Pepe le Moko (1936)

This classic French film brought Jean Gabin international fame; it is a poetic take on the American gangster film.  Pepe is a wanted thief who has disappeared into the Casbah where he is safe amongst his peers -- should he ever leave, he risks all.  He meets a kept  bejeweled woman who has been brought to the Casbah to savour the earthy atmosphere and they fall in love.  She doesn't keep one of their assignations when told that he has been killed; he leaves to find her and, betrayed by his regular lover, he meets his fate. Just like now, the film was re-made in Hollywood two years later as "Algiers" with Charles Boyer in the Gabin role, and for my money it is every bit as good.