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French Crime Cinema
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The best in French Crime Movies and Series.


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Movie: The Connection ( 2014 )
A French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country's most powerful drug rings.
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Movie: Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart ( 2016 )
For several months in 1978 and 1979, inhabitants of Oise live in fright and terror as a serial killer disturbs the peace and quiet.
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Movie: A Prophet ( 2009 )
A young Arab man is sent to a French prison.
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Movie: Rififi ( 1956 )
Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...
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Movie: The Sicilian Clan ( 1969 )
A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
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Movie: Le Cercle Rouge ( 1970 )
After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
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Movie: A Cop ( 1972 )
After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate- and more risky- second heist.
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Movie: Borsalino ( 1970 )
During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.
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Movie: Le Samouraï ( 1967 )
After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
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Movie: Tell No One ( 2006 )
Pediatrician Dr. Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) misses his beloved wife Margot Beck (Marie-Josée Croze), who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the Police re-open the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Alex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive.
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Movie: 36th Precinct ( 2004 )
2 cops are promised by the retiring chief of the Paris police that the one, getting the violent gang robbing armored trucks, will get his job. The 2 will do whatever it takes to get the promotion, even if it means breaking the law.
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Movie: The Beat That My Heart Skipped ( 2005 )
Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist?
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Movie: Mesrine ( 1984 )
Mesrine was the foremost criminal, public enemy N°1, the man most wanted in France, guilty of 39 crimes. "In the police or newspaper history, Mesrine broke all records". The film begins with his escape on May 8, 1978. Mesrine was the only man to escape from La Santé. We relieve the 18 crazy months he spent on the run and his encounter with Sylvia who is swept into his madness.
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Movie: Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1 ( 2008 )
The story of notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine.
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Movie: Mesrine Part 1: Killer Instinct ( 2008 )
The story of french gangster Jacques Mesrine, before he was called Public Enemy N°1.
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Movie: The Crew ( 2018 )
Work-life balance breaks down for Paris's most gifted armed robbers when a grave mistake forces them to work for a crime boss in a high-stakes heist.
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Movie: Outside the Law ( 2010 )
A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.
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Movie: Les hommes libres ( 2012 )
Paris, occupied France, 1942. Younes, an uneducated Algerian immigrant, ekes out a very modest living on the black market. When the police catches him they set him free provided he infiltrates the Paris Mosque and spies on the rector. Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit is indeed suspected not only of providing false papers to Jews but of harboring some of them as well. Once within the precincts of the Mosque, Younes proves a poor secret agent, which displeases the police inspector in charge of him. In fact, at the mosque, Younes becomes every day more alert to the great tragedy in progress because of the Nazis. He also develops a deep friendship with a singer named Salim Halali. To his amazement, he discovers that Salim is both Jewish and homosexual...
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Movie: The Crimson Rivers ( 2000 )
A murder detective must follow the footsteps of a brutal killer within the secrets of a classist college.