Subway is a 1985 French thriller film directed by Luc Besson and starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert. The film is classified as part of the cinéma du look movement.
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Plot
Before the start of the film Héléna, the wife of a wealthy man, had invited Fred, who she had just met, to her birthday party on a whim. Fred, who carries dynamite sticks on him, had blown open a safe in the house and stole some papers. Dressed in a tuxedo from the party, he flees in Héléna's car from her husband's associates, also dressed in tuxedos. When Fred crashes his car into the entrance of a Paris Métro station, the chase continues on foot and inside a metro train, where Fred manages to lose his pursuers. He then calls Héléna to arrange an exchange of the papers for money. During the exchange, Fred accepts a far smaller amount than arranged and he and Héléna seem to acknowledge that they have feelings for each other. Her husband's associates try to capture Fred, but he escapes by jumping under a train and then entering deeper into the labyrinthic backrooms of the metro, but not before informing Héléna that he has not returned all of the papers. He later calls her and tells her he loves her.
