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French cinema: Crime/Thriller
Le Mystère des roches de Kador (1912)
Léonce Perret
When the Marquis de Kéranic dies, he leaves his entire estate to his niece Suzanne de Lormel. Under the terms of the will, Suzane will only receive her inheritance on her eighteenth birthday and, if she should die, go mad or enter a convent before this date, it will pass to her cousin, Count Fernand de Kéranic...
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Léonce Perret
Non coupable (1947)
Henri Decoin
Michel Ancelin was once a respected surgeon but now, an embittered alcoholic, he lives out his declining years as a family doctor in a dull provincial town in the company of his mistress, Madeleine...
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Henri Decoin
Nous n'irons plus au bois (1955)
Ivan Govar
Leaving a juvenile detention centre after serving a term for the accidental killing of his stepmother, Yan makes his way across country to his home village in Flanders, eager to make a fresh start...
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Ivan Govar
La Nuit du carrefour (1932)
Jean Renoir
At the Carrefour des Trois-Veuves, some thirty kilometres north of Paris, insurance agent Michonnet is surprised when his car is stolen...
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Jean Renoir
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...
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Georges Franju
Objectif: 500 millions (1966)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Paris, 1966. Richau, a former captain in the French paratroop regiment, has just been released from prison after serving a term for participating in an uprising during the Algerian War... [More...]
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Paris, 1966. Richau, a former captain in the French paratroop regiment, has just been released from prison after serving a term for participating in an uprising during the Algerian War... [More...]
La P... respectueuse (1952)
Charles Brabant
Whilst taking a train journey in the southern United States, Lizzie McKay, a nightclub hostess, witnesses the killing of a black man by a drunken white man... [More...]
Charles Brabant
Whilst taking a train journey in the southern United States, Lizzie McKay, a nightclub hostess, witnesses the killing of a black man by a drunken white man... [More...]
Le Pacha (1968)
Georges Lautner
Early one morning, an armoured van loaded with diamonds sets out from the Place Vendôme in the heart of Paris to Bourget airport, accompanied by a police escort... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Early one morning, an armoured van loaded with diamonds sets out from the Place Vendôme in the heart of Paris to Bourget airport, accompanied by a police escort... [More...]
Parc (2009)
Arnaud des Pallières
Georges Clou is a prosperous businessman who is proud of his success. He lives with his family in the south of France, in an immaculate gated residential area named Le Parc, where only the best people live... [More...]
Arnaud des Pallières
Georges Clou is a prosperous businessman who is proud of his success. He lives with his family in the south of France, in an immaculate gated residential area named Le Parc, where only the best people live... [More...]
Pépé le Moko (1937)
Julien Duvivier
The French outlaw Pépé le Moko has gained a reputation as the most notorious gangster in Algiers, loyally served by his band of armed cohorts... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
The French outlaw Pépé le Moko has gained a reputation as the most notorious gangster in Algiers, loyally served by his band of armed cohorts... [More...]
Le Petit lieutenant (2005)
Xavier Beauvois
As soon as he graduates from police training college, the young Antoine Derouère chooses Paris as his first posting... [More...]
Xavier Beauvois
As soon as he graduates from police training college, the young Antoine Derouère chooses Paris as his first posting... [More...]
Peur sur la ville (1975)
Henri Verneuil
After receiving a series of threatening phone calls, Nora Elmer falls to her death from a high-rised apartment. The death is investigated by police inspector Jean Letellier, who soon receives a mysterious phone call from someone calling himself Minos and who claims to want to purge Paris of loose women... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
After receiving a series of threatening phone calls, Nora Elmer falls to her death from a high-rised apartment. The death is investigated by police inspector Jean Letellier, who soon receives a mysterious phone call from someone calling himself Minos and who claims to want to purge Paris of loose women... [More...]
La Piscine (1969)
Jacques Deray
Jean-Paul, a failed writer turned advertising executive, is enjoying a month's holiday at a Saint-Tropez villa, in the company of Marianne, his partner of two years' standing... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Jean-Paul, a failed writer turned advertising executive, is enjoying a month's holiday at a Saint-Tropez villa, in the company of Marianne, his partner of two years' standing... [More...]
Plein soleil (1960)
René Clément
An impoverished young American, Tom Ripley, is offered a handsome reward by a wealthy businessman to bring his son, Philippe Greenleaf, back home to take over the family business... [More...]
René Clément
An impoverished young American, Tom Ripley, is offered a handsome reward by a wealthy businessman to bring his son, Philippe Greenleaf, back home to take over the family business... [More...]
Pleins feux sur l'assassin (1961)
Georges Franju
Realising that he is about to die, the Count of Keraudren hides himself behind a one-way mirror in a secret room at his chateau... [More...]
Georges Franju
Realising that he is about to die, the Count of Keraudren hides himself behind a one-way mirror in a secret room at his chateau... [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...]
Jacques Bral
A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris... [More...]
