Raymond Pellegrin

An unorthodox cop who plays by his own rules is called in after a massive jailbreak. He gets his hands dirty to apprehend a dangerous mob boss.

A young Neapolitan with grand ambitions begins working for an influential business person and finds himself in Camorra's criminal underworld.

The adult life of Paolina Bonaparte unfolds in marriages and scandal, revealing a willful yet impulsive woman shaped by Napoleon’s rise and fall.

With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave inspector, Blot (Paul Meurisse), relentlessly seeking him. The implosive "Le Deuxième Souffle" captures the pathos, loneliness, and excitement of a life in the shadows with methodical suspense and harrowing authenticity, and contains one of the most thrilling heist sequences Melville ever shot.

An inexperienced major leads the British Desert Commandos on an unsuccessful mission to obtain important secret German papers at a fortress in 1942.