Lino Ventura
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Novelist John Morlar claims to possess a terrifying power. When Morlar is savagely attacked in his London flat, Detective Brunel investigates and the trail leads him to Morlar's psychiatrist for answers. He learns that Morlar believes that he has telekinetic power, including the ability to make planes crash and buildings crumble. As Brunel digs into the case his worst fear may soon be realized: that Morlar's power is real and that he can wreak havoc...
Series
Criterion collection volume 434
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Exiled from France for his exploits, underworld kingpin Abel Davos has been living for nearly a decade in Milan, even acquiring a family. In spite of the death sentence hanging over his head, Davos wants to return with them to France. His old mob cronies have gone bourgeois and affluent, reluctant to help, sending just one young thief, Eric Stark, to his aid. An exploration of the importance of loyalty and honor among thieves, this film shows exactly...
Series
Collection Claude Lelouch volume 2
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Simon develops an intricate plan to meet the lovely lady who operates the antique shop next to Van Cleef & Arpels, the location of his next jewelry heist. The attraction is undeniable, but Simon is a professional and will not let romance get in his way--or will he?
Series
Criterion collection volume 335
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the nature of resistance and the price of courage, these heroes...
Series
Criterion collection volume 335
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She spends the night wandering the Parisian streets alone....
Series
Criterion collection volume 448
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A French criminal, recently escaped from prison and trying to pull off a robbery, finds himself being chased by an inspector.