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Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Hugo Boris, Night Shift focuses on three Parisian police officers charged with driving a stranger back to the border. However, Virginie (Efira) realizes their prisoner will most likely be killed upon return to his country and so goes about attempting to convince her fellow officers to release him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, China
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Ardennes (2015)
Plot Summary:
A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth however possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, twist ending, hood, crime thriller, twisted, surprise ending, weird
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Three Days and a Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful
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The Running Man (1963)
Plot Summary:
An insurance man (Alan Bates) gets chummy in Spain with a couple (Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick) who have collected on a fake death.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: noir, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, independent film, freeze frame
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Doblin's text to 2015 Berlin to tell the story of 30-year-old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat which crossed the Mediterranean illegally. Without citizenship papers, Francis is drawn into the underbelly of the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Netherlands, France, Canada
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: psychological, epic, captivating, surreal, modern day adaptation
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The Sitting Duck (2022)
Plot Summary:
La syndicaliste is the true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs.. Her life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted in her own home... The investigation is carried out under pressure: the subject is sensitive. Suddenly, new elements create doubt in the minds of the investigators. At first a victim, Maureen becomes a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Police (1985)
Plot Summary:
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eighties
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Last Known Address (1970)
Plot Summary:
Marceau Léonetti (Lino Ventura), a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne (Marlène Jobert). Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, crime drama, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: political, suspense, disclosure
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The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (2019)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman is miserable in the narrow-minded town she is living, while Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, biblical
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Beauty and the Dogs (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mariam just wanted to enjoy the night, when a tragic event occurs. Despite the trauma, the pretty tunisian student is determined to go to the police. But what can be done when your persecutor is your only chance?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Qatar, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, rough, touching, captivating, disturbing, crime thriller
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Appearances (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ève and Henri are among the happy few of the French community in Vienna. They are “la crème de la crème”. The perfect picture crumbles when Ève discovers that Henri is cheating on her. On an impulse, she finds revenge with Jonas, a perfect young Austrian guy. But he’s not who she thought he was. This will lead them to an irreversible spiral.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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The Devil Inside (2020)
Plot Summary:
Catherine Borowiak, 50 years old, is the head of a conditional release agency. Being in charge of 20 years old Hugo's case, recently released from jail on parole, she starts a relationship with him, a highly risky one.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Just the Two of Us (2023)
Plot Summary:
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Fabienne (2011)
Plot Summary:
Fabienne is a police officer. She does her job well but is gradually growing tired of the dehumanized nature of her work : arresting undocumented aliens day after day does not fit in with her ideals. That's why when, one night, Olga, the Kazakh prostitute she apprehends, begs her to free her not to leave her four-year-old son alone, she hesitates... And why, after Olga has run away and is found dead, Fabienne decides to deal with this matter personally.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sincere, realistic, neo noir, touching, bleak
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This Man Must Die (1969)
Plot Summary:
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, anthology, twisted, psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dheepan (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: political, bleak, emotional, realistic, disturbing, lyrical, dramatic, social, suspense, educational
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The Young Lieutenant (2005)
Plot Summary:
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, bleak, neo noir, light, captivating, detective, rough, suspenseful, no music
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Les Misérables (2019)
Plot Summary:
With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade, an inner suburb of Paris. On the same team as Chris and Gwada, two men with occasionally “peculiar” methods, he soon discovers the tensions among the different neighbourhood gangs. As they find themselves overwhelmed during an interrogation, a drone films every one of their movements.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, political, suspense, art house, crime thriller, psychological, captivating, disturbing, bleak, social
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Black Tide (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dany, the Arnault family’s teenage son has disappeared. The case is assigned to François Visconti, a world-weary and disillusioned detective whose wife has just left him. The policeman investigates to find the missing teenager while he is reluctant to take care of his own son, Denis, 16, who seems to be mixed up in drug trafficking. When Mr. Bellaile, Dany’s French tutor, learns about his former student’s disappearance, he offers his services.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, suspense, twist ending, art house
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Max & Jeremie (1992)
Plot Summary:
Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels his lowly status keenly. If only he could graduate to the ranks of hitmen, who are honored in his world, perhaps then he would feel more like somebody. He finally gets his chance when he receives instructions to kill the eminent hitman Max, who knows too much to be left alive. Instead of planning a cool and distant hit, Jeremie gets to know his quarry personally and thereby gets entangled in a mass of conflicting allegiances. Max has one more assignment and has asked Jeremie to help him with it. The hero-worshipping boy can't bring himself to knock of this classy guy. However, just having such an inept apprentice as Jeremie around is enormously dangerous for the soon-to-be-retired killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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L.627 (1992)
Plot Summary:
Lulu is a tough streetwise narcotics cop who, like a Frank Serpico or a Dirty Harry Callahan, doesn't play by the rules or kowtow to his weak and/or corrupt superiors. Lulu thrives in this violent world, where sheer guts can overcome his squad's deficiencies of money and equipment. Despite the ruthless environment that he lives and works in every day, he still manages somehow to maintain his humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: anthology, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
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Policewoman (2000)
Plot Summary:
Die Polizistin is a documentary by Andreas Dresen about the life of a young police woman who is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Varg Veum - Fallen Angels (2008)
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Jakob Aasen has hired his old friend, private investigator Varg Veum, to spy on his wife Rebecca, whom he suspects of infidelity. Against his better judgement Varg accepts the job, and in an ironic twist he and Rebecca rekindle their former love. Meanwhile a serial killer is targeting members of Jacob's band and their families.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, detective
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Armed Hands (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lucas 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.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough
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Oh Mercy! (2019)
Plot Summary:
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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November (2022)
Plot Summary:
In November 2015, a series of unprecedented and deadly attacks hits Paris. The anti-terrorist police led by Heloise and her chief commander Fred - face an unprecedented level of pressure: in a race against the clock, they must find the perpetrators of the attacks as quickly as possible before they can strike again, travelling across Europe and beyond in one of the biggest manhunts in history.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: political thriller
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Him (2021)
Plot Summary:
A composer starts doubting and questioning his whole life and its meaning. Isolating himself in his house in Brittany where various important persons (his wife, his mistress, his best friend, his parents, his doctor...) will come and visit him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: horror musical
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Ripley Under Ground (2005)
Plot Summary:
After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, crime thriller, independent film, tense, clever, serious
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Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Plot Summary:
An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a night porter at the hotel. The pair discover the hotel is a front for all sorts of clandestine activities. Their only wish is to avoid possible deportation. Okwe becomes more entangled in the goings on when he is called to fix a toilet in one of the rooms. He discovers the plumbing has been clogged by a human heart.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, grim, neo noir, realistic, dark comedy, atmospheric, surprise ending
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Samba (2014)
Plot Summary:
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, romantic, captivating, sincere, semi serious, realistic, sexy, humorous, funny