Martin Scorsese, for example, has cited Le Doulos as an influence. In preparation for filming The Irishman (2019), Scorsese screened it to his own director of photography Rodrigo Prieto. "For the tone of the movie, I wanted it to be contemplative and it had to be an intimate epic," n on-stage discussion around its release. "So I showed a couple of Jean-Pierre Melville films. I showed Le Doulos and Le deuxième soufflé. It's a very different world, but I like the understatement of it."
