Roger Hanin Filmography

César

Actors: Roger Hanin, Henri Tisot

Synopsis: Following Marius and Fanny in Nicholas Ribowski's La Trilogie Marseillaise, Cesar finds Fanny (Gaela Le Devehat) living a comfortable life in middle age, with her son Cesariot (Sebastien Delorme) just entering college. However, when Cesariot learns that his father is really Marius (Eric Poulain) Read More

Soleil

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Philippe Noiret, Roger Hanin, Nicolas Olczyk, Aurelien Wiik

Synopsis: A prominent French surgeon of Jewish heritage (Phillippe Noiret) suffers a massive heart attack in the film's prologue and as his life hangs in the balance, scenes from his life growing up in Algiers flash by. The resulting drama recalls his life and in so doing pays homage to the contributions of Read More

Une Femme Explosive

Le Nombril du Monde

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Delphine Forest, Thomas Langmann, Marie-José Nat, Souad Amidou

Synopsis: Bajou (Michel Boujenah) is an enterprising, talented man. He has risen from poor, humble beginnings, and thanks to a gift for mathematics, a willingness to work hard and occasionally cut corners, he is now a wealthy, successful man. He is a careful man in most respects, and does not generally Read More

Le Grand Pardon II

Actors: Roger Hanin, Richard Berry, Gérard Darmon, Christopher Walken, Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis: The war for control of a lucrative international drug trade provides the focus of this drama. The trouble begins when a kingpin is released after serving a ten year prison sentence and discovers that his relatives are engaging in a bloody battle for control. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jean Galmot, Aventurier

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Roger Hanin, Belinda Becker, Jean-Michel Martial

Synopsis: The 1926 commercial and social structure of French Guiana, the French former penal colony in South America, differed little from that of Haiti a century before. White settlers owned or exploited everything and everyone. No one else was permitted to benefit greatly, and even the modest success of Read More

Dernier Ete A Tanger

Actors: Valeria Golino, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Hanin, Vincent Lindon, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: Valeria Golino plays a double role in this thrilling crime drama. A woman returns years later to Tangiers in order to track down the thugs responsible for the gangland-style massacre that killed her father. Corrigan (Thierry Lhermitte) is the local detective recruited to find the international Read More

La Rumba

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

La Galette Du Roi

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Roger Hanin, Pauline Lafont, Jacques Villeret, Eddy Mitchell

Synopsis: In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris (Roger Hanin) is marrying Maria-Helena (Pauline Lafont), a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III (Jean Rochefort Read More

L'Etincelle

Actors: Roger Hanin, Clio Goldsmith, Simon Ward, John Moulder-Brown, Lysette Anthony

Synopsis: Dale (Clio Goldsmith) is a married, expectant mother who holds down a job as a radio announcer and when a Frenchman, Maurice (Roger Hanin), telephones the station one day to correct a mistake she made in reference to the cinema, the two eventually end up agreeing to meet. Dale is part-French and Read More

Train d'enfer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Roger Hanin, Gerard Klein, Christine Pascal, Robin Renucci, Fabrice Eberhard

Synopsis: This melodramatic, clichéd story loosely based on a true, 1983 racially-motivated murder, starts with three men arrested for disorderly conduct at a dance. After they are released, they take a train trip, vent their continuing anger on a young Arab, and kill the man by forcing him out of a window Read More

La Baraka

Actors: Roger Hanin, Gérard Darmon, Magali Renoir, Marthe Villalonga, Henri Tisot

Synopsis: Aime Prado (Roger Hanin) is the boisterous manager of a successful restaurant in Marseilles, a man biased against Arabs but otherwise (selectively) good-hearted. One day while out fishing, he is saved from drowning by Julien (Gerard Darmon), a very reserved, even sullen young man whom Aime Read More

Le Grand Carnaval

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Roger Hanin, Fiona Gelin, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gérard Darmon

Synopsis: Set against the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, this overly-ambitious, comedy-drama focuses on the relationship between its two central characters, Leon Castelli (Roger Hanin) a half-Algerian, half-French bartender, talkative, but with a generous soul, and Etienne Labrouche (Philippe Noiret Read More

