@Tsarstepan​ 

1) The question would be: "What is your favorite complaint".

2) I don't know if "lament" is the right translation of "complainte" to describe that musical style in English. When I google "Lament for..." on YouTube, the only results are fan-made laments for the Rohirrim and Boromir. 

There is the translation of the definition that Larousse gives of "complainte" if it may help: "Popular song recounting the misfortunes of a character."

And, there is the google translation of the three other songs I listed:

Complainte de l'auberge rouge:

Christians, all come and listen
A genuine complaint.
That of three inhuman monsters, their crimes are appalling.

120 years ago, they murdered passers-by.

In Peyre-beille, in Vivarais, in the department of Ardèche, on an isolated road, they established their business.

The inn is on the high road
Where they slaughtered humans.

These freaks had a daughter
full of amenities,
Although she is so nice,
She had no lover.

Do we know many hostels,
Where from evening till morning,
A girl remains a virgin like the Martin girl?

We can never know
The number of so many victims,
On the doors at one hundred and thirty three
But there are, maybe a thousand...

Tremble all nations at the crimes of this house!

We had in the mountains,
From Tuillette to Coucouron,
For Martin and his company,
Consideration.

Knowing them at their ease,
Belief in their virtue,
Because often don't mind,
Esteem follows crowns.

barrel organ player,
This poor Devil on a snowy evening,
With a transvestite monkey,
At the inn, was trapped.

Morality!
That this bloody affair,
For you, serve as a lesson:
Virtue will be dear to you and God will be good to you.

Complainte de Bouvier l'éventreur:

Little shepherds, pretty shepherdesses, innocent pipers, when your sheep quench their thirst to the clear wave of a stream, in the reeds, in the ferns, you dread seeing the wolf suddenly delight a lamb and take it to its lair. But there are greater dangers, you have not thought. There are beasts worse than the bloodthirsty tiger, more fatal than the vampire and more treacherous than the serpent. They are madmen who violent and sign their perverse act by carving on the chair of their innocent victims. It's the height of this horror came to Bouvier the Ripper. Bouvier is indeed of this breed, of a trekker, of a tramp, begging lodging and subsistence. Anarchists and marginals. At the harvest and the vintage, on the see haunting the hamlets, always hiding under his hat, his gaze with strange gleams. He looks like a good boy when he plays the accordion. He made a long journey, sometimes retracing his steps, committing multiple crimes, until the day on which he stopped. So he says that in his youth, a rabid dog bit him and that a medicine weaken his mind. moreover, this odious being be inspired by God. For my complaint to be over, I await the outcome of the judgment. In our country justice is rarely wrong. So, good people trust, to investigators, magistrates, to the court which will judge, the one who made France tremble. Waiting for the jailers to watch night and day on Bouvier!

La complainte de mon frère:

It was in October in St-Joseph d'AlmaThough my life is sober should end thereAnd sorrow to God my mother goodbye all my parentsHere I am leaving you today for a long timeListen to my story young man traveled thereI always remember having eternityDeath can appear without you expecting itWith her treacherous hand she might hit youIt was in October in St-Joseph d'AlmaDespite my sober life had to end thereAt my brother's home come and have my supperHere I was hardly expecting to find you allWhen we come back from life we ​​are bigger strongerAnd then we laugh at having been afraid of deathHope has just been reborn, it's up to us to keep itRepelling false masters is eternityFighting false masters is freedom

Please add the question to the list.

@cinephile,

Le bump.

@dan_dassow​ 

added

@cinephile​ ,

You currently have:

What is your favorite "complainte" in films.

Note: I included the name of who sang it in the film. Not those of who wrote it.

What is your favorite complain?

This probably would be better as:

What is your favorite "complainte" in films?

Note: I included the name of who sang it in the film. Not those of who wrote it.

@dan_dassow​ 

corrected

@cinephile​ ,

Thanks for making the correction.

@Breumaster​ 

What about "The Hanging Tree"?

P.S.: Sung by Jeniffer Lawrence.

@Breumaster​ 

Another one:

Hoist The Colours

by Hans Zimmer in At Worlds End.

Lawrence Cummings

@Breumaster​ 

Anyway - Great idea, love it.

Look Down

from Les Misérables

Hugh Jackman

@Breumaster​ 

In thematic, these songs seem to fit, but all the other ones I listed had no repetitions in the lyrics. 

@Jessica​ 

done

@Pencho15​ 

I posted it above: 

"Popular song recounting the misfortunes of a character." -Larousse

I'm as in the dark as you, I don't know wheter it has an equivalent in English. I'm not a music historian. I did that poll to find out myself what the definition is. They call it "lament" in English.

@cinephile​ I saw it, but I mean in the list, so it is visible for those voting.

Most of them will not visit the discussion thread, or will do it after voting, so at the moment of casting a vote many won't know what you mean.

@cinephile​ 

I also think you can include the definition in the list.

And the title still needs an edit:

"Complainte" in Films