| 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 8 | Drama, Thriller, Adventure | France | 153 | In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey. |
| 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 7.9 | Thriller, Mystery | France | 117 | The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears. |
| 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 7.8 | Crime, Thriller, Drama | France | 105 | After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. |
| 2019 | Ladj Ly | 7.6 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | France | 104 | 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... |
| 1976 | Roman Polanski | 7.6 | Thriller, Mystery, Drama | France | 126 | A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. |
| 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 7.5 | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | France | 130 | 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monk... |
| 2023 | Justine Triet | 7.5 | Thriller, Mystery, Crime | France | 151 | A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness. |
| 1997 | David Lynch | 7.5 | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | France | 134 | A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell. |
| 2019 | Antonin Baudry | 7.5 | Thriller, Action, Adventure | France | 116 | 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 t... |
| 2008 | Pierre Morel | 7.4 | Action, Thriller | France | 94 | Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, ... |
| 2016 | John Madden | 7.4 | Thriller, Drama, Crime | France | 133 | An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation. |
| 2021 | Cédric Jimenez | 7.4 | Thriller, Action, Crime | France | 105 | Tired of the small-time grind, three Marseille cops get a chance to bust a major drug network. But lines blur when a key informant makes a big ask. |
| 2021 | Yann Gozlan | 7.3 | Mystery, Thriller, Drama | France | 130 | Mathieu 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, Mathieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens to the tracks again, he starts d... |
| 2002 | Gaspar Noé | 7.2 | Drama, Thriller, Crime | France | 93 | A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished. |
| 2006 | Guillaume Canet | 7.2 | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery | France | 131 | 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. |
| 2024 | Coralie Fargeat | 7.1 | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller | France | 141 | A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. |
| 1990 | Luc Besson | 7.1 | Action, Thriller | France | 117 | A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government. |
| 2019 | Roman Polanski | 7.1 | History, Drama, Thriller | France | 132 | In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony. |
| 2005 | Michael Haneke | 7 | Mystery, Drama, Thriller | France | 118 | 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, i... |
| 2000 | Mathieu Kassovitz | 6.9 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | France | 106 | Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and t... |
| 2001 | Chris Nahon | 6.9 | Action, Crime, Thriller | France | 98 | Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies. |
| 2002 | François Ozon | 6.9 | Comedy, Thriller, Mystery | France | 111 | Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret. |
| 2010 | Roman Polanski | 6.8 | Thriller, Mystery | France | 128 | A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. |
| 2004 | Pierre Morel | 6.8 | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | France | 84 | Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb. |
| 2003 | Alexandre Aja | 6.8 | Horror, Thriller, Mystery | France | 91 | Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror. |
| 2019 | Luc Besson | 6.7 | Action, Adventure, Thriller | France | 119 | Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins. |
| 2010 | Richard Berry | 6.7 | Drama, Crime, Thriller | France | 117 | A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend. |
| 2010 | Rodrigo Cortés | 6.6 | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | France | 95 | Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap. |
| 2011 | Olivier Megaton | 6.6 | Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama | France | 108 | After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible ... |
| 2021 | Tom McCarthy | 6.6 | Drama, Crime, Thriller | France | 139 | Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for ... |
| 2012 | Olivier Megaton | 6.4 | Action, Crime, Thriller | France | 91 | In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter. |
| 2009 | Patrick Alessandrin | 6.4 | Action, Thriller, Crime | France | 101 | Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city’s secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem. |
| 2014 | Olivier Megaton | 6.3 | Thriller, Action | France | 109 | Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice. |
| 2005 | Louis Leterrier | 6.3 | Action, Thriller, Crime | France | 88 | Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediatel... |
| 2008 | Olivier Megaton | 6.2 | Action, Thriller, Crime | France | 104 | Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the ... |
| 2007 | Xavier Gens | 6.2 | Action, Thriller, Drama | France | 89 | A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue. |
| 2016 | Jean-François Richet | 6.2 | Action, Thriller, Drama | France | 88 | An ex-con reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter while fighting to keep her alive after she becomes a target of violent drug dealers. |
| 2014 | McG | 6.1 | Action, Drama, Thriller | France | 113 | A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthles... |
| 2012 | Franck Khalfoun | 6 | Horror, Thriller | France | 89 | As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface. |
| 2012 | Stephen St. Leger | 5.9 | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | France | 95 | Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison. |