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

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

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