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French cinema: Thriller

11.6 (2013)
Philippe Godeau

For ten years, Toni Musulin has worked as a security guard, delivering money without incident and without arousing the slightest suspicion...   [More...]

125 rue Montmartre (1959)
Gilles Grangier

Pascal makes a modest living selling newspapers on the streets of Paris. He may have a surly temperament but he is a good natured soul at heart, always ready to help a fellow creature if he can...   [More...]

13 m2 (2007)
Barthélémy Grossmann

Living in the rough suburbs of present-day Paris, José, Farouk and Réza are three wild young men who find life hard and increasingly precarious...   [More...]

13 Tzameti (2005)
Géla Babluani

A young immigrant Sébastien arrives in France and gets work repairing the roof of a house belonging to a strange couple...   [More...]

27 rue de la Paix (1937)
Richard Pottier

Gloria Grand is in love with a respected barrister Maître Jean Bernard and hopes that one day they will marry. The only thing standing in the way of their future connubial bliss is Gloria's present husband, the philandering scoundrel Denis Grand...   [More...]

36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)
Olivier Marchal

For the past few months, Paris has been assailed by a series of increasingly violent armoured car robberies. Mindful of public opinion, the chief of police, Robert Mancini, is determined that the culprits be brought to book as quickly as possible and to that end he offers a personal challenge to two of his best men - Léo Vrinks and Denis Klein...   [More...]

38 témoins (2012)
Lucas Belvaux

Louise Morvand returns from a business trip to China and finds that the street where she lives in Le Havre is in a state of shock...   [More...]

La 7ème cible (1984)
Claude Pinoteau

Bastien Grimaldi, a former journalist now in his fifties, leads a tranquil existence until one night he becomes the victim of three unknown assailants...   [More...]

À bout de souffle (1960)
Jean-Luc Godard

Michel Poiccard is a small-time crook on a mission: to recover some money owed to him by his criminal associates. To that end, he steals a car in Marseille and heads for Paris...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

À chacun son enfer (1977)
André Cayatte

A desperate woman makes a mad dash to the television studios, anxious not to waste one second of the air time she has been granted...   [More...]

À double tour (1959)
Claude Chabrol

Henri Marcoux is a fully paid up member of the French bourgeoisie. He owns a large private estate in Provence, where he lives with his wife Thérèse and two grown-up children, Richard and Elisabeth...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

À l'intérieur (2007)
Alexandre Bustillo

Sarah continues to be traumatised by her memory of the horrific car accident which cost the life of her husband and which very nearly killed her as well...   [More...]

À mort l'arbitre (1984)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

Coachloads of supporters arrive at a football stadium for a decisive soccer match between two French football teams. The match is refereed by Maurice Bruno...   [More...]

À nous deux (1979)
Claude Lelouch

Simon Lacassaigne is the son of a notorious hoodlum and has every intention of following in his father's footsteps. His criminal career is cut short, however, when he is arrested and thrown into prison...   [More...]

À pleines mains (1960)
Maurice Régamey

In Spain, a gang of crooks make off with an enormous quantity of watermarked paper with which they intend to make counterfeit banknotes...   [More...]

À tout de suite (2004)
Benoît Jacquot

Paris, 1975. Lili, a 19-year old arts student, comes from a privileged family and her life so far has been without incident...   [More...]

L'Adieu à la nuit (2019)
André Téchiné

When her teenage grandson Alex comes to visit her, Muriel is over the moon. It seems he is about to head off to Canada to start a new life, but before he goes he wants to spend a few peaceful days with the one relative he is still on good terms with...   [More...]

Adieu, poulet (1975)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

In the course of a fiercely contested election in the French town of Rouen, a violent fight breaks out between the supporters of the two candidates...   [More...]

L'Adversaire (2002)
Nicole Garcia

For the past fifteen years, Jean-Marc Faure has kept up the deception that he is a brilliant physician with a senior position in the World Health Organisation...   [More...]

Affaire de famille (2008)
Claus Drexel

Jean and Laure Guignebon are an ordinary middle-class French couple who lead an ordinary middle-class life in Grenoble. Laure preoccupies herself with her souvenir shop and daughter Marine, whilst her husband indulges his passion for football at the nearby stadium...   [More...]

L'Affaire Farewell (2009)
Christian Carion

Moscow in the early 1980s, at the height of the Cold War. Sergueï Grigoriev is a colonel in the KGB who has become so disillusioned with the regime running his country that he decides to bring down the system...   [More...]

L'Affaire Marcorelle (2000)
Serge Le Péron

At the end of a solitary evening, François Marcorelle, a respected magistrate, finds himself in the bedroom of a young Polish woman, whom he met at a Turkish restaurant...   [More...]

L'Affaire Nina B. (1961)
Robert Siodmak

The funeral of German businessman Berrera attracts a distinguished crowd of mourners, but few tears are shed. His chauffeur, Holden, recalls how, shortly after his release from prison, Berrera hired him and offered him a part in a crucial mission...   [More...]

L'Affaire SK1 (2015)
Frédéric Tellier

In 1991, Franck Magne is finding his feet as a young police inspector at Paris's police department, 36 quai des Orfèvres...   [More...]

Agent trouble (1987)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

One winter's morning a coach laden with tourists careers off the road and plunges into an icy lake in the Pyrenees. Fifty are killed...   [More...]

L'Agression (1975)
Gérard Pirès

The Varlins are an ordinary French family who are looking forward to their holiday on the Grande Motte, a mountain in the Savoie region of France...   [More...]

Akoibon (2005)
Edouard Baer

To save his friend from being dismembered piece by piece, small-time con artist Nader must travel to a remote holiday island and deliver Chris Barnes, a faded celebrity, into the hands of a mysterious (and totally ruthless) boss...   [More...]

L'Alibi (1937)
Pierre Chenal

Professor Winckler is a distinguished master of the occult sciences and telepathy. Whilst he is performing his famous mind-reading act at a Parisian nightclub, he is surprised to see his most hated enemy, an American named Gordon, sitting in the audience...   [More...]



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