Rififi

Directed by acclaimed American director Jules Dassin, who had to flee to France by the McCarthy's Witch Hunt, 'Rififi' was his great success in European award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival 1955, ex-aequo with Sergei Vasilyev by 'Heroes of Shipka' and considered by the National Board of Review as one of the best foreign films of 1955. Tony Le Stéphanois released from prison after serving five years of sentence. The man is determined to change his life, become legal and closing a dark period of his past. However, fate put him to the test when he knows his lover is dating a known gangster. Lacking economic resources and does not find work, he decides to return to his past life and reunited with his former partners. It is the latest blow, but it will be the most epic, for a week the group has carefully prepared a plan that can not fail: Steel an inaccessible jewelry located in one of the safest streets in the elegant Paris.