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French cinema: Thriller (Page 1 of 27)

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...]

Le 4ème pouvoir (1985)

Serge Leroy

Catherine Carré presents the French evening news with charm and an irreproachable professionalism. However, her personal ambitions and journalistic integrity come into conflict when news reporter Yves Dorget, an old flame of hers, uncovers evidence that the French government has been complicit in the illegal sale of arms to a developing country... [More...]

La 7ème cible (1984)

Claude Pinoteau

A retired journalist, Bastien Grimaldi, finds himself the victim of unknown assailants. First he is ambushed and beaten up one evening; then he begins to receive threatening phone calls. Neither he nor his entourage can understand this. Bastien has no known enemies and is hardly a political target. He reports this to the police but they prove ineffectual... [More...]

À bout de souffle (1960)

Jean-Luc Godard

Michel Poiccard is a small-time crook who is on the run after having shot dead a policeman. Hoping to recover some money he is owed by some shady associates of his, Michel returns to Paris. Here, he meets up with Patricia, a young student and aspiring journalist with whom he had enjoyed a brief affair in Nice... [More...]

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...]

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 l’intérieur (2007)

Alexandre Bustillo

One Christmas Eve, Sarah is still traumatised by her memory of the horrific car accident in which her husband died and which she only narrowly survived. Tomorrow she will go into hospital to give birth, but she must first spend one last night alone in her quiet suburban house. That evening, a strange woman knocks on her front door and asks if she can be let in to make an urgent phone call... [More...]

À nous deux (1979)

Claude Lelouch

The son of a notorious gangster, Simon Lacassaigne attempts to follow in his father’s footsteps – but only ends up in prison. He manages to escape and, thanks to his uncle, Tonton Musique, he finds a safe hideout in the country. He then has to share his hiding place with Françoise, who had a nice line in blackmail and helping married women divorce their husbands before she too had to go on the run... [More...]

À ton image (2004)

Aruna Villiers

When Thomas meets Mathilde, he knows at once that she is the woman of his life. His dream is to settle down and start a family like any other couple, but Mathilde reveals that she cannot give birth. As it happens, Thomas works in a clinic which specialises in obstetrics. He discusses his situation with his colleague Professor Cardoze, and the latter proposes a solution which will achieve a miracle birth... [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...]

Action immédiate (1957)

Maurice Labro

The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum. The latter agrees to hand over the blueprints in return for a large sum of money... [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...]

L’Adversaire (2002)

Nicole Garcia

For the past fifteen years, Jean-Marc Faure has kept up the deception that he is a brilliant physician with a senior position in the World Health Organisation. No one – not his closest friends, his wife, even his parents – knows the truth, that he didn’t even graduate from medical school... [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...]

L’Affaire Farewell (2009)

Christian Carion

Moscow in the early 1980s, at the height of the Cold War. Sergueï Grigoriev is a colonel in the KGB who has become so disillusioned with the regime running his country that he decides to bring down the system. He makes contact with Pierre Froment, a young French engineer stationed in Moscow. The highly sensitive information that Grigoriev begins feeding Froment soon attracts the interest of Western intelligence services..... [More...]

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