Movie List for "french"

Turetskiy gambit (2005) War Action Adventure Mystery Thriller Movie

The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the … Year 2005.

Generes: War, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Dzhanik Fayziev
Writer: Boris Akunin (novel), Boris Akunin (screenplay)
Actors: Egor Beroev, Olga Krasko, Marat Basharov, Vladimir Ilin

Léon: The Professional (1994) Action Crime Drama Thriller Movie

Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin’s trade. Year 1994.

Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson
Actors: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello

Strangers on a Train (1951) Crime Film-Noir Thriller Movie

A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. Year 1951.

Generes: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Raymond Chandler (screen play), Czenzi Ormonde (screen play), Whitfield Cook (adaptation), Patricia Highsmith (from the novel by)
Actors: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll

North by Northwest (1959) Adventure Mystery Thriller Movie

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies. Year 1959.

Generes: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ernest Lehman
Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis

Almost Famous (2000) Adventure Comedy Drama Music Movie

A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour. Year 2000.

Generes: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Director: Cameron Crowe
Writer: Cameron Crowe
Actors: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee

Beauty and the Beast (1991) Animation Family Fantasy Musical Romance Movie

A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman’s love. Year 1991.

Generes: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Writer: Linda Woolverton (animation screenplay by), Brenda Chapman (story by), Chris Sanders (story by), Burny Mattinson (story by), Kevin Harkey (story by), Brian Pimental (story by), Bruce Woodside (story by), Joe Ranft (story by), Tom Ellery (story by), Kelly Asbury (story by), Robert Lence (story by)
Actors: Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart, Angela Lansbury

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) Action Biography Crime Drama History Thriller Movie

A look at Germany’s terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and ’70s. Year 2008.

Generes: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Uli Edel
Writer: Bernd Eichinger (screenplay), Uli Edel (screenplay collaborator), Stefan Aust (book)
Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Jan Josef Liefers

The State Counsellor (2005) Drama Crime Movie

Third film based on Boris Akunin’s “Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina” series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but … Year 2005.

Generes: Drama, Crime
Director: Filipp Yankovskiy
Writer: Boris Akunin (novel), Boris Akunin (screenplay)
Actors: Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Mashkov

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) Crime Horror Mystery Thriller Movie

A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death. Year 1933.

Generes: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Norbert Jacques (characters), Fritz Lang (scenario), Fritz Lang, René Sti (French adaptation), Thea von Harbou (scenario), Thea von Harbou
Actors: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Thomy Bourdelle, Gustav Diessl, Rudolf Schündler

Bullet in the Head (1990) Action Crime Drama Thriller War Movie

When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal’s life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever. Year 1990.

Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Director: John Woo
Writer: Janet Chun, Patrick Leung, John Woo
Actors: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee, Simon Yam

Brother (1997) Crime Drama Romance Movie

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia. Year 1997.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Aleksey Balabanov
Writer: Aleksey Balabanov
Actors: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova

Admiral (2008) Biography Drama History Romance War Movie

The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution. Year 2008.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Director: Andrey Kravchuk
Writer: Zoya Kudrya, Vladimir Valutskiy
Actors: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladislav Vetrov

Russian Ark (2002) Drama Fantasy History Mystery Movie

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. Year 2002.

Generes: Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Writer: Boris Khaimsky (dialogue), Anatoli Nikiforov, Svetlana Proskurina (dialogue), Aleksandr Sokurov (dialogue), Aleksandr Sokurov
Actors: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky

Downfall (2004) Biography Drama History War Movie

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. Year 2004.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, War
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer: Bernd Eichinger (screenplay), Joachim Fest (book), Traudl Junge (book), Melissa Müller (book)
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes

The Usual Suspects (1995) Crime Mystery Thriller Movie

A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup. Year 1995.

Generes: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Bryan Singer
Writer: Christopher McQuarrie
Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak