This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekly box office in France during 2012. The weeks start on Wednesdays, and finish on Tuesdays. The box-office number one is established in terms of tickets sold during the week.
| Date | Film | Tickets sold | Box-office gross (weekend) | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intouchables | 687,681 | US$4,532,890 | |||
| 2 | J. Edgar | 627,624 | US$4,402,714 | J. Edgar broke the 10-week number-one streak of Intouchables. | ||
| 3 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 477,509 | US$3,246,603 | |||
| 4 | 981,375 | US$7,261,137 | ||||
| 5 | La Vérité si je mens | 3 | 1,944,022 | US$14,204,525 | La vérité si je mens ! 3 made the lowest-grossing opening week for the franchise. Also noting that the movie was benefiting from the third widest release ever behind Asterix at the Olympic Games and Nothing to Declare. | |
| 6 | 1,059,930 | US$7,394,263 | ||||
| 7 | 742,335 | US$5,146,820 | ||||
| 8 | Chronicle | 458,842 | US$3,157,205 | |||
| 9 | The Players | 1,082,028 | US$7,794,808 | This movie, featuring Jean Dujardin, was released days after his Academy Award for Best Actor win. The Artist was second this week, and made the best 20th week of all-time following a wide re-release. | ||
| 10 | 550,596 | US$4,093,705 | The Players beat John Carter, which was a box office bomb all around the world. | |||
| 11 | My Way | 1,006,479 | US$5,800,411 | Project X had a much higher average of tickets sold per theater. | ||
| 12 | The Hunger Games | 509,426 | US$3,803,910 | |||
| 13 | Big is Beautiful | 365,886 | US$2,509,729 | Big is Beautiful sold more tickets than Wrath of the Titans but the latter had a higher gross due to 3D. | ||
| 14 | Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami | 1,728,270 | US$10,594,491 | Sur la piste du Marsupilami was directed by Alain Chabat, starring himself and Jamel Debbouze, which were already reunited ten years prior in , which was an incredible success at the French box-office, totalling over 14.5 million tickets sold. | ||
| 15 | 1,288,098 | US$8,661,750 | ||||
| 16 | 1,015,296 | US$6,854,672 | ||||
| 17 | The Avengers | 2,041,362 | US$19,035,088 | The Avengers sold more tickets in one week, than every other Marvel movie in their entire theatrical run (except Iron Man 2). | ||
| 18 | 1,101,255 | US$6,911,388 | ||||
| 19 | Dark Shadows | 676,890 | US$4,891,523 | |||
| 20 | Rust and Bone | 651,578 | US$4,450,393 | Rust and Bone released on Thursday, but managed to beat other releases in tickets. Dark Shadows had more gross. | ||
| 21 | Men in Black 3 | 802,879 | US$6,120,494 | The third episode has the lowest number of tickets sold in the trilogy. | ||
| 22 | Prometheus | 812,356 | US$6,680,431 | |||
| 23 | 1,087,767 | US$9,025,832 | The opening week was stronger than the first Madagascar film, but slightly lower than . | |||
| 24 | Snow White and the Huntsman | 706,260 | US$4,784,715 | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted had a slightly higher revenue. | ||
| 25 | 512,764 | US$2,759,221 | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted had a slightly higher revenue. | |||
| 26 | 1,767,490 | US$12,763,644 | ||||
| 27 | 1,397,190 | US$9,456,081 | ||||
| 28 | 1,066,947 | US$7,555,672 | ||||
| 29 | 547,843 | US$3,839,833 | ||||
| 30 | The Dark Knight Rises | 1,835,547 | US$11,924,079 | |||
| 31 | Brave | 955,285 | US$6,496,657 | |||
| 32 | 490,863 | US$2,874,036 | ||||
| 33 | Total Recall | 551,476 | US$3,188,027 | The Dark Knight Rises (3,653,657) surpassed the box office total of The Dark Knight (3,036,568) | ||
| 34 | The Expendables 2 | 935,219 | US$6,078,277 | The Expendables had begun in 773,121 tickets sold in the first week, for a box office total of 1,651,610. | ||
| 35 | 500,906 | US$3,318,314 | ||||
| 36 | 219,085 | US$1,499,369 | ||||
| 37 | Camille Rewinds | 244,443 | US$1,570,109 | |||
| 38 | The Bourne Legacy | 485,799 | US$3,413,087 | |||
| 39 | The Dream Team | 1,088,676 | US$7,962,372 | |||
| 40 | Taken 2 | 1,231,066 | US$8,785,095 | Taken had begun in 291,494 tickets sold in the first week, for a box office total of 1,018,518. | ||
| 41 | 717,111 | US$5,272,141 | Ted (418,035) and In the House (403,162) in their first week. | |||
| 42 | Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia | 1,132,279 | US$9,267,980 | |||
| 43 | Skyfall | 1,839,220 | US$10,506,171 | Opened on Friday. | ||
| 44 | 2,186,661 | US$15,267,955 | ||||
| 45 | 1,136,474 | US$8,495,114 | ||||
| 46 | 2,409,923 | US$17,889,239 | had begun in 2,018,771 tickets sold in the first week. | |||
| 47 | 1,029,989 | US$7,696,731 | ||||
| 48 | Rise of the Guardians | 571,590 | US$4,778,895 | |||
| 49 | 402,279 | US$3,324,405 | ||||
| 50 | 1,434,119 | US$11,122,466 | ||||
| 51 | 900,000 | US$8,224,020 | ||||
| 52 | 1,109,453 | US$10,137,960 | ||||