| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|
| 36 Fillette | Catherine Breillat | Delphine Zentout,Étienne Chicot,Olivier Parnière | Drama | [1][2] |
| The Abyss | André Delvaux | Gian Maria Volonté,Sami Frey,Jacques Lippe | Historical film | French–Belgian co-production[3][4] |
| The Bear | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Tchéky Karyo | Children's/Family, adventure | [5][6] |
| The Big Blue | Luc Besson | Jean-Marc Barr,Rosanna Arquette,Jean Reno | Adventure | [7][8] |
| Camille Claudel | Bruno Nuytten | Isabelle Adjani,Gérard Depardieu,Laurent Grévill | Drama | [9][10] |
| Chocolat | Claire Denis | François Cluzet,Isaach de Bankolé, Giulia Boschi | Drama | |
| Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Philippe Noiret,Salvatore Cascio,Marco Leonardi | Drama | Italian–French co-production[11][12] |
| Emmanuelle 6 | Bruno Zincone | Nathalie Uher,Jean-René Gossart,Tamira | Drama | [13][14] |
| L'enfance de l'art | Francis Girod | Clotilde de Bayser,Michel Bompoil | Drama | Entered into the1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| Faceless | Jesús Franco | Helmut Berger,Brigitte Lahaie,Telly Savalas | Horror | |
| Gandahar | René Laloux | | Animated | [15] |
| Hôtel Terminus | Marcel Ophüls | Klaus Barbie,Marcel Ophüls | Documentary film | |
| Kung-Fu Master | Agnès Varda | Jane BirkinMathieu Demy | Drama | Entered into the38th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Let Sleeping Cops Lie | José Pinheiro | Alain Delon,Michel Serrault | Crime | |
| Life Is a Long Quiet River | Étienne Chatiliez | Benoît Magimel | Comedy | 4 wins & 3 nominations |
| The Little Thief | Claude Miller | Charlotte Gainsbourg,Didier Bezace,Simon de La Brosse | Drama | [16] |
| Natalia | Bernard Cohn | Pierre Arditi,Philippe Leory-Beaulieu,Gérard Blain,Michel Voïta | Drama | Screened at the1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| Story of Women | Claude Chabrol | Isabelle Huppert,François Cluzet | Drama | Nomin. for Golden Globe, +9 wins, +3 nom. |
| To Kill a Priest | Agnieszka Holland | Christopher Lambert,Ed Harris,Joss Ackland | Crime | |
| Sand and Blood | Jeanne Labrune | Sami Frey | Drama | Screened at the1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Vanishing | George Sluizer | Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu,Johanna ter Steege,Gene Bervoets | Thriller | Dutch–French co-production[17][18][19] |