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Alain Delon has 31 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by Rocco and His Brothers.
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When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · With Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · With Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté

Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
Dir. René Clément · With Alain Delon, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Ronet

An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.
Dir. Valerio Zurlini · With Alain Delon, Sonia Petrovna, Giancarlo Giannini

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
Dir. Joseph Losey · With Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé

Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval

Near the end of World War II, General Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he's unable to maintain control of the city. After much contemplation, Choltitz ignores orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, alongside Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a leader organise his forces.
Dir. René Clément · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron
The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.
Dir. Pierre Granier-Deferre · With Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, Ottavia Piccolo

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Dir. José Giovanni · With Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Mimsy Farmer

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.
Dir. Robert Enrico · With Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus

as William Wilson and his double (segment "William Wilson")
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
Dir. Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim, Louis Malle · With Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda

Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
Dir. Jacques Deray · With Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet

A small-time con man on the run from his girlfriend's gangster husband hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women, where he finds himself trapped in deception between the two.
Dir. René Clément · With Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright

In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United States, a gift from the Emperor of Japan. On board the same train are two robbers, Link and Gauche, ready to make their move…
Dir. Terence Young · With Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshirō Mifune

In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
Dir. Jacques Deray · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Rouvel
A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.
Dir. Duccio Tessari · With Alain Delon, Ottavia Piccolo, Moustache

A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · With Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve
Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross, leaving him no choice but to obey.
Dir. Michael Winner · With Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield

as Julien/Guillaume de Saint Preux
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
Dir. Christian-Jaque · With Alain Delon, Virna Lisi, Adolfo Marsillach

as Xavier 'Xav' Maréchal
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
Dir. Georges Lautner · With Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
Dir. Jacques Deray · With Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudine Auger
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
Dir. Jacques Deray · With Alain Delon, Riccardo Cucciolla, Daniel Ivernel
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.
Dir. Jean Herman · With Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Olga Georges-Picot
A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris.
Dir. Bertrand Blier · With Pierre Arditi, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Brasseur
Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.
Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Vanessa Paradis
Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.
Dir. David Lowell Rich · With Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, Alain Delon
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