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French cinema: Action/Adventure (Page 1 of 4)

À bout portant (2010)

Fred Cavayé

Everything was going so well for Samuel. He was about to qualify as a nurse and his wife Nadia was expecting their first child. But then it all went wrong, just because Samuel happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Nadia is kidnapped under his impotent gaze, Samuel knows that his life will never be the same again... [More...]

Adieu l’ami (1968)

Jean Herman

Dino Barran and Franz Popp, two ex-combatants of the Algerian War arrive in Marseilles, hoping to start a new life. Shortly after their parting, Dino is persuaded by a strange young woman to join in a bizarre scheme – to return some stolen bonds to a vault in her company’s basement. On the night on which Dino is to execute the plan, he learns that a vast fortune in bank notes has just been deposited in the safe... [More...]

Agents secrets (2004)

Frédéric Schoendoerffer

In the south of Spain, a secret agent is murdered by a Russian hit-man. On his body, the French intelligence agency DGSE finds microfilm holding details of a massive arms trafficking operation in Angola. Colonel Grasset assigns three of his colleagues - Brisseau, Raymond and Loïc – to smash the gunrunning operation, which is being orchestrated by Russian businessman Igor Lipovsky..... [More...]

L’Alpagueur (1976)

Philippe Labro

"L’Alpagueur" is the code name for Roger Pilard, a bounty hunter who works for the French security services on cases where "conventional" police methods have failed. Having smashed a notorious drugs ring in the Netherlands, Pilard is assigned to eliminate a ruthless crook known only as "L’Epervier", who enlists juveniles to help him in robberies before killing them... [More...]

Les Anges gardiens (1995)

Jean-Marie Poiré

Antoine Carco, the proprietor of a seedy Parisian night club, travels to Hong Kong to honour the dying wishes of an old friend. He agrees to take his friend’s young son, Bao, back to France to stay with his mother, but is more interested in is friend’s $40 million legacy. Realising that he has become the target of Chinese gangsters, Carco puts Bao in the care of Father Hervé Tarain, a priest who is heading back to France with a mountain of suitcases and children... [More...]

L’Animal (1977)

Claude Zidi

Michel Gaucher is a stuntman who is about to marry his fiancée, Jane Gardner. Unfortunately, on the morning of his wedding he has to cancel the ceremony because he is required to perform a stunt for a movie. The stunt goes awry and Michel ends up in a wheelchair, but this is not the end of his troubles... [More...]

L’Arme à gauche (1965)

Claude Sautet

Whilst staying in the Caribbean, sailor Jacques Cournot, is hired by businessman Hendrix to check out a luxury yacht the latter is planning to buy. Shortly after Cournot gives Hendrix his report, the yacht goes missing, at the same time as a violent storm hits the area. Initially suspected by the police of having stolen the yacht, Cournot is employed by the yacht’s owner, Mrs Osborne, to find it... [More...]

L’Assaut (2011)

Julien Leclercq

Islamic terrorists have taken an Air France Airbus-300 hostage. They are armed and extremely dangerous, and the lives of the 227 people on board the aircraft are at stake. The terrorists demand the release of their cohorts and the immediate takeoff of the aeroplane. It is only after intensive negotiation and the execution of three of the passengers that the plane leaves the tarmac... [More...]

Black (2009)

Pierre Laffargue

When a job goes disastrously wrong, career robber Black seriously considers giving up crime and starting a new life. But then he receives an unexpected phone call from his cousin Lamine, who lives in Dakar. The latter offers him a heist that could hardly be simpler – the theft of a suitcase containing diamonds from the bank where he works... [More...]

Bleu comme l’enfer (1986)

Yves Boisset

Franck, a sadistic cop, snares a small-time crook, Ned, before taking him to his home to “punish” him. There, Franck is knocked out during a brawl with his wife Lily and her sister Carol. The two women go on the run with Ned, whose aim is to leave the country as quickly as possible. However, none of them has reckoned with Franck’s resilience and his determination to take revenge..... [More...]

