Gérard Blain
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1930-10-23
Locus Natus: Paris, France
Et ut:
The Cousins
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the...
release : 1959.03.11popularis : 7.35
Le beau Serge
After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
release : 1958.06.06popularis : 7.494
The American Friend
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by...
release : 1977.06.24popularis : 12.331
Hatari!
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
release : 1962.06.19popularis : 16.085
Utopia
After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of his old friends but no one is to be...
release : 1979.02.28popularis : 2.108
The Mischief Makers
A group of young boys have a collective crush on Bernadette. As a result of this, they have an unreasoning jealousy of Gérard, and do...
release : 1957.11.14popularis : 5.46
The Virgins
The story of five girls that lose their virginity.
release : 1963.05.22popularis : 3.934
Le bal des passants
Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later....
release : 1944.04.01popularis : 1.175
Children of Chaos
An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to...
release : 1944.04.26popularis : 0.694
Son of France
The crew of a tank from the 1st French army took part in the liberation of Strasbourg during the fall of 1944.
release : 1946.05.15popularis : 0.566
Deadlier Than the Male
In Les Halles, in the heart of Paris, the restaurateur André Chatelin, leads an uneventful life until the arrival from Marseille of Catherine,...
release : 1956.04.13popularis : 2.946
Gold of Rome
Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of...
release : 1961.11.26popularis : 5.261
Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men
A young crook called Joë Caligula and his crew make war on a Parisian gang.
release : 1969.01.08popularis : 4.06
Jour après jour
Two would be producers launch a singer's career.
release : 1989.02.15popularis : 0.593
The Hunchback
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
release : 1960.11.30popularis : 1.487
Chasse gardée
A "three people relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.
release : 1993.11.17popularis : 1.869
The Eye of the Needle
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who...
release : 1963.09.14popularis : 1.079
Negresco
The wife of a international spy arrives in Berlin for a holiday. While her husband is away, she falls in love with a British photographer.
release : 1968.08.22popularis : 2.3
The Dolphins
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly...
release : 1960.10.05popularis : 2.296
Winter's Child
Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome...
release : 1989.06.14popularis : 2.418
La Musica
A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once lived to pick up their...
release : 1967.03.03popularis : 1.543
Run with the Devil
Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at...
release : 1960.08.16popularis : 1.752
Bandits d'amour
A young woman who has gone over to the wrong side of the law with her new boyfriend begins having second thoughts about both crime and her new...
release : 2001.06.06popularis : 0.526
Amori pericolosi
Three episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits...
release : 1964.08.14popularis : 1.688
Natalia
WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.
release : 1989.04.12popularis : 1.32
Chicken Soup
The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of...
release : 1963.06.12popularis : 0.909
La Flambeuse
A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on gambling and begins to neglect her husband and...
release : 1981.05.13popularis : 0.534
M.M.M. 83
A secret agent works with a scientist to recover documents outlining a new formula to make fuel.
release : 1966.02.25popularis : 1.42
Match contre la mort
The Lourmel couple are taking part in the final round of a TV game show: the wife has to answer questions; if she fails, her husband drives a racing...
release : 1959.12.02popularis : 0.618
Skin and Bones
Convicted of murdering his wife, a crime of which he declares himself innocent, Jacques Mazur is serving a long sentence in a prison where his...
release : 1961.04.28popularis : 3.935
Un dimanche de flics
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot...
release : 1983.10.31popularis : 2.284
Children of Paradise
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious...
release : 1945.03.15popularis : 7.883
Shock Troops
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is...
release : 1967.04.05popularis : 4.716
Killing Time
A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she...
release : 1987.03.18popularis : 1.752
Crime and Punishment
A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders...
release : 1956.12.04popularis : 4.123
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't...
release : 1958.12.31popularis : 3.121
Jusqu'au bout de la nuit
François, perpetual rebel against society and its laws, is released after a long imprisonment, and meets up with his family and friends in...
release : 1995.09.13popularis : 0.53
Young Husbands
In a small Italian town, the local youngsters realize that their youth is coming to an end and marriage will soon follow. They gather together for...
release : 1958.03.13popularis : 5.234
Un amore
The love life of an aging architect used to love affairs with call girls, who in the end settles down with a girl of his class but still longs for...
release : 1965.12.15popularis : 2.304
Sexpot
Coveted by many of the men around her, the sensual Nathalie is a magnet for passion. After many adventures and dramas, she will find the happiness...
release : 1957.10.23popularis : 1.473
How to Make a French Dish
In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's...
release : 1964.01.29popularis : 0.842
La Machine
Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is...
release : 1977.09.17popularis : 1.319
Wild Fruit
Lyon, 1953. Maria Manzana is the oldest of a family with five children and the only one who has a job. Maria's mother is deceased and her father is...
release : 1954.01.29popularis : 0.82
Via Veneto
A young man who lives on scams and deceptions manages to convince a wealthy industrialist who has come from the province to finance a film. Having...
release : 1964.04.23popularis : 1.028
Il falso bugiardo
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became...
release : 2008.07.03popularis : 1.541
The Pelican
Paul has been imprisoned for ten years for passing counterfeit money. He feels victimized enough, both for the prison time and for the crime which...
release : 1974.02.06popularis : 1.773
Lo sgarro
A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.
release : 1963.02.06popularis : 1.172
Un moment d'inattention
Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessness? Virginie and Laurent have always treasured...
release : 1986.09.17popularis : 1.498