Direction: Jacques Becker
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jacques Becker. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 16
The Hole (The Night Watch)
1960 · Movie · 131 min. · France
Direction Jacques Becker
Cast Philippe Leroy · Marc Michel · Michel Constantin · Jean Kéraudy
Synopsis 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 notorious Santé Prison in Paris and is placed in a...
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
Synopsis 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 Roland belongs to the jealous kind, and Leca himself has...
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
Synopsis 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. Her parents are against their relation and stop financial help.
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
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...
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
Direction Jacques Becker
Cast Raymond Rouleau · Micheline Presle · Jean Chevrier · Gabrielle Dorziat
Synopsis 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 seduces and then leaves her, although he later finds out...
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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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 married to Mugeut. Arriving there for the first time since...
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
Synopsis 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 in love with Caroline. They spite Edouard a little because...
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
Synopsis 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 another woman, Françoise immediately packs her bags and moves into...
6.7
273 votes
6.7
273 votes
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
1957 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Jacques Becker
Cast Robert Lamoureux · Liselotte Pulver · O.E. Hasse · Daniel Ceccaldi
6.7
102 votes
6.7
102 votes
Rendezvous in July
1949 · Movie · 112 min. · France
Direction Jacques Becker
Cast Daniel Gélin · Brigitte Auber · Nicole Courcel · Pierre Trabaud
Synopsis 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
Direction Jean Renoir · Jacques Becker · Jacques Brunius · Henri Cartier-Bresson
Cast Jean Dasté · Jacques Brunius · Jean Renoir · Jacques Becker
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
Synopsis 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 a shooting contest, but they do not know that the...
5.7
47 votes
5.7
47 votes
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1954 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Jacques Becker
Cast Fernandel · Samia Gamal · Dieter Borsche · Henri Vilbert
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
Synopsis 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 cargo of gold.
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Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié
1935 · Movie · 40 min. · France
Direction Jacques Becker
Cast Louis Seigner · Etienne Decroux · Marcelle Monthil · Antanon
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