LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Roberto La Rocca (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is an ex-gangster whose friend Xavier (Pierre Vaneck) has been unjustly thrown in prison. Indeed, local gang leader Villanova is the one who framed Xavier. La Rocca confronts the mobster and kills him. Later, while helping his mistress (Beatrice Altariba) to fight off an American gang of racketeers, Roberto is caught by the police and is put in the same prison with Xavier. Then the two volunteer to clear land mines left from the last war, hoping to receive a pardon and to buy a quiet farm. The same novel by José Giovanni was later filmed by the author himself as La Scoumoune, again starring Belmondo.
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Synopsis: Murder, industrial espionage, political intrigue and Jean-Paul Belmondo are the strengths of this French thriller. Cordell (Belmondo) is the heir of a French industrialist, who dies in an air crash. When someone almost succeeds in framing Cordell with a case of drugs, he begins to suspect that hisRead More
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Ferdinand Griffon and Marianne (Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina-the director's first wife) take to the road as they flee Paris and head for the South of France. This happens after Marianne is coincidentally his baby-sitter for his families' two children, as it turns out she was romantically involved with him some five years ago when he was single. While driving her home, they decide to run away together in his Peugeot. Ferdinand, who for some unexplained reason is called Pierrot by Marianne, is bored with his wealthy Italian wife (Galvani) and his shallow bourgeois lifestyle. He's ... a bit pissed at Marianne for calling him Pierrot, even when corrected.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo romps his way through the role of 18th century French bandit chief Cartouche. At first robbing from everyone in sight (he has to -- he's head man of a Parisian crime syndicate) Cartouche is rechanneled into becoming a Gallic Robin Hood by beauteous gypsy Venus (Claudia Cardinale). In Highwayman fashion, Venus eventually sacrifices her own life to save Cartouche from harm. He vows to continue his activities to avenge her death, but still manages to have a riproaring good time doing so. Hilarious without being condescending, Cartouche was reissued under the completely inappropriate title Swords of Blood. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Michel Poiccard, alias Laszlo Kovacs (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a criminal yet a romantic who models himself after Humphrey Bogart. He becomes the subject of a police dragnet when he guns down a traffic cop. Michel hightails to Paris and holds up with Patricia Franchini (Jean Seberg), a budding American journalist.
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Louis (Jean-Paul Belmondo) owns a cigarette factory on an African island, but it's lonely work -- so he puts an ad in the newspaper looking for a bride. Much to his surprise, the lovely and intoxicating Julie (Catherine Deneuve) answers the ad. But as Louis falls hopelessly for her, he discovers Julie isn't who she appears to be. He soon finds himself caught up in a whirlpool of dangerous obsession in this classic thriller from Francois Truffaut.
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