renaissance looks promising. I had not heard of it, but I just put it on my TBW list. I will only watch the French language version, though. I adore Les Revenants, both the film and the French TV series, but the movie isn&apos;t on my 200 list because I consider it supernatural/fantasy rather than SF. I rank La Planète Sauvage 31/200. I rank La Jetée 14/200. I also like 12 Monkeys, although I usually avoid remakes. I rank it 66/200. I even like the TV series. Season 1 basically redid the movie, but then they found interesting places to take it. And how could I not enjoy something with the wonderful Tom Noonan in it?<br>Please stop with the fake film scratches. They&apos;re repetitious and obviously fake.

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  @bigtom7465 · 11 days ago

  Great list! The soundtrack to &quot;La planète sauvage&quot; became sought-after sample material for countless hip-hop beats. Props and thanks for your work!

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  @t1fou · 9 days ago

  Merci infiniment pour avoir mis en avant tout ces films, certe réalisés avec des moyens plus modestes mais qui n&apos;en demeurent pas moins des réussites,voir des chefs d&apos;oeuvres pour certains.

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  @GreeZypa · 11 days ago

  Malevia is crazy

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  @MikeVal1369 · 17 hours ago

  I saw Immortal Ad Vitam first run in the theater.

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  @dcy665 · 4 days ago

  took for awhile but i have my copy of Renaissance in all its rotoscoped glory