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The Madame Blanc Mysteries (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Malta, Ireland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Jean White is an antiques dealer who runs a successful business with her husband, Rory. But when he suddenly dies and leaves her nearly penniless, Jean relocates to their one remaining asset - a cottage in French antiques hub Saint Victoire - and ...
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, detective
Plot: widow, sleuth, who done it, crime investigation, murder investigation, homicide detective, secret, police investigation, fighting crime, crime solving, investigation, private investigation ...
Time: future
Place: south of france
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Monsieur Spade (2024)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Detective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series of brutal murders.
Style: neo noir, tense, captivating, hardboiled detective, period drama
Plot: investigation, murder, secret, who done it, uncover truth, crime solving, sleuth, crime investigation, homicide detective, murder investigation, spy, flashback ...
Time: 60s, 1950s
Place: south of france, algeria, france
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The Sitting Duck (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, politics, crime investigation, crime solving, secret, nuclear reactor, whistleblower, nuclear power plant, sexual assault, french police, contract ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2017
Place: france, paris france
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Assassin Club (2023)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other.
Style: tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot: assassin, killer, murder, hitman, race against time, cat versus mouse, struggle for survival, serial killer, problem, murderer, killings, agent ...
Time: 2020s
Place: paris france, rome italy, barcelona, lisbon portugal
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The Red Shadows (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
TV show
Story: In 1993, five year old Clara Garnier is kidnapped. The ransom exchange ends in a bloodbath and the child vanishes. 25 years later, Clara’s older sister Aurore, a police officer, finds proof that her sister is living under another identity in ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: child abduction, investigation, crime solving, murder investigation, kidnapped girl, unsolved crime, dysfunctional family, female detective, forensics, murder mystery, female protagonist, private investigation ...
Place: marseille, italy
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 7.6
 4K
Vortex (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 324 min.
TV show
Story: Two mysterious deaths. A rift in time. Sci-fi thriller about policeman Ludovic who risks everything when he tries to change the past.
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, futuristic ...
Plot: police investigation, murder, technology, homicide detective, sleuth, investigation, crime solving, who done it, murder mystery, murder investigation, uncover truth, forensics ...
Time: year 1998
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 6.2
 30
Paname (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 73 min.
Story: This is the story of three lost young lovers in an exotic and distressful Paris.
Style: romantic, captivating, queer cinema
Plot: romantic relationship, bisexual, sexuality, love interest, romancing partners, love affair, in love, couples, couple relations, male female relationship, relationships, love and romance ...
Place: paris france
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Saint-Tropez Vice (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A police captain's niece is trapped by white slavers.
Style: sexploitation film
Plot: sniper, female female relationship, police, female pubic hair, nudity, male pubic hair, bare butt, lesbian breast sucking, exploitation, beach, male female relationship, black woman ...
Place: france, saint tropez, riviera, french riviera
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The French Detective (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning ...
Style: crime drama, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: politics, police officer, judiciary, hostage, murder, manslaughter, prostitute, partner, price of justice, police corruption, political corruption, police investigation ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: france, europe, paris france, normandy
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The Day and the Hour (1963)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes ...
Plot: resistance movement, world war two, wartime life, nazi, nazi occupied france, woman, military police, shootout, train, aviator, french resistance, gestapo ...
Time: year 1963, year 1944
Place: france
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 6.3
 189
The Passengers (1977)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
Style: road movie, suspenseful, serious, tense, scary ...
Plot: murder, stalking, truck, obsession, stepfather stepson relationship, fear, car chase, road trip, boy, killer, school, parents and children ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, rome italy, italy, france
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 5.5
 204
Death List (2009)
Genre: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 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.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: manhunt, police investigation, police detective, murder investigation, murder, brother brother relationship, mercenary, assassin, sniper, cop, french police, assassination ...
Time: 2000s
Place: paris france, france
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 8.1
 194K
Hate (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social ...
Style: bleak, black and white, art house, disturbing, hood ...
Audience: teens
Plot: racism, rebel, ghetto, poverty, skinhead, youth, police brutality, police, friendship, rebellion, drug, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: paris france, france, middle east, europe
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French Connection II (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: "Popeye" Doyle travels to Marsailles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
Style: neo noir, detective, crime drama, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, heroin, organized crime, cop, spy, mafia, car, police, tough cop, gangster, buddy cop, bad guy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, marseille, europe
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The Troops & Aliens (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that ...
Style: slapstick, not serious, exciting, humorous, fun
Plot: alien, evil alien, gendarme, police, gendarmerie, ufo, conspiracy, french police, space, visitor, clone, police officer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: french riviera, cote d'azur, saint tropez, france, riviera ...
