Charles Vanel Movies

Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But...

Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him...

In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.

A man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his wife is interned. His brother, needing his signature...

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship...

A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being...

An American couple, Douglas and Mary, are in the nightclub 'La Vache Rose'. When Julot and Nini are performing 'La Danse Apache', Douglas thinks...

Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by...

Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.

After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family...

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...

Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless...

Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to...

Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He...

Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of...

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man...

An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, thus disposessing her of her land. Revolted, the...

Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has...

A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.

One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice...