125 rue Montmartre

125 rue Montmartre (1959) is a French crime film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Lino Ventura. Pascal sells newspapers on the street. One afternoon he hauls a man named Didier out of the Seine — a persistent, anxious bore who insists his wife is plotting to have him committed.

Pascal, too decent for his own good, breaks into Didier's apartment to find proof of the scheme and stumbles across a corpse instead. Now he is the obvious suspect in a murder he knows nothing about, and the inspector assigned to the case finds his story entirely implausible.

A tight, unpretentious noir — Grangier kept the running time short and the pace moving. Ventura does what Ventura does: quiet, solid, backed into a corner, looking for a way out. Stream 125 rue Montmartre (1959) on iFILM.