Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin. Later remade as Algiers, this French classic tells the tale of a gangster who hides from the police in the Casbah section of Algiers—only to be lured out of safety by a... more
Jean Gabin, Michele Morgan, Michel Simon. Jean, an army deserter, decides finally to turn his life around after somone shows him an act of kindess and also one of revenge in this screen adaptation of... more
When classy, calculating widow Blanche Ferrand (Marlene Dietrich) came to town, common contractor Martin Roumagnac (Jean Gabin) was immediately smitten-and began ruinously lavishing her with gifts.... more
Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot. Famed inspector Jules Maigret is up against a ticking clock. In Paris, a woman-killing madman increases his tally of murders every night, and the sense... more
Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier. Inspector Maigret returns home to meet an old friend, a Countess who sent him an ominous letter. But when he arrives and finds her dead by heart attack,... more
Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, urban bordellos, and painter's studios of late nineteenth-century Parisian society, Max Ophuls... more