Robert HosseinFilmography

Trivial

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Sophie Marceau, Nicolas Briancon, Simon Abkarian, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: A suicidal police detective travels from La Havre to Deauville at the behest of a mysterious femme fatale in the suspenseful sophomore feature from actress-turned-director Sophie Marceau. For Lt. Jacques Renard (Christopher Lambert), every night is a struggle. Rendered sleepless following the Read More

Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque

Actors: Henri Alékan, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold, Christian Auboire, Raphael Bassan

Synopsis: Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with Jean Mitry and Georges Franju) one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and museum devoted to preserving the history of the motion picture. Initially a tiny Read More

San Antonio

Venus Beauty Institute

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffé, Mathilde Seigner

Synopsis: A visually stylish comedy with dramatic overtones from director Tonie Marshall, Vénus Beauté (Institut) looks at the lives of three women who work at a small but successful beauty salon. Angele Nathalie Baye is an attractive woman just edging into middle age who is looking for companionship Read More

Rififi

Actors: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Magali Noël, Perlo Vita

Synopsis: Jules Dassin -- in his second European film after being driven out of the United States during the years of the house Un-American Activities Committee hearings -- directed this landmark caper film about the planning and execution of a nighttime robbery at a swanky English jewelry shop in the Rue Read More

Wax Mask

Synopsis: In the grand tradition of Britain's Hammer low-budget horror films of the '60s, this Gothic and gory chiller is the third screen version of Gaston Leroux's tale The Wax Museum. The prologue is set in turn-of-the-century Paris at New Years. Just as the bells ring out, a young sleeping couple are Read More

Les Misérables

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Annie Girardot, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on the story of two men, a father and a son, whose life stories bear striking similarities to Hugo's character Jean Valjean. The father is Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a Read More

L'Affaire

Actors: Robert Hossein, F. Murray Abraham, Bruno Wolkowitch, Candice Patou

Les Enfants du Desordre

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Robert Hossein, Patrick Catalifo

Synopsis: In this straightforward drama, Marie (Emmanuelle Beart) is a prisoner at the time she sees a performance by a theatrical troupe. After the show, she goes up to speak to one of the players, and this leads (without her knowledge) to her being chosen to participate in a special program. It seems that Read More

Le Caviar Rouge

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Hossein, Candice Patou, Ivan Desny

Synopsis: In a complicated spy thriller that never quite shifts out of neutral, Alex (Robert Hossein) and Nora (Candice Patou) are ex-lovers and spies who work for the USSR. Several years after their affair ended, they are back together, called to work in Geneva by the Swiss bureau chief because an Egyptian Read More

Levy et Goliath

Actors: Richard Anconina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Souad Amidou, Maxime Leroux

Synopsis: In this comedy, young Moses Levy is a Hassidic Jew who lives a quiet existence, avoiding entanglement with the modern world. However, his job requires that he travel between the diamond capital of Antwerp to Paris to deliver diamond powder to an auto assembly plant. Without his knowledge, a gang Read More

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Evelyne Bouix, Marie-Sophie Pochat, Richard Berry, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu

Synopsis: It is possible to enjoy Claude Lelouch's Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later on its own merits, though we advise that to fully appreciate the film, it's best to catch Lelouch's 1966 blockbuster A Man and a Woman first. True to its word, the 1986 film brings us up to date with the protagonists of the Read More

Surprise Party

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Michel Duchaussoy, Robert Hossein, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: Although written and directed by the well-known Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), this movie about life and love among a group of high schoolers on vacation in the countryside has nothing to distinguish it beyond the typical couplings and uncouplings found in other movies in the same genre. Read More

Les Misérables

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Les Uns et les autres

Actors: Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Olbrychski, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Bolero covers a time span of half a century, concentrating on several generations of music lovers, all hailing from different nations and cultural backgrounds. Each of the principal actors plays multiple characters. Among the cast-members is James Caan, Robert Hossein and Read More

Le Professionnel

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Beaune, Cyrielle Claire, Jean Desailly, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Joss Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a French spy given the assignment of killing an African dictator, and when he arrives in Africa to do so, he is captured and put in prison. The political winds had changed - the dictator is now an ally - and the best way to handle the agent is to keep him in Read More

Le Grand Pardon

Actors: Roger Hanin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernard Giraudeau, Richard Berry, Robert Hossein, Clio Goldsmith

