Symphony for a Massacre
Genres
Overview
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
115 min
Release Date
1963-04-23
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Vote Count
35
Vote Average
6.7
Michel Auclair
Clavet
Claude Dauphin
Valoti
Charles Vanel
Paoli
Jean Rochefort
Jabeke
Michèle Mercier
Madeleine Clavet
José Giovanni
Moreau
Daniela Rocca
Hélène Valoti
Marcello Pagliero
Cerutti (uncredited)
Claude Cerval
(uncredited)
Jean Degrave
Games room employee (uncredited)
Maurice Garrel
(uncredited)
Billy Kearns
American customer (uncredited)
Pierre Mirat
(uncredited)
6.0
Paris Pick-Up
On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide.
1962-05-04 | fr
6.8
Highway Pick-Up
An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what she wants.
1963-11-13 | fr
6.3
And Hope to Die
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
1972-09-15 | fr
6.2
The Wicked Go to Hell
Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our "heroes," Vlady intends to avenge the death of her sweetheart at the hands of Hossein and his confreres. Not only do these heels go to Hell, but they do so with a spectacular flourish. Les Salauds Vont en Enfer was adapted by Rene Wheeler from a play by Frederic Dard.
1955-12-07 | fr
5.7
Ladies' Man
A famous FBI agent's vacation is interrupted by murder. His investigation leads him on the trail of three women of the local upper middle class.
1962-03-21 | fr
6.6
Mississippi Mermaid
A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.
1969-06-18 | fr
7.2
Shoot the Piano Player
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.
1960-11-25 | fr
7.6
Purple Noon
Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
1960-03-10 | fr
7.4
Le Doulos
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
1962-12-13 | fr
6.9
Alphaville
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”
1965-05-05 | fr
7.8
Le Samouraï
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
1967-10-25 | fr
7.6
Daybreak
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.
1939-06-09 | fr
6.3
Two Men in Manhattan
Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.
1959-10-16 | fr
7.2
Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
1937-01-28 | fr
7.2
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.
1954-03-17 | fr
7.6
Le Deuxième Souffle
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
1966-11-01 | fr
7.6
Elevator to the Gallows
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
1958-01-29 | fr
7.1
The Butcher
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
1970-02-27 | fr
7.1
The Bride Wore Black
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
1968-03-22 | fr
7.5
Breathless
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
1960-03-16 | fr