Jean Gabin
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
Français
Description
In this classic tale of adventure duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring escape.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring escape.
Series
Criterion collection volume 271
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton, Max's hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy, Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. Riton gets kidnapped by a mob boss in the hopes that there will be an exchange for the money, but nothing turns out as anyone has it planned.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Max and Riton pull off a job together, a burglary of fifty million gold bars at Orly. The milieu, unaware of who committed the crime, finally discovers the truth from Riton's mistress… Winner of the Best Actor Award at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"It's Gabin's show all the way, anticipating the melancholy, atmospheric gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville that started to appear a couple years later." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, **Chicago...
5) Zou Zou
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A star walks out on her sugardaddy producer for true love, and a talented Cinderella (Baker) takes her place, saves the show and is hailed as a new sensation opening night.
Series
Criterion collection volume 324
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
7) Moontide
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Bobo is a free-spirited wanderer who docks in a Pacific seaside town with his buddy Tiny, a sponge who wants to leave. After a night of drunken debauchery, Bobo awakens on a strange barge wearing the cap of a dead man. Afraid he has committed the crime, Bobo prepares to skip town with Tiny but is delayed when he meets Anna, who he rescues from drowning herself in the surf. They fall in love and open a business together selling bait. Jealous and desperate...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Jean Valjean is paroled after serving 19 years in prison for stealing some bread. He tries to steal silverware from a missionary, but is set straight by a bishop. Nine years later, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and mayor. He eventually befriends Fantine, a single mother turned prostitute and risks all when he helps her after she's nearly arrested by police officer Javert. Javert was a guard at the prison Valjean was in and is suspicious...
Series
Criterion collection volume 239
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
A Baron, forced by circumstances, gives up his life of luxury and takes up residence in the slums of Paris. The Baron observes the frustrated romance between Wasska Pepel and Natacha, the thwarted dreams of an actor, and the oppressive cruelties of landlord Kostileff.
13) Le jour se lève
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
A working-class man finds the only way to free the woman he loves from the arms of another is to commit murder.
14) Le plaisir
Series
Criterion collection volume 444
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
An aging man hides behind a mask to meet ladies, a madame takes her girls to a communion, and a painter falls for his model in these stories of life, love, pleasure, and death.
Series
Criterion collection volume 239
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Français
Description
Les bas-fonds (93 min.): A Baron, forced by circumstances, gives up his life of luxury and to takes up residence in the slums of Paris. The Baron observes the frustrated romance between Wasska Pepel and Natacha, the thwarted dreams of an actor, and the oppressive cruelties of landlord Kostileff.
Donzoko (125 min.): Sutekichi, a vulgar, comical thief takes up residence in a slum flophouse inhabited by many eccentric, destitute people. Osugi, the cruel...
17) Martin Roumagnac
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
The tragic postwar romance is a tale of class anxiety and classic Romantic fatalism, run through with a typically French frankness about sex and gender. Jean Gabin is the title character, an unpretentious and proudly working-class building contractor, who falls in love with a ravishing shopgirl Blanche, quite unaware that she comes trailing a notorious sexual history and attracts the determined ardor of every man she meets. Among her current lovers...
Series
Criterion collection volume 245
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good in life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as both acts of revenge and kindness render him front-page news. Portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies.
19) Pepe le Moko
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
The notoious Pépé le Moko is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Casbah of Algiers, Pépé is safe from the police--until a Parisian playgirl compels him to risk his life and leave its confines once and for all.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
He Followed a Trail of Flesh, Gold, and Violence! In Paris, a grizzled gold-smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want a piece of the action. To make matters worse, he must match wits with a coin-tossing Mafioso and the U.S. Treasury Department.