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- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsDaniel AuteuilMathieu KassovitzOlivier GourmetA detective hunts for the marksman who foiled the plan to catch a notorious team of bank robbers.
- DirectorMatthieu DelaporteStarsMathieu KassovitzMarie-Josée CrozeÉric CaravacaSébastien Nicolas, realtor, leads a dull existence and gets used to disguising himself to take on the appearance of the characters he meets.
- DirectorSantiago AmigorenaStarsJuliette BinocheJohn TurturroSara ForestierOn September 1st, 2001 a spy receives information that something terrible will happen soon.
- DirectorCédric AngerStarsGuillaume CanetAna GirardotJean-Yves BertelootFor several months in 1978 and 1979, inhabitants of Oise live in fright and terror as a serial killer disturbs the peace and quiet.
- DirectorCédric JimenezStarsJean DujardinGilles LelloucheCéline SalletteA French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country's most powerful drug rings.
- DirectorEric RochantStarsJean DujardinCécile de FranceTim RothAn FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman, who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
- DirectorCédric JimenezArnaud DupreyStarsMélanie DouteyOlivier BarthélémyFrancis RenaudAn anonymous hacker spends his time watching images from public security cameras and private webcams. He will use his skills to track the culprits of a terrorist attack in a train station of Paris and will become more and more involved.
- DirectorDelphine NoelsStarsMélanie DouteyJalil LespertFrançoise FabianLuce and Ulysse love each other. They live a full and happy life managing their own little veterinary clinic on the Atlantic coast. Luce is awaiting a happy event. The future looks good. At least at first sight. But when baby Rose arrives, nothing goes as planned. Luce is out of her depth before the constant crying of her baby. Why does the baby cry so? Is she trying to warn her about something? Could it be that the little family is in danger?
- DirectorGilles BourdosStarsGrégoire ColinJulie OrdonBrigitte CatillonYoung woman who lives under the gaze of her overprotective stepmother falls for a young man she meets. He is infatuated by her beauty, but is also a sociopath. She wants to leave her stepmother's hold and he is ready to kill.
- DirectorHans HerbotsStarsGeert Van RampelbergIna GeertsJohan van AsscheA police inspector haunted by the childhood abduction of his brother becomes obsessed with the disturbing case of a dangerous serial kidnapper
- DirectorFranck MancusoStarsJean DujardinLaurent LucasAgnès BlanchotA cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
- DirectorOlivier MarchalStarsRichard AnconinaAnne ParillaudFrançois LevantalFranck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force trying to identify two corrupts members of the Paris Police Force. Franck is pretending to be a gangster and Nina a prostitute living with him, and involved in a robbery of a fortune in diamonds, having seven deaths and some injured persons.
- DirectorNicolas BoukhriefStarsAlbert DupontelJean DujardinFrançois BerléandA mysterious vengeful man takes a job as a security guard for a money transport company amidst a series of violent robberies.
- DirectorNicolas BoukhriefStarsAndré DussollierMarthe KellerJulien BoisselierA retired police inspector is stricken with Alzheimer's and decides to move into a residential clinic where he is puzzled by the sudden deaths of several patients.
- DirectorFlorent-Emilio SiriStarsSamy NaceriBenoît MagimelNadia FarèsAlliances change when an armored car with an Albanian mafia boss prisoner escapes a mafia army by driving inside a warehouse, which is being robbed by a French gang stealing laptops etc.
- DirectorManuel BoursinhacStarsSamuel Le BihanSamy NaceriClotilde CourauEither you make decisions or life makes them for you. For an ex-con struggling to go straight, the temptation of money, women and power prove too much, especially when his best friend promises him an easy heist.
- DirectorOlivier Van HoofstadtStarsRoschdy ZemOlivier GourmetJocelyn LagarrigueMarek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" method. A fleet of high-powered speedboats and cars races across the Mediterranean to Spain and then France, loaded with drugs.
