Film Index
French cinema: Comedy/Thriller
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
Pleins feux sur Stanislas (1965)
Jean-Charles Dudrumet
Stanislas Dubois has just retired from the espionage business and embarks on a comfortable retirement so that he can write his 'memoirs of a spy'...
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Jean-Charles Dudrumet
Polar (1984)
Jacques Bral
A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris...
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Jacques Bral
Poupoupidou (2011)
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
David Rousseau is a successful writer of crime novels but lately his inspiration appears to have deserted him completely...
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Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
Quand la femme s'en mêle (1957)
Yves Allégret
Henri Godot, the head of a Parisian-based criminal gang, has begun an amorous liaison with Maine, the former girlfriend of one of his equally ruthless rivals, Bobby...
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Yves Allégret
Que personne ne sorte (1962)
Ivan Govar
A lonely widow Adélia is delighted when Jo, the charming man she met on holiday, turns up at her Bruges mansion one Christmas Eve... [More...]
Ivan Govar
A lonely widow Adélia is delighted when Jo, the charming man she met on holiday, turns up at her Bruges mansion one Christmas Eve... [More...]
Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles (1973)
Georges Lautner
Situated in the Lot department of southwest France, Loubressac is an idyllic spot to live. You'd think this would be a haven for those seeking the peace and quiet of the countryside, but no... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Situated in the Lot department of southwest France, Loubressac is an idyllic spot to live. You'd think this would be a haven for those seeking the peace and quiet of the countryside, but no... [More...]
Le Retour du grand blond (1974)
Yves Robert
Cambrai, a modest captain in the French secret service, discovers that his superior, Colonel Toulouse, was responsible for the death of his rival Milan... [More...]
Yves Robert
Cambrai, a modest captain in the French secret service, discovers that his superior, Colonel Toulouse, was responsible for the death of his rival Milan... [More...]
Retour en force (1980)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Leaving prison after an eight year stretch, Adrien Blausac is surprised to find that his wife Térésa is living with another man - a bus driver named Roger... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
Leaving prison after an eight year stretch, Adrien Blausac is surprised to find that his wife Térésa is living with another man - a bus driver named Roger... [More...]
Rien ne va plus (1997)
Claude Chabrol
Victor and Betty are an odd couple. He is sixty; she is thirty. They could scarcely be more different, and yet they seem to be inseparable, a sort of cross-generational Bonnie and Clyde... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Victor and Betty are an odd couple. He is sixty; she is thirty. They could scarcely be more different, and yet they seem to be inseparable, a sort of cross-generational Bonnie and Clyde... [More...]
Ripoux 3 (2003)
Claude Zidi
It's been ten years since crooked cops René and François went their separate ways. Whilst René fritters away his time gambling on the horses, his former partner in crime François tries to prove his mettle as an honest cop... [More...]
Claude Zidi
It's been ten years since crooked cops René and François went their separate ways. Whilst René fritters away his time gambling on the horses, his former partner in crime François tries to prove his mettle as an honest cop... [More...]
Les Ripoux (1984)
Claude Zidi
Inspector René Boirond has been policing a crime-ridden neighbourhood of Paris for over twenty years. In that time, he has learned that the best way to do his job is to turn a blind eye to most of the petty criminality that surrounds him and adopt a live and let live approach to dealing with crooks, pimps and other lowlife... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Inspector René Boirond has been policing a crime-ridden neighbourhood of Paris for over twenty years. In that time, he has learned that the best way to do his job is to turn a blind eye to most of the petty criminality that surrounds him and adopt a live and let live approach to dealing with crooks, pimps and other lowlife... [More...]
Rouletabille aviateur (1932)
Steve Sekely
An aeroplane transporting gold from the Bank of France to Hungary is intercepted by airborne gangsters. The plane crashes in flames and its precious cargo is loaded aboard a lorry, the ingots concealed in sacks of flour... [More...]
Steve Sekely
An aeroplane transporting gold from the Bank of France to Hungary is intercepted by airborne gangsters. The plane crashes in flames and its precious cargo is loaded aboard a lorry, the ingots concealed in sacks of flour... [More...]
San Antonio (2004)
Frédéric Auburtin
Once the secret services have woken up to the threat of a global terrorist targetting world leaders, police superintendent San Antonio and his faithful assistant Bérurier are assigned to keep a watchful eye on the French ambassador during a stay at a British palace... [More...]
Frédéric Auburtin
Once the secret services have woken up to the threat of a global terrorist targetting world leaders, police superintendent San Antonio and his faithful assistant Bérurier are assigned to keep a watchful eye on the French ambassador during a stay at a British palace... [More...]
Le Sicilien (1958)
Pierre Chevalier
In Paris, a criminal gang led by Monsieur Bruno is awaiting the arrival of an Italian hitman who is known only as the Sicilian... [More...]
