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Writer-producer-director Jean-Pierre Melville pays tribute to the French Resistance he worked for in World War Two with this extremely engrossing, powerful and challenging 1969 epic account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France, set in 1942. Lino […]
Pierre Chenal’s riveting 1939 French thriller Le Dernier Tournant is notable as the first film of James M Cain’s sizzling novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. Fernand Gravey and Corinne Luchaire star as lovers who […]
John Frankenheimer’s welcome 1975 thriller film French Connection II is not quite such a spectacularly brilliant movie as the original, but as a sequel to one, it’s first class. Gene Hackman brilliantly reprises his Oscar-winning […]
The entire star cast is back from Taxi 2 (2000) for writer/co-producer Luc Besson’s jolly and impressively silly 2003 second sequel, Taxi 3. It proves another daft, fast-paced, high-energy French all-action crime comedy adventure, with […]