Best thriller French movies in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
81 movies in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.1. Newest addition: The Residence, added to Prime Video on 22 Oct. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity; showing the top 30.
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1. Léon: The Professional (1994)
Movie · French · 1h 51m · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (13.7L votes)
Visually stunningMatureEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.
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2. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Movie · French · 2h 31m · UA · Thriller, Mystery · IMDb 7.6 (2.4L votes)
TwistyEdge-of-seatDark & grittyCold & detached
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
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3. The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)
Movie · French · 2h 58m · Adventure, Action · IMDb 7.6 (51.2K votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
Edmond Dantès becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men
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4. The Beasts (2022)
Movie · French · 2h 18m · Thriller, Drama · IMDb 7.5 (26.8K votes)
Cold & detachedDark & grittyMatureEdge-of-seat
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with th
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5. It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Movie · French · 1h 43m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 7.4 (40.3K votes)
TwistyMatureEdge-of-seatCold & detached
An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.
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6. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
Movie · French · 2h 47m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 7.5 (21.4K votes)
TwistyDark & grittyCold & detachedEdge-of-seat
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
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7. Mars Express (2023)
Movie · French · 1h 29m · Animation, Science Fiction · IMDb 7.5 (15.8K votes)
Visually stunningDark & grittyTwistyCold & detached
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet's capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, political corruption, and a missing girl who hold
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8. Nikita (1990)
Movie · French · 1h 57m · Action, Thriller · IMDb 7.2 (82.6K votes)
MatureEdge-of-seatVisually stunningDark & gritty
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
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9. The Summit of the Gods (2021)
Movie · French · 1h 35m · Animation, Adventure · IMDb 7.5 (11.9K votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatTwistySerious
A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
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10. 13 Tzameti (2006)
Movie · French · 1h 33m · Action, Thriller · IMDb 7.3 (18.8K votes)
TwistyMatureCold & detachedEdge-of-seat
Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental cha
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11. Dheepan (2015)
Movie · French · 1h 55m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.2 (18.1K votes)
MatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seatSerious
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
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12. Red Rooms (2023)
Movie · French · 1h 58m · Thriller, Crime · IMDb 7.1 (24.9K votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyCold & detached
The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle.
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13. Time Masters (1982)
Movie · French · 1h 20m · Animation, Science Fiction · IMDb 7.3 (7.8K votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatFast-paced
On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. Onboard Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad, who knows Perdide well. Thus begins an inc
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14. Yannick (2023)
Movie · French · 1h 7m · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 7.0 (8.7K votes)
FunnyDialogue-drivenMatureCold & detached
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
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15. Rebel (2022)
Movie · French · 2h 15m · Action, Thriller · IMDb 7.3 (3.1K votes)
MatureEdge-of-seatDark & grittyVisually stunning
Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, and so leaves Belgium to help victims of the war in Syria. But when he arrives, he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brot
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17. Cairo Conspiracy (2022)
Movie · French · 2h 1m · Thriller · IMDb 6.9 (9.9K votes)
TwistyEdge-of-seatFast-pacedDark & gritty
A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's re
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18. Shéhérazade (2018)
Movie · French · 1h 46m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 7.1 (3.0K votes)
MatureDark & grittyCold & detachedSerious
Zachary, 17 years old, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in the mean streets of Marseille. He falls in love with Shéhérazade, a young prostitute of whom he becomes the pimp without realizing it...
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19. Two Prosecutors (2025)
Movie · French · 1h 58m · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 7.0 (3.3K votes)
Dark & grittyCold & detachedEdge-of-seatSerious
In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.
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20. My Daughter's Killer (2022)
Movie · French · 1h 23m · Documentary · IMDb 6.9 (2.4K votes)
Dialogue-drivenDark & grittyMatureCold & detached
A father fights for decades to bring his daughter's killer to justice in France and Germany before taking extreme measures.
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21. The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
Movie · French · 2h 2m · Thriller, Drama · IMDb 6.7 (5.3K votes)
Visually stunningDark & grittyCold & detachedEdge-of-seat
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
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22. Paris Belongs to Us (1961)
Movie · French · 2h 21m · Mystery, Drama · IMDb 6.7 (3.0K votes)
TwistySlow-burnCold & detachedDark & gritty
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
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24. The Girl with a Bracelet (2020)
Movie · French · 1h 35m · Drama, Crime · IMDb 6.6 (2.8K votes)
TwistyDialogue-drivenDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.
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26. Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris (2023)
Movie · French · 1h 26m · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 6.6 (1.5K votes)
Cold & detachedEdge-of-seat
In his own words, the burglar behind the 2010 robbery of the Paris Museum of Modern Art tells how he pulled off the biggest art heist in French history.
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27. Azor (2021)
Movie · French · 1h 40m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 6.5 (3.4K votes)
Cold & detachedSlow-burnDark & grittyTwisty
Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under surveillance, a remote duel takes place between two bankers who, despite d
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28. How to Make a Killing (2025)
Movie · French · 1h 53m · Comedy, Thriller · IMDb 6.5 (4.8K votes)
FunnyMature
Michel and Cathy, wed for longer than they can remember, lead a quiet but monotonous life in the mountains. When a bear bursts out in front of Michel’s car, accidentally killing two drug dealers and revealing a €2 million loot in the process, their life takes an unpredictable turn, especially when they decide to cover
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29. The Women and the Murderer (2021)
Movie · French · 1h 32m · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 6.4 (1.8K votes)
MatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seatDialogue-driven
This documentary traces the capture of serial killer Guy Georges through the tireless work of two women: a police chief and a victim's mother.
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30. Titane (2021)
Movie · French · 1h 48m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 6.4 (68.1K votes)
MatureTwistyDark & grittyCold & detached
A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
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