Watch The Crimson Rivers (2000) Free Online

Release Date: 2000

Cast: Vincent Cassel, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Francine Bergé, Nadia Fares, Jean Reno

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Crime Thriller, Crime Fiction, Psychological thriller, World cinema

The Crimson Rivers (French: Les Rivières Pourpres) is a 2000 French psychological thriller film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and based on the best-selling novel Les Rivières Pourpres by the film's co-writer Jean-Christophe Grangé. This $14 million-budgeted film went on to gross $60 million in worldwide theatrical release. A sequel, Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (Les Rivières Pourpres II: Les Anges de l'Apocalypse), was released in 2004. Detective Superintendent (Commissaire Principal) Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), a well-known investigator, is sent to the small university... MORE

The Crimson Rivers (French: Les Rivières Pourpres) is a 2000 French psychological thriller film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and based on the best-selling novel Les Rivières Pourpres by the film's co-writer Jean-Christophe Grangé. This $14 million-budgeted film went on to gross $60 million in worldwide theatrical release. A sequel, Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (Les Rivières Pourpres II: Les Anges de l'Apocalypse), was released in 2004. Detective Superintendent (Commissaire Principal) Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), a well-known investigator, is sent to the small university town of Guernon in the French Alps to investigate a brutal murder and mutilation. The victim's body had been placed in the fetal position, bound and suspended high on a cliff face, his eyes removed and his hands cut off. Niemans soon learns that the victim was the University's librarian, Remy Callois, and he seeks out a local ophthalmologist for an explanation of the eyes' mutilation. Dr. Cherneze, once on the University staff, explains that the school's isolation led to inbreeding amongst the professors, with increasingly serious genetic disorders. But recently the trend has reversed, with the local LESS