Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down lif...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

Egon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a w...

Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challe...

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one o...

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno t...

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estran...

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be...

Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling ...

After receiving a letter calling for a secret conspiracy meeting, a woman is mistaken for a controve...

Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fell...

A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a noc...

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...

A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, h...

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his ...

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and...

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its w...

Since weeks it’s cold and wet. It’s already late, Karl Winter is on his way home. Under dark circums...