What film is this?

[Man of Harveys]

I'm sure that the film-literate NSCers will spot it in no time: there was a French film on BBC4 a few months back which was made, at a guess, in the late 1990s and featured a psychopathic (Italian?) bloke who kept kidnapping and shooting people while also hiding this from a young girl he was seeing, all set in mountainous countryside somewhere. Towards the end, he escaped into Switzerland where he hijacked a car with an attractive older woman in it and drove it through police roadblocks etc. Exciting though all this was, I then fell fast asleep before seeing either what happened or what the film was called. Help me NSC, you're my only hope.

 

[Dave the OAP]

The Dam Busters?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Leon?

 

[Without Limits]

Always happens... U get to the great ending and start Sleeping, I thought my Dad was the only one who did that

 

[Les Biehn]

Sounds like Leon. Luc Beeson, starring Jean Reno, Natalie Portman and Gary Oldman.

Well apart from the ending.

 

[Without Limits]

Leon?

Leon was based in US but great film

 

[Lokki 7]

The video for Joe La Taxi?

 

[Without Limits]

Sounds like Leon. Luc Beeson, starring Jean Reno, Natalie Portman and Gary Oldman.

Well apart from the ending.

he also wasnt hiding from lil girl and where the older woman

Wrong film

 

[Man of Harveys]

Sounds like Leon. Luc Beeson, starring Jean Reno, Natalie Portman and Gary Oldman.

Well apart from the ending.

What are you on about Leslilein - I've seen Leon and it's set in NY. I think Besson said that was the only way to stop the Americans from remaking it.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Leon didn't kidnap anyone either. He MURKED people off, he was an assassin innit.

 

[Dave the OAP]

The Guns of Navarone

 

[Les Biehn]

What are you on about Leslilein - I've seen Leon and it's set in NY. I think Besson said that was the only way to stop the Americans from remaking it.

Sorry I only read half your post MoH and took a wild guess.

Please don't hit me masser.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/a-z/index.shtml

This may help MoH.

 

[aftershavedave]

l'enquête corse is the film i think you're on about although it was on corsica, not switzerland, and i don't remember the young girl...

 

[Man of Harveys]

Nah, this wasn't a comedy, more a tense low-budget thriller - it always seemed to be raining. The bloke was a nutter.

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

The Bulldog Breed ?

 

[Dave the OAP]

The Secret Seven?

 

[London Calling]

The Italian Job?

 

[Meade's Ball]

That can only be Hannibal Brooks. Especially if the mountable woman in question is an elephant.

 

[Clothes Peg]

I KNOW IT!!!
I too was in the same dilemma after seeing it last year on BBC4. It's called Roberto Succo.
http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=107720
Double check to be sure, but I guarantee that it's the same film.