Cast: Victor Francen
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Victor Francen. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 38
Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Charles Boyer · Olivia de Havilland · Paulette Goddard · Victor Francen
Synopsis Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown...
7.6
1K votes
7.6
1K votes
The End of the Day
1939 · Movie · 108 min. · France
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Louis Jouvet · Victor Francen · Michel Simon · Madeleine Ozeray
Synopsis Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back,...
7.1
61 votes
7.1
61 votes
7.0
106 votes
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Sydney Greenstreet · Zachary Scott · Faye Emerson · Peter Lorre
Synopsis A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, to learn more about...
6.9
370 votes
6.9
370 votes
Mission to Moscow
1943 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Walter Huston · Ann Harding · Oskar Homolka · George Tobias
Synopsis Mission to Moscow was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the...
6.8
198 votes
6.8
198 votes
Madame Curie
1943 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Henry Travers · Albert Basserman
Synopsis Young Polish physics student Marie marries Doctor Pierre Curie, in whose lab she had worked for a while. On their honeymoon they decide to find out what caused the strange effect Prof. Becquerel has noticed with the uranium/thorium stones for...
6.7
504 votes
6.7
504 votes
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Charles Laughton · Jon Hall · Peggy Drake · Victor Francen
Synopsis After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family...
6.5
45 votes
6.5
45 votes
Passage to Marseille
1944 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Claude Rains · Michèle Morgan · Philip Dorn
Synopsis As French bomber crews prepare an air raid from a base in England, we learn the story of Matrac, a French journalist who opposed the Munich Pact. Framed for murder and sent to Devil's Island, he and four others escape....
6.5
723 votes
6.5
723 votes
Fanny
1961 · Movie · 134 min. · United States
Direction Joshua Logan
Cast Leslie Caron · Maurice Chevalier · Charles Boyer · Horst Buchholz
Synopsis Almost 19-year-old Marius (Horst Buchholz) feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny (Leslie...
6.4
255 votes
6.4
255 votes
The Conspirators
1944 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Hedy Lamarr · Paul Henreid · Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre
Synopsis Vincent Van Der Lyn, a Dutch freedom fighter in WWII, is forced to neutral Lisbon to escape the Nazis. There he meets a small band of underground conspirators. The group's leader, Ricardo Quintanilla, knows that one of their number is...
6.4
79 votes
6.4
79 votes
The Beast with Five Fingers
1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Robert Florey
Cast Peter Lorre · Robert Alda · Andrea King · Victor Francen
Synopsis Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
6.3
237 votes
6.3
237 votes
Confidential Agent
1945 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Herman Shumlin
Cast Charles Boyer · Lauren Bacall · Victor Francen · Wanda Hendrix
Synopsis During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier Louis Denard (Charles Boyer) travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his life is at risk from those on the fascist side....
6.2
175 votes
6.2
175 votes
Devotion
1946 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Curtis Bernhardt
Cast Ida Lupino · Paul Henreid · Olivia de Havilland · Sydney Greenstreet
Synopsis In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte vie for the affection of the Reverend Arthur Nichols. Along their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed...
6.1
54 votes
6.1
54 votes
A Farewell to Arms
1957 · Movie · 152 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Rock Hudson · Jennifer Jones · Vittorio De Sica · Oskar Homolka
Synopsis Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War, is wounded and falls in love with his attending nurse, the British Catherine Barkley. In the midst of war and some...
6.0
803 votes
6.0
803 votes
Night and Day
1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Cary Grant · Alexis Smith · Monty Woolley · Mary Martin
Synopsis With Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) as director, Cary Grant in the lead, and wall-to-wall songs by Cole Porter, how could Night and Day lose? Why, by taking broad liberties with the composer's life story and failing to live up to expectations....
6.0
533 votes
6.0
533 votes
San Antonio
1945 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Errol Flynn · Alexis Smith · Paul Kelly · S.Z. Sakall
Synopsis Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.
5.7
314 votes
5.7
314 votes
End of the World
1931 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Abel Gance
Cast Victor Francen · Colette Darfeuil · Abel Gance · Jeanne Brindeau
Synopsis As a comet speeds along on a collision course with Planet Earth, the world prays for a miracle. Scientist Victor Francen races against time to avoid the cataclysm, while Francen's religious-fanatic brother (played by director Gance) puts his fate in...
5.6
43 votes
5.6
43 votes
Hell and High Water
1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Richard Widmark · Bella Darvi · Victor Francen · Cameron Mitchell
Synopsis A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer (Widmark) to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine...
5.5
486 votes
5.5
486 votes
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast George Montgomery · Maureen O'Hara · John Sutton · Laird Cregar
Synopsis This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be...
5.5
35 votes
5.5
35 votes
The Beginning or the End
1947 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Brian Donlevy · Robert Walker · Tom Drake · Beverly Tyler
Synopsis The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
5.4
30 votes
5.4
30 votes