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

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)

Trailer

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