Attention, Une Femme Peut En Cacher une Autre

Actors: Miou-Miou, Roger Hanin, Eddy Mitchell, Charlotte de Turckheim, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: The French My Other Husband (Attention! Une Femme Peut en Cacher une Autre) would eventually suffer the indignity of an American TV-movie remake, which will go unnamed here to protect the guilty. The original film is a sprightly vehicle for the delectable Miou-Miou. Thanks to her resourcefulness 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

Certaines Nouvelles

Actors: Micheline Presle, Gerard Lartigau, Bernadette Lafont, Roger Hanin

Le Coup de Sirocco

Actors: Roger Hanin, Marthe Villalonga, Michel Auclair, Patrick Bruel, Lucien Layani

Synopsis: The "pieds-noir" were Algerians of French heritage who were forced to return to France in 1962, when Algeria became independent. In the first part of this film, based on a novel by Daniel Saint-Hamon, the Narbonis run a little grocery in Algeria and keep their noses out of politics entirely. They Read More

Le Sucre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: In this story, the ambitions of the get-rich-quick crowd come crashing down around their ears as they hitch
a ride on a speculation bubble involving sugar-commodities pricing. Raoul (Gerard Depardieu) is a hot-shot commodities broker who sweet-talks Adrien (Jean Carmet), a quiet and Read More

L'Intrepide

Le Faux-Cul

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Tony Arzenta e Big Guns

Synopsis: A Mafia hitman's decision to leave his profession results in bloodshed and tragedy. The violence begins when his bosses, to help him change his mind, have the assassin's wife and child brutally murdered, causing the hitman to launch a vendetta against his bosses. The film is also titled Big Guns. Read More

La Raison du Plus Fou

Actors: Raymond Devos, Alice Sapritch, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: When sanitarium cook Surveillant (Raymond Devos) liberates a couple of patients and takes them on a trip to gaze on the ocean for the first time, he lands in hot water with his boss the director, who is a hard-hearted harridan with no time for such nonsense. In any event, the bumbling cook has Read More

The Revengers

Actors: Raul Prieto

Synopsis: Despite the fact that most of the westerns made at this time (early '70s) were "deconstructionist" westerns, which either spoofed or subverted the themes of this genre, occasionally a traditional western got filmed. The Revengers is a traditional western. John Benedict (William Holden) returns to Read More

Les Aveux les Plus Doux

Synopsis: This drama is based on a 1953 one-act play by Georges Amaudi. It details the confrontation between a determined young criminal and two brutal policemen who are bent on exacting a confession from him. The young criminal and his partner were caught after they attempted to rob a circus ticket booth. Read More

Clair De Terre

Actors: Jacques Portet, Patrick Jouane, Edwige Feuillère, Annie Girardot, Roger Hanin, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: An unsettled teen (Jacques Portet) who was born in Tunisia but brought to France for adoption in early childhood searches to discover his North African roots. Leaving France, he is cared for by an elderly woman who delights in giving him tours of Tunis. When he feels that time is passing him by Read More

La Main

Actors: Natalie Delon, Henri Serre, Michel Duchaussoy, Roger Hanin, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: This suspense story finds a severed hand leading to the psychological demise of the people who come in contact with it. The hand is removed when the murderers fail to stuff all of the victim's body into a trunk. The mastermind of the killing is murdered by his wife and her lover in a macabre scene Read More

Las Vegas 500 Milliones

Actors: Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance, Jean Servais

Synopsis: Gino (Jean Servais) breaks out of jail and visits his friend Tony (Gary Lockwood) with a plan to rob an armored car. Although both men are motivated by greed, Tony says no to the risky proposition. When Gino is killed by some trigger-happy cops, Tony decides to avenge his death by going ahead with Read More

Bruno, L'Enfant Du Dimanche

Actors: Roger Hanin, Francine Bergé, Pascale Roberts, Marika Green

Synopsis: Bruno (Christian Mesnier) is the 12-year-old boy whose parents are contemplating a divorce. He spends a weekend with his womanizing father Michel (Roger Hanin). The two have father-and-son talks in which young Bruno shows more common sense than his father. The astute 12-year-old already knows Read More

Our Men in Baghdad

Synopsis: An espionage saga as a secret agent tries to infiltrate a spy ring in the Middle East, this one holds no real surprises. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Canard En Fer Blanc

