Film Index
French cinema: Thriller
R.I.F. (2011)
Franck Mancuso
When his wife mysteriously disappears whilst on holiday, Parisian police chief Stéphane Monnereau soon finds himself under suspicion...
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Franck Mancuso
Radio Corbeau (1989)
Yves Boisset
Situated in the Jura mountains, Saint-Meyrand would seem to be an idyllic French town. Yet beneath the surface calm there are long-standing antagonisms that are being nourished by a series of shocking announcements from a new pirate radio station that calls itself Radio Corbeau...
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Yves Boisset
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...
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Pierre Chenal
La Raison d'état (1978)
André Cayatte
Just as he is about to attend a conference in Italy, Professeur Marrot, a world-renowned biologist, comes across a compromising document...
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André Cayatte
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...
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Lucas Belvaux
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...]
La Résistance de l'air (2015)
Fred Grivois
Vincent leads a peaceful but uneventful life with his wife Delphine and daughter Alexia. He has taken up rifle shooting as a hobby to escape the monotony of an otherwise empty existence, and has graduated to championship level in his sport of choice... [More...]
Fred Grivois
Vincent leads a peaceful but uneventful life with his wife Delphine and daughter Alexia. He has taken up rifle shooting as a hobby to escape the monotony of an otherwise empty existence, and has graduated to championship level in his sport of choice... [More...]
Retour de manivelle (1957)
Denys de La Patellière
Ruined by his business partner, Max Fréminger decides to commit suicide. Before killing himself, Max tells his wife Hélène that she must somehow hide the fact that his death was a suicide, otherwise she will be unable to claim his insurance money... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Ruined by his business partner, Max Fréminger decides to commit suicide. Before killing himself, Max tells his wife Hélène that she must somehow hide the fact that his death was a suicide, otherwise she will be unable to claim his insurance money... [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...]
Revanche (2017)
Stéphane Roquet
Franck Bériat's life continues its relentless downwards trajectory when he embarks on a new career as an unlicensed private detective... [More...]
Stéphane Roquet
Franck Bériat's life continues its relentless downwards trajectory when he embarks on a new career as an unlicensed private detective... [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...]
Rififi à Tokyo (1962)
Jacques Deray
Before he retires, the veteran crook Van Hekkin plans to pull off the crime of his career, by stealing a huge and valuable diamond from a vault in a Tokyo bank... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Before he retires, the veteran crook Van Hekkin plans to pull off the crime of his career, by stealing a huge and valuable diamond from a vault in a Tokyo bank... [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...]
Rive droite, rive gauche (1984)
Philippe Labro
Paul Séanques is a young business lawyer who, along with his associate Guarrigue, runs one of Paris's most successful law firms on the capital's Right Bank... [More...]
Philippe Labro
Paul Séanques is a young business lawyer who, along with his associate Guarrigue, runs one of Paris's most successful law firms on the capital's Right Bank... [More...]
Les Rivières pourpres II - Les anges de l'apocalypse (2004)
Olivier Dahan
In a monastery in Lorraine, a monk is nailing a crucifix onto a stone wall when blood begins to flow..... Behind the wall, the body of a dead man is found... [More...]
Olivier Dahan
In a monastery in Lorraine, a monk is nailing a crucifix onto a stone wall when blood begins to flow..... Behind the wall, the body of a dead man is found... [More...]
Les Rivières pourpres (2000)
Mathieu Kassovitz
An expert in serial killings, Pierre Niemans, is called in to investigate a gruesome murder in the French Alps, not far from an isolated university village... [More...]
Mathieu Kassovitz
An expert in serial killings, Pierre Niemans, is called in to investigate a gruesome murder in the French Alps, not far from an isolated university village... [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...]
Roman de gare (2007)
Claude Lelouch
Murder is a serious business, as popular crime writer Judith Ralitzer discovers as she struggles to pull together the fragmentary ideas for her next novel... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Murder is a serious business, as popular crime writer Judith Ralitzer discovers as she struggles to pull together the fragmentary ideas for her next novel... [More...]
Le Rouge est mis (1957)
Gilles Grangier
Seemingly a law-abiding garage owner, Louis Bertain is in fact the leader of a ruthless gang of crooks that includes Frédo, Pépito and Raymond... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
Seemingly a law-abiding garage owner, Louis Bertain is in fact the leader of a ruthless gang of crooks that includes Frédo, Pépito and Raymond... [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...]
La Route de Corinthe (1967)
Claude Chabrol
When an illusionist is caught attempting to smuggle a mysterious black box into Greece, the CIA uncover a daring scheme to neutralise military radar equipment in the area... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
When an illusionist is caught attempting to smuggle a mysterious black box into Greece, the CIA uncover a daring scheme to neutralise military radar equipment in the area... [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...]
La Sainte Victoire (2009)
François Favrat
Xavier Alvarez is a budding architect in Aix-en-Provence who, despite his best efforts, fails to win the recognition and social standing that he aspires to and which he knows he deserves... [More...]
François Favrat
Xavier Alvarez is a budding architect in Aix-en-Provence who, despite his best efforts, fails to win the recognition and social standing that he aspires to and which he knows he deserves... [More...]