Looking through her lover's bedroom window, Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) sees a girl being attacked. The attacker flees and his victim is saved. But later that night, another girl is found murdered. Sylvia cannot give evidence, for that would reveal her…
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori's chances of winning the case seem low - his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death…
Three men (Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Brent Briscoe) come across a downed plane with a rotting corpse inside...and over $4 million stuffed inside a duffel bag in the snowy Minnesota woods. They devise a plan to split the…
Onoff (Gerard Depardieu) is a famed author who has become a recluse in recent years, publishing nothing. One night, he is picked up by police officers, who find him running across the French countryside in the rain, breathless and apparently…
A crime drama directed by Rene Clement ( Purple Noon ). A French fugitive heads to Canada where he ends up joining forces with a criminal gang who are plotting a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned when…
This avant-garde crime drama from director Jean-Luc Godard is set in a Paris hotel where two detectives investigate the death of a mysterious character. Meanwhile, Jim Fox Warner, a boxing trainer, is hoping his boy will win, so he can…
An American gangster (Lee Marvin) hopes to find refuge in France, but meets with violence and hatred in a farm lost in the Beauce, inhabited by sinister characters.
Carmen needs money to make a film with her friends so she robs a bank. Joseph, a young man in love, runs off with her to the seaside. Filming starts again, but is actually a front for the kidnapping of…
Twelve-year-old Pedro roams the streets with his friends, raised by the violent urban atmosphere around him in a working class district of Caracas. After Pedro seriously injures another boy in during a rough game, single father Andres decides they must…
Johnny Bannion has spent the last three years in prison devising the biggest robbery of his career. Out of prison, he puts his plans into action. Burying the money in a field, Bannion is arrested before he has a chance…
Beginning with a remarkable bank robbery on a deserted beach front and also featuring a helicopter heist shot in real time, UN FLIC is perhaps Jean-Pierre Melville's most perfect synthesis of style and suspense. A wonderfully fatalistic study of loss…
Max and Riton pull off a job together, a burglary of fifty million gold bars at Orly. The milieu, unaware of who committed the crime, finally discovers the truth from Riton's mistress...
Winner of the Best Actor Award at the…
Googie Withers stars as Rose Sandigate, a Bethnal Green housewife whose Sunday is turned upside down by the re-appearance of an old flame who is now an escaped convict seeking protection from the police. IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY shares…
Bob has decided to give up his business in order to enjoy his hobby: gambling. However, he cannot refuse one last job proposed by a friend: to take part in an amazing raid on the Deauville casino. But that day,…
A classic detective thriller, Quai des Orfevres centres on the efforts of Inspector Antoine (Jouvet) and his investigation into the murder of an elderly businessman. An early, more traditional work from Clouzot, who would later direct Wages of Fear ,…
Arthur Birling, a self-satisfied and prosperous businessman who is angling for a knighthood, and his socially superior wife are celebrating the engagement of their daughter to the very eligible son of an old, titled family. Suddenly a stranger arrives. He…
Just out of prison, Maurice (Serge Reggiani) murders a man and steals the loot of a break-in. Preparing another heist, he asks his friend Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) for help. But Silien is an informer and warns the police; Maurice is…
Alphonse Tram (Gerard Depardieu) discovers his casual subway acquaintance dead with his penknife sticking out of his belly. When he tries to report the crime to his neighbor, a police inspector (Bernard Blier), he refuses to listen. Later, Alphonse's wife…
In the dead of night, a group of men--among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect--drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They…
Pinky, the psychotic, razor-toting gang leader, romances and marries a teenage waitress in order to keep her silent about one of his nefarious crimes.
Richard Attenborough's intense performance as teenage gangster Pinkie Brown elevates this adaptation of Graham Greene's novel.…
