Cycles

Suspense

Spotlight on Film Noir

11 films

Let yourself be drawn into the dark and intriguing atmosphere of film noir and thrillers. This film cycle immerses you in the classics of the genre, from film noir masterpieces to modern thrillers, which mix suspense, mystery, moral ambiguity and tension in complex and captivating universes.

Suspense
  • Thriller, Literary adaptation, Classics
  • 1962
  • 2h00
by Henri Verneuil

Upon his release from prison, Mr. Charles finds his house and his wife who has been waiting for him with a few million. He wants to pull off one last job and leave for Australia. In the company of Francis, a young crook, and Louis, an honest garage owner, he leaves for Cannes. The trio has one goal: the Palm Beach recipe for the season...

  • Drama
  • 2022
  • 1h38
by Clément Cogitore

In the multicultural Parisian district of La Goutte d’Or, Ramses makes a living as a clairvoyant, scamming his clients into believing he can contact the dead. As he gets caught up with a gang of young and fearless boys who terrorize the locals, Ramses makes a troubling and tragic discovery on a construction site. Could there be some truth behind his fraudulent mysticism ? Getting carried away on a fateful night, Ramses will come to develop a special bound with the street kids and confront the ghosts of his own childhood.

  • Adventure, Thriller
  • 2022
  • 2h07
by Jérôme Salle

Mathieu, member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realizes he is a victim of a Kompromat. Someone has built up with the FSB a case to frame him. Isolated, he has no one to turn to. Defence is impossible: the only way out is to escape.

  • Drama
  • 2020
  • 1h22
by Elie Wajeman

Mikael is doctor on night call. It’s a vocation. Between two patient-visits in slum areas, he cares for those whom no one else wants to see: the drug addicts, the homeless… He rubs shoulders with destitution. His life is in shambles. Especially when it comes to his pharmacist cousin who makes him write false prescriptions for Subutex. Overnight, he decides to get out of drug trafficking and rebuild his life. But there will be a heavy price to pay.

  • Drama, Historical film, Adventure
  • 2022
  • 1h31
by Giacomo Abbruzzese

After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. In the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family. One day, at the head of an armed group, he kidnaps French nationals. A commando of the Foreign Legion intervenes, led by Aleksei. The destinies of Aleksei and Jomo will merge and continue across borders, bodies, life and death.

  • Thriller
  • 2019
  • 1h36
by Stéphane Demoustier

16 years-old Lise is accused of murdering her best friend. Her parents stand by her as naturally expected. But once in court, her secret life begins to unfold and the plot thickens. Who is Lise really? Do we really know the ones we love?

  • Drama, Thriller
  • 2019
  • 1h59
by Arnaud Desplechin

Christmas night in Roubaix. Police chief Daoud roams the city. Burn out cars, violent altercations... In the face of poverty, deception and distress, Daoud knows who is lying and who is telling the truth. Fresh out of the police academy, Louis has recently joined Daoud’s crew. Young, awkward and easily misled, he constantly misunderstands those he encounters. Daoud and Louis are confronted with the murder of an old woman. The old woman’s neighbours – two young women, Claude and Marie – are arrested. They are addicts, alcoholic, lovers… They terrify Louis. But Daoud never judges them. He speaks, he listens to them. With words, rising beyond the horror of their crime Daoud will find a way to give two murderers back their humanity.

  • Comedy, Thriller, Literary adaptation, Classics
  • 1965
  • 1h35
by Costa-Gavras

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

  • Literary adaptation, Classics, Thriller
  • 1982
  • 1h51
by François Truffaut

Julien Vercel, director of a real estate agency, is suspected of a double murder: that of his wife, Marie-Christine, and her lover, Claude Massoulier. Circumstances being against him, Julien Vercel takes to the open sea in order to evade the police. His secretary, Barbara Becker, will lead the investigation and try to discover the truth. Her "objectivity" forbids her to exclude Julien from the list of culprits. In the course of her investigation, Barbara meets an upset movie cashier, a subornation client who wants to rent "a castle in the mountains with his feet in the water", a zealous lawyer, an overly curious photographer who is also her ex-husband, a Slavic swinger, a blonde typist who could be a rival, and above all a pugnacious police superintendent. During all this time, the corpses continue to fall...

  • Drama, Thriller, Literary adaptation
  • 1963
  • 1h36
by René Clément

French filmmaker Rene Clement presents Alan Delon as a petty criminal on the run from the underground. On the Rivera, he seeks refuge in a flophouse whose soup line is served by Jane Fonda and Lola Albright. The two women move him to a Gothic mansion owned by Albright, a millionaires with a Salvation Army complex. Fonda, her cousin, is hot for him and repeatedly attempts to seduce him while someone is attempting to poison him; and his murderous former associates have got wind of his whereabouts.

  • Fantasy and science fiction, Thriller
  • 2023
  • 1h23
by Jérémie Périn

En l’an 2200, Aline Ruby, détective privée obstinée, et Carlos Rivera son partenaire androïde sont embauchés par un riche homme d’affaires afin de capturer sur Terre une célèbre hackeuse. De retour sur Mars, une nouvelle affaire va les conduire à s’aventurer dans les entrailles de Noctis, la capitale martienne, à la recherche de Jun Chow, une étudiante en cybernétique disparue. Noctis est leur ville, une utopie libertarienne rendue possible par les progrès en robotique, emblème d’un futur tourné vers les étoiles. Au fil de leur enquête, ils seront confrontés aux plus sombres secrets de leur cité ; ses institutions corrompues, ses trafics, ses fermes cérébrales, et les magouilles des toutes puissantes corporations. Mais des tueurs cyber augmentés ont eux aussi pris pour cible Jun Chow. Aline et Carlos se lancent dans une course désespérée pour sauver cette jeune femme qui, sans le savoir, détient un secret capable de menacer l’équilibre précaire sur lequel repose leur civilisation.

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