French Thrillers/Mystery/Suspense, a list by DKG

8.3

/243819/

82

/5357/

81

/3107/

4.4

/494346/

91

/124/

92

/1356/

80

/42/

3.5

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.

83

7.6

/203789/

75

/8056/

75

/3074/

4.1

/1378363/

96

/287/

91

/63/

86

/44/

3.5

age 14+

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

82

7.5

/10500/

70

/127/

75

/160/

4.0

/9612/

88

/59/

85

/171/

86

/18/

4.0

A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.

82

7.7

/52224/

73

/784/

72

/594/

3.8

/25144/

92

/157/

83

/276/

85

/41/

4.0

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...

81

7.5

/24698/

75

/1616/

74

/863/

4.1

/89283/

99

/70/

87

/32/

85

/17/

3.0

Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.

81

7.5

/10252/

77

/684/

77

/394/

4.1

/49137/

100

/35/

89

/26/

78

/12/

3.0

age 11+

A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.

81

7.5

/11151/

72

/515/

74

/712/

3.9

/19560/

96

/120/

85

/19/

83

/21/

3.5

Miriam and Antoine have recently separated. While she’s willing to permit their 17-year-old daughter Josephine to decide living arrangements for herself, Miriam is desperate to keep her youngest, 11-year-old Julien, away from his father. But the magistrate rules in favour of joint custody, and suddenly the boy is thrown directly into the middle of an escalating parental conflict, where it seems inevitable that sides must be chosen.

81

7.3

/89499/

71

/1628/

70

/1208/

4.1

/125531/

89

/133/

78

/2505/

87

/38/

4.0

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

80

7.5

/60724/

74

/1608/

72

/1471/

3.7

/29826/

93

/118/

87

/3549/

82

/30/

3.5

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

79

7.0

/12576/

70

/730/

69

/727/

3.5

/52095/

94

/67/

93

/34/

81

/16/

3.5

Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara's murder case lands on his desk. Vivés and his team investigate Clara's complex life and relations, but what starts as a professional and methodical immersion into the victim's life soon turns into a haunting obsession.

79

7.3

/17245/

73

/228/

71

/353/

3.7

/11873/

97

/96/

82

/240/

82

/32/

3.5

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

79

7.3

/8956/

74

/673/

71

/349/

3.7

/14151/

97

/59/

77

/74/

85

/17/

3.5

age 9+

It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

78

7.6

/30229/

74

/1458/

75

/1578/

3.8

/79524/

88

/194/

89

/4/

78

/35/

3.0

age 16+

Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel “Les Miserables”. Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada – both experienced members of the team – he quickly discovers tensions running high between local gangs. When the trio finds themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures the encounter, threatening to expose the reality of everyday life.

78

7.0

/11927/

68

/163/

66

/187/

3.6

/8351/

93

/74/

83

/125/

86

/24/

3.5

When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

77

6.7

/11110/

67

/414/

67

/273/

3.7

/43627/

96

/159/

64

/26/

85

/30/

4.0

age 15+

Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.

77

7.1

/7782/

66

/83/

67

/104/

3.6

/1938/

92

/115/

79

/167/

75

/36/

4.0

A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.

77

7.4

/32212/

74

/853/

72

/925/

3.7

/15156/

81

/88/

82

/598/

72

/18/

3.5

After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media attention and public adoration, Mesrine becomes increasingly paranoid and isolated, leading to a dramatic confrontation with the law that ultimately seals his fate as the nation's most infamous public enemy.

77

7.5

/36423/

74

/965/

73

/979/

3.7

/17394/

81

/88/

82

/598/

71

/23/

3.5

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.

77

7.1

/74073/

68

/3256/

67

/1954/

3.7

/90152/

79

/14/

72

/3/

89

/36/

4.0

age 18+

When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.

76

7.0

/7955/

71

/705/

71

/680/

3.8

/130658/

95

/19/

78

/7/

73

/6/

3.0

In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.

76

7.1

/19895/

71

/1299/

70

/411/

3.9

/131447/

96

/92/

74

/74/

80

/16/

3.0

The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle.

76

6.9

/521/

62

/16/

57

/7/

3.5

/1773/

97

/32/

86

/10/

87

/9/

3.5

An African refugee's quiet existence in a sleepy mountain town in the south of France is upended by the arrival of a charismatic Catholic priest, whom she recognizes as the warlord who slaughtered her family.

76

7.3

/2811/

72

/138/

79

/58/

3.8

/5977/

91

/22/

79

/2/

2.5

Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, and so leaves Belgium to help victims of the war in Syria. But when he arrives, he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.

76

7.1

/19317/

72

/523/

68

/627/

3.4

/8640/

100

/6/

81

/438/

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.

