Le Doulos (1962)
- Directed by
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Genre
- crime film, neo-noir, thriller film, detective film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 310 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A career criminal is released from prison and drawn back into a complex web of betrayal and double crosses. The film follows his uneasy alliances with old associates and a police detective as loyalties shift and violence erupts.
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What happens
Le Doulos (French pronunciation: [lə dulos]) is a 1962 French crime film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, adapted from the novel of the same name by Pierre Lesou. It was released theatrically as The Finger Man in the English-speaking world, but all video and DVD releases have used the French title. Intertitles at the beginning of the film explain that the French title refers both to a kind of hat and to the slang term for a police informant. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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