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Plot Summary:
Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorbike accident, wastes his youth in the laziness of the French Riviera, where he is looked after by Martha, a former movie star. Adrien’s life is turned upside down when he meets Margot, a captivating beauty who lives for the thrill of scams and romantic entanglements. Together, they fantasise about a better life and set up a diabolical scheme, an emotional masquerade.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 134 min
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Our Men (2021)
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They come from all over the world but they have one thing in common : The Foreign Legion, their new family. Our Men tells these stories : stories of women who struggle to keep their love fire burning; stories of men who leave for battle; stories of loving couples on hostile ground.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 106 min
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Stop Me Here (2015)
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Samson Cazalet, Taxi driver in his thirties, picks up a client at the airport. The same evening, the daughter of the woman disappears and the overwhelming evidence points to Samson. How can he prove his innocence when he is the ideal suspect?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
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Undercover (2021)
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October 2015. French customs seize seven tonnes of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a shady past, contacts Stéphane Vilner, a journalist at Libération. He claims to be able to demonstrate the existence of State drug trafficking led by Jacques Billard, prominent media figure and high-ranking French police officer. Suspicious at first, the young journalist finally dives into an investigation that will lead him to the darkest corners of the Republic.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 121 min
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Endangered Species (2017)
Plot Summary:
The fates of three entwined families. Joséphine and Tomas have just got married. It was a joyful celebration. But soon, Joséphine’s parents will discover a darker side lurking behind the couple’s sunny happiness. Meanwhile, Mélanie tells her parents that she is pregnant but the father is not ideal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
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Sophia Antipolis (2018)
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Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: hot
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Dark Diamond (2016)
Plot Summary:
Featuring menacing tracking shots; a cool, metallic color palette; surprising third-act reversals; and a terrific ensemble cast, Arthur Harari's first feature is a poised, stylish, and utterly assured revenge thriller in which, following his estranged father’s death, a man vows vengeance against his relatives who had abandoned him and returns to the family diamond business with an elaborate robbery in mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Perfect Nanny (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume his activity in a law firm, the couple is looking for a nanny. After a severe casting, they engage Louise, who quickly conquers the affection of children and gradually occupies a central place in the home. Gradually the trap of mutual dependence will close, until the tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, psychological thriller, biting
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Villa Caprice (2020)
Plot Summary:
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
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Galia (1966)
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Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning. The woman, Nicole, tells Galia that she intended to drown herself, having left a suicide note for her husband, Greg. Having settled Nicole in her apartment, Galia sets out to recover the suicide note, but waits so that she can observe Greg’s reaction. When Greg appears unmoved by the note, Galia decides to wait for him at the art gallery where he works.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
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Paris Memories (2022)
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The story revolves around Mia who finds herself caught up in a terrorist attack on a Parisian brasserie one Saturday night in the autumn. Three months later, still unable to pick up where she left off and remembering only piecemeal details of the event, she decides to search through her memory banks. Memories of the man she hid with and whose hand she held throughout the ordeal float back up to the surface. Is he still alive? Is she herself still alive? Mia searches the whole of Paris for this hand which saved her life….
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Unsolved Suburbia (2010)
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MARTY is a quirky straight guy weekdays, and gay on weekends, a high school senior, who along with his questionably straight friend JAKE, unravels the mystery of who put a hit on their friend THOMAS'S new gay lover. Jake uses his expertise as a peeping tom and gossip monger to discover neighborhood secrets, while Marty helps Thomas hide safely. At home Marty has problems of his own, when his boyfriend MICHAEL, and girlfriend ANYBODYS, find out about each other. When a surprise fourth person is sneaks into the room, the end results might be deadlier than the hit man.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexual, independent film, hispanic, sexy, queer cinema
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In the Name of My Daughter (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, touching, stylized, entertaining
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The Seventh Juror (1962)
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In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, psychological thriller, crying, french noir
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Peter von Kant (2022)
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Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir break into the world of cinema. Several months later, Amir becomes a star. But as soon as he acquires fame, he breaks up, leaving Peter alone to face himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: stylized, queer cinema
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Treat Me Like Fire (2018)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around the relationship between a gambling addict and a young woman who falls madly in love with him and will stop at nothing to win his heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic
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491 (1964)
Plot Summary:
A study in forgiveness as oppression and goodness as provocation. Six youth criminals are chosen to participate in a social experiment where they are assigned to live together in a rundown apartment in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden. The six boys are being supervised by two forgiving and uneasy social workers. Their need to continue to commit petty crimes escalates out of boredom with the situation. One night they run into a young girl in trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crying, banned
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Flag in the Mist (1965)
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When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Toxic Love (1983)
Plot Summary:
The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in the 1980s Rome.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, black comedy, dark comedy
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La Belle Époque (2019)
Plot Summary:
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, contemplative, psychological, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, intellectual, independent film, cute
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Maryline (2017)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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From the Edge of the City (1998)
Plot Summary:
Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, neo noir, lgbt cinema, disgusting, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Pianese Nunzio, Fourteen in May (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to accuse the priest of sexual harassment and have his reputation destroyed?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexual, crying, sexy, gay cinema, baroque
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Less Than Zero (1987)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: stylized, erotic, inspirational, retro, sad, art house, cerebral, cult classic, visually stunning, erotic drama
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The Thief (1997)
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In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a rooming house where he becomes everyone's favorite through his good looks and generosity. Meanwhile he gives the boy, Sanya, lessons in life: to fight back, to win at all costs. The child's mother, Katya, is head-over-heels in love with Tolyan, the soldier, but the relationship becomes rocky when Tolyan's true plans for the rooming house become clear. It starts them on a treadmill of flight that risks Katya's life, Tolyan's liberty, and Sanya's trust.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, sincere, gloomy, serious, crying, sentimental, atmospheric, thought provoking, touching
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Corniche Kennedy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to experience life to the fullest. Suzanne devours them with her eyes from inside her chic villa. Their free bodies, their excess. She wants to be part of them. She will be part of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Enemy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Prominent politician Louis Durieux is accused of having murdered his wife, found dead in their hotel room. The case blows up into an intense media storm. Is he guilty or inno- cent? Nobody knows. Perhaps not even him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Untouched (2017)
Plot Summary:
Untouched is the story of a reluctant attorney's struggle with inner demons while defending a teenage girl accused of murdering her newborn. When the "Hostess City of the South" is rocked by the horrific crime, Mitchell Thomas III becomes strangely compelled to defend the firm's newest client. Mitch and the girl connect and her circumstances exhume memories that begin to consume him. While his mother (Eleanor) rallies for a quick resolution in order to save the prestigious reputation of the girl's father from tabloid embarrassment, Mitch digs deeper into the Tybee community that hides the secret to the girl's pregnancy. The more he uncovers about his client's history, the more he drinks to escape the demons from his own past. Mitch realizes that in order to save this young woman, he must face the darkest events of his past. He works against his mother and an unforgiving city to acquit the young woman and mend is his own crippling wounds.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, gloomy, surprise ending
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Swoon (1992)
Plot Summary:
In a film based on actual events, teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. (Craig Chester) and Richard Loeb (Daniel Schlachet) share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy. When the body is found, all evidence leads to Nathan and Richard, whose strange relationship makes the case one of the most talked-about trials of the 1920s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: black and white, neo noir, independent film, tense, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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By The Grace of God (2018)
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Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the priest, to "release their word" on what they suffered.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: realistic, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, social, independent film, crying, queer cinema, cult film
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The Judge (2014)
Plot Summary:
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 199000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspenseful, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, sad, motivational, inspirational, sincere