Jean Gabin
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1904-05-17
Locus Natus: Paris, France
Et ut: Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, Jean Moncorgé, Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé, Жан Габен
Grand Illusion
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own...
release : 1937.01.01popularis : 12.156
The Sicilian Clan
An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police...
release : 1969.12.05popularis : 14.373
Two Men in Town
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
release : 1973.10.24popularis : 10.971
Jury of One
A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.
release : 1974.09.11popularis : 3.481
Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...
release : 1958.03.11popularis : 10.506
The Gardener of Argenteuil
Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting,...
release : 1966.10.07popularis : 4.693
Killer
Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles,...
release : 1972.03.01popularis : 4.033
My American Uncle
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and...
release : 1980.05.21popularis : 6.552
The Tattoo
An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
release : 1968.08.17popularis : 14.218
Any Number Can Win
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist...
release : 1963.03.19popularis : 12.178
The Cat
Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to...
release : 1971.04.24popularis : 7.099
The Magnificent Tramp
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
release : 1959.04.08popularis : 2.942
Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for...
release : 1937.01.28popularis : 5.308
Daybreak
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the led him to the killing.
release : 1939.06.09popularis : 6.19
Monsieur
Désespéré par la mort de sa femme, le banquier René Duchesne se promène le long de la Seine. Seule la rencontre de...
release : 1964.04.22popularis : 3.186
The Old Guard
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
release : 1960.09.02popularis : 6.238
A Monkey in Winter
During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is...
release : 1962.07.29popularis : 6.888
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the...
release : 1954.03.17popularis : 7.327
La Bête Humaine
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and...
release : 1938.12.23popularis : 5.803
Moontide
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
release : 1942.05.29popularis : 2.62
The Possessors
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his...
release : 1958.11.19popularis : 5.276
Napoleon
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location...
release : 1955.03.25popularis : 5.01
Crime and Punishment
A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders...
release : 1956.12.04popularis : 3.678
Le Plaisir
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and...
release : 1952.02.29popularis : 8.167
Air of Paris
Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to...
release : 1954.09.24popularis : 2.793
Maigret Sets a Trap
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret...
release : 1958.01.29popularis : 7.994
The Gentleman from Epsom
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.
release : 1962.10.03popularis : 5.34
The Truth About Bebe Donge
François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his...
release : 1952.02.13popularis : 2.728
Razzia
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer....
release : 1955.04.07popularis : 5.866
French Cancan
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin...
release : 1955.04.27popularis : 8.644
High and Low
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde...
release : 1933.12.08popularis : 1.408
The Lower Depths
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel,...
release : 1936.12.11popularis : 4.391
Lilac
Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears...
release : 1932.03.13popularis : 1.689
Port of Shadows
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate,...
release : 1938.05.17popularis : 6.541
Stormy Waters
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
release : 1941.11.27popularis : 5.652
The Darling of Paris
In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused of a murder he did not commit.
release : 1931.10.09popularis : 1.466
Love Is My Profession
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.
release : 1958.09.17popularis : 5.942
The Walls of Malapaga
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
release : 1949.09.19popularis : 4.298
The Horse
Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things...
release : 1970.02.22popularis : 6.754
Everyone Has Their Chance
When the baroness surprises the baron with his mistress at the music hall, he passes off young Marcel, a clothing salesman, as an important customer.
release : 1930.12.19popularis : 1.207
Hi-Jack Highway
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and...
release : 1955.10.18popularis : 4.701
They Were Five
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But...
release : 1936.09.01popularis : 5.273
Marie of the Port
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish...
release : 1950.02.27popularis : 4.329
Behold the Man
The final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is decided that he must be captured, tried, and...
release : 1935.01.01popularis : 3.364
La Traversée de Paris
Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.
release : 1956.10.26popularis : 13.264
The Moment of Truth
After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of...
release : 1952.10.22popularis : 2.52
La Bandera
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets...
release : 1935.09.25popularis : 3.283
Pasha
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss...
release : 1968.03.14popularis : 6.023
The President
At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key...
release : 1961.03.01popularis : 5.94
The Impostor
The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his...
release : 1944.02.10popularis : 4.814
Their Last Night
Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of Pierre Ruffin, a respectable municipal...
release : 1953.10.23popularis : 3.143
Blood to the Head
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife,...
release : 1956.08.10popularis : 2.377
Rue de Paris
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While...
