Film Index

French cinema: Thriller

Elle (2016)
Paul Verhoeven

Michèle Leblanc is the managing director of a successful video games company. She is not the kind of woman who allows others to take control of her life...   [More...]

Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)
Michel Audiard

Through her work as a housecleaner, Germaine finds out things about her employers which, if widely known, would provoke a scandal...   [More...]

Elle l'adore (2014)
Jeanne Herry

Muriel is a beautician who likes nothing better than to gossip and weave fanciful stories. For the past twenty years, she has been a dedicated fan of the pop singer Vincent Lacroix...   [More...]

Elles n'oublient jamais (1994)
Christopher Frank

Julien is a hard-nosed executive who works for a debt collection agency in Paris. Whilst his wife and son are away on holiday, he is attracted to a young woman, Angela, whom he notices in a terrace café opposite his office...   [More...]

L'Empreinte (2008)
Safy Nebbou

After her husband left her, Elsa Valentin now leads a settled life in a pleasant suburb of Paris with her infant son, Thomas...   [More...]

En face (2000)
Mathias Ledoux

A young writer, Jean, and his wife Michelle are struggling to make ends meet when, out of the blue, they inherit a luxurious house opposite their own meagre apartment...   [More...]

En légitime défense (1958)
André Berthomieu

Pierre Lambert is the owner of a fashionable bar, À l'Ami Pierrot, situated in the trendy heart of Pigalle, Paris...   [More...]

En liberté! (2018)
Pierre Salvadori

Yvonne Santi, a young police officer, is still coming to terms with the death of her husband Jean, a police superintendent who died heroically two years previously in the course of his work...   [More...]

En territoire indien (2003)
Lionel Epp

Jean-Claude Adam is so close to realising his dream of starting a new life in Mexico, far from the troubles that weigh him down in France...   [More...]

En toute innocence (1988)
Alain Jessua

Paul Duchène and his son Thomas run an architectural business from their country estate. One day, Paul returns home to find Thomas' wife, Catherine, making love with one of his business associates...   [More...]

L'Enfer (1994)
Claude Chabrol

Paul Pieur is the proud owner of a country hotel which has no difficulty attracting guests, despite its proximity to an airbase...   [More...]

L'Enquête Corse (2004)
Alain Berbérian

Rémi François, alias Jack Palmer, is a private detective based in Paris. He readily accepts the challenge to find Ange Leoni, last seen on the island of Corsica, to give him the deeds to a private residence...   [More...]

L'Enquête (2015)
Vincent Garenq

In 2001, the French journalist Denis Robert sent shockwaves through the world of high finance with his public denouncement of the dubious business practices of Clearstream, a Luxembourg-based bank specialising in the transfer and holding of securities...   [More...]

L'Entente cordiale (2006)
Vincent De Brus

Crooked arms dealer Viktor Zilenko steals a revolutionary microchip which, when implanted into a soldier, makes him impervious to pain...   [More...]

Entre chiens et loups (2002)
Alexandre Arcady

Adrien, a notorious crook, is released from jail but he has cancer and will die within six months. He initially intends to spend what time he has left with his wife and son, but a Rumanian named Rodman makes him an offer he can't refuse...   [More...]

Entre onze heures et minuit (1949)
Henri Decoin

It was between the hours of eleven o'clock at night and midnight that the crime took place. Jérôme Vidauban, a trafficker wanted by the police, is shot dead in a Paris subway by an unknown assassin...   [More...]

Entre ses mains (2005)
Anne Fontaine

Claire Gauthier is 30, married with a young daughter and works for an insurance firm in the town of Lille. A good wife, mother and employee, she would appear to be the model of the modern woman...   [More...]

Escalade (2011)
Charlotte Silvera

Equipped with a bouquet of flowers and a set of disarming smiles, four high school students pay a private call on their headmistress, Alice Nabat, to wish her a happy birthday...   [More...]

Espion(s) (2009)
Nicolas Saada

With his qualifications, Vincent could easily get himself a well-paid job with a respectable firm, but instead he prefers to work as an airport baggage handler...   [More...]

Espion, lève-toi (1982)
Yves Boisset

Having worked for as a spy for the French government, Sébastien Grenier is now enjoying a peaceful life in Zurich, living with his German girlfriend and working as a financier...   [More...]

Est-ce bien raisonnable? (1981)
Georges Lautner

After his arrest, small-time crook Gérard Louvier escapes from police custody by stealing the clothes - and identity - of a high-profile judge...   [More...]

Et après (2009)
Gilles Bourdos

In 1972, Nathan Del Amico had a near death experience. He was eight at the time, and it was whilst he was rushing to fetch help for his drowning sister that he was struck by a car and sent into a deep coma...   [More...]

État de siège (1972)
Costa-Gavras

Michael Santore is working in South America as a communications officer for an international aid agency when he is abducted by a gang of extreme leftwing revolutionaries who call themselves the Tupamaros...   [More...]

L'Été meurtrier (1983)
Jean Becker

A beautiful 19 year old girl, Eliane, moves into a provençal village with her invalid father and German mother. She immediately draws the attention of all the men in the village, but it is the timid garage owner Florimond she chooses to go out with...   [More...]

L'Étoile du Nord (1982)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

Edouard Binet has spent the last few years travelling in North Africa. On his return to France by steamboat, he meets a young dancer, Sylvie Baron, whom he introduces to a wealthy businessman, Nemrod Loktoum...   [More...]

L'Étrangleur (1972)
Paul Vecchiali

As a child, Émile is walking through the streets after dark when he encounters a stranger. The latter takes his white woollen scarf and uses it to strangle an attractive young woman...   [More...]

Fallait pas!... (1996)
Gérard Jugnot

After a disastrous outdoor training course in the snow-decked mountains, human resources manager Bernard Leroy makes a hasty return to his fiancée's château on the eve of their wedding...   [More...]

Les Fanatiques (1957)
Alex Joffé

When he learns that a revolution has broken out in his own country whilst he is away in France, South American dictator Ribera decides to return home in a private plane, accompanied by his wife and some security guards...   [More...]

Fantômas (1932)
Pál Fejös

One dark stormy night, the Marquise de Langrune is hosting a large dinner party at her spacious château. As thunder rages around them, the assembled guests become increasingly agitated when their conversation turns to the notorious master-criminal Fantômas, who is now at liberty after a stretch in prison...   [More...]

Fantômas (1947)
Jean Sacha

According to police records, there is irrefutable proof that the arch-criminal Fantômas is a dead man. His daughter Hélène is at last free to marry the man of her choice - the journalist Fandor, who assisted Inspector Juve in rescuing her from her father's evil clutches...   [More...]



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