The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An imprisoned IRA fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.
Starring: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Michael Lonsdale
Director: Fred Zinnemann
3 hommes à abattre / Three Men to Destroy (1980)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
Starring: Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michel Auclair, Pascale Roberts, Lyne Chardonnet, Jean-Pierre Darras
Director: Jacques Deray
La belle captive / The Beautiful Prisoner (1983)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery
Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?
Starring: Cyrielle Clair, Arielle Dombasle, Daniel Emilfork, François Chaumette, Michel Auclair
Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Pour la peau d'un flic / For a Cop's Hide (1981)
Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Once a regular cop, Choucas now works as a private investigator, using methods his former colleagues would revile him for. One day, he receives a visit from an old lady, Madame Pigot, who asks him to look into the disappearance of her blind daughter. Choucas accepts the apparently anodyne case but soon finds he may be in for more than he bargained. First he is assaulted by a mysterious stranger and then Madame Pigot is shot dead just before she can give him vital information relating to her daughter. Then, when he is set up for killing a police commissioner, Choucas realises that he has been caught up in a very deadly game of cat and mouse. But who are his opponents and why are they so keen to have him killed…?
Starring: Alain Delon, Anne Parillaud, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean-Pierre Darras, Michel Auclair
Director: Alain Delon
