Cast: Paul Frankeur

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Paul Frankeur. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1972 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Fernando Rey · Paul Frankeur · Delphine Seyrig · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams, centered around a group of...

7.5

9K votes

7.5

9K votes

Second Breath

1966 · Movie · 144 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Lino Ventura · Paul Meurisse · Raymond Pellegrin · Christine Fabréga

Synopsis Gustave Manda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends, and get involved in a gangland killing. Before leaving the country with Manouche, Gu needs a final job...

7.5

1K votes

7.5

1K votes

The Phantom of Liberty

1974 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Michel Piccoli · Jean Rochefort · Michael Lonsdale · Monica Vitti

Synopsis One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on lavatories round a dinner table on, occasionally retiring to a...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

The Big Day (Holiday)

1949 · Movie · 81 min. · France

Direction Jacques Tati

Cast Jacques Tati · Santa Relli · Guy Decomble · Paul Frankeur

Synopsis Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town 'Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre'. All inhabiters are scoffing at Francois, the postman, what he seems not to recognize. The rising of the flagstaff under his direction nearly leads into a...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Marie-Octobre

1959 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Bernard Blier · Robert Dalban · Paul Frankeur

Synopsis Fifteen years after WWII, a group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, so that the former members of the network can finally relive one fateful night and find out who betrayed their murdered leader, Castille.

7.0

283 votes

7.0

283 votes

The Milky Way

1969 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Paul Frankeur · Laurent Terzieff · Alain Cuny · Edith Scob

Synopsis Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Magnificent Tramp

1959 · Movie · 76 min. · France

Direction Gilles Grangier

Cast Jean Gabin · Darry Cowl · Bernard Blier · Dora Doll

Synopsis Bum Archimede wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get their proves not to be that easy.

6.8

28 votes

6.8

28 votes

6.7

44 votes

6.6

228 votes

No Exit

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · France

6.5

29 votes

6.5

29 votes

The Night Affair

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction Gilles Grangier

Cast Jean Gabin · Danielle Darrieux · Nadja Tiller · Paul Frankeur

Synopsis Director Gilles Grangier adapted the screenplay of "Le désordre et la nuit" from the novel by Jacques Robert. Jean Gabin stars as Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police. Vallois takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky...

6.3

42 votes

6.3

42 votes

6.0

44 votes

Mr. Orchid

1946 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Noël-Noël · Maurice Chevit · Alice Leitner · Georges Questau

Synopsis In the Charente, during the Nazi occupation, Edouard Martin, a fifty-year-old man with apparently peaceful life is in fact the leader of a resistance network.

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Nick Carter va tout casser

1964 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Henri Decoin

Cast Eddie Constantine · Daphné Dayle · Paul Frankeur · Jean-Paul Moulinot

Synopsis Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying apparatus. An international crime gang is very interested in stealing this equipement to sell...

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Before the Deluge

1954 · Movie · 138 min. · France

Direction André Cayatte

Cast Antonio Balpetré · Paul Bisciglia · Bernard Blier · Paul Frankeur

Synopsis Set in 1950, the film concentrates on five Parisian adolescents. Certain that the next war will herald the apocalypse, the youngsters make plans to run off to a desert island and set up a new society. This, however, will require...

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Direction Jean Faurez

Cast Fernand Ledoux · Suzy Carrier · Jules Berry · Paul Frankeur

Synopsis A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.

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Headlines of Destruction

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction John Berry

Cast Eddie Constantine · Bella Darvi · Olivier Hussenot · Walter Chiari

Synopsis Michel was just released from prison when he is suspected of having killed his wife as she was the one who brought him into prison. She also betrayed him with Rupert, a journalist not wanting to become a part of...

Not rated

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The Schemer

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Gilles Grangier

Cast Michel Auclair · Paul Frankeur · Giani Esposito · Annie Girardot

Synopsis An art dealer comes into possession of a fake Gaugin painting, which leads him into a downward spiral of murder and gangland crimes.

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Quai du Point-du-Jour

1960 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Jean Faurez

Cast Dany Carrel · Raymond Bussières · Annette Poivre · Philippe Lemaire

Synopsis Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty ,he leads a peaceful life .One night ,he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire.The cafe in the corner of the street has...

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