O Irresistível Aventureiro (1980)
Gênero : Comédia, Ação
Runtime : 1H 48M
Director : Georges Lautner
Escritor : Jean Herman
Sinopse
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase...
There is a feud of 30 years' standing between the Revelle and Wainwright families, dwelling in the Apache country, despite which Shirley, daughter of Martin Revelle, and Clem Wainwright fall in love. The lovers are discovered meeting by Clem's rival, Ben Larrago, who informs on them (Exhibitors Trade Review, 23rd May 1925).
Max discovers something disturbing while investigating a break in at his workplace.
Joan Grey is a young pianist that falls for the good manners and nice clothes of a gang of mobsters. She is warned by Mark Hampton, an investigator, that she is associating with gangsters and she is heading for trouble. She refuses to believe him and becomes innocently involved in some robberies and killings.
A disheveled 40-year-old kids party performer dressed as a bunny on Easter Sunday thinks he's hit his lowest point. Little does he know, that an interaction with an unhinged party guest will show him what rock bottom truly is. Based on a True Story.
A lonely engineer is intercepted by a young thief, to whom he offers to give all his money with the condition that they share a dinner together. This leads to a conversation that will put their thoughts and faith in life to test.
A quartet of disaffected Korean youths have robbed a Seoul gas station. After taking the gas station over, their wacky antics ensue; forcing the manager to sing, kidnapping customers that complain about the service, and staging fist-fights between street gang members and gas station employees; all of these reflect their own gripes against society.
Três irmãos ladrões estão para sair da cadeia. Ajudados por um advogado trambiqueiro, que faz parte do bando e um malandro que tem um caso com a mulher de um dos presos, eles esperam em liberdade dar o golpe definitivo de suas vidas. Roubar todo dinheiro arrecadado da maior e mais milionária corrida de cavalos do ano.
Um brilhante médico da Park Avenue, interessado em estudar a fundo a mente criminosa, resolve então se tornar um criminoso.
Depois de uma aventura com uma bailarina exótica e sexy numa noite de inverno, James, um jovem estudante, se vê numa busca pela mulher de sua vida. Arriscando seu futuro, ele segue esta mulher misteriosa até à Cidade de Nova York - abandonado a escola, sendo perseguido por policiais e passando por boates quentes ao longo do caminho. Baseado em uma história verdadeira, Paixão em Movimento fala sobre sexo, aventura, seguir seus instintos e viver a vida ao limite.
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.
O Vendedor de máquinas para restaurantes (Dennis Quaid) se envolve com mulher (Meg Ryan) a quem dá carona, sem saber que ela está diretamente ligada à uma tragédia que o abalou quando era pequeno.
A trajetória de um rifle dado como premio, de um malfadada proprietário para outro, em paralelo a busca de um cowboy por um fugitivo assassino. Em um concurso de tiro ao alvo, Lin McAdam ganha um famoso rifle Winchester, que é imediatamente roubada pelo vice-campeão, Dutch Henry Brown. Esta "história de um rifle" prossegue contando a busca de McAdams, e como o rifle muda de mãos, até o um confronto final em um precipício numa montanha rochosa.
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.
Três ciclistas encontram dois walkie-talkies perdidos e os vendem para uns amigos. Só que os aparelhos eram de uma perigosa quadrilha de roubo a bancos. Os ciclistas acabam se metendo numa enrascada, pois os bandidos começam a persegui-los.
Certas pessoas nascem com sorte; já algumas poucas pessoas nascem com o dom de "roubar" a sorte alheia. Samuel é uma delas. Tendo sobrevivido aos campos de concentração, ele agora se dedica a uma série de jogos em que alguns raros afortunados apostam a própria vida. Federico perdeu sua sorte para Samuel e agora busca vingança. Para concretizá-la, ele precisa encontrar alguém que seja mais sortudo do que o seu rival. É quando ele conhece Tomas, o único sobrevivente de um terrível desastre aéreo, e talvez o único com sorte suficiente para vencer Samuel em seu próprio jogo.
Caroline and Lloyd are a married couple constantly at each other's throats, masters at crafting acid-tongued barbs at the other's expense. Indeed, they are so obsessed with belittling each other that they never stop -- not even at gunpoint. The gunman is Gus, a thief on the run from the police, who kidnaps the couple as an insurance policy, planning to use their home as a hideout. But their incessant bickering proves more than Gus bargained for, forcing him -- for the sake of his own sanity -- into the unenviable role of peacemaker. To make things even worse for Gus, he discovers that he has taken the couple hostage the night of their big Christmas party, and the guests are already on the way. Not wanting to leave Lloyd and Caroline unattended, Gus opts to attend the party, pretending to be the couple's marriage counselor. This naturally leads to a series of comic confusions, as the hostage crisis and marital tensions head towards their inevitable conclusion.
John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her tuition (nearly $30,000). John's friend Duff convinces him to turn to petty crime to make the payment … but Duff's hare-brained schemes spin quickly out of control.
Dallas, Texas. Ben Garvey (Paul Walker) leva uma vida simples ao lado de sua esposa Lisa (Piper Perabo) e a filha Katie (Garvey Brooklyn). Ele trabalha duro no Fort Garry Brewery Company, mas ainda está em período de experiência. É quando recebe a visita de seu irmão Ricky (Shawn Hatosy), que acabou de deixar a prisão. Ele oferece a Ben a oportunidade de participar do roubo de 12 kg de ouro em pó, pertencentes a um laboratório. Ben inicialmente recusa a proposta, mas após ser demitido volta atrás e a aceita. Só que tudo dá errado, já que Ricky, seu parceiro Phelps (Alex Sol) e um segurança são mortos. Ben é condenado pelas mortes, sendo sentenciado à morte por uma injeção letal. Após a execução, Ben subitamente desperta em uma comunidade localizada em Dundee, no Oregon. O responsável pelo feito é o padre Ezra (Bob Gunton), que lhe diz que sua vida anterior é passado e agora tem em mãos uma segunda chance.
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
Em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, na Tunísia, legionários franceses devem transportar barras de ouro para um local seguro. Mas quando eles chegaram, a cidade já havia caído nas mãos dos alemães. Um tiroteio irrompe; quatro homens escapam. Augagneur, um dos sobreviventes, apropria-se dos lingotes e foge...
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
François Merlin, escritor de romances de espionagem, projeta seu alter ego, no personagem que ele criou: Bob Saint-Clair, um super espião, inteligente e carismático, cujos feitos heróicos e conquistas amorosas vem compensar sua vida medíocre e frustrada. Ficção e realidade se mesclam, pois François cria seus personagens baseando-se nas pessoas que o cercam. O grande vilão, o Coronel Karpoff é, na vida real, seu editor e a bela espiã Tatiana é Christine, uma estudante de sociologia, vizinha de François.
François, condenado por um duplo homicídio que não cometeu, é liberado da prisão. Agora ele procura os verdadeiros assassinos, em uma cidade onde reina a grande burguesia têxtil.