Screenplay: Charles Spaak
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Charles Spaak. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
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
Carnival in Flanders
1935 · Movie · 115 min. · France
Direction Jacques Feyder
Cast Françoise Rosay · Jean Murat · Louis Jouvet · Micheline Cheirel
Plot When the village of Boom, in Flanders, learns a Spanish Duke and his troops plan to pass the night, the 4-man army deserts and the Mayor plays dead; so the...
7.6
2K votes
7.6
2K votes
Stormy Waters
1941 · Movie · 81 min. · France
Direction Jean Grémillon
Cast Jean Gabin · Madeleine Renaud · Michèle Morgan · Charles Blavette
7.5
270 votes
7.5
270 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
Thérèse Raquin
1953 · Movie · 102 min. · France
Direction Marcel Carné
Cast Simone Signoret · Raf Vallone · Roland Lesaffre · Jacques Duby
Plot Therese has a boring life. She married Camille, her cousin, a sickly haberdasher, fully dominated by his mother (who lives with them). She dreams about passion. One day comes a...
7.4
556 votes
7.4
556 votes
L'Étrange Monsieur Victor
1938 · Movie · 103 min. · France
Direction Jean Grémillon
Cast Raimu · Pierre Blanchar · Madeleine Renaud · Marcelle Géniat
7.3
36 votes
7.3
36 votes
Panic
1946 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Viviane Romance · Michel Simon · Paul Bernard · Max Dalban
Plot In the suburbs of Paris, an old maid has just been murdered. Every body talks about that, except the misanthrope Mr Hire. The same evening, Alice, just getting out of...
7.3
134 votes
7.3
134 votes
The Woman Who Dared
1944 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Jean Grémillon
Cast Madeleine Renaud · Charles Vanel · Jean Debucourt · Raymonde Vernay
7.3
85 votes
7.3
85 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 End of the Day
1939 · Movie · 108 min. · France
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Louis Jouvet · Victor Francen · Michel Simon · Madeleine Ozeray
Plot Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor...
7.1
61 votes
7.1
61 votes
Daïnah la métisse
1932 · Movie · 51 min. · France
Direction Jean Grémillon
Cast Laurence Clavius · Charles Vanel · Gabrielle Fontan · Habib Benglia
Plot After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its destination, Ecuador. That evening, the event is marked by a masked ball...
7.0
50 votes
7.0
50 votes
The Vanishing Corporal
1962 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Claude Brasseur · O.E. Hasse · Claude Rich
Plot An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter,...
6.9
288 votes
6.9
288 votes
Germinal
1963 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Yves Allégret
Cast Jean Sorel · Berthe Granval · Claude Brasseur · Claude Cerval
Plot Year 1863. Etienne Lantier, who has been fired from a railway company for being involved in union activities, lands a miner's job in the North of France. He finds bed...
6.9
28 votes
6.9
28 votes
Pension Mimosas
1935 · Movie · 109 min. · France
Direction Jacques Feyder
Cast Françoise Rosay · Paul Bernard · André Alerme · Nestor Ariany
6.8
41 votes
6.8
41 votes
Little Lise
1930 · Movie · 84 min. · France
Direction Jean Grémillon
Cast Nadia Sibirskaïa · Pierre Alcover · Joe Alex · Alex Bernard
6.8
48 votes
6.8
48 votes
Justice est faite
1950 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction André Cayatte
Cast Claude Nollier · Noel Roquevert · Valentine Tessier · Antonio Balpetré
Plot The Marshal summons the jury and an insight is given into the background of the seven jurors who are to decide on the guilt of the accused, a sick man's...
6.6
34 votes
6.6
34 votes
La bandera
1935 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Jean Gabin · Annabella · Robert Le Vigan · Raymond Aimos
6.5
364 votes
6.5
364 votes
The Sword and the Balance
1963 · Movie · 131 min. · France
Direction André Cayatte
Cast Anthony Perkins · Jean-Claude Brialy · Renato Salvatori · Pascale Audret
Plot A boy is kidnapped and murdered on the French riviera. The police, who had watched the delivery of the ransom to TWO men gives chase once they determine that the...
6.4
23 votes
6.4
23 votes
The Beach
1954 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy
Direction Alberto Lattuada
Cast Carlo Bianco · Martine Carol · Mario Carotenuto · Clelia Matania
6.3
45 votes
6.3
45 votes
The Burning Court
1962 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Julien Duvivier
Cast Nadja Tiller · Jean-Claude Brialy · Perrette Pradier · Edith Scob
Plot Relatives of an old man gather at his castle as the man nears death. A woman whose ancestor was betrayed by an ancestor of the dying man has hallucinations after...
6.3
25 votes
6.3
25 votes