Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1967 thriller Le Samouraï is due to leave HBO Max next month, ending a limited opportunity for subscribers to watch the influential classic on the service. The film matters for its lasting impact on the modern assassin thriller, having helped shape Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and later works including John Wick.

Starring Alain Delon as a taciturn hitman trying to discover who has targeted him, Le Samouraï is approaching its 60th anniversary. Collider notes its cool visual style and central performance as influences on Taxi Driver, Léon: The Professional, The Mandalorian and Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal, which later became a film and television series.