Charles Vanel Movies

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons...

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

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

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...

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...

The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica,...

Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.

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

Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace...

An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his...

A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.

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

Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famous writer.

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...

French-language version of Port Arthur (1936), a German language film (q.v.) co-produced by German, French and Czechoslovakian film interests. About...

Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland,...

A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass....