Ace of Aces

Watch Ace of Aces (L'As des as, 1982) online on iFILM — a fast-moving French-German adventure comedy directed by Gérard Oury, with Jean-Paul Belmondo as a rough-and-tumble boxing coach who stumbles into one of the most dangerous places on earth: Berlin, summer 1936, during Hitler's Olympic Games.

Jo Cavalier came for a gold medal. He leaves trying to smuggle an entire Jewish family across the Swiss border. It starts on the train — a scrappy orphan boy named Simon Rosenblum asks for his autograph, and Jo, a WWI flying ace who never learned to walk away from a fight, cannot hand the kid over to the authorities waiting on the platform. Belmondo plays the whole thing with his usual physical swagger and a grin that never quite hides the stubbornness underneath, turning what could have been a grim chase into a relentless, rollicking romp with Nazi troops always one step behind. Stream Ace of Aces (1982) on iFILM.