| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 15 Août | Patrick Alessandrin | Richard Berry, Charles Berling, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Mélanie Thierry | Family comedy | |
| À ma sœur! | Catherine Breillat | Roxane Mesquida | Drama | 4 wins & 2 nominations |
| Absolument fabuleux | Gabriel Aghion | Josiane Balasko, Nathalie Baye, Claude Gensac | Comedy | |
| A Crime in Paradise | Laurent Heynemann | Jacques Villeret | Comedy | |
| Adieu Babylone | Raphaël Frydman | Isild Le Besco, Emmanuel Faventines, Raphaël Frydman | Drama | [1] |
| Aïe | Sophie Fillières | | | |
| Amélie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz | Comedy drama | Nominated for 5 Oscars, 48 wins, 37 nominations. |
| Antilles sur Seine | Pascal Légitimus | Chantal Lauby, Med Hondo | Crime comedy | [2] |
| Bandits d'amour | Pierre Le Bret | Florence Loiret-Caille, Vincent Ozanon | | [3] |
| Barnie et ses petites contrariétés | Bruno Bauer Chiche | Fabrice Luchini, Nathalie Baye | | [4] |
| Bella Ciao | Stéphane Giusti | Jacques Gamblin, Yael Abecassis | Romantic comedy | [5] |
| Belphégor, le fantôme du Louvre | Jean-Paul Salomé | Sophie Marceau, Michel Serrault | Fantasy | |
| Bon Plan | Jérôme Lévy | Ludivine Sagnier, Véronique Balme | | [6] |
| Boyhood Loves | Yves Caumon | Mathieu Amalric | Drama | Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival |
| Brotherhood of the Wolf | Christophe Gans | Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci | Historic drama | |
| Carrément à l'Ouest | Jacques Doillon | Lou Doillon, Caroline Ducey | Comedy drama | [7] |
| Ceci est mon corps | Rodolphe Marconi | Louis Garrel, Jane Birkin | | [8] |
| Ceux D'en Face | Jean-Daniel Pollet | Michael Lonsdale | Drama | [9] |
| Chaos | Coline Serreau | Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot | Drama | |
| Change-moi Ma Vie | Liria Begeja | Fanny Ardant, Roschdy Zem | | [10] |
| Charmant Garçon | Patrick Chesnais | Patrick Chesnais, Alexandra Vandernoot | Comedy drama | [11] |
| Clément | Emmanuelle Bercot | Emmanuelle Bercot | | Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Closet | Francis Veber | Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu | Comedy | |
| Combat D'amour En Songe | Raoul Ruiz | | Fantasy drama | [12] |
| Confession d'un dragueur | Alain Soral | Saïd Taghmaoui, Thomas Dutronc | | [13] |
| Confort Moderne | Dominique Choisy | Nathalie Richard, Valérie Mairesse | Thriller | [14] |
| Day Off | Pascal Thomas | | Comedy drama | [15] |
| De l'histoire ancienne | Orso Miret | Yann Goven, Olivier Gourmet | Drama | [16] |
| Electroménager | Sylvain Monod | Éric Elmosnino, Camille Japy | | [17] |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins | War | American-British-French-German-Irish co-production |
| Faites comme si je n'étais pas là | Olivier Jahan | Sami Bouajila, Alexia Stresi | Drama | [18] |
| Félix et Lola | Patrice Leconte | Charlotte Gainsbourg, Philippe Torreton | Drama | [19] |
| Franck Spadone | Richard Bean | Monica Bellucci, Stanislas Merhar | Thriller | [20] |
| Gamer | Patrick Levy | Saïd Taghmaoui, Camille de Pazzis | | [21] |
| The Girl from Paris | Christian Carion | Michel Serrault | Comedy drama | 3 wins & 1 nomination |
| Grégoire Moulin contre l'humanité | Artus de Penguern | Pascale Arbillot, Elisabeth Vitali | Comedy | [22] |
| Harrison's Flowers | Élie Chouraqui | Andie MacDowell, Elias Koteas | | |
| How I Killed My Father | Anne Fontaine | Charles Berling, Michel Bouquet | Thriller | |
| Imago (jours de folie) | Marie Vermillard | Nathalie Richard, Frédéric Pierrot | Comedy drama | |
| I'm Going Home | Manoel de Oliveira | Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve | Drama | |
| Intimacy | Pierre Chereau | Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox | | Co-produced with UK |
| In Praise of Love | Jean-Luc Godard | Bruno Putzulu | Drama | Nominated for Palme d'Or at Cannes, +2 wins, +2 nom. |
| J'ai faim !!! | Florence Quentin | Catherine Jacob, Michele Larogue | Comedy | [23] |
| J’ai Tué Clémence Acéra | Jean-Luc Gaget | Gérald Laroche, Sacha Bourdo | Comedy drama | [24] |
| Jeu de Cons | Jean-Michel Verner | Frédéric Diefenthal, Anthony Delon | Comedy | [25] |
| Just Visiting | Jean-Marie Poiré | Jean-Marie Poiré | Comedy | |
| Karmen Geï | Joseph Gaï Ramaka | Djeïnaba Diop Gaï, Stephanie Biddle, Magaye Adama Niang | Musical | Adaptation of the opera Carmen, Canadian-French-Senegalese coproduction |
| L'Anglaise et le Duc | Éric Rohmer | Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus | Historical | [26] |
| L'Art (délicat) de la séduction | Richard Berry | Patrick Timsit, Cécile de France | | |
