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

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

Falbalas

1945 · Movie · 115 min. · France

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

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

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

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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