THEME EXPLORATION

French crime

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Graveyard of Honor
Graveyard of Honor
1975 · Kinji Fukasaku
7 Boxes
7 Boxes
2012 · Juan Carlos Maneglia
Bad Boys II
Bad Boys II
2003 · Michael Bay
The Irishman
The Irishman
2019 · Martin Scorsese
The Street Fighter
The Street Fighter
1974 · Shigehiro Ozawa
Deported
Deported
1950 · Robert Siodmak
Family Business
Family Business
1989 · Sidney Lumet
He Laughed Last
He Laughed Last
1956 · Blake Edwards
La Bandera
La Bandera
1935 · Julien Duvivier
La sfida
La sfida
1958 · Francesco Rosi
Pire Nuri
Pire Nuri
1968 · Yílmaz Güney
Robert Macaire et Bertrand
Robert Macaire et Bertrand
1906 · Georges Méliès
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Jean-Pierre Melville France

Melville pioneered the French crime thriller genre with stylish, morally complex heist and gangster films like 'Bob le Flambeur' and 'Le Samouraï' that defined the aesthetic of French noir.

 Claude Chabrol France

Chabrol obsessively explored French bourgeois crime, murder, and moral corruption across dozens of thrillers and psychological crime dramas like 'Le Boucher' and 'Story of Women.'