Un singe en hiver is a gentle comedy which takes a melancholic view of friendship,
nostalgia and drink. It was based on a popular novel by the French writer Antoine
Blondin... [More...]
This is a well-made and satisfying example of the popular French crime thriller.
It was directed by Henri Verneuil, who had a reputation for making popular films with
a quality feel... [More...]
Director Henri Verneuil originally conceived this film as a latter day
Gallic western, with lorries replacing horses, and the North African
landscape making a plausible substitute for the American
mid-west... [More...]
Based on the award winning novel by Robert Merle, Week-end à Zuydcoote provides
a harrowingly realistic portrayal of one of the darker episodes in World War II... [More...]
One of the most popular and best French crime thrillers of the 1960s, Le Clan des Siciliens
brings together three giants of French cinema: Jean Gabin... [More...]
Director Henri Verneuil followed his huge successful policier
Le Clan des Siciliens (1969) with another
film of the same genre, albeit one in a somewhat lighter vein... [More...]
This high budget, fast moving action thriller typifies the kind of film that was hugely
popular in France in the mid- 1970s. Peur sur la ville epitomises the
crime thriller or ’polar’ of that decade... [More...]
In stark contrast to the crime thrillers with which Belmondo is better known, Le Corps
de mon ennemi has an almost total absence of action and physical displays of violence... [More...]
Inspired by the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, I... comme Icare is an
absorbing but somewhat superficial political thriller, very typical of the neo-polar genre
in French cinema of the late 1970s... [More...]
Les Morfalous marks the end of a twenty-five
year association between two pre-eminent figures in French cinema from the 1960s –
director Henri Verneuil and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo... [More...]
