Lino VenturaFilmography

Born:: July 14, 1919 in Parma, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Angelo Borrini
Biography:: A school dropout at age eight, Lino Ventura went on to fill a variety of jobs, at one point pursuing a prizefighting career. In French films from 1953, Ventura built up a following in hard-bitten roles playing gangsters, police inspectors, and renegade military men. His better-known assignments...Read More

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La Rumba

Actors: Roger Hanin, Michel Piccoli, Niels Arestrup, Guy Marchand, Patachou

Synopsis: The carefree life at a decadent cabaret in Paris is overshadowed by the darkening cloud of war in this thrilling drama. Beppo (Roger Hanin) is a club owner with ties to the mob who wages a secret war against the evil forces of fascism who control the local police. Vivian Reed gives a memorable Read More

1987
Sword of Gideon

Actors: Steven Bauer, Michael York, Peter Dvorsky, Robert Joy, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: In the made-for-cable thriller Sword of Gideon, a team of anti-terrorist commandos, led by Steven Bauer, sets out to avenge the deaths of Israeli athletes killed during the Munich Olympics of 1972. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Cento Giorni a Palermo

Actors: Lino Ventura, Giuliana de Sio, Stefano Satta Flores, Adalberto Maria Merli

Synopsis: In many ways, this was a courageous film to make about Carlo Dalla Chiesa (played by Lino Ventura), an Italian general who gave his life trying to eliminate Mafia bosses and their supporters. Dalla Chiesa's wife was also murdered when her husband got too close to exposing the truth about the Read More

3/21/84
La Septième Cible

Actors: Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Jean Poiret, Elizabeth Bourgine

Synopsis: An unsuspecting novelist is the target of international extortionists in this well-acted suspense story directed by Claude Pinoteau. Lino Ventura stars as Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him Read More

1984
Le Ruffian

Actors: Lino Ventura, Claudia Cardinale, Bernard Giraudeau, Beatrix Van Til, Pierre Frag

Synopsis: Aldo (Lino Ventura) is a worker in a Canadian goldmine who escapes being murdered by a gang of marauding bandits as they kill off everyone in the camp except Aldo and two Native American workers and then nab the gold stores. The three survivors manage to kill off the assassins and discuss dividing Read More

1983
Les Misérables

Actors: Lino Ventura, Michel Bouquet, Jean Carmet, Françoise Seigner, Evelyne Bouix

Synopsis: This screen version of Victor Hugo's classic novel stars Italian actor Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean, a French peasant who -- driven to desperation by poverty -- steals a loaf of bread only to be caught by the police. After serving a long prison term for this petty theft, Valjean is tempted to Read More

1982
Espion, Lève-Toi

Actors: Lino Ventura, Krystyna Janda, Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Sebastien Grenier (Lino Ventura), a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich and cultivating an on-going relationship with Anna Gretz (Krystyna Janda), a German teaching at the university. Then his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French Read More

1982
Jig Saw

Actors: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: A man who received false notice that his son had been murdered sets out to uncover the truth about his missing boy in this thriller starring Lino Ventura and Angie Dickinson. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Garde à Vue

Actors: Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Guy Marchand, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: This is a minimalist interrogation drama about a wealthy, influential attorney (Michel Serrault) in a small French town falls under suspicion in a double rape/murder case. The police bring the lawyer in for questioning; at first politely, and then less so, the interrogation team (Lino Venture, Guy Marchand Read More

1981
Sunday Lovers

Actors: Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Robert Webber, Catherine Salviat, Gene Wilder, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each episode was filmed by a separate unit in the country where the story was set. "The French Method" (directed by Eduoard Molinaro) finds a businessman (Lino Ventura) trying to Read More

10/31/80
L'Homme en Colère

Actors: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Romain (Lino Ventura) lost his wife in a forest fire, and his son, who blamed him for the death, left France for Canada. Romain is called to Canada to identify the corpse of a murder victim believed to his son. When the murdered man turns out to be someone else, his son automatically becomes the Read More