76

6.9

/17444/

66

/606/

63

/457/

3.6

/41617/

94

/104/

65

/213/

82

/26/

4.0

Frank spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love.

76

7.3

/35742/

73

/875/

72

/889/

3.8

/26767/

88

/82/

84

/242/

72

/25/

3.0

A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

75

6.9

/3891/

66

/182/

66

/216/

3.3

/20660/

97

/64/

75

/17/

74

/12/

3.5

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison.

75

6.6

/1214/

66

/74/

68

/82/

3.5

/11018/

97

/34/

75

/11/

3.5

After being imprisoned by the Assad regime in Syria, Hamid now works undercover as part of a secret group pursuing their leaders, including the guard he suspects was responsible for his torture.

75

6.7

/4901/

70

/280/

70

/342/

3.5

/9472/

86

/58/

79

/7/

72

/14/

3.5

A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.

75

6.5

/65105/

63

/2910/

63

/1608/

3.6

/405886/

90

/260/

85

/37/

75

/46/

3.5

age 18+

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

75

6.9

/23893/

72

/2560/

75

/2112/

3.6

/58790/

92

/12/

73

/69/

age 14+

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

75

7.1

/9085/

70

/461/

66

/311/

3.6

/10137/

93

/56/

79

/9/

69

/13/

3.5

Following the disappearance of the glamorous and secretive Evelyne Ducat during a blizzard in the highlands of southern France, the lives of five people inextricably linked to Evelyne are brought together to devastating effect as the local police investigate the case.

75

7.1

/12403/

69

/208/

67

/281/

3.6

/6932/

96

/93/

79

/149/

75

/28/

3.0

Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.

74

6.5

/7136/

65

/392/

64

/440/

3.4

/27568/

98

/65/

90

/132/

74

/11/

3.0

In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out.

74

6.5

/3272/

61

/133/

63

/78/

3.5

/8685/

98

/47/

66

/11/

88

/16/

3.5

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 surveillance, a remote duel takes place between two bankers who, despite different methods, are the accomplices of a discreet and merciless form of colonization.

74

6.9

/7181/

71

/150/

65

/134/

3.4

/1565/

85

/79/

75

/164/

74

/25/

3.5

An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.

73

6.6

/2203/

67

/160/

64

/146/

3.5

/8468/

93

/54/

82

/13/

68

/9/

3.0

In a luxurious seaside villa, a modest young woman finds herself in the company of a strange family : an unknown and wealthy father, his extravagant wife, his daughter, an ambitious woman, a rebellious teenager, and their creepy maid.

73

6.9

/1219/

71

/45/

62

/50/

3.5

/552/

89

/37/

69

/29/

67

/18/

3.5

Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul esteems in a wine-maker: persistence, creative insight and technical prowess matched with passion for the job and the product, and Paul frequently reminds him of this, whether explicitly or in subtle gestures. When Philippe, the son of his manager, appears at the vineyard, Paul leaps at the chance to name him as his successor, neglecting the wishes of his own son...

73

7.2

/20966/

72

/763/

71

/674/

3.7

/61896/

88

/17/

76

/211/

63

/6/

A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.

73

6.8

/15082/

68

/510/

66

/487/

3.4

/5714/

91

/77/

77

/335/

75

/25/

3.0

Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?

73

7.1

/13247/

71

/716/

71

/920/

3.6

/18921/

77

/75/

71

/43/

67

/18/

3.5

Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.

72

6.4

/11259/

63

/839/

66

/196/

3.5

/57800/

94

/51/

67

/102/

78

/4/

3.0

age 16+

A teenager stops off to see his dealer to test a new drug before heading off for a night of partying. On the way home, he picks up an injured woman, and the night takes a surreal turn.

72

6.8

/25130/

67

/1255/

66

/799/

3.5

/85719/

87

/67/

71

/30/

73

/22/

3.0

age 16+

Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.

72

6.9

/5415/

64

/61/

63

/77/

3.4

/1142/

85

/102/

69

/102/

71

/28/

3.5

Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a psychiatrist. From appointment to appointment, a strange ritual is created between them. William is moved and fascinated to hear the secrets no man ever heard.

72

6.7

/6329/

69

/95/

63

/137/

3.5

/6379/

84

/55/

67

/78/

83

/19/

3.0

Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.

72

6.5

/47626/

66

/3293/

66

/1492/

3.1

/62382/

90

/106/

74

/185/

67

/20/

3.5

age 15+

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.

72

6.4

/63552/

65

/3844/

65

/2011/

3.5

/177237/

92

/133/

61

/383/

3.5

age 17+

Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

72

6.6

/1794/

71

/123/

70

/72/

3.5

/3272/

88

/52/

73

/21/

66

/18/