Directed by Édouard Molinaro • Crime • 1959 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Robert Hossein, Magali Noël, Estella Blain

When Béatrice decides to spend an evening with wealthy playboys, her working-class fiancé Pierre (Robert Hossein) follows, exposing an organized crime ring. F...

Directed by Yves Boisset • Crime • 1970 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Michel Bouquet, Françoise Fabian, Gianni Garko

Michel Bouquet is judge, jury, and executioner in this nerve-twisting crime thriller from Yves Boisset. When a crackdown on drugs leads to his partner’s murder...

Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien • Drama • 2001 • Taiwan • Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Tuan Chun-hao

Hou Hsiao-hsien's stylish and seductive submersion into Taipei nightlife stars Shu Qi ("The Assassin") as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfrien...

Directed by Gilles Grangier • Crime • 1955 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Marcel Bozzuffi

Dark roads, a stormy night and Jean Gabin are the key ingredients in this French noir gem. After a night with Alice (Jeanne Moreau), trucker Jean (Gabin) finds...

Directed by Henri Decoin • Crime • 1955 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Albert Rémy

Based on a novel by Auguste Le Breton, this noir classic explores the criminal underworld of 1950s Paris. After a spell in the U.S., master criminal Henri Ferré, known ...

Directed by Claude Miller • Crime • 1983 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Isabelle Adjani, Michel Serrault, Sami Frey

Isabelle Adjani is the ultimate femme fatale, luring wealthy men to their deaths in this Euro-noir thriller. A solitary detective, “The Eye,” is convinced she is...

Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet • Drama • 1967 • France • French with English subtitles • Mature Content

Alain Robbe-Grillet’s self-referential erotic neo-noir thriller is steeped in sadomasochism. On a train from Paris to Antwerp, a director (Robbe-Grillet) and his team invent a crime film star...

Directed by Gilles Grangier • Crime • 1957 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi

From acclaimed crime writer Auguste Le Breton comes this gripping noir thriller starring cinema icon Jean Gabin. Louis Bertain’s (Gabin) garage serves as a fron...

Directed by Max Ophüls • Drama • 1939 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Edwige Feuillère, George Rigaud

From the masterful Max Ophüls comes this bittersweet melodrama, glittering with a dash of film noir. Edwige Feuillère commands the screen as a once-bourgeois woman reduced to d...

Directed by Édouard Molinaro • Crime • 1959 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Franco Fabrizi

Directed by Édouard Molinaro, this pulse-pounding film noir based on a novel by Thomas Narcejac is a dark tale of vengeance starring the great Lino Ventura in a...

Directed by Joe May • Silent • 1930 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich

Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era. A strait-laced traffic co...

Directed by Édouard Molinaro • Crime • 1958 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud

Screen legend Jeanne Moreau stars in this twisty, mood-drenched film noir from acclaimed crime writer Frédéric Dard. When a wealthy industrialist discovers th...

Directed by The Manetti Brothers • Crime • 2021 • Italy, France • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Luca Marinelli, Miriam Leone, Valerio Mastandrea

Based on the iconic Italian comic book series, this new adaptation returns to the comic’s noirish roots with eye-popping production design th...

Directed by Maurice Tourneur • Crime • 1944 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Albert Préjean, Santa Relli, Germaine Kerjean

With trademark hat and pipe, Albert Préjean stars as the venerable Inspector Maigret in this first-rate Georges Simenon adaptation. A young woman named Céci...

Directed by Jean Delannoy • Crime • 1958 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura

Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to bump off women at night. Jean Gabin is perfec...