List of the best Henri Verneuil movies: A Monkey in Winter(1962), The 25th Hour(1967), The Sicilian Clan(1969), The Cow and I(1959), Mille milliards de dollars(1981), Peur Sur la Ville(1975), The Sheep Has Five Legs(1954), Guns for San Sebastian(1968), The Burglars(1971), The Body of My Enemy(1976), Les morfalous(1983), Weekend at Dunkirk(1966) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
France
1962
105 Minutes
Director
Jean Gabin Jean-Paul Belmondo Suzanne Flon Noël Roquevert Paul Frankeur Gabrielle Dorziat Hella Petri Anne-Marie Coffinet
alcoholic young man child advertiser innkeeper wife amusing madcap normandy, france inn coast world war ii alcoholism resistance unusual friendship family survival adventure transformation 1950s
Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war,... See full summary »
Drama
France|Italy|Yugoslavia
1967
119 Minutes
Director
Anthony Quinn Virna Lisi Michael Redgrave Gregoire Aslan Marcel Dalio Serge Reggiani Drewe Henley Paul Maxwell George Roderich Alexander Knox Albert Remy
In World War II, a Romanian gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he's drafted into the S.S.
Crime, Drama
France|Italy
1969
120 Minutes
Director
Alain Delon Jean Gabin Lino Ventura Irina Demick Amedeo Nazzari Sydney Chaplin Elisa Cegani Karen Blanguernon Marc Porel Yves Lefebvre Philippe Baronnet
gangster prisoner police officer murderer thief mafia boss engaging brutal thrilling suspenseful intense italy sicily prison diamond heist gangs gangsters adventure escape pursuit
A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Comedy
France|Italy
1959
120 Minutes
Director
Fernandel Pierre Louis Remy Winckler Rene Havard Albert Remy Bernard Musson Ingeborg Schöner Franziska Kinz Richard Winckler Ellen Schwiers
In 1942, a French prisoner of war in Germany decides to escape to France using a cow held by a lunge as a decoy. He crosses all Germany in this way.
Drama
France
1981
130 Minutes
Director
A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American ... See full summary »
Drama
France|Italy
1975
125 Minutes
Director
Jean-Paul Belmondo Charles Denner Adalberto Maria Merli Léa Massari Catherine Morin Rosy Varte
police commissioner police detective frenchman french officer serial killer bank robber amusing thrilling intense suspenseful playful frightening paris france bank investigation stunts murder investigation gangsters chase
Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.
Comedy
France
1954
95 Minutes
Director
A small town seeking publicity tries to bring together the quintuplet grandsons of the town's oldest inhabitant. The old man and all five grandsons are played by the great Fernandel.
Western
France|Italy|Mexico|USA
1968
111 Minutes
Director
Anthony Quinn Anjanette Comer Charles Bronson Sam Jaffe Silvia Pinal Jorge Martinez De Hoyos
outlaw priest townsperson indian gripping brooding spirited mexico village mountain redemption frontier justice culture clash unlikely hero underdog rescue 1740s
In 1743, outlaw Leon Alastray is hunted by the Spanish army but is given sanctuary by a priest in a village terrorized by marauding Yaqui Indians.
Crime, Drama
France|Italy
1971
120 Minutes
Director
Omar Sharif Jean-Paul Belmondo Diane Cannon Robert Hossein Nicole Calfan Raoul Delfosse José Luis de Vilallonga Myriam Feune de Colombi
safecracker accomplice thief gang member commissar jewel thief engaging thrilling suspenseful brutal emotional intense villa athens, greece greece danger jewelry theft relationships investigation on the run
In 1970s Athens a group of professional burglars plan an emerald heist from the home of a gem collector but the corrupt Greek police inspector Abel Zacharia is on their trail.
Crime, Drama
USA
1976
120 Minutes
Director
Jean-Paul Belmondo Marie-France Pisier Bernard Blier Claude Brosset Daniel Ivernel
prisoner innocent man murderer criminal murder suspect emotional thrilling suspenseful engaging brutal melodramatic prison life after prison prison life innocence fight for justice framed for murder revenge mystery pursuit
A reporter for a gossip magazine stays at a beach house near that of a movie star to investigate reports that he had had a sex change operation.
Comedy
1983
105 Minutes
Director
Jean-Paul Belmondo Jacques Villeret Michel Constantin Michel Creton François Perrot Marie Laforêt Robert Lombard Caroline Sihol Junior John David Gérard Buhr Matthias Habich
French soldiers (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, Michel Constantin) disagree on the fate of gold bullion after a German ambush in 1943 Tunisia.
Drama
1966
101 Minutes
Director
Romance, Drama
1955
123 Minutes
Director
Daniel Gélin Françoise Arnoul Trevor Howard Marcel Dalio Amália Rodrigues Jacques Moulieres Ginette Leclerc
A police inspector (Trevor Howard) closely follows a Lisbon widow, who is suspected of killing her husband, and a tormented French war veteran who fell in love with her.
Drama
1952
100 Minutes
Director
Fernandel Françoise Arnoul Claude Nollier Jacques Castelot René Génin
physician mistress wife mother daughter sister intense touching melodramatic france countryside train station dance hall hotel fair infidelity family middle age ambition seduction
A sensuous young woman (Françoise Arnoul) becomes the mistress of a country doctor (Fernandel) married to a frigid wife.