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The Crimson Rivers

2000 · 106 min

A grim, snowbound procedural that draws you into a maze of grotesque clues and half-explained conspiracies, leaving you unsettled and slightly lost.

Genres
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Tagline
Evil rises to new heights.
Overview
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • corruption
  • identity
  • obsession
  • isolation
  • family
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
  • wilderness
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror6
Humour1
Realism6
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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The Crimson Rivers Collection

  1. The Crimson RiversMovie · 2000 This title
  2. Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the ApocalypseMovie · 2004

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Genres
crime, mystery, thriller
Directed by
Mathieu Kassovitz
Written by
Jean-Christophe Grangé, Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring
Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Didier Flamand, Philippe Nahon
Music
Bruno Coulais
Cinematography
Thierry Arbogast
Runtime
106 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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