French films Crime/Thriller
Le Fauve est lâché (1959) 
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Former gangster and secret services operative, Paul Lamiani is now a respected married man who owns a restaurant. One day, he is contacted by the his former employers in the DST and asked to get in touch with his friend Marcel, who is implicated in the theft of some highly sensitive documents. Paul has no choice but to retrieve the stolen documents...
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Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959)
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Inspector Maigret returns to his home town and is reminiscing over his past when he receives a call for help from the Duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has just received an anonymous letter informing her that she will soon die. A short while later she does indeed die, from a heart attack. Convinced that she was murdered, Maigret begins his investigation......
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Un témoin dans la ville (1959) 
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Acquitted for the murder of his mistress, industrialist Verdier returns home one evening to face the dead woman’s vengeful husband, Ancelin. Verdier’s long over-due execution is well-planned and swift, but when Ancelin leaves his house, he runs into a taxi driver ordered by Verdier. Ancelin has no option but to pursue the taxi driver...
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Voulez-vous danser avec moi? (1959)
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When Virginie meets Hervé Dandieu, a dentist, she knows he is the man of her life and they soon marry. However, it isn’t long before they begin to fall out and start bickering over everything. One day, fed up with his domestic situation, Hervé leaves their apartment and goes for a walk in the city. At a cabaret...
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Classe tous risques (1960)
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Abel Davos, an ageing crook hunted by the police, decides to give up his life of crime, but only after having pulled off one last hold-up in Italy. The robbery is a success and he flees with the loot, accompanied by his wife and two sons. They get as far as the French border but are apprehended by customs inspectors. Although Davos and his two sons manage to escape...
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Comment qu'elle est! (1960) 
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FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives from the USA, his mission to uncover a dangerous spy named Varley. The French secret services, led by the anti-American General Rupert, are engaged on the same assignment and agree reluctantly to work with him. Caution’s investigation leads him to a seductive woman art dealer, just as a fellow agent...
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Le Trou (1960) 
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1947. A young man, Gaspard Claude, is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he is innocent of the crime. He is sent to the notorious Santé Prison in Paris and is placed in a cell with four hardened criminals. The latter have decided to escape from the prison by digging their way out of their cell...
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Plein soleil (1960)
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A young American, Tom Ripley, is offered a handsome reward from a wealthy businessman to bring his son, Philip Greenleaf, back home. For several years, Philip has been living the life of a playboy idler in Italy, amusing himself with his girlfriend Marge, at his father’s expense. Far from persuading Philip to return home...
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Tirez sur le pianiste (1960)
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Charlie Kohler, formerly a great concert pianist, now works as a piano player in a popular town bar. He has managed to keep his past a secret, until,unexpectedly, one of his brothers, Chico, turns up asking for help. Charlie’s two elder brothers are being harassed by some violent crooks who intend to settle a vendetta...
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Le Doulos (1962)
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Maurice Faugel is a burglar who has just finished a prison sentence. He is preparing a house break-in with some equipment provided by a friend, Silien. Unfortunately, someone tips off the police after Faugel has set out and the police arrive during the robbery. Faugel manages to escape but his accomplice is killed in an exchange of fire in which a policeman is also killed...
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Lemmy pour les dames (1962)
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Pursued by autograph hunters at every turn, the world’s most famous FBI agent, Lemmy Caution, soon regrets taking a holiday on the French Riviera. The holiday is soon over when a strange Italian woman is murdered shortly after soliciting help from Caution. The redoubtable FBI agent confronts the dead woman’s three female fiends...
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Chair de poule (1963)
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Daniel and Paul are two factory workers who supplement their income by some nocturnal safe-cracking. But their luck soon runs out: caught red-handed during a robbery, Paul kills a man before fleeing whilst Daniel is shot and arrested. Some time later, Daniel manages to escape whilst being transferred to a prison and goes into hiding in Haute-Provence...
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Judex (1963)
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The banker Favraux has made his fortune by preying on others far less scrupulous than he. One day, he receives a letter from someone named Judex threatening him with death unless he returns his ill-gotten gains to those from whom he stole them. Favraux scorns these threats but soon pays the price. At a masked ball to celebrate his daughter Jacqueline’s engagement he suddenly drops dead.....
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Le Meurtrier (1963)
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One winter evening, Melchior Kimmel kills his wife Hélène on a highway on the Côte d’Azur. Although the police suspect Kimmel of the murder, the case against him is dropped through lack of evidence. A few months later, another woman, Clara Saccard, is found dead at a bus station. This time, the suspect is her husband...
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Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
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An ageing gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter...
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Bande à part (1964)
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Three young people, Odile, Arthur and Frantz meet up at an English language class and become instant friends. They share an interest in literature and crime fiction. When Odile reveals that the house she is staying is loaded with loot, the three friends decide to stage a robbery. Of course, it all goes horribly wrong......
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La Grande frousse (1964)
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When a notorious forger, Mickey-le -Bénédictin, escapes police custody and execution, Inspector Triquet resolves to find him and let him know that, under French law, he is now a free man. Triquet’s hunt leads him to the provincial town of Barges, where the inhabitants are unutterably weird. In the course of Triquet’s haphazard investigation...
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Les Barbouzes (1964)
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After the death of an eminent weapons manufacturer, four ruthless secret agents named "Les Barbouzes" are assigned to recover the designs for a revolutionary thermonuclear device. They attend the funeral of the dead man and set out, by foul means or fair, to obtain the secret plans of the weapon from his wife. Unfortunately...
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Les Félins (1964)
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A vindictive American gangster boss is far from amused when he discovers that his wife has been entertaining herself with a French playboy named Marc. Spitting blood, he sends a group of his men to find Marc and return with his head. Finding the playboy proves to be easy but, just before the villains can do their worst...
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Compartiment tueurs (1965)
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On the night-train from Marseilles to Paris, a young woman is murdered in her sleeping compartment. Inspector Grazzi takes charge of the investigation, aided by his young assistant Jean-Lou. They track down the passengers who took the same train and uncover a web of intrigue. Then, one by one, the passengers are mysteriously killed…...
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