Actors: Roger Hanin, Corinne Marchand, Lila Kedrova, Francis Blanche

Carre De Dames Pour Un As

Actors: Roger Hanin, Sylva Koscina, Dominique Wilms, Catherine Allegret

The Brides of Fu Manchu

Actors: Christopher Lee, Marie Versini, Tsai Chin

Synopsis: The nefarious Fu Manchu strikes again in this crime drama. This time the megalomaniacal Manchu plots to earn the money he needs to build a world-dominating ray gun by abducting the daughters of 12 important world leaders. His dastardly daughter assists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Tigre Sort Sans Sa Mere

Actors: Roger Hanin, Margaret Lee, Claude Dauphin, Peter Carsten

Le Solitaire Passe a L'attaque

Actors: Roger Hanin, Jean Lefebvre, Teresa Gimpera

Code Name: Jaguar

Actors: Ray Danton, Pascale Petit, Roger Hanin, Wolfgang Preiss, Charles Regnier

Synopsis: An extremely sub-James Bond orientation drives this thriller -- made in Europe but trying to look and sound American -- about a counter-intelligence operative (identified as a "super-agent" by his boss) investigating a leak to the Soviets. Dark, good-looking Ray Danton plays Larson, the Read More

Four Queens for an Ace

Synopsis: Plastic surgery allows a notorious criminal to continue his trade. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Le Tigre Se Parfume a la Dynamite

Actors: Roger Hanin, Roger Dumas, Michel Bouquet, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: Tigre (Roger Hanin) is a French undercover agent sent to stop ex-Nazis in their attempt to take over Latin America. He is captured and flogged by henchmen for the group who assist in political revolutions with men and money. Marilyn Monroe-clone Margaret Lee co-stars in this routine spy thriller Read More

Passeport Diplomatique

Actors: Roger Hanin, Christiane Minazzoli, Lucien Nat, Antonio Passalia

Our Agent Tiger

Synopsis: When a French secret agent is set the task of securing a shipment of sunken gold somewhere off Martinique, he finds that he first must outwit a band of rebels who are also after it. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Corrida Pour Un Espion

Actors: Ray Danton, Pascale Petit, Roger Hanin, Horst Frank

Synopsis: Larson (Ray Danton) is a CIA agent who breaks a communist spy ring that has infiltrated key United States agencies in Europe in this routine spy actioner. Pascale Petit is on hand for distaff interest for the hero. The film is one in a long line of Bond-styled thrillers that glutted the market in Read More

Via Macao

Actors: Roger Hanin, Françoise Prevost, Anna Gael

Le Tigre Aime la Chair Fraiche

Actors: Roger Hanin, Maria Mauban, Daniela Bianchi, Roger Dumas

Synopsis: Roger Hanin stars as the secret agent LeTigre in this routine spy actioner. The film recycles a scene from Goldfinger with a car-smashing machine, but the results are less-than satisfying than other films of the genre. Daniela Bianchi plays Mika, the daughter of a Turkish diplomat. ~ Dan Pavlides Read More

Code Name: Tiger

Synopsis: Before French director Claude Chabrol was adopted by the auterists, he was a workaday craftsman turning out purely commercial products. Code Name: Tiger is an average spy-counterspy effort, starring Roger Hanin as a secret agent known as "Le Tiger". Unlike James Bond, Le Tiger is a military Read More

Operation Top Secret

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, international spies stalk a German scientist in possession of important information about a rocket re-entry project. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Marcia Su Roma

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Comedian Ugo Tognazzi as Umberto and Vittorio Gassmann as Domenico are featured in this comedy-drama about the 1920 march to Rome that saw the beginning of fascism in Italy. As the duo make their way to the capital along with many others, several misadventures highlight the trip, providing Read More

Un Mari A Prix Fixe

Actors: Anna Karina, Roger Hanin, Gregor Von Rezzori, Hubert Noel

Carillons Sans Joie

Actors: Dany Carrel, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: This routine drama set during World War II in Algeria is based on a true and tragic incident. A French garrison has been demoralized by the strength of the German forces in the region, so when the Allies land, it gives them some hope. They are put under orders to take and hold a bridge, allowing Read More

