10 Remakes That Turned Out To Be Classics

5 – The Driver (1978)

Le Samouraï (1967)

Despite its remarkable aesthetic differences, The Driver is indeed a remake to Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï (1967). The Driver is Los Angeles’ answer to Melville’s Parisian noir—replace the quiet hit man with a quiet getaway driver, the songstress with a card gambler and the two movies are virtually identical.