Film Index
French cinema: Action/Adventure
À bout portant (2010)
Fred Cavayé
Everything was going so well for Samuel. He was about to qualify as a nurse and his wife Nadia was expecting their first child...
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Fred Cavayé
À fond (2016)
Nicolas Benamou
The departure for the summer holidays is always a miserable experience in France, but for one French family who set out on their annual excursion to sunnier climes a nightmare of unimaginable proportion looms as they hit the highway in their brand-new people carrier...
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Nicolas Benamou
Adieu l'ami (1968)
Jean Herman
Dino Barran and Franz Popp are two veterans of the war in Algeria who hope to embark on a new life upon their arrival in the French port of Marseille...
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Jean Herman
L'Alpagueur (1976)
Philippe Labro
"L'Alpagueur" is the code name for Roger Pilard, a bounty hunter who works for the French security services on cases where "conventional" police methods have failed...
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Philippe Labro
Les Anges gardiens (1995)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Antoine Carco, the proprietor of a seedy Parisian night club, travels to Hong Kong to honour the dying wishes of an old friend...
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Jean-Marie Poiré
L'Animal (1977)
Claude Zidi
Michel Gaucher is a stuntman who is about to marry his fiancée, Jane Gardner. Unfortunately, on the morning of his wedding he has to cancel the ceremony because he is required to perform a stunt for a movie... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Michel Gaucher is a stuntman who is about to marry his fiancée, Jane Gardner. Unfortunately, on the morning of his wedding he has to cancel the ceremony because he is required to perform a stunt for a movie... [More...]
Antigang (2015)
Benjamin Rocher
Serge Buren is a cop of some renown, working with a team of younger police officers whose methods are, to say the least, somewhat unconventional... [More...]
Benjamin Rocher
Serge Buren is a cop of some renown, working with a team of younger police officers whose methods are, to say the least, somewhat unconventional... [More...]
Arès (2016)
Jean-Patrick Benes
By 2035, France has become one of the poorest countries in the world. A fifth of the population - over ten million people - are without work, and poverty and homelessness are endemic... [More...]
Jean-Patrick Benes
By 2035, France has become one of the poorest countries in the world. A fifth of the population - over ten million people - are without work, and poverty and homelessness are endemic... [More...]
L'Arme à gauche (1965)
Claude Sautet
Whilst staying in the Caribbean, sailor Jacques Cournot, is hired by businessman Hendrix to check out a luxury yacht the latter is planning to buy... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Whilst staying in the Caribbean, sailor Jacques Cournot, is hired by businessman Hendrix to check out a luxury yacht the latter is planning to buy... [More...]
L'Assaut (2011)
Julien Leclercq
On Saturday, 24th December 1994, the whole of France is stunned by the news that a group of armed Islamic terrorists have hijacked an Air France Airbus-300 and taken the 227 people on board hostage... [More...]
Julien Leclercq
On Saturday, 24th December 1994, the whole of France is stunned by the news that a group of armed Islamic terrorists have hijacked an Air France Airbus-300 and taken the 227 people on board hostage... [More...]
Atout coeur à Tokyo pour O.S.S. 117 (1966)
Michel Boisrond
An American military base in the Pacific is blown up after the United States government refuses to accede to a ransom demand by a mysterious terrorist organisation... [More...]
Michel Boisrond
An American military base in the Pacific is blown up after the United States government refuses to accede to a ransom demand by a mysterious terrorist organisation... [More...]
Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117 (1964)
André Hunebelle
French agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, alias OSS 117, is sent to Bangkok to investigate the assassination of an American secret service agent... [More...]
André Hunebelle
French agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, alias OSS 117, is sent to Bangkok to investigate the assassination of an American secret service agent... [More...]
La Bande à Bonnot (1968)
Philippe Fourastié
In 1911, a group of hard-line anarchists - including Raymond-la-science, Garnier, Carouy, Soudy and Marie la Belge - give up their peaceful struggle against the bourgeoisie and, led by Jules Bonnot, become a gang of desperate armed criminals... [More...]
Philippe Fourastié
In 1911, a group of hard-line anarchists - including Raymond-la-science, Garnier, Carouy, Soudy and Marie la Belge - give up their peaceful struggle against the bourgeoisie and, led by Jules Bonnot, become a gang of desperate armed criminals... [More...]
La Bataille de l'eau lourde (1948)
Jean Dréville
Not long after Norway comes under Nazi Occupation at the start of World War II, the Germans commandeer a hydroelectric power plant in the mountains outside Rjukan... [More...]
Jean Dréville
Not long after Norway comes under Nazi Occupation at the start of World War II, the Germans commandeer a hydroelectric power plant in the mountains outside Rjukan... [More...]
Le Bled (1929)
Jean Renoir
Pierre Hoffer, a loafer from metropolitan France, is on his way to Algeria to beg some money off his uncle Christian, a prosperous farmer... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Pierre Hoffer, a loafer from metropolitan France, is on his way to Algeria to beg some money off his uncle Christian, a prosperous farmer... [More...]
Bleu comme l'enfer (1986)
Yves Boisset
Ned is a smalltime crook whose attempt to rob a motorway snack bar is frustrated by Franck, a ruthless cop. Never one to play by the rules if he can help it, Franck takes Ned back to his home at gunpoint, with the intention of inflicting on him some suitable form of chastisement... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Ned is a smalltime crook whose attempt to rob a motorway snack bar is frustrated by Franck, a ruthless cop. Never one to play by the rules if he can help it, Franck takes Ned back to his home at gunpoint, with the intention of inflicting on him some suitable form of chastisement... [More...]
Le Boulet (2002)
Alain Berbérian
Moltès, a rough gangster type serving a long prison stretch for murdering a police informer, has developed a cosy rapport with his warder, Francis Reggio... [More...]
