French movies about gangsters

List of the best French gangster movies selected by visitors to our site: A Gang Story, City of God, Legend, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, A Prophet, Casino, 22 Bullets, Gigola, Le Samouraï, Mauvais Sang.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, crime
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:42

After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genredrama, crime
CountryBrazil, France
Duration02:10

    Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:29

    Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryFrance, Canada, Italy
    Duration02:10

    The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy
    Duration02:29

    Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration02:51

    The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:57

    Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die...

    Markimdb: 5
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:40

    George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, Italy
    Duration01:45

    Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryLuxembourg, France
    Duration02:05

    A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment. While a serum that can treat the disease has been formulated, it's been locked away in an inaccessible government building. A woman hires two men to steal the serum.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:40

    Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy, Spain
    Duration01:51

    In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:43

    The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genreaction, adventure, cartoon, detective, sport
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:29

    Paxtown, a corrupt capital, torn by crime and preyed by the mafia. In this rotten megalopolis, Richard Aldana, street smart, without ties or ambitions, is a boxer in his off time. But this was all before everything got flipped on its head. Overnight, Aldana finds himself with Siri, a girl targeted by "The Order of the Lion," a religious group that thinks the girl is the key to "the other world".

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller
    CountryBelgium, France
    Duration01:40

    Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance

    Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryLuxembourg, France
    Duration01:35

    Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium, USA
    Duration01:10

    A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryItaly, France, Germany
    Duration01:45

    The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:38

    When the Russian mob kidnaps the daughter of a reformed criminal, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryFrance

    Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the family when he returns, pursued by a gang of smugglers, he find shelter in his family while reveling them a dark secret. The five brothers, together, will find the energy to defend themself and the means to avenge the memory of their murdered father...

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryFrance

    Nicky Larson is tasked to recover the perfume of Cupid, a perfume that would make anyone who uses it irresistible.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryFrance, USA, China, Belgium, Monaco
    Duration02:34

    The fast-paced action movie is again set in the criminal underworld in France, where Frank Martin is known as The Transporter, because he is the best driver and mercenary money can buy. In this installment, he meets Anna and they attempt to take down a group of ruthless Russian human traffickers who also have kidnapped Frank’s father.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:53

    Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Belgium
    Duration01:43

    Vincent is a crooked cop whose drug heist goes wrong when he is stabbed and the criminals he is robbing discover his identity. Vincent escapes with a huge bag of cocaine, but discovers his loot belongs to a powerful mob boss who kidnaps Vincent's son. Vincent has until the end of the night to return the stash and save his son.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:51

    The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance

    Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to Gilberte's family. He needs friends. And friends are hard to come by in his town.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy

    The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France

    Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryFrance

    A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Now traders, they are happy days. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryItaly, France, Germany, Brazil
    Duration01:40

    Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    An attorney stumbles upon a suitcase filled with cocaine.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy, West Germany

    Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy
    Duration01:25

    After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryIndonesia, France, USA
    Duration02:30

    After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountrySweden, Germany, Denmark, France
    Duration02:04

    A three-tiered story centered around drugs and organized crime, and focused on a young man who becomes a runner for a coke dealer.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountrySpain, France, Sweden, Argentina
    Duration01:38

    Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration02:03

    Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryItaly, France, Romania
    Duration02:05

    Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryFrance, Canada, USA
    Duration01:16

    Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hitwoman, sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy

    Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels his lowly status keenly. If only he could graduate to the ranks of hitmen, who are honored in his world, perhaps then he would feel more like somebody. He finally gets his chance when he receives instructions to kill the eminent hitman Max, who knows too much to be left alive. Instead of planning a cool and distant hit, Jeremie gets to know his quarry personally and thereby gets entangled in a mass of conflicting allegiances. Max has one more assignment and has asked Jeremie to help him with it. The hero-worshipping boy can't bring himself to knock of this classy guy. However, just having such an inept apprentice as Jeremie around is enormously dangerous for the soon-to-be-retired killer.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:27

    What if Apollo 11 never actually made it? What if, in reality, Stanley Kubrick secretly shot the famous images of the moon landing in a studio, working for the US administration? This is the premise of a totally plausible conspiracy theory that takes us to swinging sixties London, where a stubborn CIA agent will never find Kubrick but is forced to team up with a lousy manager of a seedy rock band to develop the biggest con of all time.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance

    Ils ont 25 ans et se marient aujourd'hui.Ils ont 35 ans, se sont unis il y a dix ans et se déchirent aujourd'hui.Ils ont 45 ans, se sont déchirés il y a dix ans et tentent aujourd'hui de se réconcilier...

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, sport
    CountryFrance

    More than anything, 30-year-old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickaël, her estranged 11-year-old son who has been placed with a foster family and blames his mother for their long separation. When she discovers that Mickaël is crazy about wrestling, Rose thinks she's found a way to melt the ice: she'll put together a tag team with three girlfriends from the store where all four work as checkout girls...

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance

    "Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood peddler, has secretly been in love with Marius since her childhood; Marius, never admitting it, has always loved Fanny. One day, a sailor drops by La Marine and offers him a job on an exploratory ship. Trying to hold him off and to make him jealous, Fanny confesses his love to him and provokes a fight between Marius and one of César's old friends, Panisse, a boat merchant, who despite his old age, has been courting Fanny for a while. Torn between the call of the sea and his love for her, Marius abandons his dream to be with Fanny who gives herself to him. As César and Honorine, Fanny's mother, are getting ready for the wedding, Marius changes his mind, drawn back to the call of the sea.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:09

    A timid young grad student madly in love with her scientist boss offers her body to his research.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

    Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:45

    Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:41

    A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:29

    Aurore has separated, just lost her job and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.




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