Rififi

A cracking heist movie from Director Jules Dassin. In fact this is considered the original of the heist genre. It contains a spellbinding, wordless thirty minutes, during which the robbery of an upmarket Paris jewellery store is shown in great forensic detail. The suspense is terrific. An added bonus is the great looking street scenes of Paris in the 1950s, another movie that allows us a little window into a time long gone. The odd title “Rififi” is French slang, meaning “rough and tumble” and is also the title of a popular blues song of the time, which features in the movie.