Direction: Jacques Becker

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jacques Becker. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Hole (The Night Watch)

1960 · Movie · 131 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Philippe Leroy · Marc Michel · Michel Constantin · Jean Kéraudy

Plot Year 1947. In France, a young man, Gaspard Claude, is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he is innocent of the crime. He is sent to the...

8.4

12K votes

8.4

12K votes

Casque d'or

1952 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Claude Dauphin · Raymond Bussières

Plot In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of them, Marie, aka "Casque d'Or" (Golden Helmet) meets Manda, a carpenter. Her man...

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

The Lovers of Montparnasse

1958 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Gérard Philipe · Lilli Palmer · Anouk Aimée · Lila Kedrova

Plot Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family....

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K 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

Falbalas

1945 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Raymond Rouleau · Micheline Presle · Jean Chevrier · Gabrielle Dorziat

Plot Micheline arrives in Paris to prepare her marriage to Daniel Rousseau. There she falls in love with her fiancé’s best friend, dress designer Philippe Clarence, an impenitent ladies’ man who...

7.2

117 votes

7.2

117 votes

Antoine and Antoinette

1947 · Movie · 78 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Roger Pigaut · Claire Mafféi · Noel Roquevert · Gaston Modot

Plot She's working in a big store, he's a typographer and they lost their winning lotery ticket.

7.0

336 votes

7.0

336 votes

It Happened at the Inn

1943 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Fernand Ledoux · Georges Rollin · Blanchette Brunoy · Arthur Devère

Plot Wanting to keep things in the family, the Goupi family decides to call Eugène Goupi over from Paris to their country house in Charente, so that they can get him...

7.0

157 votes

7.0

157 votes

Edward and Caroline

1951 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Daniel Gélin · Anne Vernon · Elina Labourdette · Jacques François

Plot Édouard is a pianist, married with Caroline. This evening, they are invited to Claude's. Claude is the snobbish uncle of Caroline, his son Alain (as snobbish as his father) is...

6.9

109 votes

6.9

109 votes

Françoise Steps Out

1952 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Louis Jourdan · Daniel Gélin · Anne Vernon · Jean Servais

Plot Françoise and Henri appear to be a perfectly happy married couple living in Paris. When she discovers that her husband, a test car driver, has been having an affair with...

6.7

273 votes

6.7

273 votes

Rendezvous in July

1949 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Daniel Gélin · Brigitte Auber · Nicole Courcel · Pierre Trabaud

Plot Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

6.5

119 votes

6.5

119 votes

Life Is Ours

1936 · Documentary · 66 min. · France

6.1

99 votes

6.1

99 votes

Dernier atout

1942 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Mireille Balin · Raymond Rouleau · Pierre Renoir · Noel Roquevert

Plot A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must elucidate this murder to decide who is the winner of...

5.7

47 votes

5.7

47 votes

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1954 · Movie · 92 min. · France

5.6

109 votes

5.6

109 votes

L'or du Cristobal

1940 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Jean Stelli · Jacques Becker

Cast Charles Vanel · Conchita Montenegro · Albert Préjean · Jim Gerald

Plot Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens. Dupuy, the first mate of the French freighter "Cristobal" is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the "Cristobal" carries a priceless secret...

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