“The Connection” is the real-life story of the French Connection, as told from a French point of view and focusing around the city of Marseille, a center of drug trafficking in the 1970s. The French ...

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It’s the heart-stopping moment when a bashed-in Pontiac LeMans hurtles beneath NYC’s elevated subway at 90 miles an hour, dodging traffic and pedestrians in a wild race to keep up with a hijacked N ...

With a classic style and plenty of intensity, an official theatrical trailer for the French crime thriller The Connection has just arrived, and it's simply excellent. Touted as the European side to ...

Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche face off in another take on "The French Connection" By THR Staff The vast series of drug-smuggling operations loosely referred to as “The French Connection,” ...

Although 1971's The French Connection has never been regarded as one of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' most egregious Best Picture winners, 30 years of dingy pan-and-scan ...

William Friedkin's 1971 action thriller features a famous chase scene that has gone down as one of the best in cinema, but filming the scene was quite risky. Friedkin's The French Connection opened to ...

Boyd Coddington may well have been the man that brought hot-rodding into the living rooms of Middle America, via his successful TLC television series American Hot Rod. Before his untimely 2008 death, ...

Film fans are expressing their fury after a scene in The French Connection was censored without explanation. Those watching William Friedkin’s 1971 drama on US streaming platform Criterion Channel ...

It starts with gunshots — a Mercedes and its driver are riddled by motorcycle-riding assassins in broad daylight — and the pace of “The Connection” is bang-bang brisk most of the rest of the way.

It's not common to walk into an office building in Raleigh and hear French, unless that office building you are walking into is the French Honorary consulate. Marie-Claire Ribeill is the Honorary ...