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French cinema: Action/Adventure
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...
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Fred Cavayé
La Bande à Bonnot (1968)
Philippe Fourastié
In 1911, a group of hard-line anarchists - including Raymond-la-science, Garnier, Carouy, Soudy and Marie la Belge - give up their peaceful struggle against the bourgeoisie and, led by Jules Bonnot, become a gang of desperate armed criminals...
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Philippe Fourastié
La Bataille de l'eau lourde (1948)
Jean Dréville
Not long after Norway comes under Nazi Occupation at the start of World War II, the Germans commandeer a hydroelectric power plant in the mountains outside Rjukan...
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Jean Dréville
La Fayette (1962)
Jean Dréville
In 1776, the British colonies in America have begun to rise up against the British crown, intent on creating their own independent republic...
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Jean Dréville
Frantic (1988)
Roman Polanski
Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper...
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Roman Polanski
Les Grandes gueules (1966)
Robert Enrico
After his father's death, Hector Valentin returns to Vosges in the northeast of France to take charge of his father's ailing timber business... [More...]
Robert Enrico
After his father's death, Hector Valentin returns to Vosges in the northeast of France to take charge of his father's ailing timber business... [More...]
L'Homme de Rio (1964)
Philippe de Broca
French air force pilot Adrien Dufourquet returns to Paris for a week's leave just before his girlfriend, Agnès, is kidnapped... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
French air force pilot Adrien Dufourquet returns to Paris for a week's leave just before his girlfriend, Agnès, is kidnapped... [More...]
Le Jour et l'heure (1963)
René Clément
During WWII, Thérèse Dutheil refuses to have any interest in politics, even though her husband is being held a prisoner-of-war in Germany... [More...]
René Clément
During WWII, Thérèse Dutheil refuses to have any interest in politics, even though her husband is being held a prisoner-of-war in Germany... [More...]
Liste noire (1984)
Alain Bonnot
David, Jacky and Nathalie are three teenage rebels who decide to hold up a bank. The weaponry is provided by a man who, unbeknown to them, belongs to a gang that intends to use their hold up as a diversion for their own daylight heist... [More...]
Alain Bonnot
David, Jacky and Nathalie are three teenage rebels who decide to hold up a bank. The weaponry is provided by a man who, unbeknown to them, belongs to a gang that intends to use their hold up as a diversion for their own daylight heist... [More...]
Le Magnifique (1973)
Philippe de Broca
When a secret agent is eaten by a shark in a telephone box, ace spy Bob Saint-Clair is sent on a mission to Mexico, to confront his arch-enemy Karpof, assisted by his beautiful partner Tatiana… Thus begins the latest pulp fiction novel by François Merlin, a lonely middle-aged writer who dreams of having a love affair with his neighbour Christine and of getting his revenge on his odious publisher Charron - fantasies which he plays out in his novels... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
When a secret agent is eaten by a shark in a telephone box, ace spy Bob Saint-Clair is sent on a mission to Mexico, to confront his arch-enemy Karpof, assisted by his beautiful partner Tatiana… Thus begins the latest pulp fiction novel by François Merlin, a lonely middle-aged writer who dreams of having a love affair with his neighbour Christine and of getting his revenge on his odious publisher Charron - fantasies which he plays out in his novels... [More...]
Mesrine: L'Ennemi public n°1 (2008)
Jean-François Richet
Following his outrageous criminal escapades in France and Canada, Jacques Mesrine has become Public Enemy N° 1, the man most wanted by both the police and the media... [More...]
Jean-François Richet
Following his outrageous criminal escapades in France and Canada, Jacques Mesrine has become Public Enemy N° 1, the man most wanted by both the police and the media... [More...]
Mesrine: L'Instinct de mort (2008)
Jean-François Richet
Serving in Algeria in the late 1950s, a young French soldier, Jacques Mesrine, soon develops a taste for violence, adventure and killing... [More...]
Jean-François Richet
Serving in Algeria in the late 1950s, a young French soldier, Jacques Mesrine, soon develops a taste for violence, adventure and killing... [More...]
Michel Strogoff (1926)
Viktor Tourjansky
As a revolt by the Tartars threatens to tear the Russian Empire in two, the soldier Michel Strogoff is sent to the Siberian town of Irkutsk with a vital message from the Tsar... [More...]
Viktor Tourjansky
As a revolt by the Tartars threatens to tear the Russian Empire in two, the soldier Michel Strogoff is sent to the Siberian town of Irkutsk with a vital message from the Tsar... [More...]
Le Miracle des loups (1924)
Raymond Bernard
In 1461, following the One Hundred Years' War, France is a divided nation. King Louis XI is resolved to bring the country together, but his ambitions are threatened by noblemen who are reluctant to give up their power... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
In 1461, following the One Hundred Years' War, France is a divided nation. King Louis XI is resolved to bring the country together, but his ambitions are threatened by noblemen who are reluctant to give up their power... [More...]
Le Mystère de la tour Eiffel (1928)
Julien Duvivier
With their 'Siamese Twins' dance act, the Mironton Brothers - Achille Saturnin and his exact double - are one of the main attractions at a popular Parisian fairground... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
With their 'Siamese Twins' dance act, the Mironton Brothers - Achille Saturnin and his exact double - are one of the main attractions at a popular Parisian fairground... [More...]
OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions (2006)
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1955, Cairo is a hornet's nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117... [More...]
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1955, Cairo is a hornet's nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117... [More...]
Quatre-vingt-treize (1921)
Albert Capellani
France, 1793. The French Revolution has entered its bloodiest phase with the Republican Army authorised by the Committee of Public Safety to crush opposition to the new régime wherever it shows itself, and with utter ruthlessness... [More...]
Albert Capellani
France, 1793. The French Revolution has entered its bloodiest phase with the Republican Army authorised by the Committee of Public Safety to crush opposition to the new régime wherever it shows itself, and with utter ruthlessness... [More...]
R.A.S. (1973)
Yves Boisset
In 1956, France's professional army lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold onto at any price... [More...]
Yves Boisset
In 1956, France's professional army lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold onto at any price... [More...]
Tih Minh (1918)
Louis Feuillade
After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry... [More...]
Un de la légion (1936)
Christian-Jaque
Fernand Espitalion is a timid man who quietly accepts the humiliations heaped on him by his domineering wife Antoinette. Theirs is a marriage of convenience not mutual tenderness... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Fernand Espitalion is a timid man who quietly accepts the humiliations heaped on him by his domineering wife Antoinette. Theirs is a marriage of convenience not mutual tenderness... [More...]
Vincent n'a pas d'écailles (2015)
Thomas Salvador
On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers... [More...]
Thomas Salvador
On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers... [More...]