1978
Un Papillon sur l'Epaule

Actors: Lino Ventura, Nicole Garcia, Claudine Auger, Jean Bouise, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: Roland Fériaud (Lino Ventura), on returning from a seaside vacation, discovers a corpse in a room adjoining his. He is abducted by a mysterious group who take him to a clinic of some kind, where he is interrogated. He is shown a small suitcase he has never seen before, and he tries in vain to Read More

1978
The Medusa Touch

Actors: Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Marie-Christine Barrault

Synopsis: In The Medusa Touch Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a mysterious series of disasters. The uncanny events begin happening shortly after writer John Morlar (Richard Burton) was hit over the head by an unknown intruder and rendered Read More

1978
Cadaveri Eccellenti

Actors: Lino Ventura, Alain Cuny, Paolo Bonacelli, Marcel Bozzuffi, Tina Aumont

Synopsis: Francesco Rosi utilizes the breathtakingly beautiful Italian landscape in an unspecified Italian city to hatch this mystery film involving murder and corruption in high places. As the film begins, a well-known prosecutor is killed. The murder turns out to be the first in a series of murders -- and Read More

2/12/76
La Cage

Actors: Lino Ventura, Ingrid Thulin

Synopsis: This unusual film contains some dark elements of comedy as it tells the tale of an ex-wife who is suddenly visited by her estranged ex-husband. Though she is a loving woman, she does crave revenge. The ex-hubby wants to buy her country house, which she received in the divorce settlement. Instead Read More

1975
Adieu Poulet

Actors: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Françoise Brion, Claude Rich

Synopsis: In truth, there are two French Detectives in this European crime melodrama. Lino Ventura plays an aging, been-around gumshoe, while Patrick Dewaere is his young, callow and cynical associate. The two detectives don't like each other much at first, but this will change. Their current assignment Read More

1975
La Gifle

Actors: Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Courcel

Synopsis: In this film, a group of French kids face the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood as they struggle through their teenage years. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

10/23/74
Three Tough Guys

Actors: Lino Ventura, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson, Paula Kelly

Synopsis: This Italian film was made for the blaxploitation action niche, but sloppy dubbing and unintentionally funny dialogue kept it from packing the kind of action punch needed for box-office success. Father Charlie (Lino Venturi) is an ex-con who has been granted an exemption from canon law to become a Read More

8/13/74
L'Emmerdeur

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: Proof of the success of French filmmaker Edouard Molinaro is the fact that several of his home-grown hits have been remade as American films. The most recent example of this is 1996's The Birdcage, a highly profitable reworking of Molinaro's La Cage aux Folles (1978). The director's 1973 comedy A Read More

9/20/73
La Bonne Année

Actors: Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gerard, André Falcon

Synopsis: The ever-reliable Claude Lelouch serves up another romance-and-adventure combination plate with Happy New Year. Simon (Lino Ventura) is doing prison time, due to a jewel-theft caper. The police still have not recovered the loot, so Simon gets an early release so that they can track him to it. He Read More

4/13/73
Le Silencieux

Actors: Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Suzanne Flon, Leo Genn

Synopsis: This French spy thriller makes a number of surprising variations on familiar themes. Tibere (Lino Ventura) is a Soviet nuclear scientist who comes to London with a platoon of his colleagues for a conference. When he is injured in an auto accident, he gets separated from them. The accident was a Read More

2/23/73
L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Charles Gerard, Aldo Maccione

Synopsis: In the French L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure, a gang of thieves, suffering a drop in business, enter into a new phase of larceny. Passing themselves off as terrorists, the gang begins committing political crimes, extorting huge sums to prevent further "dissidence". As a result, they're more Read More

5/4/72
The Valachi Papers

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Joseph Wiseman, Walter Chiari, Amedeo Nazzari

