Screenplay: Jules Dassin

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jules Dassin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.

Rififi

1955 · Movie · 117 min. · France

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Jean Servais · Carl Möhner · Robert Manuel · Jules Dassin

Plot Tony le Stéphanois (Jean Servais) is a grim, hardboiled crook fresh from a stretch in stir for the noble gesture of taking a rap for his younger buddy Jo le...

8.1

6K votes

8.1

6K votes

Never on Sunday

1960 · Movie · 91 min. · Greece

Drama Comedy

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Jules Dassin · Giorgos Foundas · Titos Vandis

Plot Illia is Piraeus's most popular person: an energetic prostitute, full of life and good humor. Every day, she swims at the pier, entertaining the dock hands. Sundays she has an...

6.9

705 votes

6.9

705 votes

He Who Must Die

1957 · Movie · 122 min. · France

Drama 1920s

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Jean Servais · Carl Möhner · Grégoire Aslan · Gert Fröbe

Plot Greece, in the 1920's, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a...

Prime Video

6.8

121 votes

6.8

121 votes

Phaedra

1962 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Drama

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Anthony Perkins · Raf Vallone · Elizabeth Ercy

Plot A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis's father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra. When Alexis meets his stepmother, sparks fly...

Prime Video

6.5

266 votes

6.5

266 votes

The Law

1959 · Movie · 126 min. · Italy

Drama

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Pierre Brasseur · Marcello Mastroianni · Raf Mattioli

Plot Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the 'game of the Law,' selecting one by lot...

6.4

149 votes

6.4

149 votes

Uptight

1968 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Drama Racism

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Raymond St. Jacques · Ruby Dee · Frank Silvera · Roscoe Lee Browne

6.4

33 votes

6.4

33 votes

A Dream of Passion

1978 · Movie · 106 min. · Greece

Drama Film in Film

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Ellen Burstyn · Andreas Filippides · Faidon Georgitsis

6.1

29 votes

6.1

29 votes

10:30 p.m. Summer

1966 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Drama

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Romy Schneider · Peter Finch · Julián Mateos

Plot Melodrama (based on the novel 10:30 on a Summer Night by Dassin's co-screenwriter Marguerite Duras) in which the still-beautiful yet insecurely middle-aged Maria (Mercouri) travels to Spain with her husband...

6.1

144 votes