The Child/L'Enfant

00s Drama
French
3.5 stars

Sad tale about a guy who sells his child because he's too lazy to get a job. Very sad & intense. Oh, the realism!

Le Cercle Rouge

70s Drama
French
4.5 stars

Great, relatively unknown stylish French crime film. Hugely inventive, and deserving of much wider recognition. Recommended without reservation.

Clean Slate

Coup de Torchon
French
80s Drama
James Thompson
4.5 stars

So much a better Thompson production than The Killer Inside Me, this French film is a scary story about a cop in Senegal who becomes comfortable with killing his foes. Shot very urgently. Highly recommended.

District B13

French
00s Action
4.5 stars

Wild, kinetic cop film with crazy chases, etc. Similar to beginning of the more recent Casino Royale. Clips of one of the amazing chase scenes made a round on the internet when this film came out. This is one of those films you can invite a bunch of people over and watch.

Cache

French
00s Drama
4 stars

Slow, slow French film about survelliance and race relations in France. A creepy, creeping, twisting psychological work.