Police (1985)
Maurice Pialat
Based in an ordinary police station in Paris, Mangin is a driven police inspector who is on a personal crusade to smash a ring of drugs traffickers that is operating between Marseille and Paris... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
Based in an ordinary police station in Paris, Mangin is a driven police inspector who is on a personal crusade to smash a ring of drugs traffickers that is operating between Marseille and Paris... [More...]
Police Python 357 (1976)
Alain Corneau
Orléans police inspector Marc Ferrot leads a focused, solitary existence. With no family and few friends, he devotes himself to his work and his interest in firearms... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Orléans police inspector Marc Ferrot leads a focused, solitary existence. With no family and few friends, he devotes himself to his work and his interest in firearms... [More...]
Le Port du désir (1955)
Edmond T. Gréville
As a sunken ship risks blocking the entrance to the port of Marseille, Captain Le Quévic is instructed by the naval authorities to raise the vessel and tow it away... [More...]
Edmond T. Gréville
As a sunken ship risks blocking the entrance to the port of Marseille, Captain Le Quévic is instructed by the naval authorities to raise the vessel and tow it away... [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...]
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
David Rousseau is a successful writer of crime novels but lately his inspiration appears to have deserted him completely... [More...]
Quai de Grenelle (1950)
Emil E. Reinert
Jean-Louis Cavalade is an impetuous young man who likes nothing better than to hunt snakes in the Forest of Fontainebleau... [More...]
Emil E. Reinert
Jean-Louis Cavalade is an impetuous young man who likes nothing better than to hunt snakes in the Forest of Fontainebleau... [More...]
Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Against the wishes of her husband Maurice, music hall singer Jenny Lamour is prepared to do anything to advance her career... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Against the wishes of her husband Maurice, music hall singer Jenny Lamour is prepared to do anything to advance her career... [More...]
Que la bête meure (1969)
Claude Chabrol
When his young son is killed in a hit-and-run car accident, writer Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
When his young son is killed in a hit-and-run car accident, writer Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer... [More...]
Rafles sur la ville (1958)
Pierre Chenal
The Parisian police are pleased with themselves when they manage to arrest the notorious gangster Le Fondu. But the crook has no intention of being brought to justice... [More...]
Pierre Chenal
The Parisian police are pleased with themselves when they manage to arrest the notorious gangster Le Fondu. But the crook has no intention of being brought to justice... [More...]
La Raison du plus faible (2006)
Lucas Belvaux
Patrick, Robert and Jean-Pierre are three friends who pass their empty days playing cards, unable to find work in the industrial Belgian town where they live... [More...]
Lucas Belvaux
Patrick, Robert and Jean-Pierre are three friends who pass their empty days playing cards, unable to find work in the industrial Belgian town where they live... [More...]
Razzia sur la Chnouf (1955)
Henri Decoin
Paul Liski runs the biggest drugs trafficking operation in France but things are not going well. He needs someone he can trust to restructure his entire organisation so that it can expand its reach whilst evading the forces of law and order... [More...]
Henri Decoin
Paul Liski runs the biggest drugs trafficking operation in France but things are not going well. He needs someone he can trust to restructure his entire organisation so that it can expand its reach whilst evading the forces of law and order... [More...]
Recours en grâce (1960)
Laslo Benedek
Mario Di Donati, an Italian immigrant, is leading an idyllic life in France, happily settled with his lover Germaine Tourier and her infant daughter from an earlier failed relationship... [More...]
Laslo Benedek
Mario Di Donati, an Italian immigrant, is leading an idyllic life in France, happily settled with his lover Germaine Tourier and her infant daughter from an earlier failed relationship... [More...]
Regarde les hommes tomber (1994)
Jacques Audiard
Simon Hirsch is a fifty-something travelling salesman who is beginning to lose his enthusiasm for living. Bored with his job, no longer interested in women, he teeters on the brink of depression... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
Simon Hirsch is a fifty-something travelling salesman who is beginning to lose his enthusiasm for living. Bored with his job, no longer interested in women, he teeters on the brink of depression... [More...]
Roberto Succo (2001)
Cédric Kahn
Whilst on holiday in the South of France, a sixteen year old girl, Léa, is enchanted by a strange young man, Kurt, who says little about his past and who speaks with an Italian accent... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
Whilst on holiday in the South of France, a sixteen year old girl, Léa, is enchanted by a strange young man, Kurt, who says little about his past and who speaks with an Italian accent... [More...]
Le Roman d'un mousse (1914)
Léonce Perret
Deeply in debt, the Marquis de Luscky begs the moneylender Elie Werb to save him from ruin. Werb refuses to give the Marquis any further money as he already owes him a substantial amount... [More...]
Léonce Perret
Deeply in debt, the Marquis de Luscky begs the moneylender Elie Werb to save him from ruin. Werb refuses to give the Marquis any further money as he already owes him a substantial amount... [More...]