Synopsis: This crime action movie is based on Peter Maas' best-selling book The Valachi Papers. That book, in turn, is based on prison conversations and the actual U.S. Senate testimony of Joseph Valachi, a high-ranking figure in the Mafia. The book, which tells precisely who did what to whom, when and why Read More

1972
Boulevard du Rhum

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Lino Ventura, Jess Hahn, Guy Marchand

Synopsis: This broad French comedy includes some affectionate parodies of silent film features. Corny (Lino Ventura) is the captain of a rum-running boat during the U.S. Prohibition era, which ended before talking pictures were introduced. In his spare time, he haunts his local cinema, and his favorite Read More

10/13/71
Fantasia Chez les Ploucs

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean Yanne, Mireille Darc, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: In rural Arkansas, strippers are using a bikini bottom made of stolen jewels. Two brothers, one a moonshiner who also uses moonshine as a tannery chemical, and the other a less-countrified lad, try to outwit both the police and the original thieves and steal the bikini for themselves. As it is Read More

1/15/71
Dernier Domicile Connu

Actors: Lino Ventura, Marlène Jobert, Michel Constantin, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: A veteran police inspector (Lino Ventura) is reprimanded after killing a youth who goes on a murderous killing spree. He is sent to a provincial police station where he is helped by his assistant (Marlene Jobert) in solving local crimes. As the duo embarks on a witness search, they begin to Read More

2/25/70
Army of Shadows

Actors: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Serge Reggiani

Synopsis: In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo headquarters and returns to Marseille. There he and his gang capture a traitor and throttle him. They then try to rescue a Resistance fighter in Lyons. As they do so, the hero is again captured and Read More

9/12/69
Le Clan des Siciliens

Actors: Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Danielle Volle, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick, Amedeo Nazzari

Synopsis: Roger Santet (Alain Delon) is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese (Jean Gabin). They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's American friend Tony Nicosia Read More

1969
Le Rapace

Actors: Lino Ventura, Xavier Marc, Rosa Furman, Enrique Lucero, Aurora Clavel

Synopsis: Le Rapace(Lino Ventura) is a suave soldier of fortune with a mysterious, unknown past. A group of South American revolutionaries hire him to kill a tyrannical leader. When he is caught in the middle of rival factions, he foregoes his financial reward and saves the mistress of the supposedly doomed Read More

5/7/68
Les Aventuriers

Actors: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus, Serge Reggiani

Synopsis: In this adventure, a hotshot pilot loses his license after he attempts to fly through the Arc de Triumph in Paris. Later he and his buddy head for the Congo accompanied by an unsuccessful female artist to locate a crashed plane supposedly filled with a fabulous treasure. Unfortunately, they are Read More

4/5/67
Les Grandes Gueules

Actors: Bourvil, Lino Ventura, Marie Dubois, Jess Hahn

Synopsis: Jean-Claude Roland and Lino Ventura play Nick and Laurent, a pair of not completely rehabilitated ex-convicts in Les Grandes Gueules. The twosome is hired by Hector (Bourvil), a well-meaning, unworldly sawmill owner. At first refusing to take their lumberjacking jobs seriously, the larcenous Read More

10/22/66
Avec la Peau des Autres

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean Bouise, Marilù Tolo, Wolfgang Preiss, Jean Servais, Adrian Hoven

Synopsis: A French secret agent Lino Ventura gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French. He dodges bullets fired by double-crossing double agents and a Read More

8/24/66
Le Deuxième Souffle

Actors: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, Christine Fabrega, Pierre Zimmer

Synopsis: Veteran gangster Gustave (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison to find his sister is being blackmailed by some petty thugs in this crime thriller. He plans one last caper to steal enough money in hopes of retiring to a tropical paradise. He and his gang are sought by a detective (Paul Meurisse), the Read More

1966
Panorama Du Film Policier Francais

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean Bouise

1966
Les Bons Vivants

Actors: Jean Lefebvre, Louis de Funès, Bernadette Lafont, Mireille Darc, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Pierre Bertin, Andréa Parisy

