Paris, August 16. Injured, Marie and Serge manage to escape their failed bank robbery. In an empty city, the lovers opt to hide out separately while the police are still looking for them. To keep in touch, they have special drop-offs for postcards that encode their next meeting place using classical poetry. As the police close in, family concerns intrude on the two wanted suspects.
Paris, August 16. Injured, Marie and Serge manage to escape their failed bank robbery. In an empty city, the lovers opt to hide out separately while the police are still looking for them. To keep in touch, they have special drop-offs for postcards that encode their next meeting place using classical poetry. As the police close in, family concerns intrude on the two wanted suspects.
Following the disappearance of the glamorous and secretive Evelyne Ducat during a blizzard in the highlands of southern France, the lives of five people inextricably linked to Evelyne are brought together to devastating effect as the local police investigate the case.
Franck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force trying to identify two corrupts members of the Paris Police Force. Franck is pretending to be a gangster and Nina a prostitute living with him, and involved in a robbery of a fortune in diamonds, having seven deaths and some injured persons.
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.
A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.
Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, Monier takes up the case, convinced of his innocence.
In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.
อิงจากเรื่องจริงของการประชุมกลุ่มอาชญากรที่โด่งดังในปี 1957 ทางตอนเหนือของนิวยอร์ก โดยมี Vito Genovese เป็นผู้นำ ผู้นำกลุ่มอาชญากรกว่า 50 คนจากทั่วประเทศมารวมตัวกันที่เมืองเล็กๆ แห่งนี้เพื่อหารือเกี่ยวกับแผนการขยายตัวที่จะเกิดขึ้น แผนของพวกเขาล้มเหลวเมื่อตำรวจท้องที่ Ed Croswell ค้นพบกิจกรรมของพวกเขา และด้วยเหตุนี้ จึงได้เปิดเผยกลุ่มอาชญากรเหล่านี้ต่อสาธารณชนชาวอเมริกัน การกระทำของ Croswell ทำให้เห็นถึงเครือข่ายการคอร์รัปชั่นขนาดใหญ่ และเปลี่ยนแปลงโฉมหน้าของการบังคับใช้กฎหมายไปตลอดกาล
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.