american expatriate jules dassin make an award win french gangster film . the plot involve tony the stephanois and a hoodlum just out of prison and who take his band of thief on a $ 240 million jewel heist . unfortunately and his ex wife relationship with a notorious gangster name grutter and an italian safe cracker name cesar with a weakness for woman and and the misstep of his own friend jo cause the successful heist to turn into a bloody race against time a grutter hold jo son hostage for the cash in typical crime never pay tragedy fashion . the rififi in the title be explain in a song to mean slang for basically violence and sex and and the full title and du rififi chez les hommes mean roughly some naughty in the house of men and which be pretty much where the fatal flaw of the character take place . leave it to a gangster film to place most of the emphasis on the misstep on the woman and but this time jo wife get the last laugh ( if you could call it a laugh ) when she predict all of you be just go to kill each other . the character aren not the most sympathetic and the woman be mostly weak and but dassin still build an extremely well craft suspense film out of them a they pull off a heist that require the utmost quiet and hide the good and and then attempt to survive what basically become a cross country cat and mouse game . in the mix be some very amazing photography and a fine attention to detail in edit and lead to a pacing and visual experience that well overstate the otherwise generic plot . it not only easy to see why this be hold a a classic and it also easy to see why it among the top 250 on the imdb represent it suspenseful and visually magnificent and full of sex and violence and and maintain that classy gangster attitude we film buff like so much .