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Sword of Gideon (1986)

Summary: Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes. (imdb)

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La 7ème cible (1984)

Summary: Lino Ventura stars as Bastien Grimaldi, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma. (Allmovie)

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The Ruffian (1983)

Summary: Aldo has worked in a gold mine in Canada. A pay day, a band of robbers attack the mine and exterminate all minors except for Aldo and two Indians. Aldo gets rid of his cronies and goes canoeing on the river... (Allociné)

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Les misérables (1982)

Summary: The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

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The Inquisitor (1981)

Summary: Inspector Gallien is investigating the rape and murder of two little girls. The only suspect is attorney Jerome Martinaud, but the evidence against him is circumstantial. As the city celebrates New Year's Eve, Gallien calls Martinaud to his office and interrogates him for hour after hour while Martinaud continues to maintain his innocence... (imdb)

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Sunday Lovers (1980)

Summary: Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each episode was filmed by a separate unit in the country where the story was set. "The French Method" (directed by Eduoard Molinaro) finds a businessman (Lino Ventura) trying to secure an important contract through the sexual allure of his secretary... (allmovie.com)

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Un Papillon sur l'épaule (1978)

Summary: Arriving in Barcelona to meet up with his wife, Roland Fériaud checks into a hotel and is surprised to find a dead man in the room next to his. The next thing he knows is regaining consciousness in a deserted rest home, attended by a doctor who asks him a series of bizarre questions. Returning to the hotel, Fériaud meets the wife of the dead man; she gives him the key to a left luggage locker, just before she too is killed, in a road accident. (Filmsdefrance)

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The Medusa Touch (1978)

Summary: John Morlar (Richard Burton) is watching the British television broadcast when an anchorman states that American astronauts are trapped in orbit around the moon. Suddenly someone in Morlar's room picks up a figurine and strikes him on the head repeatedly. His blood splatters the television screen... (imdb)

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Illustrious Corpses (1976)

Summary: Movie based on the romance by Leonardo Sciascia "Il contesto". A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges and a series of judges's Homicide.

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The French Detective (1975)

Summary: In truth, there are two French Detectives in this European crime melodrama. Lino Ventura plays an aging, been-around gumshoe, while Patrick Dewaere is his young, callow and cynical associate. The two detectives don't like each other much at first, but this will change. Their current assignment: getting the goods on a corrupt politician. Occasionally more violent than it needs to be, The French Detective has the twin advantages of authenticity and sincerity. (allmovie.com)

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Tough Guys (1974)

Summary: Father Charlie (Lino Venturi) is an ex-con who has been granted an exemption from canon law to become a priest. When a friend of his gets into trouble which looks suspiciously like a frame-up, Father Charlie decides to investigate, with or without the blessing of his bishop. His friend Lee Stevens (Isaac Hayes) is looking for the real culprit as well, and Father Charlie and Lee soon join forces. (allmovie.com)

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La gifle (1974)

Summary: Jean Doulean is a 50-year-old teacher at a Parisian school. For several years he has been separated from his wife Hélène, who lives with another man in England. After a fracas with the police, Jean is transferred to another school. Then he learns that his 18-year-old daughter wants to give up her studies so that she can live with her boyfriend Marc. After a violent disagreement, which ends with Jean slapping her in the face, Isabelle leaves him and goes to live with her mother in England. (Filmsdefrance)

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A Pain in the A... (1973)

Summary: Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him. (imdb)

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Le silencieux (1973)

Summary: Shortly after a delegation of Russian nuclear physicists arrives in London, one of their number, a man named Haliakov, is abducted by the British security services. Haliakov is in truth Clément Tibère, a French scientist who was coerced into working for the Russians some years ago. The British agents compel Tibère to work for them, revealing the identity of two notorious spies. Tibère realises that his life is now in peril, that it is only a matter of time before the KGB takes its revenge… (filmsdefrance.com)

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La bonne année (1973)

Summary: Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes but by someone special he met there. (imdb)

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Money Money Money (1972)

Summary: When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions. Among their hostages are singer Johnny Hallyday and an ambassador in Latin America. They get framed by a guerrilla leader, who had been kidnapped by them before, and while being tried the French Government decides to let them flee to Africa where they get on with the same old game. (imdb)

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The Valachi Papers (1972)

Summary: When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence. (imdb)

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Rum Runners (1971)

Summary: In the prohibition years, the 'rumrunners' travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. While on the run, one of the bootleggers falls in love with an actress on a movie set. (imdb)

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Last Known Address (1970)

Summary: Police inspector Léonetti, a tough, efficient policeman, has been sent to a second-rate police station after being reprimanded. There he is given a partner, young and beautiful Jeanne Dumas. The duo are soon assigned a very difficult mission: to find a man whose evidence is instrumental in convicting a murderer. They start searching throughout Paris. (imdb)

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The Sicilian Clan (1969)

Summary: A thief, having escaped from jail, teams up with an aging Sicilian eager to make one last coup--a heist of some valuable diamonds in Venice (Flixster)

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Army of Shadows (1969)

Summary: France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. (imdb)

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The Last Adventure (1967)

Summary: Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot... (imdb)

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Let's Not Get Angry (1966)

Summary: The misadventures of a former crook who sets out to recuperate a huge sum of money loaned to his friends in hiding. Georges Lautner offers a sensational parody of the film noir which exercises the talents of Michel Audiard, whose sparkling dialogue is served with relish by Lino Ventura, Jean Lefebvre, Michel Constantin et Mireille Darc. (imdb)

