Alain Delon
1) Purple noon
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
Français
Description
A handsome, wealthy bachelor has a sexy girlfriend, the finest things money can buy, and an envious friend who schemes to murder him and assume his identity.
Series
Publisher
Rialto Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
A master thief is fresh out of prison. Instead of toeing the line, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime. He, a notorious escapee, and an alcoholic ex-cop plan a jewel heist, while being pursued by a police superintendent.
Series
Criterion collection volume 306
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nighclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
4) Purple noon
Series
Criterion collection volume 637
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, this film stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf back to the United States; what initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder. Bonus features include the original English language trailer, an archival interview...
5) La piscine
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1963, [2004]
Language
Italiano
Description
Recounting the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. Contains the original Italian version with optional subtitles, the English-language version and special features.
7) Frank Riva
Series
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
"He's lost his past, he's lost his roots - but not his enemies. Legendary French stage and screen actor Alain Delon stars as Frank Riva, an ex-undercover cop called in from retirement after 25 years of exile to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of his brother in a drug sting operation. He soon finds himself back on the trail of the notorious Loggia crime family, who had put a bounty on his head during the French Connection...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
Français
Description
Tom Ripley has been sent to Italy by the father of one Philippe Greenleaf with the objective of bringing Greenleaf back into the family fold in the United States. Ripley, an accomplished forger, takes his job half-seriously until he falls in love with the same woman Greenleaf is in love with, Marge.
Series
Criterion collection volume 218
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Français
Description
A master thief is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime. He, a notorious escapee, and an alcoholic ex-cop plan a jewel heist, while being persued by a police superintendent.
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Publisher
distributed by The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
Tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the couple's doomed affair, the director reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style, returning to his favorite themes: alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Recounting the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy.
12) Joy house
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A conman finds himself on the run from the mob after seducing the wife of an American gangster. He hides away as the chauffeur of a beautiful widow and her young cousin, hopelessly entangled in a triangle of love and deception.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Paris police Commissaire Edouard Coleman discovers that his nightclub-owner friend, Simon, also leads a group of bank robbers. When he's tipped off that the same robbers are planning a drug heist, Edouard means to defeat his two-faced friend. Meanwhile, Edouard has engaged in some doube-crossing himself. He shares the same woman, Cathy, with the man he calls his friend.
14) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Manon 70: A woman worships the luxurious lifestyle she has attained by sleeping with wealthy men until she falls in love with a poor reporter.
Le choc: A hired killer determined to retire flees to the country to hide from his bosses. There he succumbs to a beautiful woman.
16) Scorpio
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In the heyday of the Cold War an aging C.I.A. agent suspected of selling secrets to the Russians becomes the target of a C.I.A.-hired assassin, code named Scorpio. The two men follow each other in a deadly duel that takes both of them half way around the globe.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Passion, intrigue, adventure, love-- everything happens in the yellow Rolls-Royce, a luxury automobile that ties together three stories as it passes from owner to owner. In the first, an aristocrat with a penchant for the racetrack discovers his wife has a penchant for backseat amour. Then a moll takes a spin down lover's lane in the Rolls while her mobster boyfriend is busy rubbing out the competition. Finally, an imperious widow purchases the car...
18) Le samourai
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
After Professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
19) Once a thief
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Six years out of prison, Eddie has kept his nose clean. Determined to live a normal life, he's got steady work, a loving wife and a charming little daughter. Unfortunately, he also has enemies. Harassment from a vengeful police inspector costs Eddie his job. In order to support his family, Eddie has no choice but to risk his future on one final heist.
20) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
The concluding chapter of Michalangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L'Avventura and La Notte) tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover and drifts into a relationship with another.