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Rififi (1955)
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The celebrated near-wordless burglary lets tools, dust and patient movement explain the operation. Its clarity makes the human complications around the job feel especially costly. This older French procedural is the choice when you want to watch the labour before the consequences, with an austere tone and cruelty beyond the elegance of its famous sequence.
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Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.