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Blonde in a White Car (1959) TMDB WikiData IMDb
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) TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
Du rififi chez les hommes
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) 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 e-mail 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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Infested (2023) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Vermines
director: Sébastien Vaniček actor: Théo Christine / Sofia Lesaffre …
other title: Vermin / Spiders - Ihr Biss ist der Tod …
Residents of a rundown French apartment building battle against an army of deadly, rapidly reproducing spiders.
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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) 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 IMDb WikiData
Possession
7.8 (16 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 WikiData
Les Diaboliques
8.6 (7 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.
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New Wave (2025) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
New Wave
5.8 (8 ratings) director: Richard Linklater actor: Guillaume Marbeck / Zoey Deutch …
other title: Nouvelle Vague
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
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Descent Into Hell (1986) IMDb TMDB 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...
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Kamikaze (1986) IMDb WikiData TMDB
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.
Thriller LucBesson SciFi 1980s RichardBohringer
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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.
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