Film Index
French cinema: Thriller
Le Solitaire (1987)
Jacques Deray
A jaundiced police commissioner, Stan Jalard, is planning to start a new life, running a hotel in the Antilles with best friend...
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Jacques Deray
Solo (1970)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Vincent Cabral, a violinist and occasional jewel thief, returns to France hoping to renew his acquaintance with his younger brother Virgile, whom he has not seen for three years...
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Jean-Pierre Mocky
Sophie et le crime (1955)
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Sophie Brulard is a feisty young Parisian who is keen to make her mark as a journalist on the gossip magazine she works for, Tel Quel...
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Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Souvenirs perdus (1950)
Christian-Jaque
Four forgotten objects in a lost property office each has a story to tell. An Egyptian statue was a present that Philippe once gave to his lover Florence...
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Christian-Jaque
Les Spécialistes (1985)
Patrice Leconte
Whilst being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape...
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Patrice Leconte
Sur les rails (1912)
Léonce Perret
Pierre, a young railway worker, is in love with Augustine, the owner of a café. Neither knows that Jacques, a colleague and supposed friend of Pierre, also has amorous designs on Augustine... [More...]
Léonce Perret
Pierre, a young railway worker, is in love with Augustine, the owner of a café. Neither knows that Jacques, a colleague and supposed friend of Pierre, also has amorous designs on Augustine... [More...]
Sursis pour un vivant (1959)
Víctor Merenda
Not long after Jean Monnier, a successful writer, narrowly escapes death in a car accident he is visited in hospital by a man who offers him an unusual service... [More...]
Víctor Merenda
Not long after Jean Monnier, a successful writer, narrowly escapes death in a car accident he is visited in hospital by a man who offers him an unusual service... [More...]
Les Suspects (1957)
Jean Dréville
In France, a mysterious network of political agitators are organising a campaign of terror, which they announce over the airwaves through a series of clandestine radio broadcasts... [More...]
Jean Dréville
In France, a mysterious network of political agitators are organising a campaign of terror, which they announce over the airwaves through a series of clandestine radio broadcasts... [More...]
Swimming Pool (2003)
François Ozon
Sarah Morton is a successful writer of crime fiction. Feeling the time has come for her to attempt a more serious novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher, John Bosland, to work at his holiday home in the South of France... [More...]
François Ozon
Sarah Morton is a successful writer of crime fiction. Feeling the time has come for her to attempt a more serious novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher, John Bosland, to work at his holiday home in the South of France... [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...]
La Taverne du poisson couronné (1947)
René Chanas
Captain Palmer returns to port with his cargo after an eventful sea journey in which his seamanship was tested to the limit by a violent storm... [More...]
René Chanas
Captain Palmer returns to port with his cargo after an eventful sea journey in which his seamanship was tested to the limit by a violent storm... [More...]
Le Témoin (1978)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Robert Maurisson is a successful businessman who married into a rich bourgeois family and is now one of the most important people in Reims... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Robert Maurisson is a successful businessman who married into a rich bourgeois family and is now one of the most important people in Reims... [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...]
Terminale (1998)
Francis Girod
In their final year at a French high school, a group of friends are incensed and traumatised when a fellow student, Caroline, commits suicide during one of their lessons... [More...]
Francis Girod
In their final year at a French high school, a group of friends are incensed and traumatised when a fellow student, Caroline, commits suicide during one of their lessons... [More...]
Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959)
Jean Renoir
Dr Cordelier was once a renowned specialist in the field of modern psychiatry, although his more radical theories often brought him into conflict with his peers, none more so than Dr Séverin... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Dr Cordelier was once a renowned specialist in the field of modern psychiatry, although his more radical theories often brought him into conflict with his peers, none more so than Dr Séverin... [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...]
Tête de turc (2010)
Pascal Elbé
Actions have consequences. This is the lesson that 14-year-old Bora learns the hard way when he commits a thoughtless act and, in doing so, sets in motion a chain of events that will badly mar the lives of several people, including himself... [More...]
Pascal Elbé
Actions have consequences. This is the lesson that 14-year-old Bora learns the hard way when he commits a thoughtless act and, in doing so, sets in motion a chain of events that will badly mar the lives of several people, including himself... [More...]
Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche (1964)
Claude Chabrol
Baskine, the Turkish ambassador, arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Baskine, the Turkish ambassador, arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France... [More...]
Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite (1965)
Claude Chabrol
Secret agent Louis Rapière - code name “The Tiger” - is sent to French Guyana to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Secret agent Louis Rapière - code name “The Tiger” - is sent to French Guyana to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship... [More...]
Tih Minh (1918)
Louis Feuillade
After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry... [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...]
Tiré à part (1996)
Bernard Rapp
Edward Lamb, the owner of a small publishing house, is surprised when he receives a manuscript from a French author, Nicholas Fabry... [More...]
Bernard Rapp
Edward Lamb, the owner of a small publishing house, is surprised when he receives a manuscript from a French author, Nicholas Fabry... [More...]
Tirez sur le pianiste (1960)
François Truffaut
It wasn't so long ago that Charlie Kohler was considered one of the great virtuoso pianists of his time. Of course, he went by a different name in those days - Édouard Saroyan - and he had a wife Thérésa who meant everything to him... [More...]
François Truffaut
It wasn't so long ago that Charlie Kohler was considered one of the great virtuoso pianists of his time. Of course, he went by a different name in those days - Édouard Saroyan - and he had a wife Thérésa who meant everything to him... [More...]
Toi, le venin (1958)
Robert Hossein
Pierre Menda is walking down a quiet stretch of road on the Riviera one night when a white American convertible draws up alongside him... [More...]
Robert Hossein
Pierre Menda is walking down a quiet stretch of road on the Riviera one night when a white American convertible draws up alongside him... [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...]
Tony Arzenta (1973)
Duccio Tessari
Tony Arzenta is more than just a regular hit-man. He is one of the Mafia's most prized professional killers, valued for his skill, his courage and his unswerving loyalty... [More...]
Duccio Tessari
Tony Arzenta is more than just a regular hit-man. He is one of the Mafia's most prized professional killers, valued for his skill, his courage and his unswerving loyalty... [More...]
Total Kheops (2002)
Alain Bévérini
Present day Marselles. On the day of his release from jail, Manu is shot down after a nocturnal safe-cracking job. His death is mourned not only by his girlfriend, Lole, but also his two long-standing male friends, Ugo and Fabio... [More...]
Alain Bévérini
Present day Marselles. On the day of his release from jail, Manu is shot down after a nocturnal safe-cracking job. His death is mourned not only by his girlfriend, Lole, but also his two long-standing male friends, Ugo and Fabio... [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...]
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Jacques Becker
Max and Riton are two ageing gangsters who have just pulled off a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. Both men hope to retire gracefully on their ill-gotten gains but their plans are jeopardised when Riton says more than he should to his mistress Josy... [More...]
Jacques Becker
Max and Riton are two ageing gangsters who have just pulled off a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. Both men hope to retire gracefully on their ill-gotten gains but their plans are jeopardised when Riton says more than he should to his mistress Josy... [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...]