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Plot Summary:
In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Death List (2009)
Plot Summary:
Former cop Michael Lombardi is accused of murder, and only his brother, Roman, is convinced of his innocence. Now the suspicion is moving to Roman when his superiors make an important discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Fanny Straw-Top (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, eros
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Crimes of Passion: King Lily of the Valley (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spring is in the air and Puck and Einar, as well as Christer Wijk are invited to a wedding in Skoga. The day before the wedding, the bride-to-be enters a flower-shop in order to inspect her bridal bouquet of lily of the valley, but suddenly vanishes without at trace. When she eventually turns up again, it is Christer who finds her. She lies dead outside her home with a bouquet of lily of the valley in her hand. Everybody close to the bride are suspects, not least her best friend, whom Christer has just begun flirting with. Everybody seems to have something to hide. Question is: are their secrets connected to the murder?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Crimes of Passion: Death of a Loved One (2013)
Plot Summary:
Puck has been invited by her tutor at the university to celebrate midsummer at his secluded cottage on an island together with a group of friends, among them Einar Bure. Puck and Einar are having a secret relationship, and he is the reason she says yes to the invitation. Having been out on a romantic spree with Einar, Puck finds one of the female guests murdered. Einar contacts his friend Christer Wijk, but upon Christer's arrival, the dead body has disappeared. The contact with the outside world is broken when the island's only boat goes missing. They are trapped on the island - and someone among them is a killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, period piece
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Love Is the Perfect Crime (2013)
Plot Summary:
Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, isolated chalet that they inherited when they were very young — he carries on one love affair after another with his students. Winter has almost ended when one of his most brilliant students, Barbara, suddenly disappears. Two days later, Marc meets Barbara’s mother, Anna, who wants to find out more about her vanished daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, sexual, bloody, detective, sexy
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Carom Shots (1963)
Plot Summary:
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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Daniella by Night (1961)
Plot Summary:
Daniella, a fashion model, goes to Rome to replace a model who's been murdered. Once there, she meets two men, Count Castellani, whose clothes she'll model, and Karl Bauer, a reporter in the hotel room next to hers. Castellani gives Daniella the spotlight, which prompts jealousy from another model. Is he merely trying to seduce her? It's soon apparent that he has other plans as well: the line of clothes is a cover for smuggling and perhaps espionage. Daniella may be in danger - one model is dead already. Is Bauer to be her protector, or is he after something too? Is anyone who they seem?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, eurospy, microfilm
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The Blue Room (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other. In the afterglow, they share a few sweet nothings. At least the man seemed to believe they were nothing. Now under investigation by the police and the courts, what is he accused of?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, sensual, hot
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Stripped Naked (2009)
Plot Summary:
When exotic dancer Cassie happens upon a drug deal gone bad, she steals the money and the drugs thinking she now has the funds to make her dream of moving to Paris come true. But waiting three days to get her passport proves tougher than she thought when everyone she knows from her ex-boyfriend, to her drug addict boss, to her lesbian lover, to the rightful owner of the money decides to get in on the action.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, sensual, independent film, surprise ending
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A Fork in the Road (2010)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film
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Crime Is Our Business (2008)
Plot Summary:
Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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Crimes of Passion: No More Murders (2013)
Plot Summary:
Puck and Einar decide to spend the last weeks of their vacation in Einar's idyllic childhood town Skoga. Pucks father Johannes Ekstedt, professor in Egyptology, has a household cat called Thotmes III that joins the couple. They get to borrow both Einar's sisters beautiful old wooden house as well as her highly competent housekeeper. But after the first night, the idyll crumbles. Einar finds a dead body on the lawn, a young man stabbed to death by a dagger. Christer Wijk enters the stage and with the help of Pucks observations the mystery approaches its tragic solution.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, detective, period piece
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The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (2005)
Plot Summary:
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, clever, realistic, surreal, talky, stylized
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The Red Inn (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Fresh Bait (1995)
Plot Summary:
With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs. Along with her boyfriend, Eric, and his friend Bruno, she concocts a plan where she seduces clueless men and accompanies them to their places, then allows Eric and Bruno to break in. But the three soon encounter trouble after one of their schemes ends in murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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The Great Alibi (2008)
Plot Summary:
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Tip Top (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, the other eyes, tip top.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful
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Just Before Nightfall (1971)
Plot Summary:
A married man (Michel Bouquet) who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical
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Death in a French Garden (1985)
Plot Summary:
The wealthy Tombsthays hire a guitar tutor, David Aurphet, for their daughter Vivian. The wife, Julia, begins a passionate affair with David. Edwige, Julia's new neighbour, also takes an interest in David. David is attacked one night on returning home but saved by a mysterious stranger Daniel who reveals himself to be a hired killer. David begins to suspect that his affair is no longer secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, sexy, slasher, anthology, surprise ending, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Have Mercy on Us All (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner Danglard investigate the case and discover that plague may have killed the victim. Meanwhile, in the center of Paris, the former actor Joss Le Guern survives reading advertisements in a square for the public; when he receives weird messages about an outbreak of plague that is coming to Paris, the former professor Hervé Decambrais requests the warnings and goes to the library to research the meaning of the text, where he meets Adamsberg. Together they find that a maniac is killing people using flees contaminated by rats and spreading the disease in the city; without any clue, the police force do not have how to avoid the panic in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious, futuristic, realistic
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Serial Lover (1998)
Plot Summary:
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, realistic, neo noir
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Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death (2011)
Plot Summary:
Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective
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The Survivor (2008)
Plot Summary:
After WWII Comisarul Moldovan spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of the prison was to have the inmates play Russian Roulette. Only his unbelievable luck and survivor spirit helped Moldovan live through his detention. Out of the prison the ex-policeman joins an international Russian Roulette illegal gaming circuit. In late 70's faith brings him to a Central European town where Goldberg, an old acquaintance of his is organizing an "improved" version of the game where two opponents are shooting each other. Step by step Moldovan meets lots of familiar faces, both friends and enemies. It looks like the whole Bucharest's underworld from the 40's chose to meet here.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful
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Masked Mobsters (2007)
Plot Summary:
From petty theft on the benches of Belleville to the over-publicised hold-ups of the large Parisian banks, this is the spectacular rise of Simon and his gang. They are capable of emptying a series of safes under the very nose of the police who are bewildered by the calm audacity shown by the group.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, serious, suspenseful
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A Private Affair (2002)
Plot Summary:
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is attacked and injured by an anonymous assailant and becomes reluctant to continue his search. But when Rachel's body is found, Francois is drawn deeper into the investigation as he discovers the dead girl's secret life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, detective, deep, realistic, cynical
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Malice Aforethought (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Edmund Bickleigh is married to a particularly overbearing woman who reminds him at every turn that he is living in her house. But the good doctor has outside interests to help him cope.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Mystery, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Dead Fish (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, tense, dark comedy, realistic
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Mystery (2012)
Plot Summary:
A car full of irresponsible youths hit a woman on a rainy freeway and think she is trying an insurance scam.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, tense, captivating, neo noir
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SK1 (2014)
Plot Summary:
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear