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LE SAMOURA\u00cf<\/h2>\n

| 1967 (re-released in 2024) \u2013 105\u2032 \u2013 DRAMA, CRIME, THRILLER, CLASSIC.
\nWritten by: Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Pellegrin.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Jean-Pierre\u00a0Melville.
\nStarring:\u00a0Alain Delon,\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois P\u00e9rier,\u00a0Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jean-Pierre Posier, Jacques Leroy, Jacques Deschamps, Andr\u00e9\u00a0Thorent, Catherine Jourdan, Michel Boiron.
\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2024 (Cannes Classic).
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA The Criterion Collection release. |<\/span><\/p>\n

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture — with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology — maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Samoura\u00ef defines cool.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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