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Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle) (PG)

Jean-Pierre Melville was the great master of the French crime genre, reinventing hardboiled American noir films and setting them in the backstreets of Paris. His 1970 film Le Cercle Rouge boasts an enviable triumvirate of great lead actors, Alain Delon, Yves Montand and Gian Maria Volonte as three jewel thieves who target an elegant, supposedly impregnable jewelry store. In his pared down and understated style, Melville builds the tension towards a virtuoso heist sequence towards the end of the film that mirrors the classic Rififi made fifteen years earlier, a film Melville was originally slated to direct.

Running Time: 140 minutes
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Alain Delon, Andre Bourvil, Yves Montand