Synopsis: A Jewish Mafia-like family is running a prostitution ring, selling "protection," and operating gambling casinos -- more or less with impunity, and at peace with their Arab counterparts -- until a young gangster (Bernard Giraudeau) decides to pit the two ethnic factions against each other. Jewish Read More

Le Faux-Cul

Actors: Bernard Blier, Robert Hossein, Sabine Glaser, Michel Peyrelon, Edward Meeks

Synopsis: In this French spy thriller, a policeman with wide-ranging powers to protect an African dictator who is visiting France -- to negotiate a uranium-mining treaty -- reveals an unexpected degree of skillfulness in doing his job when he is challenged by the actions of spies from other countries and Read More

Le Protecteur

Actors: Georges Géret, Bruno Cremer, Roger Coggio

Synopsis: When he gets out of prison, Sam (Georges Gerret) seeks to track down his little girl, now a grown woman (Juliet Berto). After a series of violent encounters, he discovers that she has been sold into prostitution -- and likes it. She marries one of her procurers, and that would seem to be that. Read More

Don Juan 73

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Maurice Ronet, Mathieu Carrière, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: This campy Roger Vadim film stars sex-kitten Brigitte Bardot as Jeanne, the female counterpart to Don Juan, a woman who is ruthlessly wicked in her pursuit of love and desire. Jeanne confesses murder to a young priest (Mathieu Carriere) who is also her cousin, and after she tells him the story of Read More

Un Officier de Police sans Importance

Actors: Marc Porel, Robert Hossein, Jean Negulesco, Dani

Synopsis: This French suspense drama concerns the efforts of a small-time criminal (Robert Hossein) to spring his older brother from jail. The younger man and his friends kidnap a non-descript detective to serve as a hostage they can exchange for the brother. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Prêtres Interdits

Actors: Robert Hossein, Claude Jade, Claude Piéplu, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: This French melodrama tells the tragic story of a young priest (Robert Hossein) who falls in love with a young woman, has relations with her, and gets her pregnant. His cardinal wants to ship him off to Rome, but he sticks around and has a hard time of it when she dies and he is not allowed to Read More

Desert Battle

Synopsis: A British soldier and his German counterpart are equally affected by the heat of a North African desert during a battle. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hellé

Actors: Didier Haudepin

Synopsis: Despite his best efforts, Julian (Bruo Bradei) cannot resist goading his younger brother Fabrice (Didier Haudepin) into doing something dumb. They are returning together to their mother's country home for a holiday break. Julian fought in Indochina when it was still French, and the war still Read More

Un Meurtre Est un Meurtre

Actors: Michel Serrault, Catherine Spaak, Stéphane Audran, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: In this French suspense drama, Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy) is a decent man in an ugly situation. His wife (Stephane Audran), who was crippled in their second year of marriage, has become a bitter and unpleasant virago. Though he keeps company with a lovely mistress (Catherine Spaak), the wife is Read More

Le Casse

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: This French-made feature was based on a 1957 Hollywood "B" effort The Burglar. Both films were inspired by the same David Goodis novel. Gallic crime-flick icon Jean Paul Belmondo play a slick jewel thief who steals a valuable emerald. He is stalked by cop Omar Sharif, who when he catches up to Belmondo Read More

All'ovest Di Sacramento

Le Juge

Actors: Pierre Perret, Robert Hossein, Silvia Monti, Angelo Infanti

La Part des Lions

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: In this French caper film, Charles Aznavour stars as Eric, an architect-turned-writer who has grown increasingly dissatisfied with his life -- so much so that he turns down an award he has won (and then regrets it). His childhood friend Maurice (Robert Hossein) is a professional safecracker and Read More

Le Temps Des Loups

Actors: Robert Hossein, Charles Aznavour, Virna Lisi, Genevieve Thenier, Albert Minsky

Synopsis: Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi Read More

Point De Chute

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Johnny Hallyday, Robert Hossein, Pascale Rivault, Albert Minsky, Robert Dalban

Synopsis: A kidnapper falls for his victim in this gangster feature highlighted by flashbacks. The film opens with the police surrounding the hideout of Vlad (Johnny Hallyday) and his female victim (Pascale Rivault). When she sees the faces of the kidnappers, they instruct Vlad to kill the woman. They leave Read More

