Film Index
French cinema: Thriller
Le Choix des armes (1981)
Alain Corneau
Three criminals break out of prison and go on the run. In a bloody shootout, one of them is wounded. His punk accomplice, Mickey, takes him to a remote country house belonging to a former gangland boss, Noël Durieux...
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Alain Corneau
Chrysalis (2007)
Julien Leclercq
Paris, 2020. David Hoffman is a police lieutenant who has yet to get over the death of his wife, the victim of an elusive killer named Nicolov...
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Julien Leclercq
Les Cinq gentlemen maudits (1931)
Julien Duvivier
Five disparate friends take a boat to Morocco for what they hope will be a relaxing sightseeing holiday. They arrive in the midst of a religious festival and immediately provoke the wrath of an old man when they try to remove the veil of his young female companion...
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Julien Duvivier
Cinq tulipes rouges (1949)
Jean Stelli
The 1948 Tour de France gets off to an ominous start when one of the competitors is killed in a road accident even before the competition gets under way...
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Jean Stelli
La Cité de la peur (1994)
Alain Berbérian
Odile Deray, press secretary responsible for promoting the low budget horror film “Red is Dead”, hires a security agent, Serge Karamazov, to protect the film's star, Simon Jérémi, during the Cannes Film Festival...
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Alain Berbérian
Le Clan des Siciliens (1969)
Henri Verneuil
The Malanese family are one of Italy's most notorious criminal gangs, better know as the Sicilian Clan. Their latest criminal exploit will be the theft of a valuable collection of jewels as it is being shipped by air from Paris to New York... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
The Malanese family are one of Italy's most notorious criminal gangs, better know as the Sicilian Clan. Their latest criminal exploit will be the theft of a valuable collection of jewels as it is being shipped by air from Paris to New York... [More...]
La Classe de neige (1998)
Claude Miller
Nicolas is a quiet 12 year old boy who goes on a school skiing trip with his classmates. Worried that there might be a coach accident, Nicholas' over-protective father insists on taking his son to the alpine chalet himself... [More...]
Claude Miller
Nicolas is a quiet 12 year old boy who goes on a school skiing trip with his classmates. Worried that there might be a coach accident, Nicholas' over-protective father insists on taking his son to the alpine chalet himself... [More...]
Classe tous risques (1960)
Claude Sautet
Doggedly pursued by the police, seasoned gangster Abel Davos evades capture by fleeing to Italy with his wife Thérèse and their two young sons... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Doggedly pursued by the police, seasoned gangster Abel Davos evades capture by fleeing to Italy with his wife Thérèse and their two young sons... [More...]
Coeurs joyeux (1932)
Hanns Schwarz
Charles is a young man who works as a projectionist at a small cinema. One night, he is abducted by a gang of crooks and forced to repair a film projector... [More...]
Hanns Schwarz
Charles is a young man who works as a projectionist at a small cinema. One night, he is abducted by a gang of crooks and forced to repair a film projector... [More...]
Le Colonel est de la revue (1957)
Maurice Labro
Calla and his darling wife Cora are members of a society gathering that meets up from time to time to play at being gangsters... [More...]
Maurice Labro
Calla and his darling wife Cora are members of a society gathering that meets up from time to time to play at being gangsters... [More...]
Le Combat dans l'île (1962)
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Comme un boomerang (1976)
José Giovanni
Whilst under the influence of drugs at a party, the son of a wealthy industrialist accidentally shoots a passing policeman... [More...]
José Giovanni
Whilst under the influence of drugs at a party, the son of a wealthy industrialist accidentally shoots a passing policeman... [More...]
Comme un homme (2012)
Safy Nebbou
Louis, 16, is the son of the headmaster at the school which he attends and has no history of trouble. His friend Greg, by contrast, is always get himself into deep water on account of his aggressive and rebellious character... [More...]
Safy Nebbou
Louis, 16, is the son of the headmaster at the school which he attends and has no history of trouble. His friend Greg, by contrast, is always get himself into deep water on account of his aggressive and rebellious character... [More...]
Comment qu'elle est! (1960)
Bernard Borderie
FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives from the USA, his mission to uncover a dangerous spy named Varley. The French secret services, led by the anti-American General Rupert, are engaged on the same assignment and agree reluctantly to work with him... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives from the USA, his mission to uncover a dangerous spy named Varley. The French secret services, led by the anti-American General Rupert, are engaged on the same assignment and agree reluctantly to work with him... [More...]
Commis d'office (2009)
Hannelore Cayre
Antoine Lahoud has just turned forty when he realises he has lost his enthusiasm for his work as a criminal lawyer. It galls him that he receives so little remuneration and even less gratitude for the work he does for the betterment of society... [More...]
Hannelore Cayre
Antoine Lahoud has just turned forty when he realises he has lost his enthusiasm for his work as a criminal lawyer. It galls him that he receives so little remuneration and even less gratitude for the work he does for the betterment of society... [More...]
Compartiment tueurs (1965)
Costa-Gavras
When a sleeper train from Marseille to Paris stops at Avignon, a young woman named Benjamine Bombat climbs aboard and offers a place in her compartment to a handsome young stranger, Daniel, who has omitted to buy a ticket... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
When a sleeper train from Marseille to Paris stops at Avignon, a young woman named Benjamine Bombat climbs aboard and offers a place in her compartment to a handsome young stranger, Daniel, who has omitted to buy a ticket... [More...]
