The best Jean-Pierre Zola’s crime movies

Jean-Pierre Zola

Jean-Pierre Zola

05/02/1916- 18/01/1979
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The Big Risk

The Big Risk
7.5/10
On crowded Milan streets, two men execute a split-second payroll heist-in broad daylight-then begin a lightning-paced getaway, via every conveyance available. But after all, when a tough guy's returning to France (where he's been sentenced to death in absentia) after holing up in Italy for nearly a decade, he's got to have some startup money--particularly if he's going back with the wife and kids.

The Sicilian Clan

The Sicilian Clan
7.4/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/12/1969
  • Character: Mr. Wallach, diamond dealer (uncredited)
Roger Santet is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese. They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's American friend Tony Nicosia suggests that a better way to get the rocks would be to hijack the transport plane while it is en route to New York. The dogged inspector Le Goff is using all the available resources to thwart their plans. Though the heist itself is successful, Santet finds himself trapped by the mob because of his fling with Manalese's daughter-in-law.

French Connection II

French Connection II
6.7/10
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

The Champagne Murders

The Champagne Murders
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 31/03/1967
  • Character: Evelyn's Party Guest (Uncredited)
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.

Breaking it up !

Breaking it up !
4.3/10
A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.

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