| Title | 
Director | 
Cast | 
Genre | 
Notes | 
| 36 Fillette | Catherine Breillat | Delphine Zentout, Étienne Chicot, Olivier Parnière | Drama |  | 
| The Abyss | André Delvaux | Gian Maria Volonté, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe | Historical film | French–Belgian co-production | 
| The Bear | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Tchéky Karyo | Children's/Family, adventure |  | 
| The Big Blue | Luc Besson | Jean-Marc Barr, Rosanna Arquette, Jean Reno | Adventure |  | 
| Camille Claudel | Bruno Nuytten | Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill | Drama |  | 
| 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 | 
| Emmanuelle 6 | Bruno Zincone | Nathalie Uher, Jean-René Gossart, Tamira | Drama |  | 
| L'enfance de l'art | Francis Girod | Clotilde de Bayser, Michel Bompoil | Drama | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival | 
| Faceless | Jesús Franco | Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Telly Savalas | Horror |  | 
| Gandahar | René Laloux |  | Animated |  | 
| Hôtel Terminus | Marcel Ophüls | Klaus Barbie, Marcel Ophüls | Documentary film |  | 
| Kung-Fu Master | Agnès Varda | Jane Birkin Mathieu Demy | Drama | Entered into the 38th 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 |  | 
| Natalia | Bernard Cohn | Pierre Arditi, Philippe Leory-Beaulieu, Gérard Blain, Michel Voïta | Drama | Screened at the 1988 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 the 1988 Cannes Film Festival | 
| The Vanishing | George Sluizer | Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Johanna ter Steege, Gene Bervoets | Thriller | Dutch–French co-production |