Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

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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.

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actor: Myriam Boyer actor: Michel Duchaussoy actor: Vincent Cassel actor: Ludivine Sagnier actor: Olivier Gourmet actor: Roy Dupuis character: Commissioner Broussard character: Jacques Mesrine character: Pierre André Mesrine, father of Jacques character: Mesrine's mother character: Jean-Paul Mercier character: Sylvie Jeanjacquot cinematographer: Robert Gantz composer: Marcus Trumpp composer: Marco Beltrami country: CA crew: François Groult crew: Philippe Cord'homme crew: Pascal Chauvin crew: Gérard Hardy crew: Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen crew: Serge Hayat crew: Thomas Langmann crew: Olivier Sonnier crew: Antoinette Boulat crew: Max Adler crew: Ruben Samuel Sachs crew: Virginie Montel crew: Jean-François Richet crew: Abdel Raouf Dafri crew: Daniel Delume decade: 2000s director: Jean-François Richet editor: Hervé Schneid franchise: The Mesrine Collection genre: Action genre: Crime genre: Drama genre: Thriller language: fr popularityBand: niche rating: 7 studio: La Petite Reine studio: Remstar Productions writer: Abdel Raouf Dafri year: 2008

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113 min R CA FR Drama Action Thriller Crime 994 votes

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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.

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actor: Vincent Cassel actor: Olivier Gourmet actor: Christophe Vandevelde certification: NO crew: Virginie Montel decade: 2000s genre: Crime genre: Drama genre: Thriller language: fr popularityBand: niche rating: 7

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115 min NO FR FR Crime Drama Romance Thriller 368 votes

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Antoine and Laurent, old friends, spend their vacation in Corsica with their respective daughters: seventeen-year-old Louna and eighteen-year-old Marie. One evening at the beach, Louna seduces Laurent. Louna is in love, but for Laurent it was nothing more than a momentary distraction. Without revealing her lover's name, Louna confides in her father, who tries by any means to discover who his daughter's lover is. How long will the secret be able to be kept hidden?

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actor: Vincent Cassel certification: NO cinematographer: Robert Gantz crew: Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen crew: Thomas Langmann crew: Jean-François Richet crew: Daniel Delume director: Jean-François Richet editor: Hervé Schneid genre: Drama language: fr studio: La Petite Reine

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106 min NO FR FR Drama Romance 1,070 votes

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In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.

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actor: Michaël Vander-Meiren actor: Emmanuel Vieilly actor: Serge Biavan actor: Gérard Lanvin certification: NO decade: 2000s genre: Thriller language: fr popularityBand: niche year: 2008

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100 min NO FR FR Thriller 117 votes

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Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. When, after an unfortunate event, he crosses paths with the police chief, he makes a bold decision that will turn the ruthless mastermind of the Parisian underworld against him.

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actor: Vincent Cassel certification: NO composer: Marcus Trumpp composer: Marco Beltrami crew: Jean-François Richet director: Jean-François Richet editor: Hervé Schneid language: fr popularityBand: niche runtimeRange: movie:121-150

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121 min NO BE FR 522 votes

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

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country: CA crew: Maxime Rémillard crew: André Rouleau decade: 2000s genre: Crime genre: Drama genre: Thriller language: fr popularityBand: niche rating: 7 studio: Remstar Productions

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77 min NR CA FR Crime Drama Thriller 688 votes

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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.

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actor: Albert Goldberg crew: Pascal Chauvin crew: Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen decade: 2000s genre: Crime genre: Drama genre: Thriller language: fr rating: 7 runtimeRange: movie:121-150

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131 min NR FR FR Drama Thriller Crime Mystery 1,496 votes

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In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner Danglard investigate...

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actor: Alain Fromager actor: Olivier Gourmet certification: NO decade: 2000s genre: Crime genre: Drama genre: Thriller language: fr

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116 min NO FR FR Thriller Crime Drama 82 votes

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Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis, are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.

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actor: Michel Duchaussoy actor: Samuel Le Bihan certification: NO decade: 2000s genre: Action genre: Drama genre: Thriller language: fr

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116 min NO FR FR Drama Action Thriller 27 votes

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While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.

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crew: Jean-Andre Carriere crew: Maxime Rémillard crew: André Rouleau decade: 2000s genre: Action genre: Crime genre: Drama genre: Thriller popularityBand: niche studio: Remstar Productions

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97 min R US EN Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller 211 votes

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On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.

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cinematographer: Robert Gantz decade: 2000s director: Jean-François Richet editor: Bill Pankow genre: Action genre: Crime genre: Thriller

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109 min R US EN Thriller Action Adventure Crime 1,182 votes

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Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt, grief, and the desire for redemption.

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certification: NO character: Robert decade: 2000s genre: Crime genre: Drama genre: Thriller popularityBand: niche rating: 7 runtimeRange: movie:121-150 year: 2008

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121 min NO AT DE Crime Drama Romance Thriller 248 votes

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From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...

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actor: Vincent Cassel certification: NO crew: Virginie Montel decade: 2000s genre: Action genre: Crime genre: Thriller language: fr popularityBand: niche

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109 min NO ES FR Action Crime Thriller 165 votes

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Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" method. A fleet of high-powered speedboats and cars races across the Mediterranean to Spain and then France, loaded with drugs.

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actor: Olivier Gourmet certification: NO decade: 2000s genre: Action genre: Crime genre: Drama language: fr popularityBand: niche year: 2008

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90 min NO FR FR Drama Action Crime 188 votes

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When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.

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actor: Michel Duchaussoy certification: NO genre: Crime genre: Drama genre: Thriller language: fr popularityBand: niche rating: 7

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113 min NO FR FR Thriller Drama Crime 171 votes

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After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.

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actor: Anne Consigny certification: NO decade: 2000s genre: Action genre: Drama genre: Thriller language: fr popularityBand: niche year: 2008

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108 min NO BE FR Adventure Drama Action Thriller 584 votes

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Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.

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actor: Gérard Lanvin genre: Action genre: Crime genre: Drama genre: Thriller language: fr popularityBand: niche

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116 min PG-13 FR FR Crime Thriller Action Drama 622 votes

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Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.

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actor: Mathieu Amalric certification: NO character: Robert crew: Philippe Cord'homme decade: 2000s genre: Drama genre: Thriller language: fr runtimeRange: movie:121-150

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124 min NO FR FR Drama Thriller 77 votes

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Alex masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky, Matty, Terry, Chubby, Norman and Jay make up his unlikely gang of robbers. Setting up their alibi, the gang check in for a flight and join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to The World Cup Tournament in Germany.

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certification: NO character: Cashier decade: 2000s genre: Action genre: Crime genre: Drama genre: Thriller year: 2008

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90 min NO GB EN Crime Drama Action Thriller 38 votes

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A small-time thug who collects debts for the local triad is torn between his criminal aspirations and his devotion to family.

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certification: NO character: Interview Reporter decade: 2000s genre: Action genre: Crime genre: Drama popularityBand: niche rating: 7 runtimeRange: movie:121-150

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141 min NO KR KO Crime Drama Action 224 votes