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1. 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: 79,875 | Gross: $8.75M
2. 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: 69,456 | Gross: $1.09M
3. 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: 66,680
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: 4,468
5. 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: 2,800
6. 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: 2,614
7. 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: 1,972
8. 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: 1,795
9. 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: 1,764
10. 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: 1,735
11. 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: 1,698
12. 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: 1,530
13. They Were Five (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: 1,427
14. 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: 1,248
15. 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: 864
16. 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: 820
17. 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: 714
18. 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: 674
19. 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: 649
20. 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: 636
21. 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: 625
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: 608
23. 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
24. The Mask of the Gorilla (1958)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
Director: Bernard Borderie | Stars: Lino Ventura, Charles Vanel, Pierre Dux, Bella Darvi
Votes: 358
25. 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: 316
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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: 278
29. 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
30. 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: 244
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: 236
32. 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
33. 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: 194
34. Abus de confiance (1937)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Imposture helps an orphan girl become a lawyer.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel, Yvette Lebon, Pierre Mingand
Votes: 171
35. 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: 170
36. Flight Into Darkness (1935)
111 min | Drama
Charles Vanel and Annabella star respectively as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffishness, ... See full summary »
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Annabella, Charles Vanel, Jean Murat, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Votes: 170
37. 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
38. Sinners of Paris (1958)
80 min | Crime, Drama
Le Fondu, a famous gangster, escapes from the hospital where he was detained, killing an inspector in the process. The colleague of the deceased inspector, Paul Vardier, vows to avenge him.... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Charles Vanel, Bella Darvi, Danik Patisson, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 151
39. Carrefour (1938)
84 min | Drama
A amnesiac industrialist is tricked into a game of mistaken identity.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim, Tania Fédor
Votes: 135
40. 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: 131
41. La ferme du pendu (1945)
90 min | Drama
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass. Francis, the eldest, took things in hand. For him, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Charles Vanel, Alfred Adam, Claudine Dupuis, Marthe Mellot
Votes: 130
42. Au nom de la loi (1932)
95 min | Crime, Drama
A policeman is killed when he tries to investigate a case involving cocaine traffic. The only evidence of the crime is a white female's bloodstained glove found in an abandoned taxi and a ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Marcelle Chantal, Régine Dancourt, Gabriel Gabrio, Jean Marchat
Votes: 123
43. La maison du mystère (1923)
Not Rated | 382 min | Crime, Drama
An imaginative wedding scene shot in silhouette, begins a tale of murder blackmail and romance covering a period of about 18 years, ending around 1923.
Director: Alexandre Volkoff | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Charles Vanel, Nicolas Koline, Hélène Darly
Votes: 122
44. 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
45. 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: 91
46. Si le soleil ne revenait pas (1987)
115 min | Drama
In a mountainside village, where the sun never shines in winter, the old prophet Anzevui announces that, in this year 1937, war will break out and the sun will never shine again. The ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Charles Vanel, Philippe Léotard, Catherine Mouchet, Raoul Billerey
Votes: 89
47. Woman of Evil (1947)
87 min | Drama
On a small island in the middle of the river where Tramontana almost always blows, some losers tear each other to pieces .
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jean Chevrier, Héléna Bossis, Margo Lion
Votes: 89
48. 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: 87
49. Le feu aux poudres (1957)
73 min | Crime, Thriller
Gangster film centering on gun runners.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Raymond Pellegrin, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Françoise Fabian
Votes: 87
50. 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: 83