release : 1959.10.21popularis : 4.534
The Dominici Affair
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public,...
release : 1973.03.07popularis : 3.773
The Image Book
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts...
release : 2018.10.11popularis : 5.011
Rhine Virgin
Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has...
release : 1953.11.13popularis : 2.075
That Tender Age
Antoine and Marie decided to introduce their parents before the wedding. Summer vacation looks like a good time, so the Lartigue family prepares to...
release : 1964.12.23popularis : 4.888
The Night Affair
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be...
release : 1958.05.14popularis : 3.548
Maigret Sees Red
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to...
release : 1963.09.18popularis : 2.884
God's Thunder
Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to shelter a young woman with no bearings.
release : 1965.09.08popularis : 5.899
The Upper Hand
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an...
release : 1966.03.02popularis : 6.539
Deadlier Than the Male
In the heart of Paris, a restaurateur's mundane life is disrupted by the arrival of his ex-wife's daughter, who claims to be in need after her...
release : 1956.04.13popularis : 5.095
Under the Sign of the Bull
In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his...
release : 1969.03.28popularis : 3.209
The Counterfeiters of Paris
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all...
release : 1961.09.27popularis : 9.275
The Little Rebels
Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down...
release : 1955.10.21popularis : 2.275
Action Man
An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
release : 1967.05.31popularis : 6.894
The Case of Dr. Laurent
Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth....
release : 1957.04.03popularis : 3.533
People of No Importance
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops...
release : 1956.02.15popularis : 2.657
The Night Is My Kingdom
After an accident, Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child, but fortunately a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where...
release : 1951.08.09popularis : 4.156
Speaking of Murder
Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by...
release : 1957.04.12popularis : 4.977
The Baron of the Locks
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small...
release : 1960.04.13popularis : 3.122
Lady Killer
Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is...
release : 1937.09.15popularis : 4.053
Fun in the Barracks
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
release : 1932.09.18popularis : 3.169
House on the Waterfront
Martine is searching for her sister that disappeared mysteriously. Lequévic agrees to help her.
release : 1955.04.15popularis : 2.011
Le Tunnel
An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to...
release : 1933.12.15popularis : 3.232
Coral Reefs
The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl.
release : 1939.03.01popularis : 1.548
The Room Upstairs
The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Martin presents her with a villa....
release : 1946.12.18popularis : 3.937
Maria Chapdelaine
A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
release : 1934.12.14popularis : 3.165
The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
Victor, grocer and tyrannical boss, never stops telling his family about his seafaring past, although they never believe him. When his nephew wins a...
release : 1971.10.13popularis : 6.116
Storms
A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life.
release : 1953.05.29popularis : 1.12
Victor
Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place.
release : 1951.06.13popularis : 1.404
Twelve Hours to Live
After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having...
release : 1950.10.19popularis : 1.597
Mirror
Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang...
release : 1947.05.02popularis : 1.642
The Messenger
Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels...
release : 1937.09.02popularis : 1.16
For one evening..!
In a chic nightclub, a navel officer admires his new love, the singer Stella Maris. A fellow officer warns him not to get involved with this woman...
release : 1932.01.29popularis : 1.212
All That Is Not Worth Love
Tourneur's first film tells the story of a chemist, Jules Renaudin. He welcomes a young pregnant girl, Claire, who enters his pharmacy in despair one...
release : 1931.10.15popularis : 1.598
Méphisto
On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified...
release : 1931.04.17popularis : 2.189
The Crowd Roars
French-language version of Howard Hawks' The Crowd Roars (1932): A race car driver vies with his younger brother, who he'd hoped to keep away from...
release : 1932.10.11popularis : 2.412
The Beautiful Sailor
A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love...
release : 1932.12.02popularis : 1.181
Happy Hearts
A silent film theater projectionist is kidnapped by a gangster group, so he can show them footage of a Dutch jewel dealer they want to steal from....
release : 1932.12.02popularis : 2.086
Holy Year
Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot.
release : 1976.04.23popularis : 1.714
Zouzou
Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
release : 1934.12.21popularis : 3.351
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has...
release : 1959.09.02popularis : 4.417
Varieté
Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for...
release : 1935.10.04popularis : 0.485
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.
release : 2002.03.21popularis : 2
Quand Jean devint Renoir
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image...
release : 2017.04.30popularis : 1.595