I'm a huge fan of French cinema. I don't know what it is about them, that makes it so diffirent than movies from other countries. The same goes for the actresses. There's just something about France... *sigh*

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you forget the best french film of all time :)  "entre nous"  which i believe is a sort of true story

starring the gorgeous Miou Miou and Isabelle Hupert who was also in 8 women

Definitely i'm gonna choose Audrey Tautou.

She's so adaorable in Amélie. She has this mischievous look in her eyes that you cannot help but to love her.

My most favouritest Frenchwoman at the moment is Eva Green. If anyone thought Kingdom of Heaven sucked, get the Director's Cut and zip forward to her stuff. It's a whole other movie. She completely won me over in Casino Royale and I can't wait for The Golden Compass.

Another one who wasn't nearly as cool as a "Bond Babe" is Sophie Marceau. Actually, she didn't suck in that...

she was sofie fatale on Kill Bill and can speak french and japanese (swoon).  too bad she wasn't o-ren ishii's (lucy liu's character) girlfriend:-)

I'm part Dutch/French. I'm born and live in the Netherlands. But I'm feeling more French. I live with my mother and we watch a lot of french tv (tv5 monde, one channel but that's the only french channel we have). I've seen so many shows, talkshows and movies that I don't know every name of the actices I've seen, from who I though "she isn't bad at all". A lot of French actrices are hot. So it's difficult to choose. But here are a few:

Astrid Veillon (played in the show: Quai numéro 1)

Charlotte Valandrey (she was the first in France, who was brave enough to openly say that she was seropositif. Poor girl and did she know. People can be so stupid).

Cécile de France

Laetitia Casta

Natacha Lindinger

They didn't play lesbians, in my knowledge.

Love French cinéma/tv, they can make a good show/movie/talkshow. Although I can't watch a Dutch movie, don't know why (can't stand the way it's filmed, the actor/actrice and you see so often the same actor/actrice in different movies). Don't want to offend someone!

And what make French actresses so damn gorgeous?

Dark hair, beautiful eyes. They're classy women, know how to flirt and to dress. They're polite and know how to party without being wild. They can stand up for themselfs and can have a hell of a temperament.

She's French and Swiss all rolled up into sweetness. Seriously - la double vie de Veronique and Rouge. She's just perfect!

Wow, did I have a crush on Véronique Genest!

She plays Julie Lescaut, a... oh my, I forgot my French education - she used to run the police in one small town. I can't believe the series is still on. I wish that show would make it to the North American continent.

Then -- boy am I a sucker for old movies -- the young Anouk Aimée

famous for her role in 'Un homme et une femme' (for which she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar), and also known to North American audiences more recently from 'Prêt-à-Porter.'
I do believe she plays a lesbian in the movie 'La Fugue' (1964); the name Luisa seems to ring a bell.

Then I have a few movies in my old video collection - French and French/German co-productions; movies with lesbian content, of course. ;-) Try to catch them when you can:

Lune de Novembre/Novembermond/November Moon

La Banquière/The Woman Banker which has a real life background, the story of a Parisienne, Marthe Hanau. And which stars Romy Schneider

who I heard was annexed by the French. ;-) Another very good looking, unfortunately dead, woman, who by the way also starred in the 1958 lesbian boarding school drama classic Mädchen in Uniform/Girls in Uniform.

Muriel fait le désespoir de ses parents/Muriel's Parents Have Had It Up to Here

Le Cahier volé/Das gestohlene Tagebuch/The stolen diary

Charlotte dite "Charlie"/Ich bin eben anders, directed by Caroline Huppert:

 That was that - unless you open the door to French Canadian. Then I might contribute a few more...

"At that point, you could have all gotten naked, gotten in your pool and had four bottles of champagne in your house." ~~ Stephanie March

Without a doubt, Mylène Jampanoï is one of the most beautiful actresses around, French or not. You may remember her from Les Filles Du Botaniste (The Chinese Botanist's Daughter), where she played Min. Those eyes are killer...

Ah, French cinema, it has the power to both annoy and astound me at the same time, but I can't get enough of it. My favorite film is A Heart in Winter with Emmanuelle Beart. She was also in another film with Fanny Ardent that was pretty homoerotic called Nathalie.

Isabelle Adjani is incredibly beautiful and incredibly talented too, especially in Queen Margot. Also, I really love Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Also the beautiful Marion Cotillard who magically transformed herself into Edith Piaf.

Any one who agrees with me that Fanny Ardant & Emmanuelle Beart are two of the sexiest women on the planet must run to the store to rent (or better yet buy) "Nathalie". The premise of the movie is a little odd (Fanny hires prostitute Emmanuelle, playing the title character, to seduce her husband, played by Gerard Depardieu) but the movie is really about the intense relationship between the women, and is filled with plenty of subtext (and all-around hotness!)

I mean, look at all the pretty in this shot from the movie!!

I agree with everyone's lists! 

I just got back from a week in Paris and I'm telling you, every woman I laid eyes on there looks like these actresses. I almost got whiplash spinning around everytime one walked by me. And my gaydar was going off day and night.

Can any of our French readers help me out here? I remember seeing a short-lived TV show in the late 80s called Hotel de Police. I can find a very brief reference to it on IMDB.com, but no details of the cast or episodes. As well as being a damn good police drama (set in Paris), it starred a particularly gorgeous woman as one of the lead characters (a detective). My God, the crush I had on her! Do any of you know this series and can anyone tell me who she was?

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goes like this:

-Emmanuelle Beart

-Romy Schneider

-Isabelle Adjani

-Sophie Marceau

-Audrey Tatou

-Cecile de France

-Leatitia Casta

-Virginie Ledoyen

I just luv watching them potray any carachter they have to potray. If they are in the movie, i'm bying the ticket. lol.

I have to say that Marion Cotillard did a hell of a Job in "La mome". It realy was good great acting.

There's another movie with Catherine Deneuve having a major love story with another woman : Les Voleurs (Thieves) (1996, by André Téchiné). The plot is all about her love affair with one of her students (Deneuve plays a philosophy teacher, Marie), Juliette, who is also having an affair with another man. I remember watching over and over the bath scene hahaha...... (he! I was only 14 and full of admiration for older classy women!)

Isabelle Huppert, I just loved her too! I liked her strange role in the movie La Cérémonie (1995, Claude Chabrol) and I felt there was a huuuge lesbian subtext between the 2 women ; they were too close in their murder madness...

What about Isabelle Adjani - she looks just like MOnica Bellucci :

And Elodie Bauchez - she played on The L Word "

how about charlotte gainsbourg. her father was french. although i don't think she ever played a gay character...

i just loved her in "jane eyre"