List of the best Jules Dassin movies: Rififi(1955), Night and the City(1950), Brute Force(1947), He Who Must Die(1957), Never on Sunday(1960), Uptight(1968), A Letter for Evie(1945), The Canterville Ghost(1944), Promise at Dawn(1971), Nazi Agent(1942), 10:30 P.M. Summer(1966), Reunion in France(1942) ... ...
8.1/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
France
1955
120 Minutes
Director
Jean Servais Carl Mohner Robert Manuel Magali Noël Janine Darcey Marie Sabouret Robert Hossein Marcel Lupovici
thief gangster girlfriend police officer safecracker gritty suspenseful thrilling paris apartment hideout shop heist crime love triangle pursuit temptation fall 1950s
Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...
7.9/10
Crime, Drama
UK|USA
1950
95 Minutes
Director
Richard Widmark Gene Tierney Googie Withers Stanislaus Zbyszko
con artist girlfriend wrestler nightclub owner wife designer bleak gripping powerful london nightclub barge river thames gym ambition fraud wrestling deception downward spiral con game
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
7.6/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
98 Minutes
Director
Burt Lancaster Hume Cronyn Charles Bickford Yvonne De Carlo Ann Blyth Ella Raines Anita Colby Sam Levene Howard Duff Art Smith Roman Bohnen
prisoner warden guard wife criminal dark gritty prison doctor's office prison escape illness violence escape quest 1940s
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
7.5/10
Drama
France|Italy
1957
120 Minutes
Director
Jean Servais Melina Mercouri Pierre Vaneck Gert Froebe Maurice Ronet Nicole Berger Fernand Ledoux Carl Mohner Roger Hanin Gregoire Asian
After WW1,ordinary citizens of a small Greek village plays the Passion Play in order to rebel against Turkish rulers during Turkish-Greek relations in 1920's.
7.4/10
Comedy
Greece
1960
91 Minutes
Director
Melina Mercouri Jules Dassin George Foundas Titos Vandis Mitsos Ligizos Despo Diamantidou Dimos Starenios Dimitris Papamichael
prostitute tourist pimp sailor lighthearted witty greece port city philosophy culture clash morality salvation adventure rivalry transformation love 1960s
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
7.3/10
Drama
USA
1968
104 Minutes
Director
Raymond St. Jacques Ruby Dee Frank Silvera Roscoe Lee Browne Julian Mayfield Janet MacLachlan Max Julien Juanita Moore Richard Williams Michael Baseleon Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic, "The Informer."
7.0/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1945
89 Minutes
Director
Marsha Hunt John Carroll Hume Cronyn Spring Byington Pamela Britton Norman Lloyd Percival Vivian Donald Curtis Esther Howard Robin Raymond Therese Lyon
young woman soldier friend coworker lighthearted hilarious brooklyn, n.y. mistaken identity self-esteem military life love letters lying world war ii love underdog 1940s
An oafish soldier receives a shirt but disregards the letter inside sent by a lovelorn secretary, prompting his bumbling friend to impersonate him in order to win her heart.
6.9/10
Comedy
USA
1944
96 Minutes
Director
Charles Laughton Robert Young Margaret O'Brien William Gargan Reginald Owen Rags Ragland Una O'Connor Donald Stuart Elisabeth Risdon Frank Faylen
ghost soldier young girl father amusing winsome lighthearted playful england castle bravery cowardice family honor curse haunted houses quest rescue 1940s
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
6.8/10
Drama, Biography
France|USA
1971
101 Minutes
Director
Melina Mercouri Assi Dayan Francois Raffoul Despo Fernand Gravey
A Soviet silent-film actress (Melina Mercouri) raises her illegitimate son, who becomes the writer Romain Gary (Assaf Dayan).
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1942
84 Minutes
Director
Conrad Veidt Ann Ayars Frank Reicher Dorothy Tree Ivan F. Simpson William Tannen Martin Kosleck Marc Lawrence Sidney Blackmer Moroni Olsen Pierre Watkin
twin nazi american brother tense thrilling germany store embassy ship loyalty brotherhood espionage betrayal identity theft rivalry sacrifice transformation 1940s
A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Veidt), one a loyal American and the other, a Nazi official.
6.6/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|USA
1966
85 Minutes
Director
Melina Mercouri Romy Schneider Peter Finch Julian Mateos Isabel Maria Perez Beatriz Savon
A group of tourists, which relations are already complicated enough, faces with local crime incident.
6.3/10
War
USA
1942
104 Minutes
Director
Joan Crawford John Wayne Philip Dorn Reginald Owen Albert Basserman John Carradine Ann Ayars J. Edward Bromberg Moroni Olsen Henry Daniell Arthur Space
socialite fiancé munitions maker pilot resistance fighter tense patriotic melodramatic paris family home factory countryside nazi collaboration nazi occupation love triangle deception world war ii undercover operations discovery escape
In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
5.6/10
Comedy
USA
1943
77 Minutes
Director
Susan Peters Herbert Marshall Mary Astor Elliott Reid Richard Carlson Allyn Joslyn Dorothy Morris Frances Rafferty George Dolenz Emory Parnell Ava Gardner
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Drama
1959
120 Minutes
Director
Gina Lollobrigida Marcello Mastroianni Pierre Brasseur Yves Montand Melina Mercouri
A racketeer and an aged squire are among the competitors for the affections of a desirable young woman.
Drama
1962
115 Minutes
Director
Melina Mercouri Anthony Perkins Raf Vallone Giorgos Karoussos Elizabeth Ercy Georges Sarris Andreas Philipides Olympia Papadouka
wife ship owner son business owner young woman fascinating passionate dark moving greece island family home affair unhappy marriage incest unusual romance family business forbidden love growing up 1960s
A Greek shipping tycoon's (Raf Vallone) second wife (Melina Mercouri) has a tragic affair with her stepson (Anthony Perkins).
Drama
1978
110 Minutes
Director
Melina Mercouri Ellen Burstyn Andreas Voutsinas Despo Diamantidou Yannis Voglis Betty Valassi
An actress (Melina Mercouri) preparing for a stage version of "Medea" meets a mother (Ellen Burstyn) who killed her three children.
7.4/10
Comedy
Greece
1960
91 Minutes
Director
Melina Mercouri Jules Dassin George Foundas Titos Vandis Mitsos Ligizos Despo Diamantidou Dimos Starenios Dimitris Papamichael
prostitute tourist pimp sailor lighthearted witty greece port city philosophy culture clash morality salvation adventure rivalry transformation love 1960s
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
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