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1. Monsieur Cinéma (1967–1980)
Stars: Pierre Tchernia, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Stéphane Audran
Votes: 11
2. 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
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: 66,686
4. 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: 69,463 | Gross: $1.09M
5.
La nuit des Césars (1976– )
Episode:
2ème nuit des Césars
(1977)
Documentary
The César is the national film prize of France. He is named after the French sculptor César Baldaccini.
Director: François Chatel | Stars: Salvatore Adamo, Jean Aurenche, César Baldaccini, Marie-Christine Barrault
Votes: 14
6. 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
7. 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: 4,470
8. 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
9. 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
10. Maddalena (1954)
90 min | Drama
During the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village, local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Märta Torén, Gino Cervi, Charles Vanel, Jacques Sernas
Votes: 55
11. 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: 79,890 | Gross: $8.75M
12. 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
13. 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: 2,801
14. 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
15. Les Thibault (1972–1973)
90 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Jacques Thibault stifles in his bourgeois family where his father rules supreme over the household.He runs away with his friend Daniel but their plans come to a sudden end.The unfortunate ... See full summary »
Stars: Philippe Rouleau, François Dunoyer, Françoise Christophe, Anne Deleuze
Votes: 19
16. La femme que j'ai assassinée (1948)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A group of smug forty-something bourgeois meets every month to talk about their amorous adventures and other trivia. All are bachelors and they think that the world turns around them and their mean little persons.
Director: Jacques Daniel-Norman | Stars: Armand Bernard, Pierre Larquey, Micheline Francey, Charles Vanel
Votes: 13
17. 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
18. Cinéma 16 (1975–1991)
Drama
Stars: Jean Toscan, Fernand Kindt, Richard Martin, Serge Martel
Votes: 33
19. 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
20. Michel Strogoff (1936)
100 min | Adventure
The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines.On his way he encounters a number of adventures.
Directors: Jacques de Baroncelli, Richard Eichberg | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Colette Darfeuil, Armand Bernard, Charles Vanel
Votes: 29
21. Âme d'artiste (1924)
85 min | Drama
A famed London actress has an ardent playwright admirer who is married.Dulac contrasts the women,s willingness to sacrifice with the men,s possessiveness.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Iván Petrovich, Nicolas Koline, Mabel Poulton, Yvette Andréyor
Votes: 36
22. Cinépanorama (1956–1966)
Documentary
Stars: François Chalais, France Roche, Yves Montand, Martine Carol
Votes: 63
23. Chiqué (1930)
34 min | Short, Comedy
When a bourgeois US couple slumming it at a small cabaret is told the dancer roughing up his partner is just fun, they mistakenly think as they get more drunk and silly, that all that later happens is just fun as well.
Director: Pierre Colombier | Stars: Irène Wells, Adrien Lamy, Florence, Gripp
Votes: 11
24. 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
25. 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: 1,796
26. 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
27. 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
28. Ballade pour un chien (1968)
90 min | Drama
Remi is a man on the verge of old age who begins to have hallucinations. He believes he has found a dog, but the canine is just a product of his imagination. The man takes a turn for the ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Vergez | Stars: Charles Vanel, Julien Guiomar, Claude Génia, Colette Régis
Votes: 12
29. 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
30. 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: 279
31. Le père Goriot (1972 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
The play opens with an description of a boarding house in Paris.in which, the young Rastignac, being for high society,is fined with Goriot,who bankrupts himself to support his two well-married daughters but be rejected by them eventually.
Director: Guy Jorré | Stars: Charles Vanel, Bruno Garcin, Roger Jacquet, Monique Nevers
Votes: 15
32. 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
33. 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
34. Ne pleure pas (1978)
110 min | Drama, Family
Marc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer. Thomas has a soul of justice. Thus, returning home with Marc after a fight, he hits a little thug who has just robbed an old lady.
Director: Jacques Ertaud | Stars: Sylvain Joubert, Xavier Labouze, Charles Vanel, Christine Laurent
Votes: 28
35. L'homme mystérieux (1933)
40 min | Short, Drama
When the night comes,the wife's terror will rise..
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Charles Vanel, Paul Amiot, Georges Paulais, Henry Bonvallet
Votes: 44
36. 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
37. La femme rêvée (1929)
130 min | Drama, Romance
In Seville, Angel Call, a Parisian businessman, escapes blindness after a car accident, thanks to the dedicated care of Mercédès, intended for the convent. They fall in love and Mercedes soon discovers the temptations of Paris.
Director: Jean Durand | Stars: Alice Roberts, Arlette Marchal, Thérèse Kolb, Jeanne Grumbach
Votes: 23
38. Le bateau à soupe (1946)
105 min | Drama
Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Gleize | Stars: Charles Vanel, Lucienne Laurence, Alfred Adam, Habib Benglia
Votes: 22
39. 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
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. Il bivio (1951)
100 min | Crime, Drama
After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime. He meets Giovanna and falls for her. ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Cerchio | Stars: Raf Vallone, Charles Vanel, Claudine Dupuis, Saro Urzì
Votes: 32
42. Courrier Sud (1937)
91 min | Drama
A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
Director: Pierre Billon | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Jany Holt, Raymond Aimos, Alexandre Rignault
Votes: 59
43. S.O.S. Sahara (1938)
78 min | Drama
At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.
Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marta Labarr, Raymond Cordy
Votes: 11
44. Légions d'honneur (1938)
96 min | Drama
An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
Director: Maurice Gleize | Stars: Marie Bell, Abel Jacquin, Pierre Renoir, Charles Vanel
Votes: 11
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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: 317
48. 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
49. 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
50. Lo sgarro (1962)
84 min | Crime
Director: Silvio Siano | Stars: Charles Vanel, Gérard Blain, Saro Urzì, Ettore Annunziata
Votes: 16