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French cinema: Crime/Thriller (Page 1 of 14)

125 rue Montmartre (1959)

Gilles Grangier

Pascal scrapes a modest living selling newspapers in the streets of Paris. Although a little rough around the edges, he has a good heart, so that when he sees a man jump into the Seine, he does not hesitate to come to his aid. The suicide, Didier, is on the brink of a nervous breakdown after his wife Catherine’s attempts to seize his fortune from him... [More...]

13 m² (2007)

Barthélémy Grossmann

José, Farouk and Réza are three young men from a rough area of Paris. For them, life is hard and increasingly precarious as they are drawn further and further into crime just to survive. One day, they attack an armoured van and run off with a sack load of cash. The robbery hasn’t gone quite as planned and the three friends end up taking refuge in a cramped hide out, where they intend to stay until things have quietened down... [More...]

13 Tzameti (2005)

Géla Babluani

A young immigrant Sébastien arrives in France and gets work repairing the roof of a house belonging to a strange couple. When the man dies from a drugs overdose, the woman informs Sébastien that she cannot pay him for his work. Overhearing a conversation, Sébastien learns that his employer had just received a letter containing instructions for a job that would earn him a large sum of money... [More...]

27 rue de la Paix (1937)

Richard Pottier

Gloria Grand is determined to divorce her wastrel husband Denis so that she can marry her true love, the lawyer Maître Bernard. One of Denis’ mistresses, a Parisian nightclub singer named Jenny Clarens, agrees to support Gloria’s case for divorce, but a short while later her dead body is found in the River Seine... [More...]

36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)

Olivier Marchal

For several months, a gang of ruthless crooks have been getting away with a series of daring and increasingly violent robberies in Paris. Police chief Robert Mancini summons two of his best men, Léo Vrinks and Denis Klein, and offers them an unusual challenge. Whichever of them manages to bring the gang to justice will succeed him upon his retirement... [More...]

À double tour (1959)

Claude Chabrol

Henri Marcoux is a fully paid up member of the French bourgeoisie. He owns a large private estate in Provence, where he lives with his wife Thérèse and two grown-up children, Richard and Elisabeth. Having come to despise his wife, Henri has begun an affair with a neighbour, Léda, encouraged by his future son-in-law Laszlo... [More...]

À tout casser (1968)

John Berry

Frankie and his friends open a nightclub above the lair of Morelli, a notorious gangster. The latter is planning the heist of the century and resents the noise made by the young people enjoying themselves above him. In the end, Morelli decides to use whatever means necessary to drive the noisemakers away... [More...]

À tout de suite (2004)

Benoît Jacquot

Paris, 1975. Lili, a 19-year old arts student, comes from a privileged family and her life so far has been without incident. All that is to change when she meets and falls in love with a handsome young man of North African origin. One evening, her lover calls her and tells her he is caught up in a bank robbery... [More...]

Adieu, poulet (1975)

Pierre Granier-Deferre

In the French city of Rouen an election is overshadowed by a fight between the supporters of two of the candidates. In the fracas, a man is beaten to death and the killer then shoots a passing police officer. The latter has time to warn his colleagues that the killer is Portor, a well-known thug whose brother is campaigning on behalf of law-and-order candidate Lardatte... [More...]

Affaire de famille (2008)

Claus Drexel

To all appearances, the Guignebons are a typical middle class French family. They live in Grenoble, near to the sports stadium where Jean, the father, a keen footbal enthusiast, spends many a happy hour. One day, the takings from a match at the stadium are stolen and that same evening someone sets fire to the Guignebons’ garden shed... [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’Agression (1975)

Gérard Pirès

Paul Varlin is driving to his holiday destination with his wife Hélène and their young daughter Patty. On the way, Varlin gets into a fierce argument with a group of motorcyclists. The latter take their revenge by violently attacking Varlin’s car. When he regains consciousness, Varlin discovers that both his wife and his daughter have been raped and murdered... [More...]

L’Alibi (1937)

Pierre Chenal

Whilst performing his famous mind-reading act at a Parisian nightclub, Professor Winckler recognises his most hated enemy in the audience. After the show, he pursues the man, an American gangster named Gordon, and shoots him dead. He then bribes Hélène, a young woman who works in the nightclub, to give him an alibi for the killing... [More...]

Les aliénés (2001)

Yvan Gauthier

Damien is a refuse collector in a small provincial town. One day, he comes across a partially decomposed body at the landfill site where he works, along with a knife that he recognises as his own. Determined to prove himself to his friends and mother, who all look down on him, Damien sets about trying to unravel the mystery and discover the identity of the killer... [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...]

Alphaville (1965)

Jean-Luc Godard

Posing as the journalist Ivan Johnson, secret agent Lemmy Caution arrives in Alphaville to look for a renowned scientist, Professor von Braun. Caution soon discovers that he has entered a world that is very unlike his own, one where love has been abolished and where any show of emotion is punishable by death... [More...]

Les Amants criminels (1999)

François Ozon

A young adolescent Alice persuades her 17 year old boyfriend Luc to kill one of her classmates, Saïd. The murder accomplished, they take the body to a forest to dispose of it, but they are observed by a poacher. Luc and Alice then come across the poacher’s shack whilst he is out and are helping themselves to food when he returns, with a rifle... [More...]

Antilles sur Seine (2000)

Pascal Légitimus

On the island of Marie Galante, Guadeloupe, a party is in full swing to celebrate the birthday of the town’s popular mayor, Horace Ste Rose. The festivities prove to be short-lived, however. Two days later, Horace learns that his wife, Lucia, has been kidnapped whilst passing through Paris. He is incredulous when he is notified that she will only be returned to him if he agrees to surrender some land that belongs to him, land that will be the location for a large development complex... [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...]

Arsène Lupin (2004)

Jean-Paul Salomé

Arsène Lupin’s harmonious childhood ends abruptly with the brutal death of his father, a notorious crook. Twenty years later, Lupin has established himself as a gentleman thief; he relieves the rich of the burden of some of their wealth, without ever resorting to violence. He also has an eye for the ladies and one day he falls under the spell of the mysterious Countess Joséphine... [More...]

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