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French cinema: Crime/Thriller
Dheepan (2015)
Jacques Audiard
In a refugee camp in the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former Tamil Tiger acquires not only a passport that gives him a new identity, Dheepan, but also a makeshift family, in the form of a young woman Yalini and a small girl Illayaal...
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Jacques Audiard
Les Diaboliques (1955)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Michel Delasalle and his wife Christina run a private boarding school in Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris. Delasalle is a tyrant not only to the youngsters under his care but also to his wife and his mistress Nicole, who works at the school as a teacher...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (1938)
Christian-Jaque
In the college of St-Agil, three boys, Baume, Sorgue and Macroy, form a secret society "Les Chiche-capons". Each night, they sneak away from their dormitory and meet up in the science room to have an illicit smoke and plan a clandestine voyage to America, under the watchful gaze of their mascot, Martin the Skeleton...
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Christian-Jaque
Diva (1981)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jules, a young Parisian postman, illegally records a concert performance given by the world famous opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises...
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Jean-Jacques Beineix
Le Dos au mur (1958)
Edouard Molinaro
Jacques Decrey has an unpleasant errand to perform one dark evening. Under cover of darkness, he carries the body of a dead man out of his house and dumps it in his car...
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Edouard Molinaro
Le Dossier 51 (1978)
Michel Deville
A mysterious foreign power has set its sights on recruiting Dominique Auphal, a prominent French diplomat, as an agent. In order to put leverage on him to get him to comply, the security service of this foreign power embarks on a massive campaign of information gathering targeted at him... [More...]
Michel Deville
A mysterious foreign power has set its sights on recruiting Dominique Auphal, a prominent French diplomat, as an agent. In order to put leverage on him to get him to comply, the security service of this foreign power embarks on a massive campaign of information gathering targeted at him... [More...]
Le Doulos (1962)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Maurice Faugel is a career burglar who has just completed a stretch in prison. He is preparing a house break-in with some equipment provided by a friend, Silien... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Maurice Faugel is a career burglar who has just completed a stretch in prison. He is preparing a house break-in with some equipment provided by a friend, Silien... [More...]
Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)
Jules Dassin
Not long after his release from prison, ageing crook Tony Le Stéphanois meets up with his former criminal associates, Jo and Mario... [More...]
Jules Dassin
Not long after his release from prison, ageing crook Tony Le Stéphanois meets up with his former criminal associates, Jo and Mario... [More...]
En liberté! (2018)
Pierre Salvadori
Yvonne Santi, a young police officer, is still coming to terms with the death of her husband Jean, a police superintendent who died heroically two years previously in the course of his work... [More...]
Pierre Salvadori
Yvonne Santi, a young police officer, is still coming to terms with the death of her husband Jean, a police superintendent who died heroically two years previously in the course of his work... [More...]
Entre onze heures et minuit (1949)
Henri Decoin
It was between the hours of eleven o'clock at night and midnight that the crime took place. Jérôme Vidauban, a trafficker wanted by the police, is shot dead in a Paris subway by an unknown assassin... [More...]
Henri Decoin
It was between the hours of eleven o'clock at night and midnight that the crime took place. Jérôme Vidauban, a trafficker wanted by the police, is shot dead in a Paris subway by an unknown assassin... [More...]
L'Étrangleur (1972)
Paul Vecchiali
As a child, Émile is walking through the streets after dark when he encounters a stranger. The latter takes his white woollen scarf and uses it to strangle an attractive young woman... [More...]
Paul Vecchiali
As a child, Émile is walking through the streets after dark when he encounters a stranger. The latter takes his white woollen scarf and uses it to strangle an attractive young woman... [More...]
Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine (1913)
Louis Feuillade
When a valuable pearl necklace is stolen from the Princess Danidoff at the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris, Inspector Juve soon discovers the identity of the thief... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
When a valuable pearl necklace is stolen from the Princess Danidoff at the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris, Inspector Juve soon discovers the identity of the thief... [More...]
Fantômas contre Fantômas (1914)
Louis Feuillade
For years, the redoubtable Inspector Juve has been engaged on a personal crusade to bring the arch-criminal Fantômas to justice - in vain... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
For years, the redoubtable Inspector Juve has been engaged on a personal crusade to bring the arch-criminal Fantômas to justice - in vain... [More...]
Fantômas contre Fantômas (1949)
Robert Vernay
Brutally rejected by his one true love Irène de Charras, the renowned surgeon François de Bréval commits suicide by crashing his car into a tree at high speed... [More...]
Robert Vernay
Brutally rejected by his one true love Irène de Charras, the renowned surgeon François de Bréval commits suicide by crashing his car into a tree at high speed... [More...]
Le Fauve est lâché (1959)
Maurice Labro
Once a gangster and secret services operative, Paul Lamiani now leads a respectable life as a restaurateur and family man... [More...]
Maurice Labro
Once a gangster and secret services operative, Paul Lamiani now leads a respectable life as a restaurateur and family man... [More...]
Les Félins (1964)
René Clément
French playboy Marc has a nasty surprise waiting for him when he returns to his hotel room after a game of tennis. A gang of thuggish hitmen lie in wait, acting on the instructions of an American gangland boss who intends to repay Marc for carrying on a clandestine love affair with his wife... [More...]
