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French cinema: Crime/Thriller
Le Samouraï (1967)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Killing comes easy to Jef Costello. It is his job, it is what he does best. Others are willing to pay handsomely for his service, which he discharges with cool deadly efficiency...
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Secret défense (1998)
Jacques Rivette
Sylvie, a young biologist, receives an impromptu visit from her brother who claims to have proof that their father was murdered by Walser, his right-hand man...
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Jacques Rivette
Solo (1970)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Vincent Cabral, a violinist and occasional jewel thief, returns to France hoping to renew his acquaintance with his younger brother Virgile, whom he has not seen for three years...
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Jean-Pierre Mocky
Sur les rails (1912)
Léonce Perret
Pierre, a young railway worker, is in love with Augustine, the owner of a café. Neither knows that Jacques, a colleague and supposed friend of Pierre, also has amorous designs on Augustine...
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Léonce Perret
Le Témoin (1978)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Robert Maurisson is a successful businessman who married into a rich bourgeois family and is now one of the most important people in Reims...
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Jean-Pierre Mocky
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...]
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...]
Tih Minh (1918)
Louis Feuillade
After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry... [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...]
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...]
Tirez sur le pianiste (1960)
François Truffaut
It wasn't so long ago that Charlie Kohler was considered one of the great virtuoso pianists of his time. Of course, he went by a different name in those days - Édouard Saroyan - and he had a wife Thérésa who meant everything to him... [More...]
François Truffaut
It wasn't so long ago that Charlie Kohler was considered one of the great virtuoso pianists of his time. Of course, he went by a different name in those days - Édouard Saroyan - and he had a wife Thérésa who meant everything to him... [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...]
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...]
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Jacques Becker
Max and Riton are two ageing gangsters who have just pulled off a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. Both men hope to retire gracefully on their ill-gotten gains but their plans are jeopardised when Riton says more than he should to his mistress Josy... [More...]
Jacques Becker
Max and Riton are two ageing gangsters who have just pulled off a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. Both men hope to retire gracefully on their ill-gotten gains but their plans are jeopardised when Riton says more than he should to his mistress Josy... [More...]
La Tradition de minuit (1939)
Roger Richebé
Clara Véry, a singer at the nightclub Le Soleil noir, receives an anonymous telephone call inviting her to attend a meeting the next day in a café... [More...]
Roger Richebé
Clara Véry, a singer at the nightclub Le Soleil noir, receives an anonymous telephone call inviting her to attend a meeting the next day in a café... [More...]
Trans-Europ-Express (1966)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
A writer-director meets up with his film producer and production secretary at Paris's busy Gare du Nord and together they take the Trans-Europ Express to the Belgian town of Antwerp... [More...]
Alain Robbe-Grillet
A writer-director meets up with his film producer and production secretary at Paris's busy Gare du Nord and together they take the Trans-Europ Express to the Belgian town of Antwerp... [More...]
La Traque (1975)
Serge Leroy
A young English woman, Helen Wells, arrives in a small Normandy village, where she intends to rent an old farmhouse. A short while later, she encounters a party of men who are hunting wild boar... [More...]
Serge Leroy
A young English woman, Helen Wells, arrives in a small Normandy village, where she intends to rent an old farmhouse. A short while later, she encounters a party of men who are hunting wild boar... [More...]
Le Trust, ou les batailles de l'argent (1911)
Louis Feuillade
Darbois, a wealthy industrialist, declines an invitation to join a trust headed by the rubber magnate Jacob Berwick after he receives a telegram from a young scientist, Jean Brémond, who claims to have invented a revolutionary new form of rubber... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Darbois, a wealthy industrialist, declines an invitation to join a trust headed by the rubber magnate Jacob Berwick after he receives a telegram from a young scientist, Jean Brémond, who claims to have invented a revolutionary new form of rubber... [More...]
Un condé (1970)
Yves Boisset
Transferred to another police department after running into difficulties with his superiors, Inspector Favenin is paired up with a younger, more inexperienced colleague Barnero in the pursuit of a notorious drugs trafficker Tavernier, known to his associates as Le Mandarin... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Transferred to another police department after running into difficulties with his superiors, Inspector Favenin is paired up with a younger, more inexperienced colleague Barnero in the pursuit of a notorious drugs trafficker Tavernier, known to his associates as Le Mandarin... [More...]
Un flic (1972)
Jean-Pierre Melville
A gang of crooks raid a bank in a windswept coastal town on the west coast of France. In the course of the robbery, one member of the gang sustains a gunshot wound and must be taken to a clinic for treatment... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
A gang of crooks raid a bank in a windswept coastal town on the west coast of France. In the course of the robbery, one member of the gang sustains a gunshot wound and must be taken to a clinic for treatment... [More...]
Un prophète (2009)
Jacques Audiard
Malik El Djebena is a 19-year-old troublemaker who suddenly finds himself in a concrete Hell that will change his life forever... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
Malik El Djebena is a 19-year-old troublemaker who suddenly finds himself in a concrete Hell that will change his life forever... [More...]
Un témoin dans la ville (1959)
Edouard Molinaro
In the course of a violent argument, businessman Pierre Verdier pushes his mistress Jeanne out of a moving train. Tried for murder, he is subsequently acquitted through lack of evidence... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
In the course of a violent argument, businessman Pierre Verdier pushes his mistress Jeanne out of a moving train. Tried for murder, he is subsequently acquitted through lack of evidence... [More...]
Une nuit (2012)
Philippe Lefebvre
Simon Weiss's life as a dedicated cop in Paris's vice squad is mostly routine. Most nights are uneventful, more likely to arouse boredom than excitement... [More...]
Philippe Lefebvre
Simon Weiss's life as a dedicated cop in Paris's vice squad is mostly routine. Most nights are uneventful, more likely to arouse boredom than excitement... [More...]
Le Vampire de Düsseldorf (1965)
Robert Hossein
In the 1930s, chaos and misery reign over Düsseldorf as the Nazis begin their campaign of terror. But the city is afflicted by another menace, a serial killer who writes a letter to the police every time he murders a young woman... [More...]
Robert Hossein
In the 1930s, chaos and misery reign over Düsseldorf as the Nazis begin their campaign of terror. But the city is afflicted by another menace, a serial killer who writes a letter to the police every time he murders a young woman... [More...]
Les Vampires (1915)
Louis Feuillade
Paris is in the grip of an unseen, nameless, terror, against which the police are powerless to act. A criminal organisation known as the Vampires create fear and mayhem, killing, looting, abducting - no crime is too daring, or too despicable... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Paris is in the grip of an unseen, nameless, terror, against which the police are powerless to act. A criminal organisation known as the Vampires create fear and mayhem, killing, looting, abducting - no crime is too daring, or too despicable... [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...]
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...]
Voici le temps des assassins (1956)
Julien Duvivier
André Chatelin manages a popular restaurant in Paris, adjacent to the busy Halles market. His is an uneventful but contented life, until the fateful day when he is visited by Catherine, the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
André Chatelin manages a popular restaurant in Paris, adjacent to the busy Halles market. His is an uneventful but contented life, until the fateful day when he is visited by Catherine, the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle... [More...]