FRENCH NOIR COLLECTION (KINO)

Speaking of Murder a.k.a. Le rouge est mis (1957)

Description: Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when "the red light is on" at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis' younger brother is a police informer. Directed by Gilles Grangier, and starring Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, and Marcel Bozzuffi. 

Back to the Wall a.k.a. Le dos au mur (1958)

Description: A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity. Directed by Édouard Molinaro, and starring Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, and Philippe Nicaud. 

Witness in the City a.k.a. Un témoin dans la ville (1959)

Description: Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice. He waits for him in his house and hangs him. He leaves the place unseen, at least this is what he thinks. But unfortunately for him, Lambert, a taxi driver has witnessed him. Ancelin has no option but to get rid of him... Directed by Édouard Molinaro, and starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo and Franco Fabrizi.