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French horror thriller films

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The Substance is a 2024 body horror film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat. It follows a fading celebrity who is fired by her producer due to her age and uses a black market drug that creates a younger version of herself with unexpected side effects.

2009 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017 film by Yorgos Lanthimos

1955 film by Henri-Georges Clouzot

2016 film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

1976 French film directed by Roman Polański

2020 film directed by David Prior

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

1976 film by Nicolas Gessner

2017 film by Coralie Fargeat

The Cat o' Nine Tails

1971 film by Dario Argento

2017 film directed by Joachim Trier

Four Flies on Grey Velvet

1971 film by Dario Argento

2011 film directed by Xavier Gens

Berlin Syndrome

2017 film directed by Cate Shortland

Don't Look Back

2009 film by Marina de Van

2012 film directed by Franck Khalfoun

2006 French horror film directed by David Moreau

Shock Treatment

1973 film by Alain Jessua

Frontier(s) () is a 2007 French-Swiss independent horror film written and directed by Xavier Gens in his feature length debut and stars Karina Testa, Aurélien Wiik, Estelle Lefébure, and Samuel Le Bihan. It follows a group of young criminals from Paris who lodge at a countryside inn run by neo-Nazis in the aftermath of riots spurred by a controversial presidential election.

Ghostland (also known as Incident in a Ghostland) is a 2018 psychological horror film written and directed by Pascal Laugier. Ghostland was shown in competition at the Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer, where it won three awards, including the Grand Prize. The film is a co-production between Canada and France.

2019 film by Carlo Mirabella-Davis

Knife+Heart () is a 2018 horror thriller film directed by Yann Gonzalez, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cristiano Mangione. It was produced by Charles Gillibert and stars Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran, Jonathan Genet and Romane Bohringer. An international co-production of France, Mexico and Switzerland, the film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The lead character is loosely based on Anne-Marie Tensi, a female producer specialized in gay pornography who was active in France in the 1970s and 1980s.

2022 film directed by Dario Argento

2004 film by Robin Campillo

Szamanka () is a 1996 erotic drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and adapted from a screenplay by Manuela Gretkowska. The film, which was controversial upon its release in Poland, follows the obsessive relationship between an anthropology professor and a strange young woman only known as the "Italian". The title is the feminine form of the word "shaman" in Polish.

Alice or the Last Escapade

1977 film by Claude Chabrol

2012 film directed by Brandon Cronenberg

2022 film directed by Carlota Pereda

Trouble Every Day

2001 film directed by Claire Denis

2010 film directed by Miguel Ángel Vivas

Black Belly of the Tarantula

1971 film by Paolo Cavara

2020 film directed by Julius Berg

2021 film directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo

2014 film by Juanfer Andrés

What Happens at Night

film project by Martin Scorsese

Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye

1973 film directed by Antonio Margheriti

3615 code Père Noël

1990 film by René Manzor

2002 film by Marcus Adams

2009 film directed by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani

2021 film directed by Jean Luc Herbulot

Murder in a Blue World

1973 film by Eloy de la Iglesia

Arthur, malédiction

2022 film directed by Barthélemy Grossmann

1994 film directed by François Dupeyron

2015 film directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović

2024 film directed by David Moreau

1976 film by Denis Héroux

film directed by Olivier Abbou