José Giovanni
José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was... Read full bio →
Two Men in Town
A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.
Le ruffian
Aldo, in his fifties, works in a gold mine in Northern Canada, in the middle of a bunch of adventurers.
Les égouts du paradis
Albert Spaggiari, who organises a group of gangsters to break into the vault of the Societé Générale Bank in Nice by tunnelling up through the sewers below.
Le gitan
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Deux hommes dans la ville
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
La scoumoune
For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive.
Un aller simple
After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer.
Dernier domicile connu
Après avoir reçu la Légion d'Honneur pour acte de bravoure, un policier est mis sur le banc de touche , pour avoir arrêté en état d'ivresse la mauvaise personne...
Le clan des Siciliens
An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Le rapace
1938, a Central America country. A Frenchman who goes by the name "Le Rital" is hired to take out the local dictator. Young Chico is assigned as his right-hand man, whom he impresses. Will a friendship form between them?
Les Aventuriers
Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.
Le deuxième souffle
ois hommes s'évadent de la prison de Castres, dont Gustave, dit "Gu" qui vient d'y passer huit ans. Le commissaire Blot disparaît tandis qu'un hold-up s'organise...
Symphonie pour un massacre
A band of gangster devises a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
Le trou
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer.