The Red Siren is a 2002 French criminal thriller film based upon the novel by same name by Maurice G. Dantec film directed by Olivier Megaton

Olivier Megaton

Olivier Megaton is a French film director, writer, and editor best known for directing The Red Siren, Transporter 3 and Colombiana.-Early life:...

 from a script by Olivier Megaton, Alain Berliner

Alain Berliner

Alain Berliner is a Belgian director best known for the 1997 film Ma vie en rose, which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Golden Globe Awards in 1998...

, Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad

Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author.Born in New York City, Spinrad is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco,...

, and Robert Conrath.

Plot

The film tells the story of Alice (Alexandra Negrão) who confesses to a detective named Anita (Asia Argento

Asia Argento

Aria Asia Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento is an Italian actress, singer, model and director.-Family and early life:...

) that her mother Eva (Frances Barber

Frances Barber

Frances Barber is an Olivier Award-nominated English actress with a long and distinguished stage career. She has also appeared in numerous television productions...

) is a dangerous killer. Eva is also a very powerful and wealthy leader of a vast crime syndicate. She discovers that her daughter met with the police and tries to stop her. Unbeknownst at first to both Anita and Eva, Alice escapes from France and leaves for Portugal to reunite with her supposedly dead father. Eva's henchmen chase after her. Alice meets a mercenary while escaping, Hugo (Jean-Marc Barr

Jean-Marc Barr

Jean-Marc Barr is a French-American film actor and director. His mother is French. His American father was in the US Air Force and served in the Second World War. Jean-Marc Barr is primarily known as an actor, but is also a film director, screenwriter and producer...

), who then joins Alice as her protector on her journey to find her father. Anita travels after her, as well. After Eva's henchmen close in, Eva reappears to "reclaim" her daughter.

Cast

• Jean-Marc Barr
  Jean-Marc Barr
  Jean-Marc Barr is a French-American film actor and director. His mother is French. His American father was in the US Air Force and served in the Second World War. Jean-Marc Barr is primarily known as an actor, but is also a film director, screenwriter and producer...
  
   as Hugo (full name is "Hugo Cornelius Toorop" in La Sirène Rouge novel)
• Asia Argento
  Asia Argento
  Aria Asia Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento is an Italian actress, singer, model and director.-Family and early life:...
  
   as Anita
• Frances Barber
  Frances Barber
  Frances Barber is an Olivier Award-nominated English actress with a long and distinguished stage career. She has also appeared in numerous television productions...
  
   as Eva
• Andrew Tiernan
  Andrew Tiernan
  Andrew James Tiernan is an English actor.-Theatre:Tiernan began acting with the Birmingham Youth Theatre and moved to London in 1984 to study a three-year Diploma in Acting at the Drama Centre London run by Christopher Fettes and Yat Malmgren...
  
   as Koesler
• Alexandra Negrão as Alice
• Edouard Montoute as Oliveira
• Vernon Dobtcheff
  Vernon Dobtcheff
  Vernon Dobtcheff is a French and British actor.Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, to a family of Russian descent. He attended Ascham Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, in the 1940s, where he won the Acting Cup...
  
   as Vitali
• Johan Leysen as Travis
• Jean-Christophe Bouvet
  Jean-Christophe Bouvet
  Jean-Christophe Bouvet is a French actor, film director and writer.-Filmography as actor:*1977 : La Machine directed by Paul Vecchiali*1977 : Le théâtre des matières directed by Jean-Claude Biette...
  
   as Lucas
• Carlo Brandt as Vondt
• François Levantal as Sorvan