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- DirectorOlivier MarchalStarsDaniel AuteuilGérard DepardieuAndré Dussollier2 cops are promised by the retiring chief of the Paris police that the one, getting the violent gang robbing armored trucks, will get his job. The 2 will do whatever it takes to get the promotion, even if it means breaking the law.
- DirectorManuel BoursinhacStarsSamuel Le BihanSamy NaceriClotilde CourauEither you make decisions or life makes them for you. For an ex-con struggling to go straight, the temptation of money, women and power prove too much, especially when his best friend promises him an easy heist.
- DirectorOlivier MarchalStarsDaniel AuteuilOlivia BonamyCatherine MarchalA washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.
- DirectorPhilippe HaïmStarsGérard LanvinVahina GiocanteNicolas DuvauchelleIn France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings. Secret Défense (aka Secrets Of State) tells of their secret war through the destinies of Diane, a student recruited by the French secret service, and Pierre, a troubled young man who thinks terrorism will bring him salvation. Trained and indoctrinated for missions which are beyond them, they are both drawn into a chain of events from which they seem incapable of escaping. While they both be sacrificed in the name of their "noble" causes?
- DirectorXavier RuizStarsEugénie AnselinArben BajraktarajIsabelle CaillatDivorced SWAT officer Alex Decker devotes himself entirely of his work, straining his relationship with his teenage daughter. When his old childhood friend and former colleague Victor is released from prison, Alex must confront his past.
- DirectorOlivier MarchalStarsRichard AnconinaAnne ParillaudFrançois LevantalFranck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force trying to identify two corrupts members of the Paris Police Force. Franck is pretending to be a gangster and Nina a prostitute living with him, and involved in a robbery of a fortune in diamonds, having seven deaths and some injured persons.
- DirectorRégis WargnierStarsJosé GarciaLucas BelvauxMarie GillainA modern-day Parisian town crier gradually learns that someone is using him to give cryptic warnings of a plague outbreak in the city.
- DirectorOlivier MegatonStarsJean-Marc BarrAsia ArgentoFrances BarberA 12 y.o. girl reports her powerful mom to the police for having killed the nanny. She runs away and is helped by an ex-soldier/assassin to find her dad in Portugal while the mom has her people try prevent this. Shooting follows.
- DirectorFranck MancusoStarsJean DujardinLaurent LucasAgnès BlanchotA cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
- DirectorGuillaume CanetStarsFrançois CluzetMarie-Josée CrozeAndré DussollierAn accidental discovery near a doctor's estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife's hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he's letting on?
- DirectorFred CavayéStarsVincent LindonDiane KrugerLancelot RochWith no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
- DirectorFlorent-Emilio SiriStarsSamy NaceriBenoît MagimelNadia FarèsAlliances change when an armored car with an Albanian mafia boss prisoner escapes a mafia army by driving inside a warehouse, which is being robbed by a French gang stealing laptops etc.
- DirectorCédric KlapischStarsMarie GillainVincent ElbazSimon Abkarian"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand to mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank for robbery.
- DirectorGeorges LautnerStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean DesaillyCyrielle ClairVictim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.
- DirectorPitofStarsGérard DepardieuGuillaume CanetInés SastreParis, 1830: Vidocq is killed by a mirror masked man. A thief turned investigator, he was working on a case of men killed by lightning. His biographer tries to solve the case.
- DirectorPhilippe LabroStarsJean-Paul BelmondoBruno CremerJean NégroniL'Alpagueur is a free-lance spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about L'epervier, a serial-killer who employs young boys to help him robbing banks before killing them.
- DirectorJosé PinheiroStarsAlain DelonJacques PerrinFiona GélinRetired police officer Daniel Pratt's teenage daughter is killed by a gang of hooded men. Pratt begins his own investigation to find the killers and who ordered them to do it - and take personal revenge out of the judicial system.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsJean GabinAlain DelonLino VenturaAn ambitious young mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
- DirectorNicolas BoukhriefStarsAlbert DupontelJean DujardinFrançois BerléandA mysterious vengeful man takes a job as a security guard for a money transport company amidst a series of violent robberies.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsRichard BerryPatrick BruelBruno CremerSimon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
- DirectorJosé GiovanniStarsClaude BrasseurBernard-Pierre DonnadieuGérard DarmonAn American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the Mediterranean.
- DirectorAlain CorneauStarsYves MontandFrançois PérierSimone SignoretAn inspector is having a secret relationship with a woman. When she is murdered by his boss, all proof is against him.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsRichard BerrySaïd TaghmaouiJoaquim de AlmeidaThe story of two ex-legionnaires in a mission of political assasination in Romania. A candid portrayal of the human side of assassins.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsPatrick BruelIsabella FerrariMarthe KellerAn elderly German tourist is killed in Paris at the hands of Joseph Katz, an old junk dealer beloved by detective Sam Bellamy. Despite witnessing the crime, Sam covers for Joseph, upon which the latter vanishes in mysterious circumstances.
- DirectorAlain BerbérianStarsRichard AnconinaFrédéric DiefenthalChiara MastroianniA few young women are murdered in Paris and as police progress in the investigation they realise that discovering the identity of the serial killer is not enough to bring the maniac to justice.