Rififi

Director: Jules Dassin

1955 / 118min / DCP

Run out of Hollywood by the Blacklist, Dassin landed on his feet in Paris, producing this existential thriller—and international box-office smash—that would become the heist film by which all others are measured, its centerpiece a legendary 30-minute process-oriented safecracking sequence that achieves maximal suspense with a minimum of means, and all without either music or dialogue. “The best of all heist movies … Rififi mirrors the arcs of the criminal lives it examines: It seduces you in, and then won’t let you out cleanly. This is tough-guy noir of the highest proof.”—The Village Voice

Part of Euro-Heists