Stanislas Graff, a powerful industrialist, is kidnapped one morning from in front of his building by a commando of gangsters. So begins a nightmare that will last several weeks. Humiliated, abused, treated inhumanely, he resists, allowing his kidnappers no hold over him. He accepts everything without rebelling or any kind of cry or complaint; he responds with dignity to barbarity. Cut off from the world, receiving only snippets of news from his jailers, Graff can’t understand why no one will pay the ransom that would free him. Outside, his world slowly collapses when his true nature is revealed. Everything that he’d managed to keep private, his secret garden, is revealed to his family by the police investigation or press coverage. Everyone discovers a man who is far from being the one that they imagined.

With: Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny, André Marcon, Françoise Fabian, Alex Descas, Michel Voita, Gérard Meylan, Maxime Lefrançois, Christophe Kourotchkine, Patrick Descamps, Bertrand Constant, Marc Rioufol, Richard Sammut, Tania Torrens, Elef Zack, Vincent Nemeth, Jean-Baptiste Malartre, Nicolas Pignon, Olivier Darimont, Olivier Ythier, Philippe Toussaint, Circée Lethem

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Carla Bhem has worked as a secretary for a property development company for a long time. Her job, basically, is everything : from handling files and answering the phone to drafting estimates and dealing with suppliers. First to arrive in the morning, last out at night. For that, she gets paid like a serf, treated like mud and ordered around like a dog.
Carla has had enough. She thinks she deserves better. Only trouble is, in a male-dominated society, what hope is there for a 35-year-old woman with a so-so physique and a hearing aid in both ears?
The solution’s name is Paul Angeli, the new trainee she manages to have hired.
Paul is 25 years old and completely unskilled in property development – in fact, he’s clueless. But he has other qualities: he’s a thief, fresh out of jail, and what’s more he’s good-looking.
As the saying goes, “It takes two to tango”. She teaches him good manners and he teaches her bad ones.
The first results are instantly encouraging.

With: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Perrier, Olivia Bonamy, Bernard Alane, Bô Gaultier de Kermoal, Christophe Vandevelde.

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Charly Mattei has turned over a new leaf and left his criminal past behind. For three years now he has been leading a peaceful existence dedicated to his wife and their two children. However, one winter morning, he is left for dead in a parking lot in the old port of Marseille, his body riddled with 22 bullets. To everyone’s general astonishment, he doesn’t die. Based on real facts, the story has been reinvented within the Marseille gangster underworld.

Actors : Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Marina Foïs, Luc Palun, Richard Berry, Joey Starr, Dominique Thomas, Martial Bezot, Daniel Lundh.

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In this French psychological drama, a bank robber is finally released after serving 10 years. His being paroled is due to the influence of his old friend, a social worker. The ex-convict returns to his wife and begins living an honest life. Unfortunately, his old crook friends begin trying to lure him back to crime. Following a prison riot, the social worker ends up living in the same town as the ex-con. They become close friends until the ex-con’s wife is killed during an accident. He finds a new wife, but their happiness is marred by the cop who keeps harassing him.

With: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Mimsy Farmer.

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A reconstruction of the true story of the Dominici affair: on the night of the 4-5th August 1953 an English couple and their daughter were murdered in their tents. The old farmer Gaston Dominici was accused, and sentenced to death in 1954.

With: Jeanne Allard, Max Amyl, Michel Bertay, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Gabin, Gérard Darrieu, Paul Crauchet, Jean-Pierre Castaldi.

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A Prophet is the story of Malik, a young Arab imprisoned because he wouldn’t snitch. At age 18, he arrives in a French prison completely lost. At first, he maintains obedience to the prison’s reigning Corsican mafia, and slowly rises in the ranks, playing a dangerous game of double-crossing the Corsicans, and ultimately destroys his enemies. Following his release six years later, he successfully builds his own empire and is the leader of the Arab mafia and a hero to his community.

With: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif.

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Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonté) hides in the trunk of Corey’s car. The two enlist the help of an alcoholic former cop (Yves Montand) for an elaborate jewelry-store robbery. Police inspector Mattei (Bourvil) whom Vogel escaped in the beginning of the film is on the case trying to recapture the criminals. He is not opposed to using blackmail techniques to get answers out of the unwilling witnesses and criminals brought in for questioning.

With: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè.

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Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend Silien brings him the needed equipment. But Silien is a police informer … A movie where “all characters are two-faced, all characters are false”, according to director Jean-Pierre Melville.

With: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly.

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Veteran gangster Gustave (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison to find his sister is being blackmailed by some petty thugs in this crime thriller. He plans one last caper to steal enough money in hopes of retiring to a tropical paradise. He and his gang are sought by a detective (Paul Meurisse), the cop who plays by the book and avoids the sadistic torture practiced by his less-honorable cohorts. Soon Gustave is caught between the police and the double-crossing gangsters and discovers too late that there is no honor among thieves.

With: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin.

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Suffused with wry humor, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob le flambeur melds the toughness of American gangster films with Gallic sophistication to lay the roadmap for the French New Wave. As the neon is extinguished for another dawn, an aging gambler navigates the treacherous world of pimps, moneymen, and naïve associates while plotting one last score—the heist of the Deauville casino. This underworld comedy of manners possesses all the formal beauty, finesse, and treacherous allure of green baize.

With: Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Roger Duchesne.

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