- DirectorAlexis Durand-BraultStarsMichel CôtéKarine VanasseDominique LeducAs he navigates through porn sites without the knowledge of his wife, Germain comes across a video of his only daughter announcing her impending live performance. The political advisor of Quebec, who previously believed their loved Nathalie immersed in law school in Montreal, went illico in the city to prevent the irreparable. But the girl is not found, and Germain does for her investigation only vague clues found in the site, as well as secrets torn from the junkie girlfriend of his daughter, which puts him on the trail of a boyfriend. The latter, at the head of a cyber-XXX empire, was quick to break into the identity of Germain, and prevent Nathalie, who, shortly after a tragic incident, agrees to go home with his father. A few days later, a police detective arrives for questioning ...
- DirectorSylvain WhiteStarsGérard DepardieuJoeyStarrRüdiger VoglerWhen a truck trafficking children is intercepted in the desert by the army, one of the traffickers is captured. Interpol agent Frank Salek comes to the police station with his partner to interrogate the prisoner. However, the man lures his partner and commits suicide in the toilet. Frank, who is addicted in pills and is haunted by his past, finds three names in the prisoner's cellular that is broken. In France, the President of the International Court Laura Bernheim is chasing the Blackstream Army, an evil organization protected by worldwide authorities. In Paris, the retired and awarded detective Lionel Kasdan, who grieves the loss of his wife, is summoned by the parochial priest since the regent of his choir Goetz Willhen has been found dead in the church. The coroner has found foot steps of children around the corpse with stain of blood. Kasdan decides to conduct his own investigation and finds that Goetz was Chilean. He also discovers that Goetz was homosexual and had an affair with a young man named Naciro. When Frank learns that Goetz is one of the men in his list, he travels to Paris and meets Kasdan in the beginning of the most unlikely partnership. Together they discover an evil plan to eliminate Ms. Laura Bernheim.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsLino VenturaMichel PiccoliBruno CremerSébastien Grenier, a secret agent, eliminates all his rivals in order to decipher who has killed some of his associates.
- DirectorGabriel PelletierStarsPierre-François LegendreBrigitte PogonatNormand D'AmourSergeant André Surprenant leads an ordinary life in the Îles-de-la-Madeleine with her teenage daughter. His world changes when Rosalie Richard, a young woman of 18 years and mayor's daughter is found murdered and raped on a cliff by the sea. Inspector Gingras arrives from Montreal to try to solve the murder. Seeing that the police of the metropolis focuses on ambiguous facts and seems to seek a suspect predetermined Surprising decides to conduct his own investigation with his partner, Genevieve Savoie, who is secretly in love with him. All the villagers are potential suspects.
- DirectorJean-Jacques BeineixStarsWilhelmenia FernandezFrédéric AndréiRoland BertinTwo tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller.
- DirectorChristophe RuggiaStarsClovis CornillacMathilde SeignerYvan AttalShocked by the discovery that his boss plans to take a fortune Transporting now outside the borders , a worker of the factory decides to take action
- DirectorEric ValetteStarsAlbert DupontelAlice TaglioniStéphane DebacBank-robber Franck Adrien is serving a prison sentence after robbing a national bank. Before he was caught he managed to hide the money but now it's not just the police who are looking for the money. His cell-mate is Jean-Louis Maurel, an alleged rapist/child molester who claims his innocence. When the court finds Maurel not guilty, Maurel promises to look after Franck's family when he gets out. But one day, a man called Manuel Carrega tells Franck that Maurel is a suspected serial killer and that Franck's family is in danger. Franck escapes from prison and police officer Claire Linné and her team take up the chase.
- DirectorXavier RuizStarsEugénie AnselinArben BajraktarajIsabelle CaillatDivorced SWAT officer Alex Decker devotes himself entirely of his work, straining his relationship with his teenage daughter. When his old childhood friend and former colleague Victor is released from prison, Alex must confront his past.