Nell'Anno Del Signore

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein, Renaud Verley

Synopsis: Revolutionaries in papal-dominated Rome are hunted down by the minions of Cardinale Rivarola (Ugo Tognazzi) for daring to rise up against the Pope. Cornacchia (Nino Manfredi) is the politician who helps the rebel outlaws Montanari (Robert Hossein) and Targhini (Renaud Verley). Martial law is Read More

La Battaglia Del Deserto

The Scarlet Lady

Actors: Monica Vitti, Maurice Ronet, Robert Hossein, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: This dark comedy finds Lucie (Monica Vitti) planning to kill her boyfriend (Maurice Ronet), and then herself, after discovering that he has cheated her out of her inheritance and left her penniless. She decides to binge on champagne and caviar before committing suicide, but is rendered intoxicated Read More

Maldonne

Actors: Pierre Vaneck, Elsa Martinelli, Robert Hossein, Jean Topart, Roger Coggio

Synopsis: In this thrilling mystery of mistaken identity, Jacques (Pierre Vaneck) is a piano player in a nightclub who is approached by a man he never met before. The stranger offers him a job posing as the husband of a mentally challenged woman. He will be rewarded for taking care of the woman. Since his Read More

Le Voleur De Crimes

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Hossein, Florinda Bolkan, Giorgia Moll, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: An unhappily married man with two children watches a beautiful woman kill herself when she ties herself inside a car and drives off a cliff. Jean (Jean-Louis Trintignant) tries to save the woman but is too late. After hanging out with his bohemian friends, he writes a letter to the local newspaper Read More

La Vie, l'Amour, la Mort

Actors: Amidou, Caroline Cellier, Janine Magnan, Catherine Samie, Marcel Bozzuffi

Synopsis: The title Life Love Death (originally La Vie, L'amour, la Mort) pretty much runs the gamut of the subject matter which normally appeals to French filmmaker Claude Lelouch. Awaiting execution for murder, Souad Amidou reflects on the events leading up to this sorry contingency. It seems that Amidou Read More

The Battle of El Alamein

Synopsis: No relation to the 1953 El Alamein (beyond a common "real life" source), The Battle of El Alamein was a French-Italian coproduction, largely lensed in Spain. Set during the titular desert battle of 1942, the film departs from expectation by concentrating on the Axis point of view. Though they Read More

La Leçon Particulière

Actors: Natalie Delon, Renaud Verley, Robert Hossein, Martine Sarcey, Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis: A 19-year-old college student from an upper-middle-class family has an affair with the 25-year-old mistress of a famous driver who competes in international horse races. He is treated like a kid by the woman until they come together at a winter resort and begin an amorous affair. When the driver Read More

Angelique et le Sultan

Actors: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Pascal, Roger Pigaut, Renato de Carmine

Synopsis: A pretty lady in waiting from the court of King Louis XIV is sold to an evil Sultan. Angelique (Michele Mercier) is separated from her husband and suffers the indignities of sexual assault. She manages to survive until her husband (Robert Hossein) comes to her rescue. Although the Sultan's Read More

Pas De Roses Pour OSS 117

Actors: John Gavin, Margaret Lee, Curd Jürgens, Luciana Paluzzi, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Agent OSS 117 (John Gavin) is the American secret agent who battles an evil organization that carries out assassinations. He poses as a killer to infiltrate the organization led by the macabre Major (Curt Jurgens). He draws an assignment that sends him to the Middle East where his target is a Read More

The Friday Man

La Petite Vertu

Actors: Dany Carrel, Jacques Perrin, Pierre Brasseur, Robert Hossein, Raymond Gerome

Synopsis: A young woman living on the Left Bank of Paris is a pickpocket and a prostitute. Running away from a man she has robbed, she sees a young street photographer and plants the stolen wallet on him. Before she goes to prison, the two fall in love. Upon her release, they are married and things look Read More

Une Corde, un Colt

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Hossein, Michele Mercier, Daniele Vargas, Lee Burton, Serge Marquand

Synopsis: This western finds Manuel (Robert Hossein) visiting his friends only to discover the husband has been murdered in a feud between two rival families. He promises the widow he will kidnap the daughter of the other family to avenge the killing. Manuel manages to apprehend the girl, and the widow has Read More

