Le Samouraï
Son seul ami était son arme !
1967 • 105 min • Crime · Thriller · Drama
Our family guide
Best from age 14- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
- 78 Audience · 1287 · 47%
Jef, un tueur à gages méticuleux, est la cible de la police et de ses employeurs après un assassinat sous contrat. Il évolue dans un monde dangereux où la confiance est éphémère et la survie primordiale.
- Violence & peril
- 5/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 2/10
- Scary moments
- 3/10
Heads up
- Violence stylisée
- Tabac et alcool omniprésents
- Relations complexes
What it models well
- Professionnalisme et précision
- Les conséquences d'une vie criminelle
- Loyauté et trahison
Talk about it after
- La vie d'un tueur à gages
- Le sens de la loyauté
- La nature du destin
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Top billed cast
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville • Crew: Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Pellegrin
Trailers & clips
Quentin Tarantino on Le Samourai
4K Restoration Trailer [Subtitled]
A Scene from LE SAMOURAÏ
Reviewer notes
RecommendedAmazing movie! Withstood the test of times. Was watching it with a great interest unlike many movies of this era. Delon is magnifique! Unexpected plot and ending, but the title should have prepared me for it.
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersJean-Pierre Melville's 1967 film <i>Le Samouraï</i> is the story of a hired assassin who slips up on a hit and his race against time to set things right. Jef Costello (Alain Delon) is given a contract to kill a nightclub owner, but on the way out he is seen by the club's pianist (Cathy Rosier) and then gets himself picked up in a police sweep.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersMagnifique. Le Samouraï, one of the most highly praised French films of the 1960s, and justifiably so. Having only just caught it for the first time, I'm not sure what more I can say about a film that has been discussed, dissected, praised and pored over for nearly five decades now.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.8/10 (1,287)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Box office
- $215,245
- IMDb
- tt0062229