Synopsis: Louis De Funes stars in this two-part sexploitation comedy. Pleasure-seekers deal with the official closing of French bordellos after the passing of the 1949 legislation outlawing the houses of ill repute. Part two finds a former prostitute who is besieged by former associates after she pulls off Read More

10/28/65
La Metamorphose des Cloportes

Actors: Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Maurice Biraud, Irina Demick, Georges Géret

Synopsis: It is only with some reluctance that big-time hood Alphonse (Lino Ventura) allows himself to be persuaded that a major painting-theft planned by some formerly small-time gangsters is a good idea. He gives the idea his backing and support and winds up holding the bag for the crime as the others Read More

9/9/65
L'Arme à Gauche

Actors: Lino Ventura, Sylva Koscina, Alberto de Mendoza, Leo Gordon

Synopsis: A veteran sea captain (Lino Ventura) is blamed for the disappearance of a ship when the vessel is hijacked by gunrunners. Mrs. Osborne (Sylva Koscina) is a pretty American widow who helps the accused captain search for the missing ship. Leo Gordon plays the menacing heavy, Morrison, and co-stars Read More

6/18/65
Ne Nous Fachons Pas

Actors: Lino Ventura, Mireille Darc, Jean Lefebvre, Michel Constantin

Synopsis: A former gangster (Lino Ventura) comes out of retirement to help a petty thief (Jean Lefevbre) in this Gallic gangster comedy. Lino and his friend are confronted by a gang of long-haired British bikers who are after the money. Gadgets that are reminiscent of Bond-style spy films are used Read More

1965
Llanto Por un Bandido

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Lea Massari, Philippe Leroy, Lino Ventura

Synopsis: El Tempranillo (Francisco Rabal) returns from the Napoleonic wars with a desire to continue fighting. He turns to banditry rather than live in poverty in his native Spain. Though his wife (Lea Massari) pleads for him to change his dangerous way of life, he refuses. When she is killed, the bandit Read More

5/22/64
Les Barbouzes

Actors: Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche, Charles Millot

Synopsis: The attempts of four secret agents to get a scientist's widow to share her husbands secrets form the basis of this comedy. The rival spies come from France, Russia, Switzerland, and Germany. The woman presents a real challenge as she is a retired stripper (her husband died in a brothel). All of Read More

1964
Les Tontons Flingueurs

Actors: Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche, Jean Lefebvre, Claude Rich

Synopsis: This crime comedy finds ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receiving a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed "The Mexican" (Jacques Dumesnil). The doomed mobster talks Fernand into taking care of some criminal business and looking after his soon-to-be-married daughter (Sabine Sinjen). Read More

11/27/63
100,000 Dollars Au Soleil

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Andréa Parisy, Reginald Kernan, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Before Greed in the Sun was released to the States by way of MGM, this French/Italian co-production had made the European rounds under the titles 100,000 Dollars au Soleil and Centomilia Dollare al Sol. As any good linguist can gather, the catalyst for this action melodrama is 100,000 Read More

1963
Le Diable Et Les Dix Commandements

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Aznavour, Alain Delon, Fernandel, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and Flesh and Fantasy with the 1962 French production The Devil and the Ten Commandments. Actually, there are only seven separate episodes in the film, covering such commandments as "Thou Read More

9/14/62
Le Bateau D'Emile

Actors: Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura, Pierre Brasseur, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Various genres -- social satire, comedy, and romance -- come together in this routine tale by Denis de la Patellière about a family and greed. The well-heeled family gets its fortune from the canning of fish, and all its members are thrown into disarray when a long-lost brother comes back home. Read More

3/2/62
Die Dreigroschenoper

Actors: Sammy Davis, Jr., Curd Jürgens, June Ritchie, Hildegarde Neff

Synopsis: Hampered by over-orchestrated music, smeary color photography and (in the English version at least) poor dubbing, this 1963 French/German adaptation of the Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht piece The Three Penny Opera nonetheless has its attractions. Not least of these is the central performance of Curt Jurgens Read More