J'ai Tué Raspoutine

Crew: Director

Actors: Gert Fröbe, Peter McEnery, Robert Hossein, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: This uneven docudrama concerns the monk Rasputin (Gert Frobe) and his friendship with Felix Youssopov (Peter McEnery). Rasputin's healing powers endeared him to the family of Czar Nicholas II with his ability to care for the Czar's hemophiliac son and heir to the throne, Alexei. Rasputin's Read More

Indomptable Angelique

Actors: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Roger Pigaut

L'Homme Qui Trahit La Mafia

Actors: Robert Hossein, Claude Mann

Synopsis: When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the man's murder. He soon uncovers a drug-smuggling operation and lets his sawed-off shotgun do the talking to the toughs in this Gallic gangster feature. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Lamiel

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after Read More

Brigade Anti-Gangs

Actors: Robert Hossein, Raymond Pellegrin, Gabriele Tinti, Pierre Clémenti

Synopsis: A kidnapped soccer player leads to a gang of young thugs demanding the release of a jailed comrade in this routine crime drama. The soccer player will be released only when a killer is set free. Meanwhile, a hard-boiled gumshoe suspects a respected restaurateur of being in cahoots with the mob. He Read More

La Seconde Verite

Actors: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Bernard Tiphaine

Synopsis: Pierre (Robert Hossein) is a fortysomething attorney who falls for a young woman (Michele Mercier) who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. He is invited to her apartment where he observes the woman is living in relative luxury with the latest lavish fashions, but the Read More

Madamigella Di Maupin

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Robert Hossein, Tomas Milian, Angel Alvarez

Synopsis: Maddalena (Catherine Spaak) masquerades as a heroic male named Teodoro and joins the army to gain insight on men in this costumed comedy satire. She falls for an officer (Tomas Milian) but he is naturally unable to act on his impulses because he believes she is a man. Other men also make passes at Read More

La Musica

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Robert Hossein, Julie Dassin

Synopsis: A man (Robert Hossein) returns to his hometown right after his wife (Delphine Seyrig) has finalized their divorce in this brow-beating psychological drama. The two argue over their past relationship, a union marred by mutual infidelity. A young American woman (Julie Dassin) on a tour of France has Read More

The Second Truth

La Longue Marche

Actors: Robert Hossein, Maurice Ronet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: A doctor (Maurice Ronet) is kidnapped by a resistance group fighting the Nazis in this World War II action drama. A young lieutenant (Robert Hossein) saves the doctor from being executed by people who believe the doctor had turned their names over to the authorities. In spite of the heroic effort Read More

Le Meravigliose Avventure di Marco Polo

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Horst Buchholz, Elsa Martinelli, Omar Sharif, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a star-studded, epic retelling of the story of the famed thirteenth-century Venitian explorer. Filmed on location in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Egypt and Afghanistan, the film stars Read More

Le Tonnerre de Dieu

Actors: Jean Gabin, Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Lilli Palmer, Georges Géret

Synopsis: Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone (Michele Mercier), Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who Read More

Guerre Secrete

Actors: Bourvil, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Annie Girardot, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international espionage agents. Stories involve a secret agent (Vittorio Gassman) who goes undercover as a kidnapper, an attempt to impede a Russian attack on two submarines, and an undercover Read More

Le Vampire De Dusseldorf

Crew: Director

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Robert Hossein, Paloma Valdes

Synopsis: Robert Hossein and Marie-France Pisier star in this moderately suspenseful thriller. Peter is a laborer who dons fancy clothes and cruises the seedy dives of Dusseldorf for women. Whenever he is rejected by one of the females, he turns into a sadistic murderer. A shy young cabaret singer falls for Read More

Angelique et le Roi

Actors: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jacques Toja, Sami Frey, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: Michelle Mercier continues in her role as Angelique, the beautiful woman in the court of King Louis XIV. She beds down several men before her husband, who she believed was dead, returns for her. This is the third in a series of romantic costumed dramas that chronicle Angelique's amorous Read More

Angelique Marquise Des Anges

Actors: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort, Giuliano Gemma

Synopsis: Angelique (Michele Mercier), the beautiful daughter of a once-wealthy nobleman, is married off to their rich neighbor Joffray de Peyrac (Robert Hossein) in this provocative 17th-century costumed drama. Theirs is at first a marriage of convenience until she begins to fall for Joffray. When he is Read More

