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1. The Wages of Fear (1953)
Not Rated | 131 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli
Votes: 66,490
2. To Catch a Thief (1955)
PG | 106 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Votes: 79,663 | Gross: $8.75M
3. Diabolique (1955)
Not Rated | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Votes: 69,318 | Gross: $1.09M
4. The Truth (1960)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A liberated small-town girl and the family's black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey
Votes: 4,441
5. Alice or The Last Escapade (1977)
93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Fernand Ledoux, François Perrot
Votes: 1,243
6. Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece (1961)
104 min | Adventure, Drama
Tintin and Captain Haddock try to discover what is so desirable about their old and apparently worthless ship.
Director: Jean-Jacques Vierne | Stars: Jean-Pierre Talbot, Georges Wilson, Georges Loriot, Milo
Votes: 1,512
7. Illustrious Corpses (1976)
PG | 120 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An investigation of the judges' assassinations reveals a political background.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paolo Bonacelli
Votes: 2,795
8. Les saisons du plaisir (1988)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Luc Bideau, Roland Blanche
Votes: 279
9. Woman in Chains (1968)
R | 106 min | Drama
Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert ... See full summary »
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Elisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson, Dany Carrel
Votes: 1,729
10. Three Brothers (1981)
PG | 113 min | Drama
Three men face their mother's death.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andréa Ferréol
Votes: 1,791
11. Magnet of Doom (1963)
102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier, Malvina Silberberg
Votes: 1,760
12. Wooden Crosses (1932)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, War
World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos
Votes: 1,685
13. Les Misérables (1934)
Not Rated | 281 min | Drama
The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azaïs, Max Dearly
Votes: 1,968
14. In the Name of the Law (1949)
100 min | Crime, Drama
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the Mafia.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Massimo Girotti, Charles Vanel, Jone Salinas, Camillo Mastrocinque
Votes: 710
15. La belle équipe (1936)
100 min | Drama
Five unemployed penniless workers win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos, Viviane Romance
Votes: 1,419
16. Cinéma 16 (1975–1991)
Drama
Stars: Jean Toscan, Fernand Kindt, Richard Martin, Serge Martel
Votes: 32
17. Shock Troops (1967)
Approved | 110 min | Action, Drama, History
A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Charles Vanel, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 817
18. Death in the Garden (1956)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 2,605
19. Camorra (1972)
105 min | Crime, Drama
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
Director: Pasquale Squitieri | Stars: Fabio Testi, Jean Seberg, Raymond Pellegrin, Charles Vanel
Votes: 192
20. Boomerang (1976)
100 min | Crime, Drama
Under the influence of drugs, a teenager, Eddy, kills a policeman. His father, Jacques, pleads extenuating circumstances and nearly succeeds in gaining the confidence of the policeman's widow. But the press reveals that Jacques is an ex-gangster who has spent time in prison.
Director: José Giovanni | Stars: Alain Delon, Carla Gravina, Dora Doll, Louis Julien
Votes: 668
21. Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
152 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The history of the palace of Versailles from its founding to the present.
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jeanne Boitel
Votes: 633
22. Symphonie pour un massacre (1963)
115 min | Crime, Drama
Five men tied to businesses with varying degrees of legality pool their money to go in on one huge narcotics deal that can set them up for life - and test their loyalties.
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Michel Auclair, Claude Dauphin, José Giovanni, Michèle Mercier
Votes: 606
23. Faubourg Montmartre (1931)
115 min | Drama
Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Charles Vanel, Line Noro, Florelle
Votes: 67
24. The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Charles Vanel, Claude Dauphin
Votes: 861
25. La nuit des Césars (1976– )
Documentary
The César is the national film prize of France. He is named after the French sculptor César Baldaccini.
Stars: Nathalie Baye, Antoine de Caunes, Juliette Binoche, Pierre Tchernia
Votes: 230
26. Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
98 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Van Ekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up, to get a very valuable diamond, so big it's named Titan. Riquet was to be his second-in-command, but a rival gang ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Charles Vanel, Barbara Lass, Keiko Kishi
Votes: 169
27. Dans la nuit (1930)
75 min | Drama
A pit worker is crippled by an accident and his wife flirts with another man.
Director: Charles Vanel | Stars: Charles Vanel, Sandra Milovanoff, Christiane Tourneur
Votes: 242
28. The Woman Who Dared (1944)
105 min | Drama
The wife of a mechanic and former fighter pilot falls in love with the idea of flying herself. This soon becomes an obsession and she undertakes a lofty feat: the longest solo flight ever made by a woman.
Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Madeleine Renaud, Charles Vanel, Jean Debucourt, Raymonde Vernay
Votes: 644
29. 7 morts sur ordonnance (1975)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
Director: Jacques Rouffio | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Jane Birkin, Marina Vlady
Votes: 623
30. Golden Night (1977)
78 min | Crime, Drama
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns to vex them. He presents each one with a voodoo doll, warning of their fate.
