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
Gu, apelido dado ao gângster Gustave Miranda, escapou da prisão. Ele foge para Paris e, lá acaba se envolvendo em vários assassinatos. Antes de fugir do país, ele terá de lidar com as consequência de seus atos, já que o inspetor Blot, está na sua cola incansavelmente.
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
Um representante francês das Nações Unidas desapareceu sem deixar rastro, obrigando que o repórter Moreau e o fotógrafo alcoólatra Delmas fossem procurá-lo em Manhattan. Por meio de fotografias comprometedoras, reuniões clandestinas e chantagem, três mulheres descrevem o desaparecido.
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
Líder de uma gangue do submundo de Paris rouba uma joalheria, mas entra em conflito com seus parceiros na hora de dividir os lucros. Com roteiro baseado no romance de Auguste le Breton, o filme traz uma das sequências de roubo mais famosas da história do cinema - cerca de trinta minutos de muita tensão, sem música ou diálogos.
