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  • 2003
  • Not Rated
  • Rialto Pictures
  • 2 h 20 m
  • 2003
  • Not Rated
  • Rialto Pictures
  • 2 h 20 m
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

Summary Corey (Alain Delon) is an aristocratic thief, released from prison on the same day that Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonté), a murderer, escapes from the custody of Mattei (Bourvil), a cat-loving police superintendent. Corey robs Rico (André Ekyan), his mob boss, then enlists Vogel and an ex-police sharpshooter, Jansen (Yves Montand), in a jewel ...

Directed By: Jean-Pierre Melville

Written By: Jean-Pierre Melville

  • 2003
  • Not Rated
  • Rialto Pictures
  • 2 h 20 m
  • 2003
  • Not Rated
  • Rialto Pictures
  • 2 h 20 m

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Summary Corey (Alain Delon) is an aristocratic thief, released from prison on the same day that Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonté), a murderer, escapes from the custody of Mattei (Bourvil), a cat-loving police superintendent. Corey robs Rico (André Ekyan), his mob boss, then enlists Vogel and an ex-police sharpshooter, Jansen (Yves Montand), in a jewel ...

Directed By: Jean-Pierre Melville

Written By: Jean-Pierre Melville

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A dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters and cigarettes.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
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The antidote to every square tough-guy caper you've ever seen, and the inspiration for many great ones. It is an existential imperative to seek out a showing and burn rubber to get there, preferably in an excellent car.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW

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100
For some of us, this constitutes a religious event.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
90
Offers the kind of experience that makes you glad movies exist.
By Dana Stevens FULL REVIEW
90
Melville seems to peer out from behind the camera with a reassuring wink and nod. Le Cercle Rouge is the most self-consciously cool of his famously underheated films noirs.
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Key action points are edited with finesse, but the denouement, with its dutiful hail of gunfire, is heartless and mechanical.
By Bill Stamets FULL REVIEW
75
If you've got the patience, this is still one of the all-time exercises in cinematic cool.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Comacico, Euro International Films, Fono Roma, Les Films Corona, Selenia Cinematografica
Release Date Jan 10, 2003
Duration 2 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline The Red Circle is a powerful in-depth study of the French Underworld
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