January 1966: in a Paris flat police discover the body of Georges Figon. A year earlier, tired of dodgy deals and petty scams, ex-con Georges Figon had gone in search of something big and, through his underworld connections, had got himself hired as producer for a documentary on de-colonialisation to be written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju. The well-known Moroccan dissident Mehdi Ben Barka was to be the film's 'historical advisor', but the whole film project was an elaborat find out more...

A stinking rich businessman is kidnapped by a highly proficient and ruthless gang for a 50 million Euro ransom. Away from his terrified isolation he becomes side-lined and alienated from his social base; the media alienate his wife and family from him by having a field day with his decadent life style, his business colleagues jostle for power and the police only care about catching the criminals, not saving his life.
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Unpleasant ex-cop Joong-ho Eom who works as a charmless pimp is severely troubled that his girls have started walking out on him, that is until he discovers that they all shared the same phone number for their last customer, so he starts to track the guy down. This horror-thriller is a film that, not unlike "Memories of Murder" in terms of plot direction and mood, takes convention and turns it inside out. Exploitative yes, violent yes, funny sometimes, art house no, original and entertaining, ve find out more...