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French cinema: Crime/Thriller
Le Boucher (1970)
Claude Chabrol
After serving in both the Indochina and Algerian wars, Paul Thomas returns to his home village in a provincial backwater of France and takes over his father's butcher's shop...
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Claude Chabrol
Café de Paris (1938)
Yves Mirande
One New Year's Eve the Café de Paris is host to the capital's social élite, a glamorous ensemble of the rich and famous who come together to welcome in the new year in an atmosphere that positively reeks of decadence...
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Yves Mirande
Carlos (2010)
Olivier Assayas
A legend in his own lifetime, Carlos the Jackal (né Ilich Ramírez Sánchez) was at the epicentre of international terrorism in the 1970s and '80s...
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Olivier Assayas
Cavale (2002)
Lucas Belvaux
Bruno Le Roux is an extreme left-wing activist who, after his escape from prison, is more determined than ever to carry on his fight against capitalism...
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Lucas Belvaux
Ce jour-là (2003)
Raoul Ruiz
Livia is a rich heiress who lives in a grand house in a remote part of Switzerland, resented by her relatives who are jealous of her fortune and desperately want to get their hands on it...
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Raoul Ruiz
Cécile est morte (1944)
Maurice Tourneur
For six months, Cécile has been hounding the police for protection, so convinced is she that her life is in danger... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
For six months, Cécile has been hounding the police for protection, so convinced is she that her life is in danger... [More...]
Le Cercle rouge (1970)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Police superintendent Mattei is escorting a suspected criminal, Vogel, across France on a train. After a daring escape, Vogel, goes on the run... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Police superintendent Mattei is escorting a suspected criminal, Vogel, across France on a train. After a daring escape, Vogel, goes on the run... [More...]
Le Cerveau (1969)
Gérard Oury
Not long after pulling off a spectacular train robbery in Great Britain, the criminal genius The Brain is soon planning his next lucrative enterprise... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Not long after pulling off a spectacular train robbery in Great Britain, the criminal genius The Brain is soon planning his next lucrative enterprise... [More...]
Cette nuit là... (1958)
Maurice Cazeneuve
Jean Maillet and his dazzlingly photogenic wife Sylvie both work for a publishing house owned by Monsieur Reverdy, a ruthless businessman who is used to getting what he wants... [More...]
Maurice Cazeneuve
Jean Maillet and his dazzlingly photogenic wife Sylvie both work for a publishing house owned by Monsieur Reverdy, a ruthless businessman who is used to getting what he wants... [More...]
Chair de poule (1963)
Julien Duvivier
Daniel and Paul are two hard-up factory workers who supplement their income by some nocturnal safe-cracking. However, it isn't long before their luck runs out... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Daniel and Paul are two hard-up factory workers who supplement their income by some nocturnal safe-cracking. However, it isn't long before their luck runs out... [More...]
Le Choix des armes (1981)
Alain Corneau
Three criminals break out of prison and go on the run. In a bloody shootout, one of them is wounded. His punk accomplice, Mickey, takes him to a remote country house belonging to a former gangland boss, Noël Durieux... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Three criminals break out of prison and go on the run. In a bloody shootout, one of them is wounded. His punk accomplice, Mickey, takes him to a remote country house belonging to a former gangland boss, Noël Durieux... [More...]
Le Clan des Siciliens (1969)
Henri Verneuil
The Malanese family are one of Italy's most notorious criminal gangs, better know as the Sicilian Clan. Their latest criminal exploit will be the theft of a valuable collection of jewels as it is being shipped by air from Paris to New York... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
The Malanese family are one of Italy's most notorious criminal gangs, better know as the Sicilian Clan. Their latest criminal exploit will be the theft of a valuable collection of jewels as it is being shipped by air from Paris to New York... [More...]
Classe tous risques (1960)
Claude Sautet
Doggedly pursued by the police, seasoned gangster Abel Davos evades capture by fleeing to Italy with his wife Thérèse and their two young sons... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Doggedly pursued by the police, seasoned gangster Abel Davos evades capture by fleeing to Italy with his wife Thérèse and their two young sons... [More...]
Le Combat dans l'île (1962)
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Compartiment tueurs (1965)
Costa-Gavras
When a sleeper train from Marseille to Paris stops at Avignon, a young woman named Benjamine Bombat climbs aboard and offers a place in her compartment to a handsome young stranger, Daniel, who has omitted to buy a ticket... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
When a sleeper train from Marseille to Paris stops at Avignon, a young woman named Benjamine Bombat climbs aboard and offers a place in her compartment to a handsome young stranger, Daniel, who has omitted to buy a ticket... [More...]
Complices (2010)
Frédéric Mermoud
The body of a teenage boy is fished out of the Rhone near to Lyon. He is Vincent, 17 years old, and apparently died from strangulation... [More...]
Frédéric Mermoud
The body of a teenage boy is fished out of the Rhone near to Lyon. He is Vincent, 17 years old, and apparently died from strangulation... [More...]
