France
Descent Into Hell (1986) IMDb WikiData
Descente aux enfers
director: Francis Girod actor: Claude Brasseur / Sophie Marceau
other title: Discesa all'inferno / Abstieg zur Hölle
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...
Kamikaze (1986) IMDb WikiData
Kamikaze
director: Didier Grousset actor: Richard Bohringer / Dominique Lavanant
other title: Kamikaze - TV-Tod live / Kamikaze – TV-Tod live
1986 film by Didier Grousset
Nov. 11, 2025 to watch > A crazy old and bored scientist invents a system which allows him to reach through the airwaves and transform live TV cameras into weapons to kill whoever is being filmed.
1980s France LucBesson RichardBohringer SciFi
Terminus (1987) WikiData IMDb
Terminus
director: Pierre-William Glenn actor: Johnny Hallyday / Karen Allen
A lone driver navigates a high-tech truck through dangerous territory in a deadly cross-country racing sport. After the guidance system fails, a new driver must bond with the truck's AI while dodging attacks and uncovering sinister plots.
Nov. 12, 2025 watched
Mad Max influenced-sci-fi that's an incomprehensible mess by the end of which I didn't know or care what happened to the characters.

Only earns that half-star by having Jürgen Prochnow in a red troll wig.
1980s Action ActionSciFi France JohnnyHallyday
Mad Love (1985) TMDB
L'Amour braque
director: Andrzej Żuławski actor: Sophie Marceau / Tchéky Karyo
other title: Amour braque - L'amore balordo / Skør kærlighed
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
L'unique (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
L'Unique
director: Jérôme Diamant-Berger actor: Julia Migenes / Sami Frey
other title: L'Unique / The Original
A famous rock singer is being overtaken. Vox, the album and live producer of the singer, prepares a real revolution with the help of a scientist. With holography, they would like to create the perfect copy of the star.
Blue Hell (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bleu comme l'enfer
director: Yves Boisset actor: Lambert Wilson / Myriem Roussel
other title: Das Blau der Hölle / Bleu comme l'enfer
Ned, a petty criminal, falls into the trap laid by Frank, a sadistic cop who, after having beaten him, takes him home. But Frank's wife Lily helps Ned escape and they fall in love.
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) TMDB
Le Pacte des loups
director: Christophe Gans actor: Samuel Le Bihan / Vincent Cassel
other title: Il patto dei lupi / Pagten
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) IMDb Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
director: Jacques Demy actor: Catherine Deneuve / Nino Castelnuovo
other title: Pigen med paraplyerne / Os Chapéus de Chuva de Cherburgo
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Magnet of Doom (1963) TMDB
L'Aîné des Ferchaux
director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / Charles Vanel
other title: Lo sciacallo / L'Aîné des Ferchaux
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.
The Red Circle (1970) NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
Le cercle rouge
8.3 (7 ratings) director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Alain Delon / Bourvil
other title: Le cercle rouge / I senza nome
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.