Self
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.
Author
An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.
Lucien Leroy
An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.
Director
An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.
Pierre Delmas
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Pascal
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
Jack, l'americano
Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many spies are on to this deception and how dangerous his assignment has become.
Pierre Delmas
Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.
Inspector Théo
In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.
Louis Grutter aka Louis le Tatoué
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
