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Basic Instinct
1992 film directed by Paul Verhoeven
Orphan
2009 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Hannibal Rising
2007 film directed by Peter Webber
Titane
Titane (, ) is a 2021 body horror psychological drama film written and directed by Julia Ducournau. The French-Belgian co-production stars Agathe Rousselle in her feature film debut as Alexia, a woman who, after being injured in a car crash as a child, has a titanium plate fitted into her head. In adulthood, Alexia becomes a murderous car model with an erotic fascination with automobiles, leading to a bizarre sexual encounter that sets off an increasingly outlandish series of events. Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier and Laïs Salameh also star.
The Night of the Generals
1967 film by Anatole Litvak
Taken 3
2014 film directed by Olivier Megaton
Eyes Without a Face
1960 film by Claude Sautet, Georges Franju
The House That Jack Built
2018 film directed by Lars von Trier
Holy Spider
2022 film directed by Ali Abbasi
The Bride Wore Black
1968 film by François Truffaut
Tell No One
2006 film directed by Guillaume Canet
High Tension
2003 film directed by Alexandre Aja
The Judge and the Assassin
1976 French drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier
The Butcher
1970 film by Claude Chabrol
The Cat o' Nine Tails
1971 film by Dario Argento
Funny Games U.S.
2007 film by Michael Haneke
The Vanishing
1988 film by George Sluizer
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1971 film by Dario Argento
Frontier(s)
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.
The Hatter's Ghost
1982 film by Claude Chabrol
Harry, He's Here to Help
2000 film by Dominik Moll
Knife+Heart
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.
Bluebeard
1963 film by Claude Chabrol
Without Apparent Motive
1971 film by Philippe Labro
Dark Glasses
2022 film directed by Dario Argento
Black Belly of the Tarantula
1971 film by Paolo Cavara
Bluebeard
1972 film by Edward Dmytryk
Above the Law
2017 film by François Troukens
Maldoror
2024 film by Fabrice Du Welz
La Prochaine fois je viserai le cœur
2014 film by Cédric Anger
Deadly Circuit
1983 film by Claude Miller
La Cité de la peur
1994 film by Alain Berbérian
Zimmer 13
1964 Franco-German film directed by Harald Reinl
L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco
1971 film by Riccardo Freda
The Young Poisoner's Handbook
1995 film by Benjamin Ross
La Proie
2011 film by Éric Valette
The Machine
1994 film directed by François Dupeyron
The Vampire of Düsseldorf
1965 film by Robert Hossein
American Translation
2011 film by Pascal Arnold
Castle of the Living Dead
1964 film by Lorenzo Sabbatini, Luciano Ricci