1962
Les Lions sont lachés

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Claudia Cardinale, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Lino Ventura

Synopsis: Henri Verneuil directs a star-studded cast in this slight satire about love and life in the big city. Claudia Cardenale, in her first French film, appears as Albertine, a sexy divorced woman from the countryside who goes to Paris and becomes involved with the fashionable elite. Lino Ventura is Read More

9/21/61
La Ragazza in Vetrina

Actors: Lino Ventura, Marina Vlady, Bernard Fresson, Magali Noël

Synopsis: Essentially a romantic drama set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico (Lino Ventura) and Vincenzo (Bernard Fresson) take off together for the city's red-light district, where Read More

4/14/61
II Giudizio Universale

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Rascel, Fernandel, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when a disembodied voice announces to the city's residents "The Last Judgment will begin at 6:00 p.m." Naturally, not all are immediately willing to accept this statement -- but Read More

1961
Herrin der Welt

Actors: Martha Hyer, Carlos Thompson, Micheline Presle, Lino Ventura

Synopsis: In this film based on an earlier German silent serial, a Swedish scientist (Gino Cervi) has invented a device which can alter the control of gravity. Soon after, Chinese spies intervene and try to swipe the machine, while the Swedish government sends help in the form of two agents (Lino Ventura, Carlos Thompson Read More

9/1/60
Classe Tous Risques

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo, Jacques Dacqmine

Synopsis: A criminal on the run finds going home after a decade is harder than he expects in this drama from French filmmaker Claude Sautet. Gangster Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) is wanted for murder in France, and has been living underground in Italy for ten years. Since then, Abel has married Therese (Simone Read More

3/23/60
Monsieur Gangster

1960
Un Taxi pour Tobruk

Actors: Lino Ventura, Hardy Kruger, Charles Aznavour, Maurice Biraud, German Cobos

Synopsis: In this WW II adventure, a band of French soldiers must escort a group of high-ranking German officers across the North African desert. Along the way a strange bond develops between the men, one of whom is Jewish. Just before they reach their destination, they are attacked by their own troops who Read More

1960
Le Chemin Des Ecoliers

Actors: Bourvil, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This well-acted-though routine wartime drama is the second such film in a row for young Jean Claude Brialy, who plays a member of one of two families who are experiencing the effects of the German Occupation. In general, both morals and morale have declined in the families so that a lonely married Read More

9/23/59
Un Temoin Dans La Ville

Actors: Lino Ventura, Franco Fabrizi, Sandra Milo, Jacques Berthier

Synopsis: Best known for his 1978, award-winning La Cage aux Folles, director Edouard Molinaro turns to suspense in this routine psychological drama about a man (Lino Ventura) whose psyche changes into that of a serial killer. The man has been traumatized by the murder of his wife and decides to seek Read More

1959
Sursis Pour Un Vivant

Actors: Henri Vidal, Lino Ventura, Dawn Addams

1959
Speaking of Murder

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the exploits of two criminal brothers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1959
Douze Heures d'horloge

Actors: Lino Ventura, Eva Bartok, Hannes Messemer, Gil Vidal

Synopsis: A wife attempts to help her escaped convict husband and his two cohorts evade capture, but is stopped by love and several twists of fate. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1959
125 Rue Montmartre

Actors: Lino Ventura, Andréa Parisy, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Jean Desailly

Synopsis: Lino Ventura is typecast again in this routine suspense story, this time as Pascal, a tough-minded, caustic, basically unsympathetic newspaper vendor. Pascal is caught up in the action when a man tries to drown himself, and without realizing it he soon becomes a pawn in a plot that the failed Read More

