Best French Crime Movies of 2021

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Best French Crime Movies of 2021
Best French Crime Movies of 2021
TOP Movies: The Last Mercenary (2021), Nightride (2021), Sentinelle (2021), My Son (2021), Undercover (2021), Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021), Madame Claude (2021), Music Hole (2021), Do You Do You Saint-Tropez (2021), Gunpowder Milkshake (2021), Bloody Oranges (2021), Petrov's Flu (2021).

List of Best Movies

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The Last Mercenary (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A mysterious former secret service agent must urgently return to France when his estranged son is falsely accused of arms and drug trafficking by the government, following a blunder by an overzealous bureaucrat and a mafia operation.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, humorous, suspense ...
Plot: secret service, martial arts, secret, mission, mafia, fight, fighting crime, falsely accused, battles, estrangement, father son relationship, family relations ...
Time: 2020s
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 5.6
 904
Nightride (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a ...
Style: psychological, tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot: dealer, criminal, drug dealer, illegal drugs, one last job, going straight, gang, drug deal, race against time, bandit, deal, driving ...
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 4.8
 9K
Sentinelle (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Transferred home after a traumatizing combat mission, a highly trained French soldier uses her lethal skills to hunt down the man who hurt her sister.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, erotic, action thriller ...
Plot: sister, female vigilante, female protagonist, rape, revenge, female soldier, soldier, rape and revenge, war veteran, vigilantism, female warrior, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 2020s
Place: syria, marseille, france, nice france, paris france
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 6.0
 15K
My Son (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: missing child, divorced parents, disappearance, ex husband ex wife relationship, kidnapping, uncover truth, kidnapped, kids in trouble, ex couple relations, male female relationship, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 2020s
Place: scotland, ireland
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Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Raulhac, Cantal, France, September 1, 1905. In the forest surrounding his hometown, the young seminarian Bruno Reidal murders a child and then surrenders himself to the authorities.
Style: psychological, rough, tense, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: lgbt, murder, child murderess, murderer, teenager, prison, doctor, gay interest, cruelty, graphic violence, murder mystery, victim ...
Place: france
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 5.9
 767
Undercover (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: spy, marriage proposal, drug smuggling, lung cancer, war on drugs, nightclub, bare chested male, informant, courtroom, investigative reporter, boat, journalist ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france, marseille
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Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, ...
Style: buddy comedy, exciting, action comedy, captivating, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hitman, terrorism, buddies, mission, bodyguard, woman with a gun, female agent, nun, killer, agent, torture chamber, mob boss ...
Time: 2020s, future, 1950s, 50s
Place: russia, italy, europe, eastern europe, athens greece ...
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Madame Claude (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the french political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
Style: erotic, captivating, tense, crying
Plot: sex, prostitute, prostitution, lesbian sex, female nudity, woman, criminal, bondage, madam, women, gang, outlaw gang ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
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The Misadventures of Hedi and Cokeman (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Paris, two dysfunctional dealers use family ties to try to boost their small drug business in this crass comedy based on the webseries.
Style: feel good, light, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: drug, escapades, family business, absurd humor, businessman, drug lord, silly humor, humour, drug dealer, drug traffic, family relations, bare chested male ...
Place: paris france
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 6.1
 252
Music Hole (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Francis, a little accountant officiating in a shady cabaret has marital concerns with his wife. After a violent argument, he wakes up to discover a surprise. It's the macabre and zany starting point of a burlesque thriller.
Style: non-linear
Plot: cabaret, decapitation, illegal drugs, nudity, police, hospital, blood, escape, bare chested male, parrot, dead body, murder ...
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Do You Do You Saint-Tropez (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France. When a criminal car sabotage related to threatening letters wreak havoc in the villa, Tranchant ...
Style: feel good, light, captivating, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: investigation, humour, sleuth, homicide detective, police detective, crime investigation, rich man, uncover truth, murder investigation, murder, satire, crime solving ...
Time: year 1970
Place: south of france, france, french riviera
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Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Sam has no choice but to go rogue to save the life of an innocent 8-year-old girl in the middle of the gang war she has unleashed.
Style: suspense, cult classic, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot: assassin, female killer, female assassin, female protagonist, strong female lead, murder, fight, female warrior, woman with a gun, family in danger, female secret agent, revenge ...
Time: 2020s
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Bloody Oranges (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Simultaneously, a retired couple overwhelmed by debt tries to win a dance contest, as the minister of economy is suspected of tax evasion, and a teenage girl encounters a sexual maniac, while a young lawyer attempts to climb the social ladder. When ...
Style: social
Plot: public nudity, debt, pig, taxi, humiliation, taxi driver, french politics, castration, car trouble, rape, anal rape, virgin ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france
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 6.7
 3K
Petrov's Flu (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
Style: absurd, surreal, suspenseful, thought provoking, enigmatic ...
Plot: family relations, family drama, insanity, illness, new year's eve, life is a bitch, escape from reality, delusional man, existentialism, snow, friend, artist ...
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