Criminal: France is a TV show that delves into the world of crime, mystery, and drama in the French context. It explores various themes such as homophobia, lies, not guilty pleas, and hate crimes, with a spotlight on a closeted gay character. The mini-series provides an in-depth look at criminal investigations and the complexities of human behavior.
Le Havre, France. The city’s at war as local mobsters and petty gangsters fight over territory, while the police do their best to put an end to the drug trafficking that holds sway over town. Set on a backdrop of social misery, the cases followed by dutiful Inspector Faraday and Paul Winckler, his former partner with completely opposite methods, combine gripping realism and riveting investigations.
After purchasing a deerskin jacket, a man becomes obsessed with it and believes that he must be the only person in the world who wears such a jacket. He becomes delusional and starts killing people in an alpine village. As his obsession grows, he becomes a serial killer.
In the Beginning (2009) is a crime drama film that follows the story of a swindler who specializes in check-bouncing and forgery. Set in the 2000s, the film revolves around the swindler's involvement with a big corporation and the various criminal activities he undertakes. The plot also includes elements of deception, high-stakes robbery, and the swindler's past catching up to him.
In 'Room of Death', a police detective named Lucie investigates a series of gruesome murders. Her investigation leads her to a blind girl named Anna, who becomes a key witness in the case. As Lucie delves deeper into the mystery, she uncovers a dark past and must confront a female psychopath who is seeking revenge. The plot is filled with twists and turns, as Lucie races against time to solve the case and save Anna from the murderer.
In 19th century France, a police superintendent gets caught in a web of political corruption and alliances, as he navigates the dark world of right-wing politics and dirty tactics. Amidst the post-French Revolution chaos, he attends a candlelight dinner with high-ranking officials, uncovering secrets and witnessing the ongoing struggle for power.
An undercover police officer infiltrates a drug ring in Paris, France, and gets involved in a dangerous chase to take down a powerful politician linked to a crack cocaine network.
Fred (Vincent Lindon) is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend (Clotilde Courau), does the housework and sometimes goes to the job center but boredom is inescapable. One day, because he accepted to drive a truck for a friend to a warehouse, he's caught up in a vicious spiral that goes beyond him. It's all the more serious as shady men want to eliminate him an the police is on his back.
"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien's own perceptions about the woman's line of work, going out with wealthy guys.
In a rural French town, a 15-year-old closeted gay boy breaks free from his idolization of his older and ostensibly free-wheeling half-sister, learning to trust himself and become independent.
A mother of two mysteriously disappears one morning. Her husband isn't worried as they've had rough patches; his wife just wanted to give him a scare and will come home soon. But her lover is convinced she has been murdered by her husband.
Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.
Imagine a slightly dilapidated three star hotel in the tenth arrondissement run by a very distinguished lady with moral fibre and panache, Mrs. Coppercage. Alongside tourists visiting Paris, Mrs. Coppercage rents three rooms to three women at a monthly rate. Each woman is marked by life, yet they go on as best they can, never closing their eyes to the world around them, or to the men who impatiently await them. Faubourg Saint Martin opens as a love story and ends like a song as shots ring out and punctuate the chorus.
One hot summer's day in a little french town, a building worker accidentally finds the skeleton of a newborn baby and calls the police. Detective Jacques Deveure (Vincent Winterhalter) is placed in charge of the investigation. His investigation uncovers evidence of numerous shady dealings, revealing a strange underbelly of the private lives of a cadre of people including Grandier (Francois Berleand) and Blandine Piancet (Audrey Tautou). This multi-layered story continually unveils new twists and turns.
A young man loses his fiancee, struck by lightning, on his wedding day.
Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial Algeria. Angele, an Algerian colonist with impeccably French origins, has fallen in love with Said, the assistant in her brother-in-law's bakery shop. Said is conscious of his Arab origins and traditions, and Angele has her work cut out for her if she wants to persuade him to marry her. Once she does, all hell breaks loose, as neither her European-origin peers nor Said's conservative Arab family approve of the union. When word of the proposed marriage gets out, strikes, violence and murder quickly follow, ruining not only Angele's life, but the lives of those around her. Her brother-in-law Paco, meanwhile, has been doggedly trying to get along and raise his family in an increasingly chaotic and difficult situation.
A seemingly ordinary mother, Veronique Courjault, is arrested after the discovery of the remains of several infants in her freezer. As the investigation unfolds, the truth about Veronique's dark secret and her role in the deaths is revealed, leaving the community and the world stunned.
A young policeman searches for the murderers of his drug addict sister. While he carries out his investigations, the criminals manage to get him charged with murder.
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