French films Crime/Thriller
Dernier domicile connu (1970) 
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As a result of a serious professional blunder, Inspector Leonetti finds himself transferred to a minor police department. There, he is assigned to a difficult case involving a certain Roger Martin, who has disappeared with his small daughter. Martin is in fact a key witness in a murder case and is required to give evidence against a well-known gangster...
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La Horse (1970) 
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Auguste Maroilleur sits at the head of a family of traditional French farmers on a piece of land in Normandy. He lives with his two daughters and their husbands, to whom he intends to pass on his farm when he dies. He is outraged when he discovers that his grandson Henri is mixed up with a band of drug smugglers who are using his farm as a hiding place for illegal drugs...
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Le Cercle rouge (1970) 
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Police superintendent Mattei is escorting a suspected criminal, Vogel, across France on a train. After a daring escape, Vogel, goes on the run. With the police closing in on him, the fugitive hides in the boot of a car owned by a sophisticated crook, Corey, who has only just been released from prison. When Vogel saves Corey’s life...
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1970)
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Hitch-hiking his way home after an unsuccessful day betting on the horses, Alfred Mulanet is abducted by a group of gangsters, led by the sinister Monsieur K. Against his will, he is placed in a coffin, which is to be shipped to Istanbul. En route, the coffin and Mulanet fall into the hands of a rival gang, led by the dapper Monsieur Kruger...
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Un condé (1970)
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Dassa, a bar owner who refuses to sell drugs to his customers, is killed by men working for Tavernier, a gangster known as Le Mandarin. Dassas’s sister Hélène is also in danger, for the same reasons. Inspector Favenin and the young inspector Barnero are put in charge of the case. Dan Rover, one of Dassa’s friends...
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Il était une fois un flic (1971)
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When a drugs dealer is murdered in Nice, the French police see an opportunity to infiltrate and break up a notorious drugs trafficking ring. Commissaire Campana agrees to impersonate the dead man’s brother, although it means “adopting” Christine, a police agent, as his wife, and her infant son as his own...
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Le Casse (1971)
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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...
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Les Aveux les plus doux (1971)
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Jean Dubreuil agrees to help a friend rob a circus. Jean manages to get the money as planned but everything goes wrong when his friend badly injures a circus employee who ran after them. Whilst his friend escapes, Jean is arrested. Inspectors Muller and Borelli are put in charge of the case. Jean pretends to be innocent...
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Le Tueur (1972)
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Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial-killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda, whom he takes to Paris, having disposed of her entourage. An ageing police commissioner, Le Guen, is assigned to track down and arrest Gassot...
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Un flic (1972)
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A band of crooks carry out a bank robbery and then an incredible hold-up on a train. When he investigates the crimes, Parisian detective Commissaire Coleman discovers that they were masterminded by his friend – the night club owner Simon, abetted by his seductive girlfriend, Cathy......
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L'Héritier (1973)
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When his father, a wealthy industrialist, is killed in aeroplane crash, Bart Cordell returns to France to take up the reins of the empire he has inherited. When a prostitute attempts to frame him for drug smuggling, he begins to suspect is father may have been murdered. Bart’s investigation uncovers a complex web of political intrigue...
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Borsalino & Co. (1974) 
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1930s Marseilles. Having attended to the funeral of his friend, Capella, gangster king Roch Siffredi sets about trying to find his killer. Disposing of Capella’s murderer proves to be easy, but the latter has a brother, Volpone, who in turn intends to take his revenge on Siffredi. To that end, Volpone sets out to take control of Marseilles...
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Nuits rouges (1974)
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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...
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Adieu, poulet (1975)
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In the French city of Rouen an election is marred 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 officer has time to warn his colleagues that the killer is Proctor, a well-known thug whose brother is campaigning on behalf of law and order candidate Lardatte! Commissaire Verjeat’s...
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Flic Story (1975)
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Paris, 1947. Roger Borniche sees himself as the star cop of the Sûreté nationale, but he despises the brutal methods used by his colleagues. He has the opportunity to prove the superiority of his more humane, methodical approach when he is tasked with tracking down an escaped convicted killer, Émile Buisson...
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Il faut vivre dangereusement (1975)
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One night, private detective Edouard Lory is killed and thrown from a train. When the police find his body, they find a packet of drugs in his jacket and are quick to dismiss the death as a revenge killing between drugs dealers. Richard Diquet, another private eye who knew Lory, is not convinced and is about to begin his own investigation when he is contacted by a businessman...
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Jeune fille libre le soir (1975)
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In Rome, Ann Carson is knocked down by a taxi just as she leaves the house of Cyrus Franklin, a wealthy industrialist. Ann has been Franklin’s mistress for some time, but now he no longer wishes to see her. The accident is witnessed by Michèle, an arts student, who decides to take care of Ann in her apartment until she has recovered...
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L'Agression (1975)
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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...
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Les Innocents aux mains sales (1975)
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Julie Wormser lives in comfort in St Tropez with her wealthy husband, Louis, who, 18 years her senior, has been forced into early retirement after suffering a heart attack. Julie is apparently unperturbed by her husband’s impotence and heavy drinking until the day she meets Jeff, a handsome young writer with whom she begins a secret love affair...
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Peur sur la ville (1975)
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After receiving a series of threatening phone calls, Nora Elmer falls to her death from a high-rised apartment. The death is investigated by police inspector Jean Letellier, who soon receives a mysterious phone call from someone calling himself Minos and who claims to want to purge Paris of loose women. Realising that he is dealing with a dangerous maniac...
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