The Ruffian (French: Le Ruffian) is a 1983 French-Canadian crime adventure film written and directed by José Giovanni and starring Lino Ventura, Bernard Giraudeau and Claudia Cardinale.

The film follows Aldo, an adventurer who works at a gold mine in Canada.

Having suspicion of the two First Nations people, Aldo then proceeds to run off without them, but then loses the gold in a river.

He drives to his home Montreal to recruit his friends John and Gérard, and his wife Éléonore, to help him retrieve the gold from the river.

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