Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.

Le deuxième souffle

1966

French

7.9

♡ 12

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Lino Ventura as Gustave 'Gu' Minda

Jean-Claude Bercq as Inspecteur Godefroy

Marcel Bozzuffi as Jo Ricci

Raymond Pellegrin as Paul Ricci

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Léon Morin, Priest

1961

French

7.5

♡ 12

Action

based on novel or book

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Gérard Buhr as Gunther

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Léon Morin

Howard Vernon as The colonel

Volker Schlöndorff as Un soldat allemand

Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.

Bob le Flambeur

1956

French

7.5

♡ 14

97%

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Isabelle Corey as Anne

Gérard Buhr as Marc

Howard Vernon as McKimmie - le commanditaire

Jean-Pierre Melville as Récitant / Narrator

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.

Two Men in Manhattan

1959

French

6.6

♡ 9

57%

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Jean Lara as Aubert

Alexandra Stewart as Bit

Billy Beck as Le partenaire de Judith Nelson sur scène

Carl Studer as Le sergent de police au snack

Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.

Army of Shadows

1969

French

8.1

♡ 46

97%

94%

Action

based on novel or book

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Simone Signoret as Mathilde

Lino Ventura as Philippe Gerbier

Serge Reggiani as The hairdresser

Nathalie Delon as Une amie de Jean-François

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

A Cop

1972

French

7.0

♡ 8

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Catherine Deneuve as Cathy

Alain Delon as Commissaire Edouard Coleman

Jean Desailly as Distinguished gentleman who was robbed a statue

Michael Conrad as Louis Costa

A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.

Le cercle rouge

1970

French

7.9

♡ 35

96%

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Alain Delon as Corey

Yves Montand as Jansen Bourvil

Bourvil as Le Commissaire Mattei

Gian Maria Volonté as Vogel

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

Le Doulos

1962

French

7.7

♡ 21

96%

jazz singer or musician

Thriller

weasel

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Carl Studer as Kern

Jean Desailly as Le commissaire Clain

Serge Reggiani as Maurice Faugel

Michel Piccoli as Nuttheccio

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?

The Silence of the Sea

1949

French

7.6

♡ 12

100%

occupied france (1940-44)

Romance

War

world war ii

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Claude Vernier as L'Allemand Rudelle

Rudelle as L'Allemand

Nicole Stéphane as La nièce

Georges Patrix as L'ordonnance

In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he speaks to them candidly about his life and hopes for the future of France and Germany.

24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

1946

French

6.2

♡ 4

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Louis Maïss as Clown Beby

Beby as Clown

Jean-Pierre Melville as Narrator

The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a meal, looks at photos and goes to bed to rise, spend a day in the village and perform with his new partner.

Le Samouraï

1967

French

8.0

♡ 56

92%

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Carlo Nell as 2ème inspecteur

Nathalie Delon as Jane Lagrange

Alain Delon as Jef Costello

Maurice Auzel as Un homme menotte au commissariat

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

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Magnet of Doom

Le deuxième souffle

Léon Morin, Priest

Bob le Flambeur

Two Men in Manhattan

Army of Shadows

A Cop

Le cercle rouge

Le Doulos

The Silence of the Sea

24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

Le Samouraï