UN FLIC (1972) or DIRTY MONEY

The heist film is a subgenre with classics back to Hollywood’s beginnings.  One of the masters of chronicling gangsters and assorted low life is French film maker Jean Pierre Melville.  His last and fitting ending is the masterpiece of style and cool called UN FLIC (1972), or DIRTY MONEY. UN FLIC stars the superb Alain...

POOL OF LONDON (1951)

  One of the fascinating aspects of film is that it is essentially an international language. Genres occur in many countries just in different forms, usually stylistic approaches. Actors are used, although you do get some cross pollination, and, of course, story.  Film Noir is easily transferable as it is common to have cities both...