Trois hommes à abattre (1980)
- Original title
- 3 hommes à abattre
- Directed by
- Jacques Deray
- Genre
- crime film, neo-noir
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 84 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 professional card player named Michel Gerfaut gets pulled into a violent conflict between arms dealers. He must navigate betrayal and danger to survive.
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What happens
Three Men to Kill (French: Trois hommes à abattre) is a French crime film released in 1980, directed by Jacques Deray, starring Alain Delon and Dalila Di Lazzaro. The screenplay is written by Jacques Deray, Alain Delon and Christopher Frank based on the novel Le Petit Bleu de la côte ouest by Jean-Patrick Manchette. The story is about Michel Gerfaut (Delon), charming professional card player who out of nowhere becomes involved in some retribution between weapon traders of high level. With 2,194,795 tickets sold, the film ranked 16th at the French box-office in 1980. Three Men to Kill is the first film of a group of popular films released in the 1980s and starring Alain Delon that share a visual and narrative style, followed by For a Cop's Hide (1981) and Le battant (1983). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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