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Alain Delon is excellent as Monsieur Robert Klein in director Joseph Losey’s complex and fascinating 1976 mystery drama film Mr Klein, which follows a case of confused identity in Vichy France in 1942. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-jhu

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The 1968 erotic romantic drama film The Girl on a Motorcycle is a wonderfully schlocky Swinging Sixties piece. Marianne Faithfull stars as the married English woman who roars off on her bike to visit her French old flame (Alain Delon) in Heidelberg. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-rX8 😂

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Jean-Pierre Melville’s rousing, stylish 1972 French crime thriller Un Flic [Dirty Money] features an ideally cast Alain Delon as a rough cop (un flic) and Richard Crenna as a hoodlum, two tough guys involved in robbery and drug smuggling. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-azM 😎

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The modish, stylish, sexy 1969 French drama film La Piscine [The Swimming Pool] stars Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet and Jane Birkin, who give mesmerising performances. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-csm 😍

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Michelangelo Antonioni’s electrifying 1962 world cinema classic stars beguiling Monica Vitti as a translator in Rome, who leaves her older lover (Francisco Rabal) and starts a new relationship with a young stockbroker (Alain Delon). https://wp.me/p3jRpy-aGl 😎

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Alain Delon stars a tough, cynical ex-con master crook in the 1970 Le Cercle Rouge [The Red Circle], his second of three thrilling films with Jean-Pierre Melville and fourth gangster movie. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-azZ 😎

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The stylish 1970 Thirties-set French gangster film Borsalino is the ideal vehicle for Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo in their prime, as petty criminals Roch Siffredi and François Capella, who graduate into big-time mobsters down Marseilles way. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-iAz 😎

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Burt Lancaster is on his most commanding form as a proud Sicilian nobleman, and Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale are at their most wonderfully dashing as the young lovers, in Luchino Visconti’s awesome and majestic 1963 movie The Leopard [Il Gattopardo]. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-4zS 😍

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The magnificent 1960 Italian classic film Rocco and His Brothers [Rocco e i suoi fratelli] is a triumph for director Luchino Visconti, with electrifying performances from Alain Delon as Rocco and Renato Salvatori as his boxer brother. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-5Mh 😎

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Jean-Pierre Melville’s thrilling 1967 austere neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon's enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark Eastmancolor cinematography. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-aza 😎

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