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Cool Killers

Le samouraï

1h 45m

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • 1967 • France, Italy

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 defines cool.

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