Film Index

French cinema: Action/Adventure

Un de la légion (1936)
Christian-Jaque

Fernand Espitalion is a timid man who quietly accepts the humiliations heaped on him by his domineering wife Antoinette. Theirs is a marriage of convenience not mutual tenderness...   [More...]

Vengeance (2009)
Johnnie To

A man named Costello arrives in Hong Kong, ostensibly to find work as a chef. In fact, he is here to avenge the death of his daughter and her family, who were savagely slain by hired killers...   [More...]

Vercingétorix (2001)
Jacques Dorfmann

In 60 BC, the boy Vercingétorix watches in horror as his father, the Gaul leader Celtill, is burnt alive - the reward for his ambition to unite Gaul against the Roman invader...   [More...]

Vidocq (2001)
Pitof

Paris in the 1830s. It is whilst in pursuit of a mysterious criminal called the Alchemist that the celebrated detective Vidocq meets his death...   [More...]

Vincent n'a pas d'écailles (2015)
Thomas Salvador

On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers...   [More...]

Le Vol du Sphinx (1984)
Laurent Ferrier

A cruel disappointment in love compels a young Frenchman named Tom to give up his old life and start a new one as a pilot in the south of Morocco...   [More...]

Wasabi (2001)
Gérard Krawczyk

Hubert is a police inspector with a kind heart but an iron fist. Although he gets results, not everyone appreciate his methods...   [More...]


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