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French cinema: Comedy/Thriller

Nuits rouges (1974)
Georges Franju

A mysterious master criminal is determined to recover the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, but the one man who may be able to help him - the historian Maxime de Borrego - prefers death to giving away the secret...   [More...]

OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions (2006)
Michel Hazanavicius

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...   [More...]

OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (2009)
Michel Hazanavicius

In 1967, France's top secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, codenamed OSS 117, is sent to Brazil to locate a former high-ranking Nazi who is threatening to sell a microfilm listing the names of French collaborators in WWII...   [More...]

Pierrot le fou (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard

Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair...   [More...]

Polar (1984)
Jacques Bral

A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris...   [More...]

Poupoupidou (2011)
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu

David Rousseau is a successful writer of crime novels but lately his inspiration appears to have deserted him completely...   [More...]

Tête blonde (1949)
Maurice Cam

As he heads home one evening, Frédéric Truche is delighted when he spies an abandoned parcel on a luggage rack in the Paris metro...   [More...]

Tip Top (2013)
Serge Bozon

After an informer of Algerian origin is killed in Villeneuve, a nondescript little town in northern France, two senior police officers, Esther Lafarge and Sally Marinelli, are sent to investigate...   [More...]

Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
Georges Lautner

Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican...   [More...]

Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003)
Sylvain Chomet

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...   [More...]

Vivement dimanche! (1983)
François Truffaut

When a man named Massoulier is shot dead, estate agent Julien Vercel is arrested as his fingerprints are on the dead man's car...   [More...]


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