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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
Frantic for life and love, frantic for excitement.
Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 707 ratings · 29 Jan 1958 · French · 1h 32m · Released
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
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Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.
Frantic
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The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Femme Fatale
Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 30 Apr 2002 · English
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.
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After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
Caché
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The Killing
Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 6 Jun 1956 · English
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The Air I Breathe
Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 7 Feb 2007 · English
A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue his beloved... Four interconnected stories reveal life unfolding through four emotional pillars — joy, passion, grief, and love.
Kiss of the Dragon
Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 6 Jul 2001 · English
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The Second Wind
Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 24 Oct 2007 · French
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Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 17 Mar 1954 · French
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