| L'Homme des foules | John Lvoff | Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Maria de Medeiros | | [27] |
| La Boite | Claude Zidi | William Kinganga, Nassim Lazouguen | Comedy | [28] |
| La Fille de son père | Jacques Deschamps | Natacha Régnier, François Berléand | Thriller | [29] |
| La Tour Montparnasse Infernale | Charles Némès | Éric Judor | Comedy | |
| La Vérité si je mens! 2 | Thomas Gilou | Richard Anconina, José Garcia | | [30] |
| Le Roman de Lulu | Pierre-Olivier Scotto | Thierry Lhermitte, Claire Keim | | [31] |
| Le Royaume des rapiats | Michel Vignaud | Gael Bordier, Patrick Athenor | | [32] |
| Le Souffle | Damien Odoul | Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc, Dominique Chevallier | Drama | [33] |
| Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert | Philippe Harel | Antoine de Caunes, Sacha Bourdo | Comedy | [34] |
| Les Aliénés | Yvan Gauthier | Christopher Buchholz, Virginie Aster | | [35] |
| Liberté-Oléron | Bruno Podalydès | Denis Podalydès, Guilane Londez | Comedy | [36] |
| Ligne 208 | Bernard Dumont | Patrick Dell'isola, Pierre Martot | | [37] |
| Les Morsures de l'aube [fr] | Antoine de Caunes | Gilbert Melki | Fantasy thriller | [38] |
| Mademoiselle | Philippe Lioret | Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin | Comedy | Entered into the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival |
| Mon Père...il m'a sauve la vie | José Giovanni | Bruno Cremer, Rufus | | [39] |
| Mortel Transfert | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Jean-Hugues Anglade, Hélène de Fougerolles | Thriller | Co-produced with Germany |
| My Wife Is an Actress | Yvan Attal | Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg | Comedy drama | 1 win & 2 nominations |
| Mystery Troll | Éric Atlan | | | |
| Night Shift | Philippe Le Guay | Gérald Laroche, Marc Barbe | | [40] |
| Of Woman and Magic | Claude Miller | Anne Brochet, Mathilde Seigner | Comedy drama | [41] |
| The Officers' Ward | François Dupeyron | Éric Caravaca | War drama | 2 wins & 7 nominations, entered at Cannes |
| On appelle ça... le printemps | Herve Leroux | Marilyne Canto, Marise Cupaiolo | | [42] |
| Origine contrôlée | Zakia Bouchaala, Ahmed Bouchaala | Ronit Elkabetz | Comedy drama | |
| La Pianiste | Michael Haneke | Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot | Romance | [43] |
| Poetical Refugee | Abdellatif Kechiche | Sami Bouajila | Drama | [44] |
| The Pornographer | Bertrand Bonello | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Drama | 1 win & 1 nomination |
| Pretty Things | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Marion Cotillard, Stomy Bugsy | | [45] |
| Quand on sera grand | Renaud Cohen | Mathieu Demy, Amira Casar | | [46] |
| Que faisaient les femmes... | Chris Vander Stappen | Tsilla Chelton, Christian Crahay | Comedy drama | [47] |
| Read My Lips | Jacques Audiard | Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos | Crime drama | 7 wins & 11 nominations |
| Replay | Catherine Corsini | Emmanuelle Béart, Pascale Bussières | Comedy drama | Entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival |
| Roberto Succo | Cédric Kahn | Stefano Cassetti | | Entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival |
| Savage Souls | Raúl Ruiz | Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal | Drama | Co-production with Belgium and Switzerland
Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival[48] |
| Sobibor, 14 Oct. 1943, 4 p.m. | Claude Lanzmann | | Documentary | Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival |
| Tanguy | Étienne Chatiliez | Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier | Comedy drama | 2 nominations |
| Time Out | Laurent Cantet | Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard | Drama | |
| Too Much Flesh | Jean-Marc Barr et Pascal Arnold | Élodie Bouchez, Jean-Marc Barr | | [49] |
| Toutes les nuits | Eugène Green | Anna Bielecka, Claude Merlin | Drama | [50] |
| Trouble Every Day | Claire Denis | Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey | Horror / Thriller | 2 nominations |
| Un Aller Simple | Laurent Heynemann | Lorànt Deutsch | | |
| Va savoir | Jacques Rivette | Jeanne Balibar | Comedy drama | Entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival |
| Vidocq | Pitof | Gérard Depardieu | Crime / Fantasy | 7 wins & 2 nominations |
| Voyance et Manigance | Éric Fourniols | Emmanuelle Béart, Serge Hazanavicius | Comedy | [51] |
| Winged Migration | Jacques Perrin a.o. | | Documentary | Nominated for Oscar, +3 wins, +9 nom. |
| Yamakasi | Ariel Zeitoun | | Action / Drama | |
| Yes, But... | Yves Lavandier | Gérard Jugnot, Émilie Dequenne | Comedy drama | 4 wins |
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