Jean - Pierre Melville's Le cercle rouge combines honorable antiheroes, coolly atmospheric cinematography, and breathtaking set pieces to create a masterpiece of crime cinema. (criterion.com)
Classe Tous Risques (France, 1960)-- 4:00 PM Claude Sautet made his directorial debut with this tough, lean, smart piece of French crime cinema made on the cusp of the New Wave. (parallax-view.org)
Although clearly influenced by American crime cinema, A Better Tomorrow isn't always predictable and while the characters aren't three - dimensional, they are still exciting to watch when they interact. (qwipster.net)