Pierre Chevalier
In Paris, a criminal gang led by Monsieur Bruno is awaiting the arrival of an Italian hitman who is known only as the Sicilian... [More...]
Sois belle et tais-toi (1958)
Marc Allégret
After escaping from a strict Catholic reform school, Virginie Dumaillet goes on the run and ends up joining a gang of adolescent petty criminals led by a wild young hoodlum named Loulou... [More...]
Marc Allégret
After escaping from a strict Catholic reform school, Virginie Dumaillet goes on the run and ends up joining a gang of adolescent petty criminals led by a wild young hoodlum named Loulou... [More...]
Les Spécialistes (1985)
Patrice Leconte
Whilst being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
Whilst being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape... [More...]
Tais-toi! (2003)
Francis Veber
This is the story of Quentin, an empty headed buffoon whose ambition is to run a small bistro, and Ruby, a ruthless crook who will stop at nothing to avenge the death of his girlfriend... [More...]
Francis Veber
This is the story of Quentin, an empty headed buffoon whose ambition is to run a small bistro, and Ruby, a ruthless crook who will stop at nothing to avenge the death of his girlfriend... [More...]
Tendre poulet (1978)
Philippe de Broca
Antoine Lemercier, a teacher in Greek at the Sorbonne, could not be happier when he is reunited with an old university acquaintance, Lise Tanquerelle... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
Antoine Lemercier, a teacher in Greek at the Sorbonne, could not be happier when he is reunited with an old university acquaintance, Lise Tanquerelle... [More...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
La Totale! (1991)
Claude Zidi
To all who know him, François Voisin is nothing more than an ordinary family man and telecoms engineer. In reality, he is an experienced secret agent whose improbable exploits of the past two decades could fill the pages of several long (albeit mediocre) thriller novels... [More...]
Claude Zidi
To all who know him, François Voisin is nothing more than an ordinary family man and telecoms engineer. In reality, he is an experienced secret agent whose improbable exploits of the past two decades could fill the pages of several long (albeit mediocre) thriller novels... [More...]
La Tour Montparnasse infernale (2001)
Charles Nemes
One evening, Éric and Ramzy are cleaning the windows of the Montparnasse Tower, oblivious to the dramatic events taking place within... [More...]
Charles Nemes
One evening, Éric and Ramzy are cleaning the windows of the Montparnasse Tower, oblivious to the dramatic events taking place within... [More...]
Trafic d'influence (1999)
Dominique Farrugia
Maxime de Labardière and Gérard Ravanelli are two corrupt politicians who have just been convicted of abusing their position for their own personal gain... [More...]
Dominique Farrugia
Maxime de Labardière and Gérard Ravanelli are two corrupt politicians who have just been convicted of abusing their position for their own personal gain... [More...]
Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003)
Sylvain Chomet
The solitary Madame Souza is resolved to do all she can to cheer up her sad orphaned grandson, Champion. When she discovers his passion for cycling, she buys him a bicycle and starts to train him so that he can enter the Tour de France cycling competition... [More...]
Sylvain Chomet
The solitary Madame Souza is resolved to do all she can to cheer up her sad orphaned grandson, Champion. When she discovers his passion for cycling, she buys him a bicycle and starts to train him so that he can enter the Tour de France cycling competition... [More...]
Une ravissante idiote (1964)
Edouard Molinaro
When Harry Compton loses his job with a bank in London, he decides to follow the career of his father and become a Russian spy... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
When Harry Compton loses his job with a bank in London, he decides to follow the career of his father and become a Russian spy... [More...]
Vacances explosives (1957)
Christian Stengel
In Paris, Arlette Bernard hosts a grand reception at the bar she has just bought to celebrate the marriage of her daughter Syvie to François Morel, just before they set out on their honeymoon in the south of France... [More...]
Christian Stengel
In Paris, Arlette Bernard hosts a grand reception at the bar she has just bought to celebrate the marriage of her daughter Syvie to François Morel, just before they set out on their honeymoon in the south of France... [More...]
La Valise (1973)
Georges Lautner
Having succeeded in making himself the enemy of the entire Arab world, Commander Bloch, a senior agent in the Israeli secret services, flees to Libya and soon finds himself holed up in the French Embassy in Tripoli... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Having succeeded in making himself the enemy of the entire Arab world, Commander Bloch, a senior agent in the Israeli secret services, flees to Libya and soon finds himself holed up in the French Embassy in Tripoli... [More...]
Ville à vendre (1992)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Moussin is a small derelict town in the industrial east of France where eight out of ten people are unemployed. Whilst the town appears to be in a state of irreversible decline with virtually every house up for sale, the mood of the local population is upbeat, thanks to generous allowances handed out by the town's mayor... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Moussin is a small derelict town in the industrial east of France where eight out of ten people are unemployed. Whilst the town appears to be in a state of irreversible decline with virtually every house up for sale, the mood of the local population is upbeat, thanks to generous allowances handed out by the town's mayor... [More...]