French films Crime/Thriller
Gas-Oil (1955) 
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Early one morning, after a night with his girlfriend Alice, lorry driver Jean Chape accidentally runs over a body stretched out in the middle of the road. He reports the incident to the police who, suspecting foul play, impound his lorry. The dead man’s widow visits Jean and accuses him of stealing a huge some of money he was carrying before he was killed...
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Le Port du désir (1955) 
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Captain Le Quévic intends to raise a sunken ship at the entrance to the port of Marseilles, not knowing that it contains the body of a murdered woman. The ship’s owner, a local gangster named Black, plans to sabotage the operation, since it was he who killed the woman to prevent her from revealing his crooked activities...
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Les Diaboliques (1955) 
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Christina and Michel Delasalle are a married couple who run a private boarding school. Delasalle is a tyrant who bullies both his wife and his mistress, Nicole. Having been beaten by Delasalle, Nicole finally persuades Christina that they should murder their tormentor. The two women lure Delasalle back to Nicole’s lodgings where Chistiana drugs him and Nicole drowns him in a bath tub...
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Les Héros sont fatigués (1955)
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A former war-time pilot Michel Rivière arrives in the African town of Free City, hoping to find a buyer for some diamonds he found hidden in his aircraft. He stays at the hotel run by the despicable Séverin, with whose wife, Manuella, he has an affair. Rivière manages to find a buyer for his diamonds...
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Razzia sur la Chnouf (1955)
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International drug baron Henri Ferré, nicknamed ’Le Nantais’, is tasked with restructuring a narcotics ring operating in Paris. The gangster head Paul Liski provides him with a cover, a bar named Le Troquet, not realising that Ferré is in fact working for the police. Far from supporting the drugs racket...
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Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)
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Shortly after serving a stretch in prison, an ageing crook Tony Le Stéphanois meets up with his former comrades, Jo and Mario. The latter are planning to make a quick snatch and grab raid on a jewellery shop and invite Tony to help them. Realising this could be his last chance to make it big, Tony persuades his friends to attempt a far bigger crime...
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Ces dames préfèrent le mambo (1957) 
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Sea-farer Burt Brickford is engaged to captain the yacht of the wealthy Henery Legrand, ostensibly for a pleasure trip in the Gulf of Mexico. From the outset, Brickford suspects that something is amiss. Sure enough, he discovers several cases of dynamite in the ship’s hold and his paymasters are forced to admit that they are planning to recover the lost treasure of a sunken galleon...
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Jusqu'au dernier (1957)
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After a short stretch in jail, Fernand Bastia turns up at a travelling circus and persuades his sister to find a temporary job and accommodation for him. There, he is attracted towards the shapely young dancer Gina. He reveals to her that before his arrest he was involved in a spectacular robbery, and that he alone knows the whereabouts of the stolen money...
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L'Homme à l'imperméable (1957)
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When his wife is called away on a family matter, a timid musician, Albert Constantin, finds himself unable to cope with the simplest domestic chore. Accepting the advice of a fellow musician he pays a visit on a friendly chorus girl, Eva, just a few moments before she is killed by an unseen assailant. Realising that Eva is a prostitute...
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Le Rouge est mis (1957)
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Louis Bertain, a respectable garage owner by day, is the head of a band of notorious crooks by night. When a hold-up goes badly wrong, Bertain’s younger brother Pierre is suspected of having sold them out to the police. He was, after all, recently picked up by the police and then released after questioning. When he is finally caught by Commissaire Pluvier...
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Méfiez-vous fillettes (1957)
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When he leaves prison after a five year stretch, Raven has just one thought in his head – to kill the man who put him behind bars, Mendetta, and take his place as the head of the Parisian underworld. To defend his territory and avenge the murder, Palmer, Mendetta’s right-hand man, kidnaps a young woman named Dany and keeps her prisoner in a brothel...
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Quand la femme s'en mêle (1957)
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Maine, the girlfriend of a notorious gangster, Godot, receives an unexpected visit from her ex-husband and her daughter. At the time, Godot is in the midst of a gangland war with a rival gangster, and it becomes clear that Maine’s ex-husband himself has a few scores to settle…...
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Retour de manivelle (1957)
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Ruined by his business partner, Max Fréminger decides to commit suicide. Before killing himself, Max tells his wife Hélène that she must somehow hide the fact that his death was a suicide, otherwise she will be unable to claim his insurance money. With the help of a newly hired chauffeur, Robert, Hélène weaves an elaborate scheme to make it appear that her...
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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958)
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Julien Tavernier kills his lover’s husband but is trapped in the lift to his offices. Meanwhile, his car is stolen by a young man who signs into a hotel, with his girlfriend, under Julien’s name. During the stay at the hotel, the young man shoots a German couple with a gun he found earlier in Tavernier’s car...
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Le Gorille vous salue bien (1958)
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Géo Paquet, nicknamed The Gorilla, is the French secrets services’ number one agent. At the request of his superior, Colonel Berthomieu, he is to find Veslot, an agent working for a foreign power who is passing on classified military information. By taking part in a simulated prison escape, Paquet manages to gain the confidence of Casa...
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Maigret tend un piège (1958)
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Inspecteur Maigret investigates a series of murders involving young women. All of the murders were committed in the vicinity of a Parisian butcher’s shop in the middle of the night whilst the victims were walking home. To catch the killer, Maigret decides to set a trap, by enacting a reconstruction of the latest murder....
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125 rue Montmartre (1959)
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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...
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À double tour (1959)
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Henri Marcoux, a respectable middle-class man living in Province with his wife and two children, is having an affair with a younger woman, Léda. His wife, the redoubtable Thérèse Marcoux, is determined to avoid a scandal at any price, even to the extent of breaking off her daughter’s engagement when she learns that her future son-in-law Laszlo has been sympathising...
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Des femmes disparaissent (1959)
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In Marseilles, the notorious gang leader Quaglio runs a prostitution ring. His plan involves luring young woman to his mansion on the outskirts of the town, before drugging them and smuggling them out of the country to be sold as prostitutes. A young car mechanic, Pierre, discovers that his fiancée Béatrice is attending one of Quaglio’s soirées and attempts to rescue...
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Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959)
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Moreau, a French journalist assigned to New York, is sent out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a French United Nations diplomat, Fèvre-Berthier. When he fails to learn anything from the diplomat’s secretary, he recruits a cynical, alcoholic magazine photographer to help him in his mission. The two men make a nocturnal search of New York in a determined bid to uncover...
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