Abel Davis is a criminal, hunted in Italy. The police are closing in, so he and his pal Raymond arrange to flee back to France with Abel's wife, Thérèse, and their two young sons. Abel and Raymond commit a brazen robbery to get funds, killing two men; in the escape, more die. Abel arrives in Nice with the boys, calls his pals in Paris, and gets the brush-off. Reluctantly, they send a stranger, Eric Stark, to bring Abel to Paris, but he's getting the message he's on his own. Hono find out more...
Lumet's complex and atmospheric thriller is based on a real event. Pacino is superb as the neurotic and incompetent gay bankrobber who needs the money from the robbery to finance his lover's sex change operation. The film's beauty is it's closely detailed psychological observation. Excellent.
find out more...Arthur Clutten (Norman Wisdom) is an expert safecracker who masterminds every heist for the crime syndicate he belongs to. But when he witnesses the brutal methods of persuasion being meted out the gang s leader, Ignatius Smith (Bernard Hill), Clutten decides to quit the gang. However, he soon realises that the gang would rather see him dead than leave them, and so he decid find out more...
Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily (Aubrey Plaza) takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef (Theo Rossi). Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level, ultimately leading to dangerous consequences.
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