French films Comedy/Thriller
Mortel transfert (2001) 
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Michel Durand is a psychoanalyst who is no longer surprised by anything his patients tell him. Not even the anxious utterances of a heckled maths teacher or the surrealist ramblings of kleptomaniac Olga Kubler can keep him awake anymore. Life offers no more surprises for Michel, or so he thinks. When he stirs from one of his more justifiable mid-consultation naps...
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Wasabi (2001)
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Hubert is a police inspector with a kind heart but an iron fist. Although he gets results, not everyone appreciate his methods. It is whilst thwarting a transvestite-themed bank robbery that he accidentally demolishes the son of his police chief. Suspended from work, he is working out what do with his life when he receives phone call from a Japanese lawyer...
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8 femmes (2002) 
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In the 1950s, a beautiful society lady, Gaby, lives with her husband Marcel, a wealthy industrialist, in a remote country mansion – along with her mother, spinster sister Augustine, teenage daughters Suzon and Catherine, and maids Louise and Madame Chanel. One winter’s day, Gaby returns to her house with her daughter Suzon to find that her husband has been murdered...
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Mon idole (2002)
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Bastien, young and ambitious production assistant for a popular reality TV programme, is offended when his employer, the star presenter Philippe Letzger, steals his idea for a new programme. He takes his complaint to Jean-Louis Broustal, the TV station’s headman, and is surprised when Broustal invites him to spend the weekend at his country estate...
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Ce jour-là (2003)
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When she consults her runes Livia, a beautiful but insane young woman, is promised the best day of her life. The day starts well enough when a homicidal psychopath, Emil, escapes from an asylum and takes refuge in Livia’s sprawling country house. But then Livia’s scheming family, headed by the patriarchal Harald...
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La Fleur du mal (2003)
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François Vasseur returns to his well-to-do family home in Bordeaux after a four year stay in the United States and finds little has changed. His stepmother, Anne Charpin-Vasseur, is once more running in the local elections and his father, Gérard, still manages the local pharmacy. He is even able to carry on his amorous liaison with his stepsister...
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Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003)
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The solitary Madame Souza is resolved to do all she can to cheer up her sad orphaned grandson, Champion. When she discovers his passion for cycling, she buys him a bicycle and starts to train him so that he can enter the Tour de France cycling competition. The years pass, and Champion, now a fit young man, has every chance of living up to his name...
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Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés (2003) 
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When he arrives on the Côte d’Azur, accountant Edgar Lamarck is expecting nothing more than to do some business, conning a shipyard owner, Thierry Ferrand, with an under-valuation of his business. He doesn’t expect to be caught up in a hair-raising, death-defying thriller intrigue. His big mistake was to go looking for some night time entertainment to round off the evening...
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Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose? (2003)
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Bornsville is the typical small American town where nothing ever happens. So when something does happen, it is bound to cause a stir. Pamela Rose, a striptease performer, is found dead in her hotel room and two FBI agents – Riper and Bullit – are sent in to investigate. Naturally, the local police are none too pleased at this intrusion...
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Ripoux 3 (2003)
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It’s been ten years since crooked cops René and François went their separate ways. Whilst René fritters away his time gambling on the horses, his former partner in crime François tries to prove his mettle as an honest cop. The latter is on the point of busting a Chinese money laundry operation when René appears and makes off with the booty...
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Tais-toi! (2003)
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This is the story of Quentin, an empty headed buffoon whose ambition is to run a small bistro, and Ruby, a ruthless crook who will stop at nothing to avenge the death of his girlfriend. After attempting a hold-up Quentin is arrested and sent to jail, where his talent for driving his fellow prisoners to distraction soon becomes apparent...
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San Antonio (2004) 
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When the President of France mysteriously disappears, disgraced special agent San Antonio is called into investigate. Assisted by his sidekick, the woman-mad Bérurier, San Antonio soon realises he is up against a band of dangerous and intelligent criminals. But who is their mastermind?...
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Grabuge! (2005)
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Commissioner Lancret enlists Maurice, a devotee of Spanish culture, in the hunt for a killer who has committed a series of atrocious murders. The culprit is believed to be someone trading illegally in residence permits. As they progress their investigation, Lancret and Maurice develop a close friendship, but their best efforts may be thwarted when they realise who they are up against......
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Le Couperet (2005)
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When dedicated company man Bruno Davert loses his job in a corporate reorganisation, he comes close to losing his self-respect and his family. After two years of futile job-hunting, he hits on a brilliant scheme to win a senior post with another company. By advertising a bogus job vacancy, he gets potential rivals in his field to send him their CVs...
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Le Parfum de la dame en noir (2005)
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Newly weds Robert Darzac and Mathilde Stangerson set out to spend a few days with their friends Edith and Arthur Rance at their country estate. Not long after their arrival. Larsan, a man whom everyone had believed dead, appears to taunt them. Fortunately, the renowned journalist Rouletabille and his companion Sainclair are at hand to shed some light on the mystery......
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Lemming (2005)
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Alain Getty is a young robotics engineer whose latest invention, the Flying Webcam, delights his boss, Richard Pollock. One evening, Alain invites Pollock and his wife, Alice, to dine at his home with his wife Bénédicte. Alice spoils the evening by revealing her husband’s infidelity. Later, Alain is working late in his laboratory when Alice appears and tries to seduce...
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L'Entente cordiale (2006)
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Crooked arms dealer Viktor Zilenko steals a revolutionary microchip which, when implanted into a soldier, makes him impervious to pain. Zilenko intends to sell the chip back to the Russians through the intermediary of the French secret service. François de la Conche, an aristocratic secret agent, is sent to London to undertake the transaction...
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La Raison du plus faible (2006)
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Patrick, Robert and Jean-Pierre are three friends who pass their empty days playing cards, unable to find work in the industrial Belgian town where they live. A newcomer, Marc, joins their group. When the others learn that he has just been released from prison, they are inspired to mount a hold-up. Having resolved to start a new life for himself...
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OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions (2006) 
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In 1955, Cairo is a hornet’s nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117. On what may prove to be his most dangerous assignment yet...
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Affaire de famille (2008)
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To all appearances, the Guignebons are a typical middle class French family. They live in Grenoble, near to the sports stadium where Jean, the father, a keen footbal enthusiast, spends many a happy hour. One day, the takings from a match at the stadium are stolen and that same evening someone sets fire to the Guignebons’ garden shed...
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