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Recommended by MovieMail Bob Le Flambeur

Aka Bob the Gambler. Superb Gallic film noir from the pre-eminent Americanophile amongst French directors. An elegantly filmed Parisian gangster drama with a lightness of tone and sureness of touch that seems both stylishly modern and a lovingly rec...

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Recommended by MovieMail LArmee Des Ombres

Melville's gripping adaptation of Joseph Kessel's seminal wartime novel has been praised as one of the greatest and the most authentic film portrayals of the French Resistance. The film follows a band of Resistance fighters living under German-contr...

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Le Cercle Rouge

Melville's masterful take on the American crime thriller combining the Hollywood gangster film with his uniquely French style and his aim to shoot film noir in colour. A master thief, an alcoholic ex-cop and an escaped criminal combine to plot a dar...

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Le Doulos

A bleak, downbeat atmosphere, smoky jazz clubs, loyalty and betrayal and an ever-present sense of impending doom pervade Melville's tribute to the gangster films of the 1940s. Melville creates a twilit world of ambiguity and betrayal in which 'all c...

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Le Samourai

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture, with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology, Melville's m...

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Recommended by MovieMail Le Silence de la Mer

Melville's cinematic adaptation of French Resistance writer Vercors' acclaimed 1942 novel is one of the most important French films dealing with WWII. It tells the story of a German officer who is billeted with an elderly French man and his niece in...

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Le Cercle Rouge

Melville's masterful take on the American crime thriller combining the Hollywood gangster film with his uniquely French style and his aim to shoot film noir in colour. A master thief, an alcoholic ex-cop and an escaped criminal combine to plot a d...

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

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Leon Morin, Pretre

The surprise success of Melville's career depicts a love affair between an atheist and a priest (a smouldering Belmondo) set against the backdrop of the French Occupation.

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Les Enfants Terribles

Hauntingly atmospheric film of Jean Cocteau's claustrophobic, hothouse novel, for which the author wrote the screenplay and provided the voice-over. Compelling tale of incestuous passions lead a teenage brother and sister into powerful tragedy.

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Un Flic

Melville's final film was his thirteenth, a thriller inspired by the classical American models he adored. With a disregard for narrative coherence bordering on the insulting, he follows a cop across the city as the cop gradually loses it. The set-pi...

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