- DirectorChristophe BlancStarsFrançois CluzetOlivier GourmetJonathan ZaccaïA high-end car dealership owner is forced to deal with the Finnish mafia over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
- DirectorAlbert PyunHowie AskinsJoe BaileStarsVictoria MauretteSteven BauerMorgan WeisserHorror and Revenge drive this thriller set in the sex and human trafficking underbelly of a nightmarish city where spinal fluid has become the drug of choice...with frightening consequences.
- DirectorMahesh MathaiStarsLinus RoacheSaffron BurrowsAndrea CorrA half-Indian, half-English businessman (Roache) is haunted by a mysterious woman from his past who threatens to wreck his marriage and comfortable family situation.
- DirectorRandall FontanaStarsGabrielle FitzpatrickPhillip Rhys ChaudharyRobert CulpA child survives a family massacre by a criminal syndicate. Raised by a neighbor, she grows up hunting down the perpetrators one by one. Her actions incite fears in a rival gang, leading to her capture.
- DirectorPhilippe GodeauStarsFrançois CluzetBouli LannersCorinne MasieroIn November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week later.
- DirectorGerminal AlvarezStarsJean-Hugues AngladeMélanie ThierryPhilippe BerodotWhen Paris detective Richard Kemp is injured in the course of a criminal investigation, he is transported twenty years into the past, and has a second chance at solving the most frustrating mystery of his career.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsJosiane BalaskoÉric CaravacaAnge RodotA fifty-year-old police officer, Michèle Varin, finds herself in a highly depressive state due to the death of her young son a few years ago. In one way or another she feels guilty for his death and feels particularly bad every four years during the period of time around 29th February, the anniversary date of the boy's demise. Such is her unenviable condition when she is assigned a trying ordeal (at least for her):investigating the case of a woman found hanging from a tree in a forest. Horror follows her trail, but to what extent is this reality or one of those nightmares she has and her shrink has been unable to rid her of?
- DirectorFrédéric SchoendoerfferStarsVincent CasselMonica BellucciAndré DussollierMoles threaten to foil a team of secret agents' plan.
- DirectorGrégoire VigneronStarsBenoît MagimelFrançois-Xavier DemaisonJulie GayetEtienne Meunier is a successful businessman who has money and a beautiful wife. But all is not well in Etienne's immaculate life. He is troubled by a secret that he has been hiding.
- DirectorEric ValetteStarsRachida BrakniAndré DussollierThierry FrémontAs a hostage situation in Africa threatens the Presidency, the politicians and their fixers jockey for position. The cops become involved when the body of an escort girl is found in a Parisian car park, and things start to unravel.
- DirectorFrédéric SchoendoerfferStarsCharles BerlingAndré DussollierLudovic SchoendoerfferIn the Paris region, Marie Bourgoin suddenly disappears. The police find only a tourist leaflet of Mauritius stained with blood. Police discover the probable existence of a serial killer in action for several years.
- DirectorFrédéric SchoendoerfferStarsBenoît MagimelPhilippe CaubèreBéatrice DalleA Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.
- DirectorAlain CorneauStarsYves MontandFrançois PérierSimone SignoretAn inspector is having a secret relationship with a woman. When she is murdered by his boss, all proof is against him.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsPatrick DewaereMel FerrerMichel AuclairA young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing - and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.
- DirectorSerge Le PéronStarsJean-Pierre LéaudIrène JacobMathieu AmalricFrançois Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant.
- DirectorPatrick DemersStarsMaxime DenomméeSophie CadieuxBenoît GouinThomas and Marianne, a feuding couple whose relationship has hit a wall, decide to spend a weekend at Thomas' uncle's lakeside cottage. This is their last chance to save their relationship, which has been jeopardized by Marianne's meaningless flirtations and Thomas' uncontrollable jealousy. As they arrive, a restless yet charming neighbor welcomes them into their house and, realizing that Thomas' uncle and girlfriend will not be showing up for days, suggests they share the dinner he has prepared. The drunken night that follows - with this man, who might not be who he seems to be, pushing his charms on Marianne - leads to a weekend of blurred emotions and events, where loyalties, guilt and a shared secret will test the young couple's ability to survive.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsYves MontandSimone SignoretGabriele FerzettiA high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason.