René Clément
French playboy Marc has a nasty surprise waiting for him when he returns to his hotel room after a game of tennis. A gang of thuggish hitmen lie in wait, acting on the instructions of an American gangland boss who intends to repay Marc for carrying on a clandestine love affair with his wife... [More...]
Flic Story (1975)
Jacques Deray
Paris, 1947. Roger Borniche sees himself as the star cop of the Sûreté nationale, but he despises the brutal methods used by his colleagues... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Paris, 1947. Roger Borniche sees himself as the star cop of the Sûreté nationale, but he despises the brutal methods used by his colleagues... [More...]
La Foire aux chimères (1946)
Pierre Chenal
Frank Davis is the unimpeachable director of a company that prints what he claims to be unforgeable banknotes. In his fifties, he is an object of ridicule on account of the facial disfigurement he acquired in an accident... [More...]
Pierre Chenal
Frank Davis is the unimpeachable director of a company that prints what he claims to be unforgeable banknotes. In his fifties, he is an object of ridicule on account of the facial disfigurement he acquired in an accident... [More...]
Frantic (1988)
Roman Polanski
Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper... [More...]
Fred (1997)
Pierre Jolivet
Fred is an unemployed crane operator who lives in the industrial suburbs with his girlfriend Lisa. The latter has a young son, the product of another relationship, and works in research laboratory... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Fred is an unemployed crane operator who lives in the industrial suburbs with his girlfriend Lisa. The latter has a young son, the product of another relationship, and works in research laboratory... [More...]
Le Furet (1949)
Raymond Leboursier
Paris is in the grip of a crime wave. A series of seemingly unrelated murders have taken place, and on each occasion the police are forewarned of the crime by a letter signed 'Le Furet'... [More...]
Raymond Leboursier
Paris is in the grip of a crime wave. A series of seemingly unrelated murders have taken place, and on each occasion the police are forewarned of the crime by a letter signed 'Le Furet'... [More...]
Le Gitan (1975)
José Giovanni
For two years, Hugo Sennart has been busy settling old scores with a society that has persecuted his gypsy brothers and sisters for decades... [More...]
José Giovanni
For two years, Hugo Sennart has been busy settling old scores with a society that has persecuted his gypsy brothers and sisters for decades... [More...]
Goupi mains rouges (1943)
Jacques Becker
The Goupis are a proud, self-sufficient family living in the Charentes region of France. Most of them live at an inn that is run with an iron hand by the shrewish Goupi Tisane and her tight-fisted brother Goupi Mes Sous... [More...]
Jacques Becker
The Goupis are a proud, self-sufficient family living in the Charentes region of France. Most of them live at an inn that is run with an iron hand by the shrewish Goupi Tisane and her tight-fisted brother Goupi Mes Sous... [More...]
Le Grand alibi (2008)
Pascal Bonitzer
During a weekend break at the country estate of Senator Henri Pages, Pierre Collier is murdered. The obvious culprit is his wife, Claire, who is found at the scene of the crime holding a gun... [More...]
Pascal Bonitzer
During a weekend break at the country estate of Senator Henri Pages, Pierre Collier is murdered. The obvious culprit is his wife, Claire, who is found at the scene of the crime holding a gun... [More...]
La Grande frousse (1964)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
When a homicidal forger, Mickey-le-Bénédictin, goes on the run after evading his execution, Inspectors Triquet and Virgus hasten after him to prevent him from committing any further crimes... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
When a homicidal forger, Mickey-le-Bénédictin, goes on the run after evading his execution, Inspectors Triquet and Virgus hasten after him to prevent him from committing any further crimes... [More...]
Les Héros sont fatigués (1955)
Yves Ciampi
Michel Rivière, a French pilot who served with distinction during the Second World War, discovers a fortune in diamonds when his aircraft crash-lands in Africa... [More...]
Yves Ciampi
Michel Rivière, a French pilot who served with distinction during the Second World War, discovers a fortune in diamonds when his aircraft crash-lands in Africa... [More...]
L'Heure zéro (2007)
Pascal Thomas
Just what was Guillaume Neuville thinking when he invited his ex-wife Aude and his latest wife Caroline to his Aunt Camilla's home in Brittany... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
Just what was Guillaume Neuville thinking when he invited his ex-wife Aude and his latest wife Caroline to his Aunt Camilla's home in Brittany... [More...]
Histoires extraordinaires (1949)
Jean Faurez
France, at the time of the Second Empire. One dreary night, three gendarmes regale a new recruit with tales of murder and intrigue with which they have had first hand experience... [More...]
Jean Faurez
France, at the time of the Second Empire. One dreary night, three gendarmes regale a new recruit with tales of murder and intrigue with which they have had first hand experience... [More...]
I... comme Icare (1979)
Henri Verneuil
The official investigation into the assassination of a popular head of state concludes he was killed by a lone assassin, who shot himself immediately after the event... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
The official investigation into the assassination of a popular head of state concludes he was killed by a lone assassin, who shot himself immediately after the event... [More...]
L'Ibis rouge (1975)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
A serial killer is at large in Paris, in the vicinity of the canal Saint-Martin. The victims, all attractive young women, have been strangled by someone the police would least suspect - a mild-mannered social security employee named Jérémie... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
A serial killer is at large in Paris, in the vicinity of the canal Saint-Martin. The victims, all attractive young women, have been strangled by someone the police would least suspect - a mild-mannered social security employee named Jérémie... [More...]