Les Yeux Cernes

Crew: Director

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: A widow (Michele Morgan) in a small town begins to realize that her late husband was hated by nearly everybody. She begins to receive blackmail letters that threaten to further humiliate her if she does not pay up. She enlists the help of Franz (Robert Hossein), a man who was once fired by her Read More

Banco à Bangkok (pour OSS 117)

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Robert Hossein, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Dominique Wilms

Synopsis: In this Italian mystery-adventure, a government agent is assigned to look into a mysterious outbreak of a deadly virus in Southeast Asia. While attending a party, he meets an enemy agent and his pretty sister. Later the enemy captures the agent and his own sister who has fallen for the American. Read More

La Mort d'un Tueur

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier, Simon Andreu, Robert Dalban

Synopsis: When Massa (Robert Hossein) is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano (Simon Andreu), an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria (Marie-France Pisier). Feeling doubly betrayed because of Read More

Chair de Poule

Actors: Robert Hossein, Catherine Rouvel, Jean Sorel, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: In this French crime drama, two safe-crackers are breaking into a safe when they are caught in the act by a guard. One of the crooks kills the guard and flees leaving his partner behind. The abandoned accomplice is captured and convicted. One year passes before the convict is able to escape from Read More

Les Grands Chemins

Actors: Robert Hossein, Anouk Aimée, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: The French-made Of Flesh and Blood plays like "Dostoyevsky Meets Roger Corman." Robert Hossein finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence. Understandably unnerved by all this, Hossein murders an old woman. Read More

La Vice et la Vertu

Actors: Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Catherine Deneuve, O.E. Hasse

Synopsis: The "vice and virtue" of the title of this wartime drama directed by Roger Vadim are exemplified in the personae of two very attractive women: Juliette (Annie Girardot) and Justine (Catherine Deneuve). Juliette is a collaborator and Justine supports the resistance movement, yet when her husband is Read More

Le Meurtrier

Actors: Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Yvonne Furneaux, Maurice Ronet

Synopsis: In this drama, two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. The trouble begins when an unhappily married architect becomes obsessed with a murder trial in which a husband allegedly murdered his wife. The architect begins collecting newspaper clippings. Although the charges Read More

Hitch-Hike

Love on a Pillow

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Jean-Marc Bory, Macha Meril

Synopsis: Roger Vadim directs his ex-wife Brigitte Bardot once again in this conventional film about an innocent young woman, Genevieve (Bardot), who ends up on the losing side of a relationship with an alcoholic -- at least for awhile. Genevieve is a typical, introverted, middle-class woman who would like Read More

Paris Pick-Up

Actors: Robert Hossein, Lea Massari, Maurice Biraud, Robert Dalban

Synopsis: In this standard murder mystery with a twist, an attractive woman, Marta (Lea Massari), picks up a man who has just been released from jail. The former prisoner is anxious for company but does not want to violate the conditions of his release (he cannot go into Paris). Marta and her daughter take Read More

Les Petits Matins

Actors: Fernand Gravey, François Perier, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: This specialized film by femme director Jacqueline Audry is strictly a lightweight, skim-the-surface drama with a touch of insider irony (well-known actors do cameos in which they parody their own screen personae, or simply spoof themselves). As in most of her films, Audry focuses on a female Read More

Madame Sans-Gene

Actors: Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Julien Bertheau, Renaud Mary

Synopsis: Based on a 1907 comedy by Victorien Sardou and Emile Moreau, Madame Sans-Gene was first interpreted by Gloria Swanson in 1923. In this version of the free-wheeling laundress who joins the nobility, Sophia Loren plays the lead and the man she falls in love with, the soldier Lefebvre, is played by Robert Hossein Read More

Le Goût de la Violence

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Hossein, Giovanna Ralli, Mario Adorf, Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis: This unlikely, somewhat clichéd European "western" by Robert Hossein (scripter, director, and lead) is set in an unnamed Latin American country suffering under a dictator. A revolution is underway, or at least there is a strong guerrilla movement here. The leader of the guerrillas manages to Read More

La Menace

Actors: Robert Hossein, Marie-José Nat, Elsa Martinelli, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: La Menace is not the most suspenseful or convincing crime drama, though its story has potential. Josepha (Marie-Jose Nat) is only eighteen and longs for the companionship of a group of her peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the Read More