Director: Serge Moati | Stars: Bernard Blier, Klaus Kinski, Marie Dubois, Jean-Luc Bideau
Votes: 153
31. Countdown to Vengeance (1971)
PG | 102 min | Crime, Drama
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother were betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois' brother was killed and François ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Pigaut | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Serge Reggiani, Hubert Deschamps, Joëlle Bernard
Votes: 235
32. Pêcheur d'Islande (1924)
93 min | Drama
Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really loves who will not at first give himself to her because of his fondness for the sea that takes him away.
Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Sandra Milovanoff, Charles Vanel, Thomy Bourdelle, Noémi Seize
Votes: 57
33. Le grand jeu (1934)
120 min | Drama, Romance
Pierre (Pierre Richard-Willm), a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence (Marie Bell), and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Marie Bell, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel, Georges Pitoëff
Votes: 426
34. Prisoner of the Volga (1959)
102 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: John Derek, Elsa Martinelli, Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 82
35. María, matrícula de Bilbao (1960)
90 min | Drama
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Alberto Closas, Arturo Fernández, Nadia Gray, Javier Asin
Votes: 31
36. La proie du vent (1927)
90 min | Drama, Romance
An early aviator crash lands in a remote European country where he falls in love with a beautiful woman.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Sandra Milovanoff, Lillian Hall-Davis, Jean Murat, Jim Gérald
Votes: 129
37. Jenny (1936)
105 min | Drama
Jenny is a madam at a brothel. When her daughter comes back from England, she does not want her to find out what kind of job she really has.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Françoise Rosay, Albert Préjean, Lisette Lanvin, Roland Toutain
Votes: 282
38. Cuori sul mare (1950)
95 min | Adventure
Paolo Silvestri, grandson of a retired admiral, and Massimo Falchetti, son of a rich shipping magnate, are studying at Leghorn Academy. The two friends both love the sea, but whilst Paolo ... See full summary »
Director: Giorgio Bianchi | Stars: Doris Dowling, Jacques Sernas, Milly Vitale, Charles Vanel
Votes: 86
39. Le domino vert (1935)
84 min | Drama
A detective melodrama told in flashback in which the young Danielle Darrieux plays the roles of both a young girl and her mother.
Directors: Henri Decoin, Herbert Selpin | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel, Maurice Escande, Daniel Lecourtois
Votes: 75
40. Le chant du monde (1965)
109 min | Drama
In Haute-Provence, two clans of rival peasants clash throughout the four seasons of a year. A young woodcutter, gone to the Rebeillard country to cut down trees, has not given a sign of ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Camus | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Charles Vanel, André Lawrence, Marilù Tolo
Votes: 90
41. Les suspects (1957)
120 min | Crime, Drama
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans de la Métropole. He sends one of his ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Charles Vanel, Anne Vernon, Jacques Morel, Maurice Teynac
Votes: 43
42. The Steppe (1962)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 19th century Russia, an 8 year-old boy is sent from his home village to the big city to go to school. On his long way there, he gets to witness the often harsh realities of life in the steppe. Based on allegorical novel by Chekhov.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Charles Vanel, Daniele Spallone, Cristina Gaioni, Pavle Vuisic
Votes: 31
43. No Escape (1958)
98 min | Crime, Drama
An Italian fugitive murderer and the widowed daughter-in-law of a lecherous French hotel owner plan to run away together despite threats from the jealous old man to denounce them to the police.
Director: Charles Brabant | Stars: Raf Vallone, Magali Noël, Charles Vanel, Betty Schneider
Votes: 50
44. Daïnah la métisse (1932)
51 min | Drama
Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation... See full summary »
Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Charles Vanel, Habib Benglia, Gaston Dubosc, Lucien Guérard
Votes: 275
45. I Give My Life (1936)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
Director: Nicolas Farkas | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel, Jean Appert
Votes: 32
46. On Trial (1954)
110 min | Crime, Drama
In this legal drama, told in flashbacks, the son of a judge, who had sentenced a man who may be innocent to 17 years in prison, tries to investigate the mysterious case.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Madeleine Robinson, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Anton Walbrook
Votes: 313
47. La puce et le privé (1981)
115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Roger Kay | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Catherine Alric, Charles Vanel, Boramy Tioulong
Votes: 24
48. La loi du nord (1939)
110 min | Adventure, Drama
Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel, Arlette Marchal
Votes: 115
49. Un roi sans divertissement (1963)
85 min | Crime, Drama
A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France.
Director: François Leterrier | Stars: Claude Giraud, Colette Renard, Charles Vanel, Pierre Repp
Votes: 274
50. Lo sgarro (1962)
84 min | Crime
Director: Silvio Siano | Stars: Charles Vanel, Gérard Blain, Saro Urzì, Ettore Annunziata
Votes: 16