1959
Marie-Octobre

Actors: Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Danielle Darrieux, Serge Reggiani, Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: This suspensful drama finds ten members of the underground uniting fifteen years after the end of World War II. Nine men and a woman come together to expose a traitor among them. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1959
Le Gorille Vous Salue Bien

Actors: Lino Ventura, Charles Vanel, René Lefèvre, Bella Darvi, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: Lino Ventura stars in this French espionager as a secret agent known only as "The Gorilla". While it's never fully explained how our hero earned this simian nickname, it is perfectly clear that The Gorilla is much sought after by the police and the criminal underworld. The cops suspect that the Read More

1959
Montparnasse 19

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer, Lino Ventura, Lea Padovani, Gerard Sety

Synopsis: Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes, screenwriter Max Ophuls and director Jacques Becker offer their spin on the tragic, troubled life of Italian abstract painter Amedeo Modigliani. As played by Gerard Philipe Read More

4/4/58
Ces Dames Preferent Le Mambo

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Pascale Roberts, Lise Bourdin, Lino Ventura

Synopsis: The "mambo craze"of the late 1950s was hardly confined to the Western hemisphere, as proven by the French adventure flick Ces Dames Preferent le Mambo. In truth, there's not much singing or dancing in this Eddie Constantine vehicle. Instead, two-fisted Eddie gets involved with a treasure hunt in Read More

1/29/58
Maigret Tend un Piege

Actors: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Jean Desailly, Oliver Hussenot, Lucienne Bogaert, Jeanne Boitel

Synopsis: The French-made Inspector Maigret offers one of the best-ever Maigrets in the form of veteran tough guy Jean Gabin, who played the character three times throughout the 1950s. In Maigret Sets a Trap, the inspector tackles the case of a psychopathic serial killer. The female victims have all been Read More

1/29/58
La Fauve Est Lache

Actors: Lino Ventura, Estella Blain, Paul Frankeur, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: This popular, standard French spy drama is the second in a series that stars tough guy Lino Ventura as Paul, a man who really would like to come in from the cold. Paul has established himself in the ordinary world with an on-going, successful business and has settled down with his wife Nadine (Estella Blain Read More

1958
Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Lino Ventura, Jean Wall, Felix Marten, Yori Bertin

Synopsis: The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide (reminiscent of The Postman Always Rings Twice). Jeanne Moreau, as Florence Carala, gives an astonishing Read More

1957
Le Rouge Est Mis

Actors: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura, Marcel Bozzuffi

Synopsis: Its title notwithstanding, Le Rouge est Mis (The Red Light is On) is not a drama about prostitution. Instead, the story concentrates on the humdrum, workaday world of the professional criminal. Jean Gabin plays garage-owner Louis, whose establishment is a front for a robbery gang. Louis and his Read More

1957
L'Etrange Monsieur Steve

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Philippe Lemaire, Armand Mestral, Lino Ventura

Synopsis: L'Etrange Monsieur Steve (The Strange Mr. Stevens) features Armand Mestral as the title character. It is bank robber Mr. Steve (or Stevens) who introduces mild-mannered bank clerk Georges (Philippe Lemaire) to the criminal viewpoint. Fascinated by Mr. Steve's dangerous lifestyle, Georges Read More

1957
La Loi des Rues

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Silvana Pampanini, Jean-Louis Trintignant

1956
Razzia Sur la Chnouf

Actors: Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Magali Noël, Lino Ventura, Albert Remy

Synopsis: Raid on the Drug Ring is the English-language title of this Jean Gabin vehicle. The venerable French leading man plays the curiously sympathetic head of an international narcotics ring, invited from across the Atlantic to oversee the European branch of his operation. Using a fancy restaurant as a Read More

1955
Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Actors: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll

Synopsis: This strangely-christened French film noir was released in the U.S. as Grisbi. Jean Gabin stars as a racketeer known by the Runyonesque nickname of Max the Liar. Seeking out the finer things in life, Max intends to pull one last job and retire. After stealing a fortune in gold, our "hero" is faced Read More

3/17/54

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