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Commis d’office (2009)

Hannelore Cayre

Having just turned forty, Antoine Lahoud is beginning to lose his enthusiasm for his work as a criminal lawyer. Surely he is made for better things than the trivial cases he is currently burdened with, cases which earn him a mere pittance for his efforts? Henry Marsac, a lawyer of some repute, thinks so... [More...]

Compartiment tueurs (1965)

Costa-Gavras

On the night-train from Marseilles to Paris, a young woman is murdered in her sleeping compartment. Inspector Grazzi takes charge of the investigation, aided by his young assistant Jean-Lou. They track down the passengers who took the same train and uncover a web of intrigue. Then, one by one, the passengers are mysteriously killed… ... [More...]

Complices (2010)

Frédéric Mermoud

From the very first glances which they exchange in a Cybercafé, Vincent and Rebecca know that they are in love. They are just 18; their lives are happy and carefree. Then, two months later, Vincent’s dead body is found in the Rhone and Rebecca has disappeared. Inspector Hervé Cagan and his teammate Karine Mangin lead the investigation into the tragic fate of the two young lovers... [More...]

Le Concile de pierre (2006)

Guillaume Nicloux

Whilst working as an interpreter in Mongolia, Laura adopts a small boy named Liu-San. She notices a strange mark on the boy’s chest and becomes concerned when she and Liu-San begin to share a series of terrifying nightmares. When she has to leave the country, Laura decides to leave Liu-San with Sybille Weber, the neurologist who raised the boy since his parents died... [More...]

Le Convoyeur (2004)

Nicolas Boukhrief

Alexandre Demarre finds work as a security guard for Vigilante, a company that delivers money in armoured vans. Vigilante is on the point of being taken over by an American rival, after a series of armed robberies which have cost the lives of several of its employees. Alexandre is a man of mystery. He lives alone in a hotel room, the rent of which exceeds his paltry salary, and he seems strangely fascinated by his colleagues... [More...]

Le Corbeau (1943)

Henri-Georges Clouzot

The peace of the small French town of Saint-Robin is disturbed by a sudden outbreak of poison pen letters, which cast vile aspersions on prominent members of the community. The identity of the letter writer remains a mystery - the venomous missives are written in a disguised hand and signed Le Corbeau (The Raven)... [More...]

Le Corniaud (1965)

Gérard Oury

Antoine Maréchal is about to set off for a holiday in Italy when his 2CV is smashed to pieces by a Rolls-Royce, driven by the wealthy business man Léopold Saroyan. By way of compensation, Saroyan offers Maréchal an expenses-paid trip to Naples so that he can collect his luxury white Cadillac and drive it back to Bordeaux... [More...]

Le Corps de mon ennemi (1976)

Henri Verneuil

François Leclerc returns to his home, an industrial town in northern France, after serving a seven year prison sentence for a murder he did not commit. He recalls the events which led up to his trial, beginning with his romance with Gilberte Liegeard, daughter of a powerful industrialist, and the spectacular opportunities for social climbing this offered him... [More...]

Cortex (2008)

Nicolas Boukhrief

When Charles Boyer, a retired police officer, begins to show signs of Alzheimer’s disease, he decides to put himself in the care of a specialist clinic. At least he will no longer be a burden to his son Thomas, who has problems of his own. Within a short time of Charles’s arrival at the clinic, several of his fellow inmates die, suddenly and apparently without reason... [More...]

Coup d’éclat (2011)

José Alcala

In the French town of Sète, police chief Fabienne Bourrier spends much of her time pursuing illegal immigrants from all backgrounds. Her professional routine is disrupted by the death of a young prostitute named Olga, an obvious suicide case. Fabienne becomes interested when she learns that Olga had a son and was being hunted by someone... [More...]

Coupable (2008)

Laetitia Masson

When a wealthy man, Grandville, is found dead in his home, the police - led by Inspector Louis Berger – suspect that he was murdered by his wife, Blanche. An ambitious young lawyer, Lucien Lambert, is hired to defend Blanche. One evening, Lucien pays an unsolicited call at the Grandville house and meets their cook, a strange young woman named Marguerite, who turns out to have been Grandville’s mistress... [More...]

Le Couperet (2005)

Costa-Gavras

When dedicated company man Bruno Davert loses his job in a corporate reorganisation, he comes close to losing his self-respect and his family. After two years of futile job-hunting, he hits on a brilliant scheme to win a senior post with another company. By advertising a bogus job vacancy, he gets potential rivals in his field to send him their CVs – with personal details which enable him to find them – and kill them..... [More...]

Le Cousin (1997)

Alain Corneau

His family life in disarray, his career threatened when he is implicated in a drugs dealing racket, a police detective kills himself. A colleague, Gérard, decides to ally himself with his dead partner’s informer, Nounours, determined to make a substantial hit on the illicit drugs trade in Paris... [More...]

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1970)

Michel Audiard

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... [More...]

Le Cri du hibou (1987)

Claude Chabrol

An artist, Robert, moves to Vichy after having separated from his wife, Véronique. He relieves his depression by spying on a young woman, Juliette, who lives in a house in the countryside with her fiancé Patrick. One day, Juliette discovers Robert in her garden and invites him into her house... [More...]

Crime d’amour (2010)

Alain Corneau

In the sterile offices of a large multinational company, Isabelle works for Christine, a powerful woman whom she greatly admires. Certain of her authority over her young protégée, Christine decides to lure Isabelle into a perverse game of seduction and domination. But the game goes too far..... [More...]

Le Crime est notre affaire (2008)

Pascal Thomas

Whilst her husband Bélisaire is content with their peaceful retirement, Prudence is slowly dying of boredom. She pines for a real-life crime mystery that will tax her intellect and bring some excitement back into her life. Her wish is granted when she is visited by an aunt who claims to have witnessed a woman being strangled on a passing train.... [More...]

La Crime (1983)

Philippe Labro

When Alins, an eminent lawyer, is shot dead by two men disguised as police officers, Inspector Martin Griffon investigates the killing, certain that Alins was the victim of a political cover-up. Aware that Griffon has a reputation for tenacious truth seeking which may, on this occasion, prove dangerous, his superiors partner him with a more senior cop, Jean-François Rambert... [More...]

La Croix des vivants (1961)

Ivan Govar

Some time after he was falsely accused of the murder of his stepfather, Yan returns to his home village in Flanders. Franz, the local garage owner is not happy with his return. Before he died, Yan’s stepfather was going to give him financial support in the construction of a new racing car and Frantz remains convinced that Yan killed him... [More...]

Dancing Machine (1990)

Gilles Béhat

Alan Wolf runs a dance school with an almost tyrannical fervour, aided by his assistant Chico. Once, Wolf was a highly regarded dancer, but a motorcycle accident brought an abrupt end to his career, as well as killing his partner. When one of his students dies during a class, Wolf’s ex-wife Ella Cebrian suspects that she may have been murdered... [More...]

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