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

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

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

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

6.8

41 votes

6.8

41 votes

Little Lise

1930 · Movie · 84 min. · France

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

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

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