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French cinema: Thriller

Jo (1971)
Jean Girault

Under the pretence of researching his next thriller play, writer Antoine Brisebard consults his lawyer friend Adrien Colas on how to commit the perfect murder...   [More...]

Judex (1916)
Louis Feuillade

Robert Moralés, an ex-convict, has entered into a partnership with the beautiful but treacherous adventuress Diana Monti...   [More...]

Judex (1963)
Georges Franju

The banker Favraux has made his fortune by preying on others far less scrupulous than he. One day, he receives a letter from someone named Judex threatening him with death unless he returns his ill-gotten gains to those from whom he stole them...   [More...]

Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977)
Yves Boisset

Jean-Marie Fayard is an incorruptible young judge who appears determined to live up to his nickname 'Le Shériff'. His present investigation into a series of deaths linked to a prominent businessman brings him into conflict with his superiors, who are keen to see him redirect his efforts towards less problematic cases...   [More...]

Jusqu'à la garde (2018)
Xavier Legrand

Miriam and Antoine Besson are a French couple in their mid-forties who are going through the motions of a fraught separation and divorce...   [More...]

Jusqu'au dernier (1957)
Pierre Billon

After a successful hold-up, Fernand Bastia betrays his gangster friends and flees with the booty, taking refuge in a travelling circus where his sister Marcella works...   [More...]

Justin de Marseille (1935)
Maurice Tourneur

In 1930s Marseille, Justin makes a dishonest living as the town's most respected gangster. Loyal to those who serve him well, Justin has few enemies and he rules the town unopposed - until he gets into a deadly feud with an unscrupulous Italian rival, Esposito...   [More...]

Juve contre Fantômas (1913)
Louis Feuillade

Police Inspector Juve has good reason to think that his formidable archenemy Fantômas is up to his old tricks when the body of a woman, badly disfigured, is found at the private residence of Dr Chaleck...   [More...]

Lady Jane (2008)
Robert Guédiguian

In 1960s Marseilles, three tearaway adolescents - Muriel, François and René - make a dishonest living by selling stolen fur coats...   [More...]

Léon (1994)
Luc Besson

Léon is a professional hitman whose life is changed forever when he meets Mathilda, a twelve year old girl who lives a few doors next to him...   [More...]

Les Liens du sang (2008)
Jacques Maillot

Lyons, in the late 1970s. François is a dedicated police inspector. His brother Gabriel is a crook who has just finished serving a prison sentence for murder...   [More...]

Liste noire (1984)
Alain Bonnot

David, Jacky and Nathalie are three teenage rebels who decide to hold up a bank. The weaponry is provided by a man who, unbeknown to them, belongs to a gang that intends to use their hold up as a diversion for their own daylight heist...   [More...]

Le Locataire (1976)
Roman Polanski

Trelkovsky is a shy office clerk who is about to take up residence in an old apartment block in Paris. When he learns that the previous tenant tried to kill herself by jumping from an upstairs window, he feels compelled to visit her in hospital...   [More...]

La Loi du survivant (1967)
José Giovanni

Kroll, alias Le Kalmouk, is an adventurer who made his fortune by digging up a fabulous treasure somewhere in Asia with two of his companions...   [More...]

Les Louves (1957)
Luis Saslavsky

During the Second World War, two Frenchmen - Gervais Larauch and Bernard Pradalié - escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp where they are being detained and head back to France...   [More...]

Lucky Jo (1964)
Michel Deville

Lucky Jo is a crook for whom nothing ever seems to go right. He is an amiable sort of guy, always means to do good, but somehow the gods are never on his side - as his gang discovers when he wrecks their criminal exploits...   [More...]

La Lumière d'en face (1955)
Georges Lacombe

After a terrible road accident in which his fellow driver was killed, Georges Moreau had no choice but to give up his job as a long distance lorry driver...   [More...]

Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Jean-Luc Godard

Paula Nelson, a young journalist, arranges to meet up with her ex-boyfriend, Richard Politzer, in Atlantic City. Shortly after her arrival in this most ordinary of French towns Paul learns that Richard is dead, the victim of an unknown assassin...   [More...]

Maigret tend un piège (1958)
Jean Delannoy

A mysterious serial killer is at work in the Marais district of Paris. So far he has claimed the lives of four victims, all young women, all savagely stabbed to death...   [More...]

La Main du diable (1943)
Maurice Tourneur

A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. During a momentary power-cut the box suddenly goes missing, and its owner is stricken with terror...   [More...]

Mange tes morts (2014)
Jean-Charles Hue

18-year-old Jason Dorkel belongs to a community of travellers. He is getting ready for his Christian baptism when his half-brother Fred shows up out of the blue, having spent several years in prison...   [More...]

La Mariée était en Noir (1967)
François Truffaut

At a party to celebrate his engagement, a young man named Bliss is drawn to a mysterious woman he has never seen before but who seems to know him...   [More...]

Masques (1987)
Claude Chabrol

Christian Legagneur is one of France's best-loved TV personalities, the genial host of a popular talent show in which the over-sixties compete for big prizes by crooning sentimental songs of yesteryear...   [More...]

Mauvais sang (1986)
Leos Carax

Paris, 1986. As Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth, the capital is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave...   [More...]

Mélodie en sous-sol (1963)
Henri Verneuil

Monsieur Charles has only been out of jail five minutes after completing his last stretch before he begins planning his next robbery...   [More...]

La Menace (1977)
Alain Corneau

Dominique Montlaure owns a substantial trucking business near to Bordeaux, which she runs with the help of her boyfriend, Henri Savin...   [More...]

Merci pour le chocolat (2000)
Claude Chabrol

A piano student, Jeanne Pollet, learns that she was very nearly switched at birth with the son of a famous concert pianist, André Polonski...   [More...]

Merry-Go-Round (1981)
Jacques Rivette

Ben, a young American, and Léo, a young French woman, meet at an airport in Paris. They had been hoping to meet up with Léo's sister Elisabeth, who is also Ben's girlfriend, but she is mysteriously absent...   [More...]

Mesrine: L'Ennemi public n°1 (2008)
Jean-François Richet

Following his outrageous criminal escapades in France and Canada, Jacques Mesrine has become Public Enemy N° 1, the man most wanted by both the police and the media...   [More...]

Mesrine: L'Instinct de mort (2008)
Jean-François Richet

Serving in Algeria in the late 1950s, a young French soldier, Jacques Mesrine, soon develops a taste for violence, adventure and killing...   [More...]



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