Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Film studios based in France
RevenueBase identified 531 film studios headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 6,304 professional contacts across them, including 1,290 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers film studios headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest film studios based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 677 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Formed in 1895, Gaumont is the first and oldest film company in the world, with offices in Paris and Los Angeles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 663 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pathé est leader de l’exploitation cinématographique en France, aux Pays-Bas et en Suisse et est également présent en Belgique et en Afrique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 449 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Au premier rang du cinéma européen, Pathé est présent dans les différents métiers de la production (France, Royaume-Uni), de la distribution (France, Royaume-Uni, Suisse), et de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 432 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “STUDIOCANAL, CANAL+’s in-house studio, is Europe’s leading film and television studio, with worldwide production and distribution capabilities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 368 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TAT productions recently expanded into film production, producing its first feature film THE JUNGLE BUNCH, distributed by SND.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1907 in the early days of cinema, Eclair is a historic, innovative and respected company in the motion picture and television industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tu Nous ZA Pas Vus est une société de production audiovisuelle implantée à Arles, en région PACA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BONNE PIOCHE, fondée et dirigée aujourd'hui par Yves Darondeau et Emmanuel Priou, est un groupe indépendant de production de films pour le cinéma et la télévision.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We offer all picture and sound post-production services for movies and television - Dailies - Picture and Sound Editing - Color Grading - Sound Recording and Mixing - VFX -…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a multi-award-winning Franco-American audiovisual group, operating across production, post-production, film development, and music development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Illumination Mac Guff is a feature animation studio based in Paris.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondée par Jean Bouthors, Vanessa Buttin-Labarthe et Rémy Schaepman, qui partagent depuis plusieurs années, dans les allées de La Cartoucherie, leur passion pour le cinéma et la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Les Films d’Ici occupent une place importante dans la création de contenus documentaires en France, comme à l’étranger, avec notamment des sélections régulières en festivals, des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fondée en 2006,\Else est l’agence de production audiovisuelle du groupe TBWA\.> 62 salariés.> 1 studio de post-production offline et online.> 3 studios son broadcast.> 1 plateau…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Les Films du Poisson is a French film production and distribution company founded in 1994 by Yaël Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Production • Distribution • Exploitation Séries TV • Cinéma • Documentaire • Animation •” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La Factorie est un studio d'animation et de post-production, lancé en 2016 au coeur de Ménilmontant, avec la société de production Watch Next Media et sa série Oscar et Malika…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sonis propose à ses clients, Distributeurs et Exploitants de cinéma, une palette de services permettant de couvrir l’ensemble des besoins logistiques des métiers du cinéma …” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innervision is a post production company based in Strasbourg since 2006 specialized in Cinema & Tv services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ocurens is a Paris and London-based, internationally-rewarded, production company and creative powerhouse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Neels is a creative studio founded by talented artists, supervisors and directors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “10.7 PRODUCTIONS is a motion pictures and film company based out of 25 AV DUQUESNE, Paris, Îledefrance, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tandem est un studio de distribution et de production de cinéma.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “INCOGNITA is a motion pictures and film company based at 9, RUE MORAND, Paris, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prime Entertainment Group has been a key player in the international distribution and production market for over 20 years, offering an extensive catalog of high-quality programs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: film studios. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names film studios.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of film studios, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name film studios. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Film studios based in France at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 531 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among film studios, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “film studios”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names film studios), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among film studios, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,290 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Film studios by metro
- Film studios in Paris258
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names film studios, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many film studios are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 531 film studios headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Gaumont, headquartered in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most film studios?
Paris leads with 258 headquartered companies, followed by Boulogne Billancourt (8) and Toulouse (8).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,290 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 531 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.