Les Lyonnais

2011 1h 42m French 6.9

Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

When the notorious gangster Serge Suttel is captured by the French police, his middle-aged best friend Momon Vidal meets with his retired friends to organize Serge's prison break. Momon also recalls the beginning of his friendship with Serge, when he was a bullied gypsy boy and how Serge had protected him. Later, Momon worked as a gangster for a powerful mobster and learnt how to plan heists. Then he organized his own Lyon Gang with Serge and his friends, and they have become wealthy. In the present days, he is a powerful retired mobster, married with his beloved Janou Vidal (Valéria Cavalli) with a son and grandchildren. The rescue of Serge Suttel brings problems he had buried in the past, and now compromises his old friends and his family. But Momon also learns secrets from the past.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil