Raymond Pellegrin

The action comedy Piedone Lo Sbirro concerns a police officer who goes to great and unusual lengths to put some nasty drug dealers behind bars. (All Movie Guide)

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)

Unfit commander receives an undeserved citation for an attack on Rommel's headquarters. Unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of his officers. (imdb)

A young criminal climbs the ladder to become a big shot gangster and takes revenge on those who stood in his way on the way up.

Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez. (imdb)

A young Italian noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father leading to an uproar in the community and the Roman Catholic church set in 16th Century Italy. (imdb)

The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail. (imdb)

A cop pursues the Mob for revenge as well as personal honor.

Rene is not a bright guy. He was taught to kill by the Resistance. But the WW2 is over and he keeps on killing. He is condemned to death. In jail, expecting the presidential pardon, he mets other condemned men. An anti-capital punishment drama, written and directed by a former lawyer. (imdb)

A town comes alive with violence as one man seeks revenge! (imdb)

The plot focuses on Commissario Betti. Once again, he's aggravated at the amount of crime going on in the city and his attention is focused mainly on two big crimes; a bank robbery and a kidnap plot. The Commissioner battles bravely to ensure the crooks are brought to justice but soon realises that there's no point in merely sorting out the henchmen and decides to go after the man he believes is heading the criminal operations (imdb)

In this crime drama, the Mafia tries to strong arm a straight-arrow cop into accepting graft. The cop refuses and they get rougher. In the end, the honest officer gets his revenge. (allmovie.com)

Based on the work of Jorge Amado, the film narrates the interrracial love between a rich daughter of a commander and Antonio Balduíno, a black orphan of mount Capa-Negro, in Salvador, protected by the sorcerer Jubiabá.

Paris, 1840. Whilst driving his fiancée Irène home in his horse-drawn carriage, the Marquis Rodolphe de Sombreuil accidentally knocks down a poor man in the street. Believing the man is only slightly injured, Rodolphe gives him a purse containing some money as a recompense. But the man dies not long afterwards, leaving his wife and daughter Marie desolate. The widow is then arrested by the police, who believe she stole Rodolphe's purse. (Allmovie)

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities. (imdb)

Set during the First World War, the film focuses on the men who try to avoid active service such as Barbasin, a singer, and Tomo, a coward. (ftvdb.bfi)

By the early 1960s, the OAS is desperate to stop de Gaulle's freeing of Algeria. A small group, mostly from the military, steal weapons and rob a bank to prepare for a raid on Tulle prison to set General Challe free and spark civil war. OAS members within the police try to help their cause. The government appoints a mission director, Paraux, to track them down; he must work with the police, led by Lelong. The head of the secret OAS operation is Clavet, a decorated general. (imdb)

Scaife, the sadistic leader of a gang of cattle thieves, terrorizes the people of a Colorado mountain town. Bill Ransom, the retired sheriff, is the only one to stand up against Scaife and his men, among whom is Dan El, a former friend of his. Dan El is also the father of Tony, Bill's adopted son. (imdb)

The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family." (imdb)

During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her. (imdb)

1940 France just before the great invasion. Eliane is a pharmacist who is married to her dull husband and has a teenage daughter. Eliane is an attractive woman who has let her passion fall dormant. One evening, the pharmacy clerk makes a pass at her when he thinks she is another girl. Soon she lets the passion overtake her and she soon becomes his sex slave. (imdb)

A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade. (imdb)

Gina Lollobrigida stars in this lavish historical epic dramatizing the life of Paulette Bonaparte, tempestuous sister of French emperor Napoleon, and the diminutive tyrant's jealous attempts to control her fiery behavior. Twice forced by Napoleon to marry men she does not love and suffering his disapproval of her many lovers, she nevertheless stands by her brother's side through his darkest days of exile. (Netflix)

Giancarlo Prete stars as a police commissioner out to stop local Mafia boss Don Peppino Scalise (Raymond Pellegrin). It's the usual tale of corruption and dirty deals but is made all the more watchable by the appearance of Sal Borgese and Stelio Candelli as Scalise's hitmen. (lovelockandload.net)

In this martial-arts thriller, a megalomaniacal terrorist Cambodian general has stolen two American nuclear warheads and hidden them somewhere in Bangkok and now a CIA agent must find them and the general before it is too late. (imdb)

A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug. (imdb)

When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout for Mr. Charlie, the boss of a white slave trade gang. (imdb)

Jacques Montet, a successful crime story writer, has already written a hundred books and would like to call it quits now to devote himself to loftier writing. But his wife, a cold-hearted, money-minded, bossy woman won't allow it. (imdb)

An itinerant, hunchbacked worker falls for a woman from afar, but is prevented by his handicap from expressing his feelings. Thus he vicariously romances her by smoothing the path of her relationship with a handsome villager.

Paul Rémi, the well-known theater director, was accused by his secretary, Andrieux, of having pushed his associate Bazine from a footbridge situated twelve meters above the stage. Advised by his wife Mona, he hides in a psychiatric hospital. (imdb)

After 16 years of marriage ends with him running away and vanishing into thin air. The wife goes in search of him, but instead of finding him, he ends up in various perversions, eventually reaching suicide. (imdb)

Gangster film centering on gun runners. (imdb)

An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a wealthy businessman. (imdb)

An injured restaurant owner is told to avoid straining himself with his wife, and the young new garage manager across the street desires her.

Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.

Paris is the setting for two gangs of criminals from Corsica at war with one another.