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Key Features:
Corporate intrigue, Murder mystery, Inheritance, Secret identity, Conspiracy, Action, International intrigue, Betrayal, Power struggle, Charismatic protagonist
Tone:
serious, suspense-driven
Target Audience:
Thriller fans, Action enthusiasts, Mystery lovers
Emotional Arc:
Intrigue → Suspense

The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch

2008-12-17
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After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.

Genres
Adventure, Drama, Action, Thriller
Cast
Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélanie Thierry, Predrag , Karel Roden, Gilbert Melki, Anne Consigny, Steven Waddington, Radivoje Bukvić, Nicolas Vaude
Crew
Jérôme Salle, Jérôme Salle, Julien Rappeneau
Rating
6.1(570 votes)
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The Inheritance
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The Inheritor
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After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...



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Inheritance
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Love Crime
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The Collective
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Ultimate Heist
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For 15 days, a politician and his wife navigate a scandal after their daughter goes missing on the eve of the national elections.



Wanted
Wanted(2008)
6.5

Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.



The Mother
6.627

A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.



Nobel Son
Nobel Son(2007)
6

Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley's illegitimate half-brother. Motivated not so much by money as revenge, Thaddeus tries to convince Barkley to help him carry out a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against their patriarch.



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A small, wealthy family in New York City gets progressively torn apart by secrets, lies, and the theft that orchestrates all of it.



You Will Be My Son
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Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul esteems in a wine-maker: persistence, creative insight and technical prowess matched with passion for the job and the product, and Paul frequently reminds him of this, whether explicitly or in subtle gestures. When Philippe, the son of his manager, appears at the vineyard, Paul leaps at the chance to name him as his successor, neglecting the wishes of his own son...



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Next of Kin
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After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.



The Four 2
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The Passenger
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The Suspect
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The Thomas Crown Affair

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A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.



Killers
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When an elite assassin marries a beautiful computer whiz after a whirlwind romance, he gives up the gun and settles down with his new bride. That is, until he learns that someone from his past has put a contract out on his life.



The Clearstream Affair

Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue, which will rock the foundations of Europe and the French government itself.



Divergent
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In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.



Tell No One
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A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.



Exiled
Exiled(2006)
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A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.



The Adventurers
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The world's top thieves join forces to pull off the heist of a lifetime. But when they find themselves pursued across Europe by a legendary French detective, they'll have to take their game to the next level.



Ransom
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6.7

When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

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