Copie conforme (1947)
Jean Dréville
No one would think that Manuel Ismora, an esteemed society photographer, is an audacious thief and con artist. The newspapers are filled with accounts of Ismora's criminal exploits, which involve the fraudulent sale of a château and the theft of some valuable jewels, but the police are slow in bringing him to justice... [More...]
Jean Dréville
No one would think that Manuel Ismora, an esteemed society photographer, is an audacious thief and con artist. The newspapers are filled with accounts of Ismora's criminal exploits, which involve the fraudulent sale of a château and the theft of some valuable jewels, but the police are slow in bringing him to justice... [More...]
Le Corbeau (1943)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The peace of the small French town of Saint-Robin is disturbed by a sudden outbreak of poison pen letters, which cast vile aspersions on prominent members of the community... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The peace of the small French town of Saint-Robin is disturbed by a sudden outbreak of poison pen letters, which cast vile aspersions on prominent members of the community... [More...]
Coup d'éclat (2011)
José Alcala
In the French town of Sète, police chief Fabienne Bourrier spends much of her time pursuing illegal immigrants from all backgrounds... [More...]
José Alcala
In the French town of Sète, police chief Fabienne Bourrier spends much of her time pursuing illegal immigrants from all backgrounds... [More...]
Coup de chaud (2015)
Raphaël Jacoulot
At the height of a scorching hot summer, the calm of a small French village is disturbed by Josef Bousou, a mischievous thirty-year old who has the mental age of a small child... [More...]
Raphaël Jacoulot
At the height of a scorching hot summer, the calm of a small French village is disturbed by Josef Bousou, a mischievous thirty-year old who has the mental age of a small child... [More...]
Le Couperet (2005)
Costa-Gavras
When dedicated company man Bruno Davert loses his job in a corporate reorganisation, he comes close to losing his self-respect and his family... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
When dedicated company man Bruno Davert loses his job in a corporate reorganisation, he comes close to losing his self-respect and his family... [More...]
Le Crime est notre affaire (2008)
Pascal Thomas
Whilst her husband Bélisaire is content with their peaceful retirement, Prudence is slowly dying of boredom. She pines for a real-life crime mystery that will tax her intellect and bring some excitement back into her life... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
Whilst her husband Bélisaire is content with their peaceful retirement, Prudence is slowly dying of boredom. She pines for a real-life crime mystery that will tax her intellect and bring some excitement back into her life... [More...]
La Dame d'onze heures (1948)
Jean-Devaivre
On his return from Africa, Stanislas Octave Seminario, who likes to be referred to by his initials S.O.S., visits his friends, the Pescaras, at their grand house in the country... [More...]
Jean-Devaivre
On his return from Africa, Stanislas Octave Seminario, who likes to be referred to by his initials S.O.S., visits his friends, the Pescaras, at their grand house in the country... [More...]
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Fred Zinnemann
Dissatisfied with President De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to Algeria, a number of men in the French military form an underground organisation, the OAS, with the sole aim of assassinating the president... [More...]
Fred Zinnemann
Dissatisfied with President De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to Algeria, a number of men in the French military form an underground organisation, the OAS, with the sole aim of assassinating the president... [More...]
La Dénonciation (1962)
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
October 1961. Michel Jussieu, a successful film producer, returns to a Parisian nightclub he visited the previous night to collect a sweater... [More...]
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
October 1961. Michel Jussieu, a successful film producer, returns to a Parisian nightclub he visited the previous night to collect a sweater... [More...]
Le Dernier des six (1941)
Georges Lacombe
Santerre and his five friends - Gribbe, Gernicot, Namotte, Perlonjour and Tignol - enter into a strange pact after they win a tidy little windfall in a bet... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
Santerre and his five friends - Gribbe, Gernicot, Namotte, Perlonjour and Tignol - enter into a strange pact after they win a tidy little windfall in a bet... [More...]
Dernier domicile connu (1970)
José Giovanni
As a result of a serious professional blunder, Inspector Leonetti finds himself transferred to a minor police department... [More...]
José Giovanni
As a result of a serious professional blunder, Inspector Leonetti finds himself transferred to a minor police department... [More...]
Le Dernier tournant (1939)
Pierre Chenal
Frank, a young drifter, arrives at a remote service station on a mountain road near to Marseille. Here, the kindly old owner, Nick, offers him a job which he readily accepts... [More...]
Pierre Chenal
Frank, a young drifter, arrives at a remote service station on a mountain road near to Marseille. Here, the kindly old owner, Nick, offers him a job which he readily accepts... [More...]
Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959)
Jean-Pierre Melville
When Fèvre-Berthier, an important French diplomat, goes missing in New York, a French journalist, Moreau, is sent to investigate what became of him... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
When Fèvre-Berthier, an important French diplomat, goes missing in New York, a French journalist, Moreau, is sent to investigate what became of him... [More...]
Le Deuxième souffle (1966)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Eight years into his prison sentence, a notorious gangster named Gustave Minda (nicknamed Gu) escapes and returns to Paris... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Eight years into his prison sentence, a notorious gangster named Gustave Minda (nicknamed Gu) escapes and returns to Paris... [More...]