French Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated May 15, 2024
Mesrine: Part 2: Public Enemy #1
2008 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsJacques Mesrine finds his star rising throughout the 1970s as both a gangster and a publicity-hungry celebrity. But while his criminal plans are as grandiose as ever, the Paris police are redoubling their efforts with a special anti-Mesrine unit.
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Mesrine: Part 1: Killer Instinct
2008 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsThis blistering biopic stars Vincent Cassel as notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine. The first in a duology, the film details the genesis of Mesrine's career, including an incident in the army that gave him his first taste of violent power.
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The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWhen a billionaire suddenly dies, his corporation passes to his free-spirited son, Largo, who's languishing in a South American jail on phony charges. Now Largo must battle corrupt cops, corporate raiders and his own ambivalence about his new wealth.
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A Gang Story
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsEdmond and Serge became friends in prison, and formed a gang of infamous bank robbers in the 1970s that disbanded in 1974 with an arrest. Retired at 60, Edmond now tends to his family and has found peace -- but then Serge comes back into the picture.
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District 13: Ultimatum
2009 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsSet two years after the action in Pierre Morel and Luc Besson's District 13, this French-language sequel follows Capt. Damien Tomaso (Cyril Raffaelli) and Leito (David Belle) on their quest to clean up crime and corruption in the city. With the territory divided into five distinct neighborhoods created along ethnic lines, they have their work cut out for them. But they've also got a secret weapon: a will to defy the odds.
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Tell No One
2006 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsEight years ago, pediatrician Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) was the prime suspect in his wife's murder. He's put all that behind him, but now that two dead bodies have been found near his home, he's suspected of wrongdoing once again.
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Sleepless Night
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsVincent is one of two French cops whose bold drug heist goes bad, leading the mobster whose cocaine they've snatched to kidnap his son. Given one night to return the drugs to their owner, Vincent desperately tries to save the boy's life.
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Point Blank
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSamuel 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. Can he evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?
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La Liste
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsFormer 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.
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The Big Picture
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsSuccessful Paris attorney Paul Exben (Romain Duris) has everything going for him, including power, wealth and a picture-perfect family. But the mirror suddenly cracks when Paul discovers that his wife, Sarah, is carrying on an affair with a photographer. After a tragic error closes the door on all that he's achieved, Paul makes a fateful decision to escape, fleeing abroad to try and begin a new life as someone else altogether.
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Rapt
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhen corporate figurehead Stanislas Graff is kidnapped and held for an absurd ransom of 50 million Euros, the police and powerful business he represents are forced to debate whether one man's life is worth that much money.
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High Lane
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsIn this French thriller, a mountain climbing trail closed to the rest of civilization becomes a path to adventure and horror for a group of friends who dare to go beyond its barriers. It's not just because they trespassed into forbidden territory or because they're testing the laws of gravity. It's because they're not the only ones willing to push the envelope out there, and their visitor isn't very welcoming at all.
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Vengeance
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsToday, Costello (French music and film icon Johnny Hallyday) is a skilled chef. Twenty years ago, he was a cold-blooded killer working for the mob. But when a horrific tragedy befalls the family of his daughter (Sylvie Testud), Costello returns to his old ways. Journeying from France to Hong Kong, our culinary hero prepares to serve up revenge on a host of bad guys in this bloody tale from acclaimed action director Johnnie To.
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The Horde
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhen four corrupt policemen invade a gangster's hideout near Paris to avenge the death of their colleague, they quickly find themselves outmanned, outgunned and trapped. That is, until a legion of vicious zombies swarms through the building.
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Love Crime
2010 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsFrench director Alain Corneau delivers a chilling tale of two ambitious women -- a senior executive and her eager young assistant -- whose professional appetites grow dangerously personal as they jockey for power.
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Monsieur Hire
1989 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsReclusive middle-aged bachelor Monsieur Hire spies on a woman through her undraped windows. She seems to welcome the attention until a 22-year-old woman's nude corpse turns up in the vicinity and suspicion quickly falls on the voyeuristic Hire.
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Nobody Else But You
2011 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsA local beauty's death is ruled suicide by sleeping pills, but crime novelist Rousseau doesn't buy it. Reality turns out to be stranger than fiction -- and a source of inspiration -- as he uncovers the truth about the woman's past.
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In the House
2012 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsMoved by mesmerizing prose, a teacher pushes a student with extraordinary gifts to keep on writing -- even though he knows the young author's research methods involve a serious invasion of privacy.
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Ultimate Heist
2009 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsHoping to escape the long shadow of his father, Milo (Jean Reno), a powerful mobster who controls an organized crime syndicate in France, Anton Malakian (Gaspard Ulliel) plans one final heist that will enable him to begin a new life. But he soon discovers that extricating himself from the criminal underworld is more difficult -- and dangerous -- than he expected. This thriller from director Laurent Tuel co-stars Vahina Giocante.
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Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq
2001 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsThe famous detective Vidocq has disappeared in 19th-century Paris. When Vidocq's dedicated but inexperienced assistant, Etienne, searches the city's underground for his mentor, it becomes unclear whether he is the hunter or the hunted.
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Therese Raquin
1953 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsDirector Marcel Carné's smoldering film noir based on Emile Zola's novel centers on dispirited housewife Thérèse Raquin (Simone Signoret). Longing for the romance and love she's not getting from her unimaginative husband, Camille (Jacques Duby), Thérèse brazenly begins an affair with a brawny truck driver named Laurent (Raf Vallone). But when their tryst fails to fill her emptiness, Thérèse heads down a self-destructive path.
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Le Professionnel
1981 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsCharged with assassinating an African despot, French spy Joss Beaumont seeks vengeance after his government double-crosses him. Imprisoned in Africa for two years, the angry Beaumont makes a bold escape and decides to complete his mission.
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Merci Pour Le Chocolat
2000 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsMika, managing director of a chocolate company, is remarrying André, the concert pianist to whom she was briefly married 18 years earlier. But during the time apart, it seems that Mika's and André's lives have taken different arcs.
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Dirty Money
1972 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen nightclub owner and criminal mastermind Simon (Richard Crenna) pulls off a stunning heist in a small seaside town, the police detective sent to investigate the crime is none other than his good friend Commissaire Coleman (Alain Delon). Worse, as Coleman begins to unravel the case, Simon's girlfriend starts an affair with the cop. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, this intense French film noir co-stars Catherine Deneuve.
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Swimming Pool
2003 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsFamous British mystery writer Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) needs a break, so when her publisher, John Bosload (Charles Dance), offers to let her use his vacation home in southern France during the off-season, Sarah deems it the perfect opportunity for a breather. Her hopes for a carefree idyll are shattered, however, when John's shiftless and brazenly promiscuous daughter (Ludivine Sagnier) arrives and sweeps Sarah into her reckless world.
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