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Le Deuxième souffle (1966)

Summary: Gustave Manda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends, and get involved in a gangland killing. Before leaving the country with Manouche, Gu needs a final job to get some money. But that's not so simple when you have Inspector Blot tracking you, and have to deal with the consequences of the shooting in Paris... (imdb)

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Avec la peau des autres (1966)

Summary: Pascal Fabre, an agent of the French secret service, is sent to Vienna to look into the activities of another French agent, Margery, who is suspected of being a double agent. Margery, an old friend of Fabre, warns him that his spy network has been infiltrated by Russian agents and that his life is in danger. When Margery goes missing, Fabre tries to locate him, but soon realises that he is up against a formidable opponent, KGB agent Chaliev... (Filmsdefrance)

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The Wise Guys (1966)

Summary: Jean-Claude Roland and Lino Ventura play Nick and Laurent, a pair of not completely rehabilitated ex-convicts. The twosome is hired by Hector, a well-meaning, unworldly sawmill owner. At first refusing to take their lumberjacking jobs seriously, the larcenous parolees gradually realize that a whole new life has been offered them by the ingenuous owner. (allmovie.com)

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L'arme a gauche (1965)

Summary: The film tells the story of Jacques Cournot, captain for hire in the Caribbean, who finds himself implicated in the theft of a boat used by gun runners, boat belonging to a beautiful widow...

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La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965)

Summary: Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge. (imdb)

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Greed in the Sun (1964)

Summary: Southern Morocco, 1963. The owner of a truck transports company hires a new driver (a self-called American tough guy) to transport mysterious goods in a brand new magnificent truck. While the established group of drivers of the company is welcoming the new driver, one of them hijack the mysterious truck on the day after, planning to negotiate the sale of goods for its own profit and fly over with his new young bride. The best driver of the company is launched to his young fellow's pursuit. (imdb)

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The Great Spy Chase (1964)

Summary: A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow. (imdb)

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Monsieur Gangster (1963)

Summary: Ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receives a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed "The Mexican". The doomed mobster talks Fernand into taking care of some criminal business and looking after his soon-to-be-married daughter. (imdb)

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Le diable et les dix commandements (1962)

Summary: A series of sketches depicting the consequences of breaking one or more of the ten commandments.

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Il giudizio universale (1961)

Summary: A powerful and mysterious voice from the skies of Naples announces the coming of Doomsday and the characters amongst the citizens react and prepare themselves for the end.

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Taxi for Tobruk (1960)

Summary: Story takes place during 1942 in the Libyan desert at the crucial battle in El Alamein, when the British finally defeated the German "Afrikakorps". During a raid on a German supply dump, the French CO gets killed and the remaining members of the squad have to make their way back to friendly lines. Along the way they lose their patrol car but then capture an enemy truck, together with a German captain (Hardy Krüger). (imdb User Comments)

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Classe Tous Risques (1960)

Summary: Bridging argot-rich 50s masterworks like "Rififi" and "Touchez-pas au Grisbi" with Jean-Pierre Melville's pared-down thrillers of the 60s, Classe Tous Risques (1960) (the title refers to a type of insurance policy, à la "Double Indemnity," but is also a pun on "tourist class") is a penetrating study of the underworld tough guy at the end of his rope, drawn from screenwriter José Giovanni's first-hand knowledge of the post-war French underworld. (Film Forum)

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Marie-Octobre (1959)

Summary: 15 years after WWII ten members of the underground reunite to expose a traitor among them.

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125 rue Montmartre (1959)

Summary: Pascal scrapes a modest living selling newspapers in the streets of Paris. Although a little rough around the edges, he has a good heart, so that when he sees a man jump into the Seine, he does not hesitate to come to his aid. (filmaffinity.com)

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Les Amants de Montparnasse (Montparnasse 19) (1958)

Summary: Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. Her parents are against their relation and stop financial help. (imdb)

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Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

Summary: Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex - paratrooper want to murder her husband by faking a suicide. But after Julien has killed him and he puts his things in his car, he finds he has forgotten the rope outside the window and he returns to the building to remove it... (imdb)

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Maigret Lays a Trap (1958)

Summary: Maigrets in the form of veteran tough guy Jean Gabin, who played the character three times throughout the 1950s. In Maigret Sets a Trap, the inspector tackles the case of a psychopathic serial killer. The female victims have all been stripped and stabbed but none of the women was raped. Putting two and two together, Maigret determines that the killer was motivated by rage and frustration rather than sex. Maigret Sets a Trap avoids sensationalism in favor of slow-building suspense. (allmovie.com)

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Le rouge est mis (1957)

Summary: Louis Bertain, a respectable garage owner by day, is the head of a band of notorious crooks by night. When a hold-up goes badly wrong, Bertain’s younger brother Pierre is suspected of having sold them out to the police. He was, after all, recently picked up by the police and then released after questioning. When he is finally caught by Commissaire Pluvier, Louis discovers that he has been betrayed not by Pierre but by another member of his gang… (Filmsdefrance.com)

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Razzia (1955)

Summary: Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police is following his every step! (imdb)

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Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)

Summary: Max, an old gangster, and his buddy Riton have got away with 50-million francs in gold bars, who think they ought to retire now... (imdb)

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Lino Ventura
	Country: France Total Films at Criticker: 43 - You've Seen 0
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