Les Ennemis

Actors: Pascale Audret, Dany Carrel, Claude Brasseur, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: A few years before he was to gain a name as the French secret agent "Tiger" in spy spoofs by Claude Chabrol, Roger Hanin appeared as Jean, a serious secret agent who is teamed with Vigo (Claude Brasseur) in a case involving a stolen Russian code. One of the attachés in the Russian embassy has come Read More

Le Gorille a Mordu L'Archeveque

Actors: Roger Hanin, Jean Le Poulain, James Campbell, Roger Dumas

The Deadly Decoys

Synopsis: Roger Hanin plays "The Gorilla" in Deadly Decoy. No, he doesn't have elongated arms or hair all over his body. The Gorilla is a top secret agent, famed for his strength and dexterity. His assignment this time around is to prevent a political assassination. He expedites this by setting himself up Read More

Operation Diplomatic Passport

Synopsis: A secret formula for making synthetic petroleum becomes the bone of contention in this drama. Included in the race to get the formula, is an ambassador's daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Miracle des Loups

Actors: Jean Marais, Rosanna Schiaffino, Roger Hanin, Jean-Louis Barrault

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Henri Dupuy-Mazuel, this costume drama is set in the 16th century during the time of the French king, Louis XI (Jean-Louis Barrault). Charles, Duke of Bourgogne kidnaps the beautiful Jeanne de Beauvais (Rosanna Schiaffino) because King Louis has not granted Charles permission Read More

Les Bras De La Nuit

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Les Bras de la nuit is another of the typical love vs. duty stories in which a police inspector, Landais (Roger Hanin) is caught in a tough situation. Daniele (Danielle Darrieux) is a killer -- she has murdered her husband -- yet after the inspector starts investigating the case, he is completely Read More

Escapade

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Dany Carrel, Roger Hanin

Night Affair

Synopsis: A police inspector on the trail of the murderer of a nightclub owner falls for the dead man's drug-addicted mistress. He tries to get her to talk, but the commissioner suspects her and wants the case solved, so he orders her arrested. She disappears, and the inspector is led to the home of the Read More

Rocco and His Brothers

Actors: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who come to Milan seeking a better life. Following the death of her husband, proud Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) picks up stakes and moves to the city with four of her sons: Simone (Renato Salvatori Read More

Breathless

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane David, Henri-Jacques Huet

Synopsis: The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune along the Read More

L'Ennemi Dans L'Ombre

Actors: Roger Hanin, Bernard Blier, Estella Blain, Michel Vitold

Enemy in the Shadows

Synopsis: His successor's death prompts the retaliation of this top agent against the murderers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

L'Affaire D'Une Nuit

Actors: Pascale Petit, Roger Hanin, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: The protagonists in this routine sexual drama are less than appealing, which makes involvement in their one-night peccadillo a difficult challenge. Catherine (Pascale Petit, on her way to making a spate of movies in this decade) and Michel (Roger Hanin) meet when Michel runs into an old school 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

La Valse Du Gorille

Actors: Roger Hanin, Charles Vanel, Jess Hahn, Suzanne Dehelly

Synopsis: This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Read More

The Cat

Synopsis: In this suspenseful WW II drama a Parisian widow assists with the Resistance. Unfortunately, she falls in love with a German soldier. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Tamango

Actors: Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, Jean Servais, Alex Cressan, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Adapted from a novelette by Prosper Merimée, Tamango ran into censorship problems in the U.S. for several reasons, not least of which was the fact that its director, John Berry, had been blacklisted during the Communist witch hunt. Set during the early 19th century, the story concerns a slave Read More

Le Desordre Et La Nuit

Actors: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Director Giles Grangier adapted the screenplay of Les Desordre et la Nuit from his own novel. Jean Gabin stars as Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police. Vallois takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Read More

Une Balle Dans le Canon

Actors: Pierre Vaneck, Mijanou Bardot, Roger Hanin, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: The producers of Une Balles dans le Canou (A Slug in the Heater) undoubtedly believed that the magical name of BARDOT on the marquee would draw in patrons by the thousands. Imagine the surprise of some of those patrons when the film's star turned out not to be Brigitte Bardot, but her younger