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La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965)

Pierre Granier-Deferre

Three small-time crooks – Edmond, Arthur and Rouquemoute – are planning to mount a small-time heist. To buy the equipment needed for this adventure, they trick notorious art thief Alphonse to lend them some money in exchange for a share in the booty. The robbery goes seriously awry and Alphonse alone is arrested... [More...]

Mon idole (2002)

Guillaume Canet

Bastien, young and ambitious production assistant for a popular reality TV programme, is offended when his employer, the star presenter Philippe Letzger, steals his idea for a new programme. He takes his complaint to Jean-Louis Broustal, the TV station’s headman, and is surprised when Broustal invites him to spend the weekend at his country estate... [More...]

Mon petit doigt m’a dit... (2005)

Pascal Thomas

Shortly after visiting their elderly aunt in a luxury retirement home, Bélisaire and Prudence Beresford are surprised by her sudden death. Prudence becomes convinced foul play is at work when she learns that one of the other old women she met in the home has mysteriously disappeared. In her aunt’s possessions, Prudence comes across a painting of a country house, a painting which awakens some dormant memory... [More...]

Le Monocle noir (1961)

Georges Lautner

The Marquis de Villemaur brings together a strange collection of individuals at his country château. All are rightwing extremists who are expecting to be introduced to a survivor of the Third Reich. Unbeknown to the Marquis, one of the attendees, Commander Dromard, is a member of the French security services... [More...]

Mortelle randonnée (1983)

Claude Miller

Beauvoir, an ageing private detective, has spent years trying to make contact with his missing daughter. One day, he is assigned to a murder case, and finds himself on the trail of a serial killer, Catherine. Convinced that she is his long-lost daughter, Beauvoir helps the killer to evade capture by the police... [More...]

Le Mystère Saint-Val (1945)

René Le Hénaff

Désiré Le Sec works for an insurance company owned by his uncle but has aspirations of being a great detective. When the owner of a grand château dies in mysterious circumstances, Désiré is sent to investigate and soon concludes that foul play is at work. If the dead man was murdered, there is certainly no shortage of suspects... [More...]

Ne nous fâchons pas (1966)

Georges Lautner

One-time gangster Antoine Beretto is now enjoying a peaceful retirement on the coast, where he manages a successful boating club. One day, he receives a visit from one of his former accomplices who asks him for a substantial loan. The money will be rapid by a crook named Michalon, who is now in hiding in Nice... [More...]

Nuits rouges (1974)

Georges Franju

A mysterious master criminal is determined to recover the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, but the one man who may be able to help him - the historian Maxime de Borrego – prefers death to giving away the secret. De Borrego’s nephew, Paul, offers his services to Sorbier, the police commissioner leading the murder investigation, and together they conceive a plan to trap the criminal mastermind... [More...]

L’Oeil du monocle (1962)

Georges Lautner

Dromard, an agent of the French secret service, is charged with recovering a priceless treasure which is hidden in the sea somewhere off the coast of Corsica. The only man who can help him is a former German soldier, the sole survivor of the commando unit which hid the treasure during World war II. However, this lead is soon disposed of by rival English and Russian agents, who are after the same thing as Dromard..... [More...]

OSS 117: Le Caire nid d’espions (2006)

Michel Hazanavicius

In 1955, Cairo is a hornet’s nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117. On what may prove to be his most dangerous assignment yet, this legendary agent has to contend with the family of a deposed king and an ambitious religious sect... [More...]

OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (2009)

Michel Hazanavicius

In 1967, France’s top secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, codenamed OSS 117, is sent to Brazil to locate a former high-ranking Nazi who is threatening to sell a microfilm listing the names of French collaborators in WWII. Partnered with Dolores, a beautiful but deadly agent from the Israeli secret service Mossad, Bonisseur not only has power-mad Nazis to contend with, but Chinese hit men who are bent on revenge... [More...]

Les Parrains (2005)

Frédéric Forestier

In 1980, four crooks – Max, Lucien, Serge and Henri – fail to pull off a daring jewel robbery. Max ends up in prison whilst his three partners in crime escape and settle into humdrum, semi-respectable lives. Twenty-five years after the robbery, Lucien, Serge and Henri are summoned to the offices of Max’s solicitor to attend the reading of his will... [More...]

Pierrot le fou (1965)

Jean-Luc Godard

Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair. When a dead body is found in Marianne’s Paris apartment, the two lovers head for the South of France to escape being caught up in gangster activities... [More...]

Poupoupidou (2011)

Gérald Hustache-Mathieu

He is a Parisian and author of a series of best selling crime novels. She is a blonde bombshell, convinced that she is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. When they meet at Mouthe, the coldest town in France, he is suffering from a bad case of writer’s block and she is dead, believed by the police to have taken an overdose of sleeping tablets... [More...]

Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles (1973)

Georges Lautner

The few remaining inhabitants of the rural village of Loubressac lament the decline of their community. After making a desperate appeal for tourists to visit their area, they are not entirely happy when a group of hippies lands on their doorstep. The owner of a château allows the hippies to occupy land on her estate to annoy her tenant, a crook named Gérard, who has just returned to the village... [More...]

Le Retour du grand blond (1974)

Yves Robert

Cambrai, a modest captain in the French secret service, discovers that his superior, Colonel Toulouse, was responsible for the death of his rival Milan. To cover his tracks, Toulouse immediately sends two hit-men to Rio de Janeiro to eliminate François Perrin, the innocent “grand blond” who was instrumental in Toulouse’s scheme to remove Milan... [More...]

Rien ne va plus (1997)

Claude Chabrol

Betty and Victor are a pair of confidence tricksters who make a living by winning the confidence of their chosen victims and then walking off with his or her money at the most appropriate juncture. For the past year, Betty has been forming a relationship with a man who is involved with laundering money... [More...]

Ripoux 3 (2003)

Claude Zidi

It’s been ten years since crooked cops René and François went their separate ways. Whilst René fritters away his time gambling on the horses, his former partner in crime François tries to prove his mettle as an honest cop. The latter is on the point of busting a Chinese money laundry operation when René appears and makes off with the booty – which he promptly loses in the sewers of Paris... [More...]

Les Ripoux (1984)

Claude Zidi

After 20 years of policing a crime-riddled district of Paris, Inspecteur René has learnt that it is far better to co-operate with petty crooks than to hassle them. And, in return for turning a blind-eye, he receives a welcome supplement to his salary. René’s nice system is suddenly disrupted when he is partnered with a rookie cop, François, who is determined to rigidly apply the law at every opportunity... [More...]

San Antonio (2004)

Frédéric Auburtin

When the President of France mysteriously disappears, disgraced special agent San Antonio is called into investigate. Assisted by his sidekick, the woman-mad Bérurier, San Antonio soon realises he is up against a band of dangerous and intelligent criminals. But who is their mastermind? ... [More...]

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