# Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

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**Original title**: *Le Cercle rouge*
**Runtime**: 140 min
**Genres**: Crime, Thriller
**Directed by**: Jean-Pierre Melville
**Written by**: Jean-Pierre Melville
**Starring**: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand, François Périer, Paul Crauchet

> *No place to hide . . . nowhere to run . . .*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A Paris winter, the métro’s brake squeal slicing the damp air.

A freshly paroled thief shakes a stranger’s hand across a bar—Vogel, still cuffed to his wrist. A broken cop named Jansen toasts the plan with cheap cognac.

Melville’s heist trio glides through shadows like polished geometry.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, cerebral, slow-burn

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