The Crimson Rivers DVD, 2000

In The Crimson Rivers, two policemen working together on separate macabre cases are brought together by a series of clues. Together they begin to uncover the dark secrets behind a series of murders. The film was nominated for 6 Cesar awards in 2001.

Expert investigator Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno) arrives in a small university town in the French Alps ready to examine the recent victim of a suspected serial killer. When more corpses turn up, he teams up with local cop Max Kerkerian (Vincent Cassel) and tries to unravel the grisly clues the killer leaves in his wake. Gradually, the cops realise that they are up against a dangerous conspiracy of silence, one which hides a terrible secret from the not-so-distant past, and set about bringing that secret out into the open.