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French cinema: Thriller

La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

Three small-time crooks - Edmond, Arthur and Rouquemoute - are planning to mount a small-time heist. To buy the equipment needed for this adventure, they trick notorious art thief Alphonse to lend them some money in exchange for a share in the booty...   [More...]

Mille milliards de dollars (1982)
Henri Verneuil

Paul Kerjean is a journalist on a leading French news weekly, La Tribune. One day, he receives an anonymous phone call revealing that the respected industrialist Jacques Benoît-Lambert is facing financial ruin...   [More...]

Mort d'un pourri (1977)
Georges Lautner

Xavier Maréchal agrees to provide his friend Philippe Dubaye with an alibi when the latter confesses to him that he has just murdered a business associate, Serrano...   [More...]

Le Mort qui tue (1913)
Louis Feuillade

The journalist Fandor is left to lament the death of his courageous friend and ally Inspector Juve after the latter perished in an explosion in the course of their most recent dramatic tussle with the evil master of crime Fantômas...   [More...]

Mortelle randonnée (1983)
Claude Miller

Haunted by a past that he does his best to bury, fifty-something Louis Beauvoir leads a solitary life in which there is no place for sentiment or intimate human contact...   [More...]

Le Mystère de la tour Eiffel (1928)
Julien Duvivier

With their 'Siamese Twins' dance act, the Mironton Brothers - Achille Saturnin and his exact double - are one of the main attractions at a popular Parisian fairground...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

Ne le dis à personne (2006)
Guillaume Canet

Over the past eight years, there has not been a single day when Alex has not thought about Margot, the childhood sweetheart that became his wife...   [More...]

Ne nous fâchons pas (1966)
Georges Lautner

Antoine Beretto had hoped that his criminal past is way behind him. Once a notorious gangster, he now basks in tranquil respectability on the sunny Côte d'Azur, his only professional interest being the boating club that he manages so successfully...   [More...]

Ni le ciel ni la terre (2015)
Clément Cogitore

As the deadline for the withdrawal of his troops from Afghanistan fast approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu is assigned with his unit to a surveillance mission in a remote valley in Wakhan on the border with Pakistan...   [More...]

Nocturama (2016)
Bertrand Bonello

It is a morning in Paris like any other. The streets and the Metro are crowded as usual with people rushing in to work, scarcely noticing the world around them...   [More...]

Noir et blanc (1986)
Claire Devers

Antoine is a boring young accountant who leads a boring humdrum existence. For his latest assignment, he is sent to a sports centre to sort out the company's accounts...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...]

L'Oeil du malin (1962)
Claude Chabrol

Embittered by his failure to make a success of his career as a journalist, Albin Mercier enjoys nothing more than bringing misery to others, particularly those who have made something of their lives...   [More...]

Olivier, Olivier (1992)
Agnieszka Holland

The Duvals are a typical French family, leading an apparently peaceful existence in the heart of rural France. But appearances can be deceptive...   [More...]

OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions (2006)
Michel Hazanavicius

In 1955, Cairo is a hornet's nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117...   [More...]

OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (2009)
Michel Hazanavicius

In 1967, France's top secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, codenamed OSS 117, is sent to Brazil to locate a former high-ranking Nazi who is threatening to sell a microfilm listing the names of French collaborators in WWII...   [More...]

Out 1: Noli me Tangere (1971)
Jacques Rivette

In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes...   [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...]

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...]

Panique (1947)
Julien Duvivier

Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground...   [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...]

Paris nous appartient (1961)
Jacques Rivette

Paris, June 1957. Anne Goupil, a student from the provinces, is half-heartedly revising for her exams when she finds herself drawn into an intrigue revolving around the death of a Spanish musician named Juan...   [More...]

Les Patriotes (1994)
Eric Rochant

Immediately after turning 18, Ariel Brenner, a Parisian Jew, leaves his comfortable middleclass home and family in France and sets out for Israel, to live in a kibbutz...   [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...]

Péril en la demeure (1985)
Michel Deville

A young teacher, David Aurphet, agrees to give guitar lessons to Vivianne, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois couple. Straight away, David finds himself the object of unbridled desire for Vivianne's mother, Julia...   [More...]



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