Best French Thriller Movies of 2021

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Best French Thriller Movies of 2021
Best French Thriller Movies of 2021
TOP Movies: The Vault (2021), The Mad Women's Ball (2021), Gunpowder Milkshake (2021), Oxygen (2021), Black Box (2021), Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021), Werewolves Within (2021), Inexorable (2021), The Man in the Basement (2021), Undercover (2021), My Son (2021), Sentinelle (2021), The Deep House (2021), Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021), Blast (2021), The Last Mercenary (2021), Azor (2021), Nightride (2021), Governance (2021), Saloum (2021).

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 6.4
 30K
The Vault (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When an engineer learns of a mysterious, impenetrable fortress hidden under The Bank of Spain, he joins a crew of master thieves who plan to steal the legendary lost treasure locked inside while the whole country is distracted by Spain's World ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, anamorphic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: heist, bank, master criminal, bank robbery, perfect crime, criminal heroes, danger, chase, plan, engineer, partner, violence ...
Time: 2020s, year 2010, year 2012, year 2009, 2010s ...
Place: spain, london, madrid
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The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Eugenie has a unique gift: she hears and sees the dead. When her family discovers her secret, at the end of the 19th century, she is taken by her father and brother to the neurological clinic at La Pitié Salpêtrière with no possibility of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, inspirational
Plot: psychiatry, psychological manipulation, rape, mental illness, mental institution, neurology, self sacrifice, medical malpractice, brother sister relationship, father daughter estrangement, female nudity, dead sister ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: france, paris france
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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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 6.5
 44K
Oxygen (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, minimal cast, psychological ...
Plot: oxygen, isolation, trapped in space, memory loss, cryogenics, virus, outer space, space travel, panic, survival, clone, female protagonist ...
Time: 2020s
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 7.2
 14K
Black Box (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Matthieu is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, crime thriller, suspense
Plot: airport, airplane, air disaster, investigation, mission, plane crash, crash, crime solving, uncover truth, problem, forensics, main character dies ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france, paris france
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Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, France, Estonia
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: runaway, anti communism, penance, special agent, officer, moral dilemma, escape, military, nkvd, stalinism, fire, death ...
Time: year 1938, 1930s
Place: ussr
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Werewolves Within (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a proposed pipeline creates hostilities between residents of a small town, a newly-arrived forest ranger must keep the peace after a snowstorm confines the townspeople to an old lodge. But when a mysterious creature begins terrorizing the ...
Style: suspense, horror comedy, suspenseful, bleak, humorous ...
Plot: werewolf, murder, supernatural, monster, blizzard, creature, isolation, snow, hunting, lycanthrope, forest ranger, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, vermont
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 6.1
 1K
Inexorable (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Desperately seeking inspiration for the follow-up novel to his bestseller "Inexorable", Marcel Bellmer moves in his wife's old family mansion with his family.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, biting
Plot: mysterious girl, life is a bitch, family problems, relationship problems, rich man, nudity, sex scene, husband, woman, writers, little girl, lie ...
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The Man in the Basement (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple ...
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: basement, anti semitism, confronting the past, dark past, tragic past, troubled past, changing lives, problem, life is a bitch, lawyer, brother brother relationship, secret ...
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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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 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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 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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 5.3
 17K
The Deep House (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: While diving in a remote French lake, a couple of YouTubers who specialize in underwater exploration videos discover a house submerged in the deep waters. What was initially a unique finding soon turns into a nightmare when they discover that the ...
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, diver, scuba diving, satanic ritual, paranormal, lake, underwater, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, paranormal phenomena, found footage ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
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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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 5.1
 467
Blast (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a Parisian parking lot Sonia finds herself trapped in her car with her son and the daughter of her boyfriend Fred, who has been left outside, powerless to deal with the situation: an anti-tank mine has been set under the car. Sonia is a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: bomb, race against time, bomb squad, bomb threat, death threat, risk, deathtrap, trapped, family in danger, explosions, die hard, panic ...
Place: paris france
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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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 6.5
 3K
Azor (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, France, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: banker, husband wife relationship, military dictatorship, mysterious disappearance, politics, relationships, investigation, european, big business, international relations, economist, business ...
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
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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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Governance (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who has taken his place has betrayed him, Renzo takes his revenge by killing her. Reinstated by the Board, ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: corporate conspiracy, oil tycoon, money, corrupt businessman, revenge, fight for justice, frame up, businessman, murder, corruption, murder of wife, murderer ...
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 6.2
 3K
Saloum (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Senegal, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Three mercenaries extracting a druglord out of Guinea-Bissau are forced to hide in the mystical region of Saloum, Senegal.
Style: supernatural thriller, suspenseful, disturbing, thrilling, tense ...
Plot: occult, undercover, hitman, runaway, paranormal phenomena, murderer, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, paranormal, murder, mysticism, killings ...
Time: 2020s
Place: africa
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Madeleine Collins (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Judith leads a double life between Switzerland and France. On the one hand Abdel, with whom she is raising a little girl, on the other Melvil with whom she has two older boys. Little by little, this fragile balance, made up of lies, secrets and back ...
Plot: imposture, gay son, gay, brother in law sister in law sex, lovers, daughter, death of sister, car chase, kidnapping, hotel, mother son conflict, identity theft ...
Place: switzerland
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America Latina (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Massimo is a reputable professional with a nice house, a happy marriage, and two loving daughters, whose life is turned upside down when one day he finds a little girl tied up in his basement.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: schizophrenia, driven mad, psychological manipulation, amnesia, kidnapped woman, mental illness, mental disorder, mentally unstable, family secret, problem, child kidnapping, girl ...
Place: rome italy
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 4.7
 360
Him (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 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.
Style: horror musical, psychological thriller
Plot: cycling, nudity, musician, friend, love triangle, husband wife relationship, standing sex, cellist, parents, remote island, stockholm syndrome, sex in a chair ...
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 6.5
 55K
Titane (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Following a series of unexplained crimes, a former firefighter is reunited with his son who has been missing for 10 years.
Style: disturbing, tense, surreal, cerebral, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: body horror, serial killer, female serial killer, machismo, psycho killer, car accident, killing spree, pretending to be someone else, party, violence, fireman, cutting one's own hair ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
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The Advent Calendar (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Eva, an ex-dancer, is now living in a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of ...
Style: suspense, christmas horror, suspenseful, psychological, mystical ...
Plot: supernatural, car accident, disability, christmas, wheelchair bound, moral dilemma, death, wish fulfillment, holiday horror, blood, snow, haunted ...
Time: 2020s
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 7.0
 24K
The Innocents (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, mystical, disturbing, dark ...
Plot: supernatural, supernatural power, cruelty, mysticism, mind control, summer vacation, friendship, teenage life, friends, supernatural ability, teenager, past ...
Time: 2020s
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