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The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
7.5 (10 ratings) director: Leos Carax actor: Juliette Binoche / Denis Lavant …
other title: Gli amanti del Pont-Neuf / Os Amantes da Ponte Nova …
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
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Second Wind (1966) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Le Deuxième Souffle
director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Lino Ventura / Paul Meurisse …
other title: Tutte le ore feriscono... l'ultima uccide / O Segundo Fôlego …
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
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The Transporter (2002) TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb Skybridge
The Transporter
6.2 (9 ratings) director: Corey Yuen / Louis Leterrier actor: Jason Statham / Shu Qi …
other title: Correio de Risco / Le Transporteur …
Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.
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Pépé le Moko (1937) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Pépé le Moko
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Jean Gabin / Mireille Balin …
other title: Il bandito della Casbah / Pépé le Moko – Im Dunkel von Algier …
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
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Blonde in a White Car (1959) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Toi... le venin
director: Robert Hossein actor: Robert Hossein / Marina Vlady …
other title: Nachts fällt der Schleier / Toi... le venin …
Picked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced by the girl. Immediately thereafter, however, she dumps him, attempting to run him over as a final insult. Memorizing her license number, Pierre pursues the enigmatic motorist. Arriving at her home, Pierre is met by two young ladies (Marina Vlady and Odelle Versois), either one of whom might be the woman he's looking for.
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Rififi (1955) WikiData TMDB Skybridge IMDb NeoDB Douban
Du rififi chez les hommes
8.8 (5 ratings) director: Jules Dassin actor: Jean Servais / Carl Möhner …
other title: Guld På Gaden / Du rififi chez les hommes
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
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The Crimson Rivers (2000) IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Les Rivières pourpres
director: Mathieu Kassovitz actor: Jean Reno / Vincent Cassel …
other title: I fiumi di porpora / De blodrøde floder …
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 the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
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Tell No One (2006) Skybridge TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Ne le dis à personne
director: Guillaume Canet actor: François Cluzet / Marie-Josée Croze …
other title: Non dirlo a nessuno / Fortæl det ikke til nogen …
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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Bordertown (1989) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Bordertown
director: Robert Lantos actor: Sophie Barjac / John H. Brennan …
other title: Les deux font la loi / Bordertown – Abenteuer in einer Grenzstadt
Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed Bordertown when the western border between the United States and Canada was surveyed in 1880, dividing the town.
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Commando Ninja (2018) NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB
Commando Ninja
director: Benjamin Combes actor: Eric Carlesi / Philippe Allier …
John Hunter is Vietnam Green Beret Veteran, Half Commando, Half Ninja, whose daughter has been abducted by a secret Ninja Organization, led by a Central-American dictator, who wants to create a new-world order — through time.
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Lockout (2012) Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Lockout
director: Stephen St. Leger / James Mather actor: Guy Pearce / Maggie Grace …
other title: Lockout - Máxima Segurança / Lock Out …
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.
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Happy New Year (1973) TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Bonne Année
director: Claude Lelouch actor: Lino Ventura / Françoise Fabian …
other title: Una donna e una canaglia / Feliz Ano Novo …
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
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Grand Illusion (1937) Skybridge NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
La grande illusion
director: Jean Renoir actor: Jean Gabin / Pierre Fresnay …
other title: La grande illusione / Den Store Illusion …
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
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Possession (1981) NeoDB TMDB Douban Skybridge IMDb WikiData
Possession
7.9 (18 ratings) director: Andrzej Żuławski actor: Isabelle Adjani / Sam Neill …
other title: Possessão / La posesión
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
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Diabolique (1955) Douban TMDB IMDb KevGa-NeoDB Skybridge WikiData
Les Diaboliques
8.0 (8 ratings) director: Henri-Georges Clouzot actor: Véra Clouzot / Simone Signoret …
other title: I diabolici / Rædslernes hus …
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.