Cast: Jean Gabin

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Erich von Stroheim · Pierre Fresnay · Marcel Dalio

Synopsis 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 camp where they strike up a friendship with Lieutenant Rosenthal,...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Claude Dauphin · Gaby Morlay · Madeleine Renaud · Ginette LeClerc

Synopsis 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. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her...

Direction Jean Grémillon

Cast Jean Gabin · Madeleine Renaud · Michèle Morgan · Charles Blavette

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean Gabin · Michèle Morgan · Michel Simon · Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis 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, a passport, and a dog, and he also meets Nelly,...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Junie Astor · Suzy Prim · Louis Jouvet

Synopsis 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 may descend.

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Simone Simon · Fernand Ledoux · Julien Carette

Synopsis 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.

Direction Jean Grémillon

Cast Jean Gabin · Mireille Balin · René Lefèvre · Marguerite Deval

Synopsis 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 lends her a large amount of money, which she loses...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · María Félix · Françoise Arnoul · Jean-Roger Caussimon

Synopsis 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 danced. There, he conceives the idea of reviving the cancan...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Jean Gabin · René Dary · Dora Doll · Vittorio Sanipoli

Synopsis 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 favorite restaurants and nightclubs. Max belongs to the old world...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Jean Gabin · Danièle Delorme · Robert Arnoux · Liliane Bert

Synopsis 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 wife, Gabrielle, that André left more than twenty years before....

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean Gabin · Jacqueline Laurent · Arletty · Jules Berry

Synopsis 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 the circumstances of how he, someone whom everyone regards as...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Jean Gabin · Charles Vanel · Raymond Aimos · Viviane Romance

Synopsis 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 difficulties come to split their friendly group apart: former wife,...

Direction Pierre Granier-Deferre

Cast Jean Gabin · Simone Signoret · Annie Cordy · Jacques Rispal

Synopsis 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 be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Jean Gabin · Mireille Balin · Gabriel Gabrio · Lucas Gridoux

Synopsis 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 is unattainable by the French and Algerian police forces, but...

Direction Jose Giovanni

Cast Alain Delon · Jean Gabin · Mimsy Farmer · Christine Fabréga

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Jean Gabin · Françoise Arnoul · Pierre Mondy · Yvette Etiévant

Synopsis 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...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Bertrand Tavernier · Thierry Fremaux · Jacques Becker · Jean-Paul Belmondo

Synopsis 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.

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Jean Gabin · Bourvil · Louis de Funès · Robert Arnoux

Synopsis 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 along dark parisian streets they encounter various characters and adventures...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean Gabin · Blanchette Brunoy · Nicole Courcel · Claude Romain

Synopsis 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 father in a small fishermen village, it is not clear...

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Jean Gabin · Bernard Blier · Renée Faure · Henri Crémieux

Synopsis 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, his relationship with Philippe Chalamont comes into play: Chalamont seems...