Le Jeu de la Verité

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Servais, Robert Hossein, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Paul Meurisse, Françoise Prevost, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: Robert Hossein serves as both director and star of The Game of Truth. The scene is a party thrown by a capricious novelist. During an elaborate word game, one of the guests, a late arrival, is murdered. Thus begins a round robin of accusations, recriminations and surprising revelations. Cunningly Read More

Les Canailles

Actors: Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Philippe Clay, Scilla Gabel

La Nuit des Espions

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Robert Le Beal, Roger Crouzet

Synopsis: In this routine spy story with primarily one setting -- a small cabin -- and only two protagonists, Peter (Robert Hossein, also the director) and Helene (Marina Vlady), the characterizations flag a little in the long scrutiny. The premise is that the Brits have intercepted a German spy in her Read More

Du Rififi Chez Les Femmes

Actors: Nadja Tiller, Robert Hossein, Silvia Monfort, Roger Hanin, Pierre Blanchar

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a criminal mastermind and his gang plan to rob the Bank of Belgium during the Brussels Exposition as the roof of the bank is being repaired. Included in his gang are a woman, haunted by wartime memories, who loves money, her assistant, and a man pretending to be a construction Read More

Des Femmes Disparaissent

Actors: Robert Hossein, Philippe Clay, Jacques Dacqmine, Magali Noël, Estella Blain

Synopsis: In this drama, the hero finds himself beaten by gang members whose operation involves capturing young women and selling them as prostitute/slaves. When the hero's own fiancee ends up involved, he does everything he can to save her. Fortunately the police intervene, with guns blazing, and the day Read More

Les Scelerats

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Hossein, Michèle Morgan, Perette Pradier, Oliver Hussenot

Synopsis: Meant to be a psychological study of a dysfunctional couple and an equally unbalanced maid, this slow-paced, murky melodrama stars Michele Morgan and Robert Hossein (the director) as Thelma and Jess, two Americans who move into a down-at-the-heels Paris neighborhood. The couple is still suffering Read More

La Sentence

Actors: Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: One of three 1959 films starring the husband-and-wife team of Robert Hossein and Marina Vlady, La Sentence is a rather flat wartime suspense film with a good premise but weak dialogue. The setting is a beach house just before the Allied invasion on D-Day. A German officer has been killed by a Read More

Crime et Châtiment

Actors: Jean Gabin, Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Ulla Jacobsson, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Crime and Punishment is Dostoyevsky's story about the Nietzchean student Raskolnikov, played in this 1958 French film version by Bernard Bleier. Raskolnikov believes himself above such bourgeois concepts as morality and conscience, which leads to his murder of a hateful old woman. A perceptive Read More

Liberte Surveillee

Actors: Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, René Lefèvre, Paul Bisciglia

Synopsis: At the insistence of the Czechoslovakian judges, the French-Czech Liberte Sureveille (Provisional Liberty) was withdrawn from the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, though it was shown out of competition. The plot concerns the efforts of a young man to escape his own country in favor of a more agreeable Read More

Toi Le Venin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Odile Versois, Helena Manson

Synopsis: Robert Hossein was writer, director and star of the suspense melodrama Toi le Venin. Picked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced by the girl. Immediately thereafter, however, she dumps him, attempting to run him over as a final insult. Read More

Sait-On Jamais?

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Christian Marquand, Robert Hossein, O.E. Hasse, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: Roger Vadim's second directorial project was Sait-On Jamais, which was released in English-speaking countries as Does One Ever Know and No Sun in Venice. Set in Italy, this romantic suspenser is inventively paced to the musical improvisations of the Modern Jazz Quartet. On a Venetian holiday, a Read More

Mefiez-Vous Fillettes

Actors: Antonella Lualdi, Robert Hossein, Gérard Oury, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: This complex effort from French filmmaker Yves Allégret was distributed in English-speaking countries as Young Girls Beware and Look Out Girls. The cautionary title should have been heeded by heroine Fan (Michèle Cordoue). Having had the bad luck to witness a gangland murder, Fan is promptly Read More

Pardonnez Nos Offenses

Crew: Director

Actors: Marina Vlady, Pierre Vaneck, Gianni Esposito

Les Salauds Vont En Enfer

Crew: Director

Actors: Marina Vlady, Henri Vidal, Serge Reggiani

Synopsis: The title of this French prison drama loosely translates to Heels Go to Hell. Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our Read More