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Jean-Pierre Melville – Le Cercle Rouge AKA The Red Circle (1970)
Synopsis:Master thief Corey (Alain Delon) is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those...
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Édouard Molinaro – Le gang des otages AKA The Hostage Gang (1973)
Nora Sayre, New York Times wrote:Building apprehension in an audience requires a particular skill; quite often, we need to be nervous about the combination of personalities and their sudden responses...
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Roman Polanski – Frantic (1988)
Synopsis:A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to...
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Ira Sachs – Married Life (2007)
Quote:Very often films which are defiant of genre categorisation can easily come across as messy and imprecise, but in Ira Sachs’ “Married Life,” he blends dark comedy, suspense and stylish melodrama...
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Lamberto Bava – Blastfighter (1984)
Jake “Tiger” Sharp, a former Georgian police officer has been released from jail, after serving a 8-year sentence for taking the law into his own hands. Tiger decides to return to his hometown Georgia...
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Franklin Adreon – No Man’s Woman (1955)
Quote:Carolyn Ellenson double-crosses five people who cross her path and is murdered by one of them. After marrying Harlow Grant for his money, she leaves him but carries on her infidelities so...
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Claude Zidi – Les ripoux AKA My New Partner (1984)
Synopsis:Inspector René Boirond has been policing a crime-ridden neighbourhood of Paris for over twenty years. In that time, he has learned that the best way to do his job is to turn a blind eye to...
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Georges Lautner – La maison assassinée AKA The Murdered House (1988)
Synopsis:In the aftermath of the First World War, Séraphin Monge returns to his home village in the south of France and sets about finding himself a job. Working as a road-mender, he gets to meet...
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Luis Ortega – El Ángel (2018) (HD)
Quote:Carlitos is a seventeen-year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people’s things, but it wasn’t until his early adolescence that his...
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Henri Decoin – Razzia sur la chnouf AKA Razzia (1955)
Synopsis:Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy...
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Shôhei Imamura – Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari AKA Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Synopsis:Vengeance Is Mine is the come-back feature of master Shohei Imamura after a 10 year hiatus. The film is based on a real-life serial killer who went on a killing spree across Japan in the 60s....
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Mikio Naruse – Onna no naka ni iru tanin AKA The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
Synopsis:Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro...
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Peter Collinson – Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)
Summary:Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as...
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Lew Landers – Man in the Dark AKA The Man Who Lived Twice (1953)
Synopsis:The refurbished storyline drops the plastic surgery angle but retains the now- disturbing idea that doctors might use brain surgery to “cure” lawbreakers of criminal tendencies. Convicted...
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Giuseppe Tornatore – Una pura formalità AKA A Pure Formality (1994)
Synopsis:Onoff is a famous writer who hasn’t published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out...
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Jack Arnold – High School Confidential! (1958)
Quote:A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. As he moves his way up the ladder, a schoolteacher tries to reform him, his aunt tries to seduce him, and...
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Václav Vorlícek – Konec agenta W4C prostrednictvím psa pana Foustky AKA The...
Synopsis:The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C (Jan Kacer) has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of...
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Jean-Claude Brisseau – L’ange noir AKA The Black Angel (1994)
Quote:In this stylish French drama fits well into the film noir genre. A visitor comes to the home of Stephane, the wife of an important magistrate. She, claiming attempted rape, calmly shoots him....
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Takashi Miike – Yurusarezaru mono AKA The man in white (2003)
Asuza is a yakusa always dressed in white, a pure, yet tarnished man. A child from the streets, he saw his father assassinated by his older brother, and his mother commit suicide. These traumatizing...
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Richard Fleischer – Armored Car Robbery (1950)
by Hans J. WollsteinTouching on both the film noir style of the 1940s and the “just the facts, ma’am” approach popular in the early television era, and incorporating both shadowy alleys and bright,...
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