- DirectorAlain CorneauStarsPatrick DewaereMyriam BoyerMarie TrintignantFranck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds to achieve his goal... A very gloomy movie, exuding despair and uneasiness, with pathetic characters.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsThierry LhermitteMarion CotillardSamuel Le BihanIt's been six months since Rachel Siprien disappeared. At the request of Rachel's mother, private detective François takes over the investigation. The young woman, with a complex and multi-faceted personality, is part of a strange network made up of her best friend, her ex-boyfriend, her stepfather and everyone who knows her well or even slightly. François begins to frequent these various friends and acquaintances, and penetrates Rachel's daytime and nocturnal habitat. He spies, asks disturbing questions, and intentionally fills in the blanks left by those he questions.
- DirectorRégis WargnierStarsJosé GarciaLucas BelvauxMarie GillainA modern-day Parisian town crier gradually learns that someone is using him to give cryptic warnings of a plague outbreak in the city.
- DirectorLionel DelplanqueStarsAlbert DupontelJérémie RenierClaude RichMathieu, a bright student, falls in love with Nahema, who happens to be the President of the Republic's daughter. The President, a loving but invading father, finally accepts him as his daughter's boyfriend, going as far as appointing Mathieu as one of his consultants. Working with the President, Mathieu will find out who he actually is.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsCatherine FrotLucas BelvauxDominique BlancAfter nearly fifteen years behind bars, lefty revolutionary Bruno escapes and heads back to Grenoble, France. His plan? Settle some old scores, hook up with his foxy ex-lover, and avoid the cop on his tail. An unexpected event, however, brings cop and crook closer than they ever could have expected.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsGilbert MelkiLucas BelvauxDominique BlancIn the final chapter of director Belvaux's trilogy, Pascal, now a disgraced cop, seeks redemption by capturing Bruno, a fugitive with a strange connection to Agnes, Pascal's heroin-addicted wife.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsÉric CaravacaLucas BelvauxClaude SemalIn Liège, a group of men gathers every day in a café situated near the steel factory which once reigned supreme. They play cards in a warm atmosphere but that hardly masks their quiet desperation. All unemployed, either because they can't find work like Patrick or because they have been made redundant like Robert and Jean-Pierre, they try to forget their lot in the warm atmosphere of the place. One day, Marc, a newcomer, joins them. It soon appears that the man has just been released from prison and even if he is determined to go straight his presence suddenly inspires Robert : why not try criminality ?
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsDaniel AuteuilJuliette BinocheMaurice BénichouA married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
- DirectorGraham GuitStarsMelvil PoupaudÉlodie BouchezRomain DurisFour thieves named Davíd, Dilan, Christine, and Chase are forced to kidnap a high-profile dog from a dog show after a diamond robbery goes horribly wrong. Dice are rolled, cans are smashed, and darts are punched.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsChristophe MalavoyMathilda MayJacques PenotAfter separation from his wife Robert moves to Vichy where he observes beautiful Juliette. Her fiance Patrick becomes jealous and attacks Robert. When Patrick disappears Robert is suspected to have killed him.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsAlain DelonFrançois PérierNathalie DelonAfter professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsAlain DelonBourvilGian Maria VolontèAfter leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsAlain DelonRichard CrennaCatherine DeneuveAfter a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate and risky second heist.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsLino VenturaPaul MeurisseRaymond PellegrinA gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsJean-Paul BelmondoSerge ReggianiJean DesaillyA burglar betraying other criminals prepares for a big heist with a trusted friend who might be as untrustworthy as he.
- DirectorMichel DevilleStarsIsabelle HuppertJean-Louis TrintignantSandrine KljajicMelanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.