Le Boulet (2002)

Alain Berbérian

A hardened gangster, Moltès, is dutifully serving a prison sentence for killing a police informer. His prison warder, Francis Reggio, appeals to him for relationship advice and, in return, he validates his weekly lottery tickets. Shortly before Moltès is due to be released, his lottery number comes up: he has won 15 million... [More...]

Les Brigades du Tigre (2006)

Jérôme Cornuau

In 1907, to counter the rising tide of violent crime in France, a special police unit known as the Mobile Brigade is set up by the Home Office minister Georges Clemenceau (a.k.a. The Tiger). In 1912, the unit is assigned to investigate a street hold-up in which the only thing stolen is a seemingly innocuous account book belonging to Cagne, a man tasked with managing state loans to Russia... [More...]

Le Casse (1971)

Henri Verneuil

A band of crooks led by ace safecracker Azad break into a mansion on the outskirts of Athens to steal a near-priceless collection of emeralds. The robbery is a success, but the crooks miss the cargo ship by which they had planned to leave the country. Whilst waiting for the next ship, Azad is pursued by Abel Zacharia, a crooked police chief who will stop at nothing to lay his hands on the stolen jewels… ... [More...]

Cet homme est dangereux (1953)

Jean Sacha

On the run from international police, Special Agent Lemmy Caution arrives in the South of France and soon become embroiled in a scheme with the infamous gangster Siegella. Whilst seeming to co-operate with the underworld boss, Lemmy is secretly acting for the FBI, and intends using Miranda Van Zelden, a wealthy heiress, as bait to trap a gang of crooks and put an end to Siegella’s exploits… ... [More...]

Les Chevaliers du ciel (2005)

Gérard Pirès

During an air display at Farnborough, a Mirage 2000 jet goes off the radar. Two French fighter pilots, Antoine Marchelli and Sébastien Vallois, are sent to intercept the plane. They locate it over the North Sea. Seeing that the Mirage is about to open fire on his colleague’s plane, Antoine has no choice but to shoot it down... [More...]

Chok-Dee (2005)

Xavier Durringer

Ryan is a delinquent of the suburbs, who occupies himself by pushing drugs and commiting minor infractions. One day, he is arrested by the police and ends up in prison. Here, a former Thai boxer named Jean takes him under his wing and trains him in the art of kickboxing. When he leaves prison, Ryan decides to travel to Thailand to train as a professional boxer... [More...]

Comme les cinq doigts de la main (2010)

Alexandre Arcady

They were five brothers, so alike and yet so different, brought up by a mother who was widowed too soon. One of them went his own way, only to reappear several years later, pursued by a gang of ruthless traffickers. Taking refuge amongst his siblings, this black sheep of the family reveals a terrible secret... [More...]

Le Convoyeur (2004)

Nicolas Boukhrief

Alexandre Demarre finds work as a security guard for Vigilante, a company that delivers money in armoured vans. Vigilante is on the point of being taken over by an American rival, after a series of armed robberies which have cost the lives of several of its employees. Alexandre is a man of mystery. He lives alone in a hotel room, the rent of which exceeds his paltry salary, and he seems strangely fascinated by his colleagues... [More...]

Diamant 13 (2009)

Gilles Béhat

A cop who has long grown weary of his work and is haunted by his past, Mat has no illusions about what life has in store for him. His world is a dark, solitary place in which it is hard to know who are the real criminals. Out of the blue, he receives a phone call from an old friend, Franck, a notorious drugs trafficker who offers a proposal that could make him a very wealthy man..... [More...]

Djinns (2010)

Hugues Martin

In 1960, a unit of French paratroopers is sent to Algeria to look for a plane that is believed to have crashed somewhere in the desert. The plane’s wreckage is soon found, but there are no survivors, just a briefcase bearing the words: Top Secret. Attacked by enemy soldiers, the paratroopers take refuge in a strange abandoned citadel... [More...]

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