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French cinema: Thriller
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...
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Xavier Beauvois
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...
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Henri Verneuil
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard
Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair...
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Jean-Luc Godard
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...
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Jacques Deray
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...
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René Clément
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...]
Possessions (2012)
Eric Guirado
Tired of their humdrum life in the north of France, a young couple decide to move to a mountain village. Marilyne and Bruno Caron are not well off but they can afford to rent a small chalet in what seems to them to be idyllic surroundings... [More...]
Eric Guirado
Tired of their humdrum life in the north of France, a young couple decide to move to a mountain village. Marilyne and Bruno Caron are not well off but they can afford to rent a small chalet in what seems to them to be idyllic surroundings... [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...]
Rapt (2009)
Lucas Belvaux
Successful businessman Stanislas Graff discovers the true meaning of horror when a band of thugs kidnap him and subject him to the most degrading and brutal period of captivity... [More...]
Lucas Belvaux
Successful businessman Stanislas Graff discovers the true meaning of horror when a band of thugs kidnap him and subject him to the most degrading and brutal period of captivity... [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 la mer (1997)
François Ozon
One summer, Sasha, a young English woman, settles into a remote holiday cottage near the coast. With her husband away on business, her only companion is her baby daughter... [More...]
François Ozon
One summer, Sasha, a young English woman, settles into a remote holiday cottage near the coast. With her husband away on business, her only companion is her baby daughter... [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...]
La Rupture (1970)
Claude Chabrol
Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their infant son... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their infant son... [More...]
Le Salaire de la peur (1953)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In a dusty, hot South American mining town, European immigrants eke out a meagre existence, struggling to find work in an area of high unemployment... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In a dusty, hot South American mining town, European immigrants eke out a meagre existence, struggling to find work in an area of high unemployment... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Le Secret (1974)
Robert Enrico
In a mysterious secure establishment, a prisoner named David effects a remarkable escape. Convinced that he is being pursued, he flees to the open countryside... [More...]
Robert Enrico
In a mysterious secure establishment, a prisoner named David effects a remarkable escape. Convinced that he is being pursued, he flees to the open countryside... [More...]
Section spéciale (1975)
Costa-Gavras
In 1941, a demonstration by French communists against the Vichy government is broken up by Nazi soldiers. When a handful of the demonstrators are executed, their comrades take revenge by killing a German naval officer... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
In 1941, a demonstration by French communists against the Vichy government is broken up by Nazi soldiers. When a handful of the demonstrators are executed, their comrades take revenge by killing a German naval officer... [More...]