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		"The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De battre mon coeur s'est arrete)" - Jacques Audiard's latest noir thriller-drama features a stunning performance from Romain Duris and won no less than 8 Cesars - arguably the best French film of 2005.
		"Hidden (Cache)" - Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche play a couple tormented by a dark secret in this thought-provoking, compelling psychological thriller from Michael Haneke.
		"Death in a French Garden (aka Peril en la demeure" - a seductive, slightly off-the-wall romantic thriller, one of Michel Deville's best films.
		"Le Combat dans l'ile" - Romy Schneider and Jean-Louis Trintignant star in this chilling, masterfully composed political thriller.
		"La Balance" - Nathalie Baye and Richard Berry star in this stunning action thriller from Bob Swaim.
		"Juste avant la nuit" - Michel Bouquet and Stéphane Audran star in this chilling 1970s thriller from Claude Chabrol
		"Les Noces Rouges" - Another must see thriller from director Claude Chabrol, featuring Michel Piccoli and Stéphane Audran.
		"Le Cercle Rouge" - Alain Delon and Yves Montand star in this definitive 1970s thriller from Jean-Pierre Melville.
		"La Ceremonie" - possibly Claude Chabrol's most disturbing psychological thriller, in which Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire make a truly diabolical match...
		"La Femme infidele" - Stephane Audran plays the murderously unfaithful wife in this stylish thriller from France's answer to Alfred Hitchcock, Claude Chabrol.
		"Le Doulos" - This masterful film noir thriller stars French film icon Jean-Paul Belmondo.
		"Rififi" - A landmark in French film noir, directed by Jules Dassin.
		"Le Corbeau (1943)" - Clouzot's gripping suspense thriller featuring Pierre Fresnay.
		"The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur)" - arguably the most suspenseful thriller in French cinema, starring Yves Montand, directed by H.G. Clouzot.
		"Les Diaboliques" - possibly the darkest, creepiest French thriller you will ever see, from master of suspense H.G. Clouzot.
		"Bob le fambeur / Un flic" - Two legendary thrillers from director Jean-Pierre Melville.
		"Plein soleil (1960)" - Alain Delon is the Talented Mr Ripley in this stylish adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith thriller.
		"The Butcher (Le Boucher)" - One of Claude Chabrol's most sinister psychological thrillers, starring Stephane Audran and Jean Yanne.

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