Requiem

2001 [FRENCH]

Action / Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

2
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 590 590

monk monastery

Plot summary

Four hardened crooks break out of prison. Hunted down, with nowhere to run, they seek refuge in the only place the police cannot follow, a Cistercian monastery. Cut off from the outside world, a nightmare stand off develops between the fugitives, ready to kill in defence of their dearly purchased freedom, and the monks they' re holding hostage. But in this potentially lethal confrontation, nothing is quite as it seems. The game' s been rigged from the start. Requiem' s a violent and fast paced French film that really delivers.

Director

Hervé Renoh Photo
Hervé Renoh

Top cast

Patrick Dell'Isola Photo
Patrick Dell'Isola as Christian
Jean-Louis Loca Photo
Jean-Louis Loca as Rafik
Simon Eine Photo
Simon Eine as Henri
Marc Chapiteau Photo
Marc Chapiteau as Poupousse
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888.69 MB
1280*720
French 2.0
NR
us  
24 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 5
1.78 GB
1920*1080
French 5.1
NR
us  
24 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by juan_not514 3 / 10

Predictable and painful

Reviewed by Coventry 6 / 10

Say "Oui" if you love mean & nasty violence!

There's an expression in my country that roughly translates as "it's better to steal an existing good idea than to invent a lousy new one". This is also how I would describe the French thriller/action flick "Requiem", actually. Absolutely nothing about Hervé Renoh's film is original. The plot and tone are obviously inspired by Quentin Tarantino and a series of other graphical action movies from the 90s, and the setting/horror elements are copied from "The Name of the Rose". It's all fine, though, because "Requiem" is brutal, raw, and excessively violent.Four heavyweight criminals leave a fifth one for dead at the scene of a grim home jacking, because the latter objected to kill the family's child. He survives, snitches on his companions so that they must serve a life-sentence in prison and retrieves to a monastery to redeem his soul. Thirteen years later, they all come together again at the monastery. Who helped the criminals escape from prison? Will they recognize the former partner who betrayed them? And much blood will be spilled?I like the French, because they're my neighbors to the south. And I love French horror/cult cinema, especially since the year 2000, because it's because it's nasty and explicit. The remote cloister setting is terrific, the acting performances are more than adequate, and most of the action scenes are definitely not intended for viewers with faint hearts or weak stomachs.
Reviewed by Tibbletoad 3 / 10

this is clearly a rip off

this movie is clearly a rip off from the usual suspects and reservoirs dogs.scenes in the movie clearly point to wards that. the Pace in the movie is way to slow and the end just sucks i watched it 4 times and still did not get the ending . not gonna tell it because i would spoil it.but this movie isn't as good as it sounds on the back oft he coverthe action was good but only the surprises were kinda stupid . there was some mind play and some action but not enough to satisfy me. some of the scenes in the prison hinted to something but they never used it. the movie clearly cant decide what it wanted to be action or thriller.
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