Cast: Jean Gabin
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jean Gabin. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Grande Illusion
1937 · Movie · 114 min. · France
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Jean Gabin · Erich von Stroheim · Pierre Fresnay · Marcel Dalio
Plot 1916, during World War I. Lieutenant Maréchal and Capitaine de Boeldieu are two combat pilots who are shot down by the Germans. They are taken to a prisoner of war...
8.0
8K votes
8.0
8K votes
House of Pleasure
1952 · Movie · 93 min. · France
Direction Max Ophüls
Cast Claude Dauphin · Gaby Morlay · Madeleine Renaud · Ginette LeClerc
Plot 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 youth....
7.6
2K votes
7.6
2K votes
Stormy Waters
1941 · Movie · 81 min. · France
Direction Jean Grémillon
Cast Jean Gabin · Madeleine Renaud · Michèle Morgan · Charles Blavette
7.5
270 votes
7.5
270 votes
Port of Shadows
1938 · Movie · 88 min. · France
Direction Marcel Carné
Cast Jean Gabin · Michèle Morgan · Michel Simon · Pierre Brasseur
Plot Life's a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. He lucks into civilian clothes, a little bit of money,...
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes
The Lower Depths
1936 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Jean Gabin · Junie Astor · Suzy Prim · Louis Jouvet
Plot The film treats the imprisoning hold of poverty; the disheartening odds of people rising from such social despair, and the ease in which those in the upper spheres of Society...
7.4
867 votes
7.4
867 votes
La bête humaine
1938 · Movie · 99 min. · France
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Jean Gabin · Simone Simon · Fernand Ledoux · Julien Carette
Plot In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Lady Killer
1937 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction Jean Grémillon
Cast Jean Gabin · Mireille Balin · René Lefèvre · Marguerite Deval
Plot 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 beautiful and lives in luxury. He...
7.4
130 votes
7.4
130 votes
French Cancan
1955 · Movie · 102 min. · France
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Jean Gabin · María Félix · Françoise Arnoul · Jean-Roger Caussimon
Plot Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe 'Le Paravent Chinois' featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmarte (circa 1890) where the then-old-fashioned cancan is still...
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
Grisbi: Hands Off the Loot
1954 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Jacques Becker
Cast Jean Gabin · René Dary · Dora Doll · Vittorio Sanipoli
Plot Jean Gabin stars as Max, a suave, smooth, elder statesman of a gangster who still manages to hook a pretty young damsel on his arm when he strolls into his...
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
Deadlier Than the Male
1956 · Movie · 113 min. · France
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Jean Gabin · Danièle Delorme · Robert Arnoux · Liliane Bert
Plot André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged...
7.3
188 votes
7.3
188 votes
Daybreak
1939 · Movie · 89 min. · France
Direction Marcel Carné
Cast Jean Gabin · Jacqueline Laurent · Arletty · Jules Berry
Plot François has shot and killed a man and is now holed up in his apartment, under siege by the police. Over the course of a long night, he reflects on...
7.2
958 votes
7.2
958 votes
They Were Five
1936 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Jean Gabin · Charles Vanel · Raymond Aimos · Viviane Romance
Plot Those five are unemployed penniless workers. Together they win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But...
7.2
59 votes
7.2
59 votes
The Cat
1971 · Movie · 83 min. · France
Direction Pierre Granier-Deferre
Cast Jean Gabin · Simone Signoret · Annie Cordy · Jacques Rispal
Plot Courbevoie (France), 1971. 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...
7.2
317 votes
7.2
317 votes
Pépé le Moko
1937 · Movie · 94 min. · France
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Jean Gabin · Mireille Balin · Gabriel Gabrio · Lucas Gridoux
Plot In the 30's, in Algeria, the charming Parisian gangster Pépé le Moko (Jean Gabin) rules in the district of Casbah. Surrounded and protected by the women and his gang, he...
7.1
866 votes
7.1
866 votes
Two Men in Town
1973 · Movie · 97 min. · France
Direction Jose Giovanni
Cast Alain Delon · Jean Gabin · Mimsy Farmer · Christine Fabréga
7.1
747 votes
7.1
747 votes
People of No Importance
1956 · Movie · 101 min. · France
Direction Henri Verneuil
Cast Jean Gabin · Françoise Arnoul · Pierre Mondy · Yvette Etiévant
Plot Some People without Importance: Clothilde is a waitress at a wayside cafe, gas station and lodge, enduring boredom in the middle of nowhere by a truck route...
7.1
32 votes
7.1
32 votes
My Journey Through French Cinema
2016 · Documentary · 190 min. · France
Direction Bertrand Tavernier
Cast Bertrand Tavernier · Thierry Fremaux · Jacques Becker · Jean-Paul Belmondo
Plot Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.
7.0
340 votes
7.0
340 votes
Four Bags Full
1956 · Movie · 80 min. · France
Direction Claude Autant-Lara
Cast Jean Gabin · Bourvil · Louis de Funès · Robert Arnoux
Plot Two men, a painter and a poor guy have to cross over Paris by night during world war II and nazi occupation to delivery black market meat. As they walk...
6.9
403 votes
6.9
403 votes
La Marie du Port
1950 · Movie · 88 min. · France
Direction Marcel Carné
Cast Jean Gabin · Blanchette Brunoy · Nicole Courcel · Claude Romain
Plot Henri Chatelard is well in his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciate women. When he meets Marie, a 18ish stronghead who just lost her...
6.9
159 votes
6.9
159 votes
The President
1961 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Henri Verneuil
Cast Jean Gabin · Bernard Blier · Renée Faure · Henri Crémieux
Plot At 73, France's ex-president, Emile Beaufort, faces declining health, but he still plays a vigorous role behind the scenes as a philosopher and, potentially, as a power broker. In particular,...
6.9
102 votes
6.9
102 votes