French gangster films

Dogville is a 2003 experimental arthouse drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan, with John Hurt as the narrator. The film employs an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman on the run from mobsters who finds refuge in the tiny mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, in exchange for physical labor.

RocknRolla is a 2008 crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandiwe Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Toby Kebbell, Jeremy Piven and Ludacris. It was released in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2008, reaching number one in the UK box office in its first week of release. The film received mixed reviews from critics.

1999 film by Jim Jarmusch

1970 film by Jacques Deray

1960 French crime drama film directed by François Truffaut

2010 film by Richard Berry

1937 film by Julien Duvivier

1954 film by Jacques Becker

Rififi () is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton's novel of the same name. Directed by American blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin, the film stars Jean Servais as the aging gangster Tony "le Stéphanois", Carl Möhner as Jo "le Suédois", Robert Manuel as Mario Farrati, and Jules Dassin as César "le Milanais". The foursome band together to commit an almost impossible theft, the burglary of an exclusive jewelry shop in the Rue de la Paix. The centerpiece of the film is an intricate half-hour heist scene depicting the crime in detail, shot in near silence, without dialogue or m

1915 film by Louis Feuillade

1962 film by Jean-Pierre Melville

1974 film by Jacques Deray

1976 film by Henri Verneuil

1960 film by Claude Sautet

1972 French film directed by José Giovanni

1956 film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville

2011 film by Olivier Marchal

1963 film by Georges Lautner

1973 film by Francesco Rosi

1966 film by Denys de La Patellière

1955 film by Henri Decoin

1920 film by Louis Feuillade

2009 film by Laurent Tuel

1965 film by Pierre Granier-Deferre

1957 French crime film directed by Gilles Grangier

1959 film by Alex Joffé

1998 film by Darezhan Omirbaev

1966 film by Bernard Borderie

1980 film by Claude Barrois

1973 film by Serge Leroy