Films shot in Lyon

A Gang Story (French: Les Lyonnais) is a 2011 French drama film directed by Olivier Marchal. Michel Neyret was the real-life inspiration for this film.

A Girl Cut in Two (French: La Fille coupée en deux) is a 2007 black comedy film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel and François Berléand. It tells the story of a naïve and affectionate girl who has disastrous relationships with two rich and influential men. One uses her as a sex object and abandons her, while the second marries her but proves lethally unbalanced. The film was released in France on 8 August 2007, and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on 15 August 2008.

Mississippi Mermaid (French: La Sirène du Mississipi) is a 1969 romantic crime drama film written and directed by François Truffaut and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by William Irish, the film follows a tobacco planter on the island of Réunion who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. When she arrives, it is not the same woman in the photo, but he marries her anyway.

Accomplices (original title: Complices) is a 2009 Franco-Swiss crime thriller film directed by Frédéric Mermoud. The film premiered in competition at the 2009 Locarno International Film Festival. It won the Swiss Film Award for Best Screenplay in 2010.

Je te mangerais (literally I will eat you in English; marketed under the title You Will be Mine) is a 2009 French drama film written and directed by Sophie Laloy.

Thérèse Raquin (also The Adultress) is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Marcel Carné and starring Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone and Jacques Duby. The story is loosely based on the 1867 novel of the same title by Émile Zola but with the setting updated to 1953. It was shot at the Neuilly Studios in Paris and on location in Lyon. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Bertrand. It was screened at the 14th Venice International Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion.

Yes, But... (French: Oui, mais...) is a 2001 French comedy film written and directed by Yves Lavandier, dealing with brief therapy and teenage sexuality.

The Man on the Train (French: L'homme du train), called Man on the Train in the USA, is a 2002 drama film directed by Patrice Leconte that stars Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday.

The Children of the Marshland (French: Les Enfants du marais) is a 1999 French film directed by Jean Becker.

Simple Passion (French: Passion simple) is a 2020 erotic drama film written and directed by Danielle Arbid, based on the 1992 autobiographical novel of the same name by Annie Ernaux. The film stars Laetitia Dosch and Sergei Polunin, with Lou-Teymour Thion, Caroline Ducey, Grégoire Colin and Slimane Dazi. The plot follows a divorced university professor (Dosch) who begins an intense affair with a younger, married diplomat (Polunin).