Complices (2010)
Frédéric Mermoud
The body of a teenage boy is fished out of the Rhone near to Lyon. He is Vincent, 17 years old, and apparently died from strangulation... [More...]
Frédéric Mermoud
The body of a teenage boy is fished out of the Rhone near to Lyon. He is Vincent, 17 years old, and apparently died from strangulation... [More...]
Le Complot (1973)
René Gainville
In March 1962, the French government has signed a treaty with Algeria that will allow the latter country to gain its independence... [More...]
René Gainville
In March 1962, the French government has signed a treaty with Algeria that will allow the latter country to gain its independence... [More...]
Le Concile de pierre (2006)
Guillaume Nicloux
Laura Siprien is a French interpreter who can have no idea what she is taking on when she decides to adopt a baby boy of Mongolian origin, Liu-San... [More...]
Guillaume Nicloux
Laura Siprien is a French interpreter who can have no idea what she is taking on when she decides to adopt a baby boy of Mongolian origin, Liu-San... [More...]
Constance aux enfers (1963)
François Villiers
Constance Brunel, a widow in her forties, has grown accustomed to living alone. These days, the only company she has are her pupils, to whom she gives piano lessons in her solitary Montmartre apartment... [More...]
François Villiers
Constance Brunel, a widow in her forties, has grown accustomed to living alone. These days, the only company she has are her pupils, to whom she gives piano lessons in her solitary Montmartre apartment... [More...]
Le Convoyeur (2004)
Nicolas Boukhrief
Vigilante is a small French company that delivers money in armoured vans. Over the past year it has had a hard time, with three armed robberies that have cost the lives of several members of staff... [More...]
Nicolas Boukhrief
Vigilante is a small French company that delivers money in armoured vans. Over the past year it has had a hard time, with three armed robberies that have cost the lives of several members of staff... [More...]
Copie conforme (1947)
Jean Dréville
No one would think that Manuel Ismora, an esteemed society photographer, is an audacious thief and con artist. The newspapers are filled with accounts of Ismora's criminal exploits, which involve the fraudulent sale of a château and the theft of some valuable jewels, but the police are slow in bringing him to justice... [More...]
Jean Dréville
No one would think that Manuel Ismora, an esteemed society photographer, is an audacious thief and con artist. The newspapers are filled with accounts of Ismora's criminal exploits, which involve the fraudulent sale of a château and the theft of some valuable jewels, but the police are slow in bringing him to justice... [More...]
Le Corbeau (1943)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The peace of the small French town of Saint-Robin is disturbed by a sudden outbreak of poison pen letters, which cast vile aspersions on prominent members of the community... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The peace of the small French town of Saint-Robin is disturbed by a sudden outbreak of poison pen letters, which cast vile aspersions on prominent members of the community... [More...]
Le Corniaud (1965)
Gérard Oury
Antoine Maréchal is about to set off for a holiday in Italy when his 2CV is smashed to pieces by a Rolls-Royce, driven by the wealthy business man Léopold Saroyan... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Antoine Maréchal is about to set off for a holiday in Italy when his 2CV is smashed to pieces by a Rolls-Royce, driven by the wealthy business man Léopold Saroyan... [More...]
Le Corps de mon ennemi (1976)
Henri Verneuil
François Leclerc returns to his home, an industrial town in northern France, after serving a seven year prison sentence for a murder he did not commit... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
François Leclerc returns to his home, an industrial town in northern France, after serving a seven year prison sentence for a murder he did not commit... [More...]
Cortex (2008)
Nicolas Boukhrief
When Charles Boyer, a retired police officer, begins to show signs of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to put himself in the care of a specialist clinic... [More...]
Nicolas Boukhrief
When Charles Boyer, a retired police officer, begins to show signs of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to put himself in the care of a specialist clinic... [More...]
Coup d'éclat (2011)
José Alcala
In the French town of Sète, police chief Fabienne Bourrier spends much of her time pursuing illegal immigrants from all backgrounds... [More...]
José Alcala
In the French town of Sète, police chief Fabienne Bourrier spends much of her time pursuing illegal immigrants from all backgrounds... [More...]
Coup de chaud (2015)
Raphaël Jacoulot
At the height of a scorching hot summer, the calm of a small French village is disturbed by Josef Bousou, a mischievous thirty-year old who has the mental age of a small child... [More...]
Raphaël Jacoulot
At the height of a scorching hot summer, the calm of a small French village is disturbed by Josef Bousou, a mischievous thirty-year old who has the mental age of a small child... [More...]
Le Couperet (2005)
Costa-Gavras
When dedicated company man Bruno Davert loses his job in a corporate reorganisation, he comes close to losing his self-respect and his family... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
When dedicated company man Bruno Davert loses his job in a corporate reorganisation, he comes close to losing his self-respect and his family... [More...]
La Course du lièvre à travers les champs (1972)
René Clément
Antoine Cardot is tried in France for killing some gypsy children with his aeroplane. When the court decides the deaths were the result of a tragic accident, Antoine is set free... [More...]
René Clément
Antoine Cardot is tried in France for killing some gypsy children with his aeroplane. When the court decides the deaths were the result of a tragic accident, Antoine is set free... [More...]