(The) Man On The Train (L'homme du train) (2002)

In this terrific, slow-burn French crime thriller, cool but full of heart, two men, one a slippered, pipe-smoking retired literature teacher and the other a leather-jacketed former stunt double, meet by chance in the week both men face a potentially life-changing Saturday - the teacher is scheduled to have triple bypass surgery, the Fonzi is robbing a bank - and both men are of an age that they are starting to contemplate the life paths they didn't follow, that the other did.

★★★★☆

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Tell No One (Ne Le Dis A Personne) (2006)

This Harlan Coben adaptation is like a gritty French The Fugitive but a great deal more complex because the doctor whose wife is murdered only goes on the run eight years later when two further bodies turn up at the scene of her disappearance, casting doubt on the theory that his wife was the victim of a serial killer.

★★★☆☆

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