Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...
To FBI-agenter (Hackman ,Dafoe) blir sendt til Mississippi, for å etterforske en forbrytelse der tre borgerrettighetsforkjempere har forrsvunnet på mystisk vis. En av de tre er svart, de to andre er hvite jøder. Dafoe er en rett fram, humørløs Harvard-mann. Han vet lite om forholdene i sørstatene og hans metoder fører ofte til farlige situasjoner. Hackman er tidligere sørstats-sheriff, rund og omgjengelig og kjenner forholdene ut og inn. De to møter store problemer i arbeidet, motstand både fra de skyldige og fra den svarte befolkning, som blir terrorisert til taushet. Den fryktløse Dafoe aner imidlertid et hull i den ugjennomtrengelige muren, og Hackman vet hvordan hullet skal utnyttes.
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.
Tolv dømte soldater presses til tjeneste som en topp kommandogruppe for å utføre et vågalt oppdrag i det okkuperte Frankrike. Lee Marvin er tøffere enn toget i rollen som majoren som har vervet seg til hæren for lede en tropp med utskudd på selvmordstokt mot tyskerne. 12 fengselsfugler vil få friheten i gave, hvis de overlever.
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. But neither fun nor luck last forever.
In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...
SKRIK! Til slemmee, grønne angripere fra den sinte røde planeten! Bevæpnet med hurtigstekende strålevåpen, utstyrt med slimete, gigantiske hjerner - og opplivet med ut-av-denne-verden men i-ypperste-klasse spesialeffekter. GISP! Når det blir for mye for den amerikanske lovgivningsmakten. (Ikke vær redd, det er fremdeles 2 av 3 regjeringsinstanser som arbeider for oss, og det er ikke så verst!) HERLIG! Når jorden kjemper imot med et uventet våpen. Ta den, Marsboere!
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it.