- DirectorJacques MaillotStarsGuillaume CanetFrançois CluzetClotilde HesmeThe story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favorite.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsGuillaume CanetMarie GillainVanessa ParadisOne morning, Eric Vincent, a thirty-something without a past and reluctant about fatherhood, receives a phone call from a stranger proposing him to retrieve the ashes of his late father, whom he never met.
- DirectorJulien LeclercqStarsVincent ElbazGrégori DerangèreMélanie BernierBased on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a hijacked Air France plane to save its passengers.
- DirectorJean-Paul SaloméStarsRomain DurisKristin Scott ThomasPascal GreggoryAs the daring thief Arsène Lupin (Romain Duris) ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the Police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsAnne ParillaudMarc DuretPatrick FontanaConvicted felon Nikita isn't going to jail; she's given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsMonica BellucciVincent CasselAlbert DupontelEvents over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.
- DirectorGeorges LautnerStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean DesaillyCyrielle ClairVictim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.
- DirectorFabrice GobertStarsJules PélissierAna GirardotAudrey BastienMarch 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris. During an alcohol fueled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A body that seems lifeless. Two weeks earlier. Simon, a 16 year-old teenager, has not shown up for class. Blood stains are found in a class-room. Run-away, kidnap, suicide, murder? A few days later, Laetitia, a student from the same class goes missing without her parents knowing where she has gone. A young girl with no dark background or connection to Simon. The next day, Jean-Baptiste, a third student, also disappears. Rumors start to spread. The psychosis begins...
- DirectorFred CavayéStarsVincent LindonDiane KrugerLancelot RochWith no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
- DirectorDaniel MonzónStarsLuis TosarAlberto AmmannAntonio ResinesThe story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
- DirectorXavier PaludStarsJacques GamblinLambert WilsonRaphaëlle AgoguéA police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.
- DirectorAkim IskerStarsJalil NaciriGilles BellomiAhcen TitiThree crooks with $50 million from a bank heist decide to hide out at a police station, where the cops mistake them for fellow officers.
- DirectorFabián BielinskyStarsRicardo DarínGastón PaulsGraciela TenenbaumTwo con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
- DirectorÉric LartigauStarsRomain DurisMarina FoïsNiels ArestrupA successful Paris lawyer is forced to re-invent his life after he makes a fatal mistake.
- DirectorJérôme CornuauStarsMichaël YounFanny ValettePauline HaugnessEight year old French Girl, Lola Arendt, disappears while on holiday in Scotland. Unable to cope, her parents Martin and Sarah separate. Two years later Lola is miraculously found alive in the exact same place.
- DirectorNicolas BoukhriefStarsMalik ZidiDimitri StorogeFrançois CivilSam, a freelance journalist, investigates the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young jihadis whose mission is to destabilize the city center of Paris.
- DirectorVincent GarenqStarsGilles LelloucheCharles BerlingLaurent CapellutoIn this French thriller, journalist Denis Robert sets the world of finance ablaze when he exposes a major European bank's opaque operations. In his search for the truth, he uncovers a dark political financial machine of bribes and threats.
- DirectorPhilippe LefebvreStarsRoschdy ZemSara ForestierSamuel Le BihanPolice commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris's demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don't bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he's between a rock and hard place: it's obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they're protected by higher-ups in the department.
- DirectorPierre JolivetStarsRoschdy ZemLeïla BekhtiMarc LavoineLucas and his team are after a gang of Serbian criminals using NATO-issued weapons. As the investigation leads him to Paris, Lucas attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, a young narc officer.
- DirectorFred CavayéStarsVincent LindonGilles LelloucheNadine LabakiFranck and Simon are both good cops and partners. Simon has been troubled since he killed three in a drunk driving accident, but when Simons son witnesses a murder, and is hunted by ruthless killers, he's efficiently back.
- DirectorJulien LeclercqStarsGilles LelloucheTahar RahimRiccardo ScamarcioA story centered on a man who works as an informant for the French border patrol.