Jean-Paul Belmondo

The story is about Commissioner Jordan who arrives in Marseille to combat drug trafficking activities in his own unique way. Fed-up with the inefficiency of the Marseille police, Paris sends drug-enforcement specialist Philippe Jordan to Marseille. He's supposed to assist the local law enforcement dismantle the drug networks, especially mobster Sauveur Mecacci's network. So far, Mecacci has managed to elude capture or successful prosecution by local authorities. However, Inspector Philippe Jordan's unorthodox law enforcement style may prove efficient against Mecacci if Jordan receives a free-hand green-light from the Marseille police bosses and if he survives the frequent attempts against his life, of course. Once at work, Inspector Philippe Jordan's rough style creates mayhem in the city of Marseille and triggers numerous complaints from the Mayor's Office, from outraged citizens and from the lawyers of a scared Mecacci who wants to see Jordan dead. These things, in turn, tell Jordan he's on the right track. —nufs68

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions. Set during World War II, and stuck on the beaches near Dunkirk, Julien Maillat tries to join England by boat with the English Army, but cannot succeed. He, then, tries to organize the life for him and his soldiers friends between German raids and shells. —Jean-Yves Simon <simon@wotangate.micro.ti.com> Dunkirk, June 1 and 2, 1940: Sergent Julien Maillat is one of a group of scattered French soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk with the men of the British Expeditionary Force to be taken across the Channel to England. The German Luftwaffe is constantly flying missions that claim many victims. The British initially only evacuate their own men; after Maillat finally manages to board a ship with the help of a sympathetic British officer, it is hit by German bombs. Maillat manages to get back ashore. He ventures back into the town, which is already under German artillery fire and is also being bombed from the air. In the hail of bombs, he meets the courageous young Jeanne, who convinces herself that her parents' house will survive the inferno of war if she can hold out in it. Maillat rescues her from two comrades who have broken into the house and are about to rape her. He has no choice but to shoot them. This is not the only thing that burdens him from then on; the thought that he has left the young woman alone afterwards is also unbearable. —Arte

After stealing a car, Michel, a thief, ends up killing a police officer. Because he is penniless, he decides to find recourse in a young American student so he can stay in her apartment and convince her to come with him to Italy. Little does he know, this experience will end up leaving him breathless.