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 6.3
 3K
Switch (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: psycho killer, woman in danger, mistaken identity, murder, chase, investigation, cons and scams, false accusation, on the run, police investigation, twists and turns, frame up ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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 6.1
 469
The Overeater (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Séléna is chief of the Marseille police. Respected and feared by his men, his sole enemy seems to be himself, along with his 300 pounds. Strangled by the bursting straight-jacket of his body, tortured by his past, he leads a solitary life in a ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: murder, police detective, haunted by the past, fall in love, physical appearance, love and romance, law enforcement, obsession, murder investigation, childhood trauma, obese, overweight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, marseille
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 6.1
 1K
Scoumoune (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: world war two, prison, organized crime, casino, gang warfare, mobster, attempted kidnapping, police officer, killing, dead body, shootout, friend ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: paris france, marseille
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 5.2
 738
Paris Pigalle (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Paris, 1982. Franck and Serge are police investigators in charge of making a good catch in the Parisian porn industry. In order to infiltrate the mafia, they take over a peep show in Pigalle riddled with debts. In attempt to jump start the business, ...
Plot: porn industry, strip club, porn star, striptease, undercover cop, male nudity, porn actor, stripper, sex worker, sting operation, public nudity, bare butt ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: paris france
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 5.7
 4K
The Squad (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A french police unit that try to stop a group of criminals.
Style: tense, suspense, rough, captivating, perverse
Plot: police, drug dealer, criminal gang, bank robbery, partnership, shooting, robbery, fighting crime, partners against crime, bank robber, criminal, forensics ...
Time: future
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 5.8
 2K
Faceless (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter. Barbara's trail leads Morgan to a plastic surgery clinic owned by Dr. Flamand. Morgan's investigation ...
Style: disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, mind bending, scary ...
Plot: private detective, evil doctor, sadism, death, hospital, kidnapping, mad scientist, missing person, murder, woman in danger, surgery, christmas ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Style: humorous, not serious, captivating, feel good, intellectual ...
Plot: perfect crime, police, master criminal, mastermind, goofy hero, chase, disguise, gadget, castle, anti hero, fantomas, criminal ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: europe, france, scottish highlands, united kingdom, scotland
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 7.0
 9K
The Round Up (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style: emotional, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, german occupation, holocaust survivor, world war two, nazi, world war, against humanity, injustice, genocide, nazi concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place: france, vichy, paris france, middle east, europe ...
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2 Alone in Paris (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.
Style: humorous, witty, entertaining, offbeat, not serious
Plot: parallel world, chase, goofy hero, police, uninhibited rivalry, desolation, antique shop, french police, marriage, disappearance, church, antique dealer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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 6.7
 917
The Secret (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: gloomy, mysterious, tense, poliziottesco, eurospy
Plot: secret, conspiracy theory, unhappy ending, escape, persecution, prison escape, roadblock, escaped prisoner, strangled to death, isolated house, murder disguised as suicide, isolation ...
Time: 70s
Place: south of france, france
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 4.7
 11K
Taxi 5 (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A police officer who's transfered in the police of Marseille gets assigned to take down a group of Italian robbers who drive the powerfull Ferrari's with the older niece of Daniel, a terrible driver who gets the legendary white taxi.
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, exciting, light
Plot: car, driver, taxi driver, car chase, police, partner, race, unlikely partners, partners against crime, gang, chases and races, police investigation ...
Place: marseille, france
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The Troops in New York (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The second installment of Gendarmes series, tells the story of Sergeant Cruchot (Louis De Funes), who, together with his faithful comrades, has been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
Style: humorous, realistic, exciting, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gendarme, law enforcement, stowaway, fish out of water, police, comedy of errors, daughter, goofy hero, nothing goes right, misfit, chase, family relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, france, new york, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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The Troops Get Married (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude ...
Style: humorous, realistic, exciting, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gendarme, nun, farce, fall in love, father daughter relationship, boss and employee, goofy hero, marriage, humiliation, disorder, nothing goes right, workplace ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, french riviera, saint tropez, cote d'azur, riviera ...
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Max and the Junkmen (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A ...
Style: neo noir, detective, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: heist, prostitute, manipulation, thief, outlaw, fall in love, disguise, criminal gang, fencing, trap, bank robbery, entrapment ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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 5.9
 16K
The Horde (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A posse of crooked cops, malevolent gangsters and a horde of walking dead are the centre point of this gruesome, tight, action packed, claustrophobic tale of retribution and escape. Penned like animals, on the top floor of a deserted high-rise ...
Style: scary, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie apocalypse, zombie, female warrior, infection, murder, infected, violence spree, gang, danger, wrong place wrong time, gory, undead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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