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French cinema: Thriller

La Tourneuse de pages (2006)
Denis Dercourt

As a child, Mélanie, a shopkeeper's daughter in a small provincial town, shows great promise as a piano player. But when she fails in the competition to enter the conservatory, disillusionment quickly sets in and she gives up the piano...   [More...]

Tous peuvent me tuer (1957)
Henri Decoin

Tony wants nothing more than to marry Isabelle and lead an honest life, but first he must make some money. This he plans to do by taking part in a hold-up with four other men, led by Cyril Glad, a tourist guide...   [More...]

Toutes peines confondues (1992)
Michel Deville

When an elderly couple are found dead, murdered in their Alpine village, the attention of the police is immediately focussed on their son, Antoine Gardella...   [More...]

La Tradition de minuit (1939)
Roger Richebé

Clara Véry, a singer at the nightclub Le Soleil noir, receives an anonymous telephone call inviting her to attend a meeting the next day in a café...   [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...]

Traitement de choc (1973)
Alain Jessua

A stressed-out retail manager Hélène Masson decides to submit herself to a course of therapy at a centre run by the secretive Dr Devilers...   [More...]

Trans-Europ-Express (1966)
Alain Robbe-Grillet

A writer-director meets up with his film producer and production secretary at Paris's busy Gare du Nord and together they take the Trans-Europ Express to the Belgian town of Antwerp...   [More...]

The Transporter (2002)
Louis Leterrier

Frank leads a comfortable life by the sea in Nice. He earns a decent wage as a courier, delivering anything, anywhere for anyone, but only if the price is right...   [More...]

La Traque (1975)
Serge Leroy

A young English woman, Helen Wells, arrives in a small Normandy village, where she intends to rent an old farmhouse. A short while later, she encounters a party of men who are hunting wild boar...   [More...]

La Traversée (2012)
Jérôme Cornuau

Sarah Arendt and her eight-year-old daughter Lola are enjoying a peaceful holiday on a remote Scottish island when disaster strikes...   [More...]

Le Triangle de feu (1932)
Edmond T. Gréville

A gang of crooks succeed in a series of robberies, their signature being triangle which they cut on every safe they break into...   [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...]

Tristan (2003)
Philippe Harel

Emmanuelle Barsac, a young police commissioner, is distracted from her investigations into the Bulgarian mafia by the suicide of a young woman...   [More...]

Tristesse Club (2014)
Vincent Mariette

Bruno and Léon are two brothers, both in their thirties, who could not be more different. Bruno owns a successful dating website, but so far has had little success in his own love life...   [More...]

Trois hommes à abattre (1980)
Jacques Deray

Late one evening, professional gambler Michel Gerfaut is on his way to a poker game when he comes across a badly injured man in a wrecked car...   [More...]

Trois jours à vivre (1957)
Gilles Grangier

Simon Belin, a minor actor with a travelling theatre company, witnesses a murder. Hoping that the publicity he will gain will help his career, Simon identifies the killer as Lino Ferrari, a notorious gangster who, in reality, is innocent of the crime...   [More...]

Trouble Every Day (2001)
Claire Denis

A pharmaceuticals researcher Shane Brown takes his new wife June to Paris for their honeymoon. Unbeknown to his wife, Shane is suffering from a mental disorder which compels him to bite into his partner whilst making love...   [More...]

Le Trust, ou les batailles de l'argent (1911)
Louis Feuillade

Darbois, a wealthy industrialist, declines an invitation to join a trust headed by the rubber magnate Jacob Berwick after he receives a telegram from a young scientist, Jean Brémond, who claims to have invented a revolutionary new form of rubber...   [More...]

Le Tueur (1972)
Denys de La Patellière

Superintendent Le Guen thought he had seen the last of Georges Gassot, a relentless serial killer, when he arrested him and had him placed behind bars...   [More...]

Le Tueur (2008)
Cédric Anger

Léo Zimmerman is a successful businessman who is looking forward to spending Christmas with his beloved daughter. His plans look as if they are about to be frustrated when a suspicious-looking young man named Dimitri Kopas shows up in his office and tries to pass himself off as a client...   [More...]

Un ami parfait (2006)
Francis Girod

When Julien Rossi, a journalist, regains consciousness in hospital, he has no recollection of how he came to be there. Neither has he any idea how he sustained the severe head injury that has caused his partial loss of memory...   [More...]

Un ami viendra ce soir (1946)
Raymond Bernard

August 1944. On the outskirts of a small village in the French Alps, Dr Lestrade manages an asylum for the mentally deranged...   [More...]

Un ange (2001)
Miguel Courtois

As she walks out of prison, Léa's only thought is to make a fresh start in life, far from the father who has no interest in her and the brother, Samy, whose criminal exploits got her arrested and sent away...   [More...]

Un assassin qui passe (1981)
Michel Vianey

Jacques, a modest bank employee in Paris, finds it hard to enter into any kind of normal relationship with the opposite sex...   [More...]

Un balcon sur la mer (2010)
Nicole Garcia

Marc Palestro leads an idyllic life in Aix-en-Provence in the sunny south of France. A 40-something estate agent, he has a beautiful house and an even more beautiful family...   [More...]

Un certain Monsieur Jo (1958)
René Jolivet

Jo Guardini, known to everyone as Monsieur Jo, leads a quiet, honest life running an inn on an island on the River Marne...   [More...]

Un condé (1970)
Yves Boisset

Transferred to another police department after running into difficulties with his superiors, Inspector Favenin is paired up with a younger, more inexperienced colleague Barnero in the pursuit of a notorious drugs trafficker Tavernier, known to his associates as Le Mandarin...   [More...]

Un couteau dans le coeur (2018)
Yann Gonzalez

In the late 1970s, Anne Parèze is a 40-something producer of low-budget porn movies based in Paris. As her career wanes, she turns to drink and becomes increasingly emotionally unstable...   [More...]

Un été d'enfer (1984)
Michael Schock

After an accident, Philippe Darlan is forced to give up his career as a professional motorcyclist and ends up working for his uncle's private detective agency...   [More...]

Un flic (1972)
Jean-Pierre Melville

A gang of crooks raid a bank in a windswept coastal town on the west coast of France. In the course of the robbery, one member of the gang sustains a gunshot wound and must be taken to a clinic for treatment...   [More...]



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