Alain Berbérian
Moltès, a rough gangster type serving a long prison stretch for murdering a police informer, has developed a cosy rapport with his warder, Francis Reggio... [More...]
Les Brigades du Tigre (2006)
Jérôme Cornuau
In 1907, to counter the rising tide of violent crime in France, a special police unit known as the Mobile Brigade is set up by the Home Office minister Georges Clemenceau (a.k.a... [More...]
Jérôme Cornuau
In 1907, to counter the rising tide of violent crime in France, a special police unit known as the Mobile Brigade is set up by the Home Office minister Georges Clemenceau (a.k.a... [More...]
Cannabis (1970)
Pierre Koralnik
Serge Morgan is a hitman in the employ of the American Mafia. Having fulfilled his latest contract, he takes a plane to Paris... [More...]
Pierre Koralnik
Serge Morgan is a hitman in the employ of the American Mafia. Having fulfilled his latest contract, he takes a plane to Paris... [More...]
Le Capitan (1946)
Robert Vernay
France under the reign of King Louis XIII. In 1615, the Duke of Angoulême leads a faction of noblemen who conspire to drive from the royal court all Florentines, including their powerful leader Concini... [More...]
Robert Vernay
France under the reign of King Louis XIII. In 1615, the Duke of Angoulême leads a faction of noblemen who conspire to drive from the royal court all Florentines, including their powerful leader Concini... [More...]
Le Capitan (1960)
André Hunebelle
France, 1616. After the assassination of Henri IV, the queen mother Marie de Médicis governs France in the name of the young king, Louis XIII... [More...]
André Hunebelle
France, 1616. After the assassination of Henri IV, the queen mother Marie de Médicis governs France in the name of the young king, Louis XIII... [More...]
Cet homme est dangereux (1953)
Jean Sacha
After breaking out of a prison in Oklahoma, Lemmy Caution travels to the French Riviera to make contact with Miranda Van Zelden, an heiress who is the likely target of a gang of kidnappers... [More...]
Jean Sacha
After breaking out of a prison in Oklahoma, Lemmy Caution travels to the French Riviera to make contact with Miranda Van Zelden, an heiress who is the likely target of a gang of kidnappers... [More...]
Le Chant du loup (2019)
Antonin Baudry
Aboard a fully armed French nuclear submarine, a young sonar technician, Chanteraide, plays a vital role detecting unfamiliar sounds with his highly sensitive ears... [More...]
Antonin Baudry
Aboard a fully armed French nuclear submarine, a young sonar technician, Chanteraide, plays a vital role detecting unfamiliar sounds with his highly sensitive ears... [More...]
La Châtelaine du Liban (1956)
Richard Pottier
In Lebanon, Hennequin, the managing director of a French petroleum company, has just acquired the mining concessions in a remote region of the country from the Countess Athelstane Orloff... [More...]
Richard Pottier
In Lebanon, Hennequin, the managing director of a French petroleum company, has just acquired the mining concessions in a remote region of the country from the Countess Athelstane Orloff... [More...]
Les Chevaliers du ciel (2005)
Gérard Pirès
During an air display at Farnborough, a Mirage 2000 jet goes off the radar. Two French fighter pilots, Antoine Marchelli and Sébastien Vallois, are sent to intercept the plane... [More...]
Gérard Pirès
During an air display at Farnborough, a Mirage 2000 jet goes off the radar. Two French fighter pilots, Antoine Marchelli and Sébastien Vallois, are sent to intercept the plane... [More...]
Chok-Dee (2005)
Xavier Durringer
Ryan is a juvenile delinquent who lives in the rough suburbs of Paris. He survives in a tough world by pushing drugs and committing minor criminal offences... [More...]
Xavier Durringer
Ryan is a juvenile delinquent who lives in the rough suburbs of Paris. He survives in a tough world by pushing drugs and committing minor criminal offences... [More...]
Comme les cinq doigts de la main (2010)
Alexandre Arcady
After the fateful day when her husband was murdered Suzie Hayoun was forced to bring up her five sons by herself. The one thing she managed to drill into them was the importance of solidarity... [More...]
Alexandre Arcady
After the fateful day when her husband was murdered Suzie Hayoun was forced to bring up her five sons by herself. The one thing she managed to drill into them was the importance of solidarity... [More...]
Le Convoyeur (2004)
Nicolas Boukhrief
Vigilante is a small French company that delivers money in armoured vans. Over the past year it has had a hard time, with three armed robberies that have cost the lives of several members of staff... [More...]
Nicolas Boukhrief
Vigilante is a small French company that delivers money in armoured vans. Over the past year it has had a hard time, with three armed robberies that have cost the lives of several members of staff... [More...]
Diamant 13 (2009)
Gilles Béhat
Mat is a world-weary cop who has long had his illusions torn from him. Now in his late fifties, one of the least enthusiastic members of the 13th night division, he carries out his professional duties with an almost robotic perfunctoriness... [More...]
Gilles Béhat
Mat is a world-weary cop who has long had his illusions torn from him. Now in his late fifties, one of the least enthusiastic members of the 13th night division, he carries out his professional duties with an almost robotic perfunctoriness... [More...]
Dobermann (1997)
Jan Kounen
Known as Dobermann, Yann Le Pentec is a notorious killer hunted by the French police. He and his gang of equally ruthless outlaws, which include his mute gypsy girlfriend Nat, a dog lover and a priest, pull off a spectacular bank robbery in Paris... [More...]
Jan Kounen
Known as Dobermann, Yann Le Pentec is a notorious killer hunted by the French police. He and his gang of equally ruthless outlaws, which include his mute gypsy girlfriend Nat, a dog lover and a priest, pull off a spectacular bank robbery in Paris... [More...]