Robert Dalban
Robert Dalban (born Gaston Barré; 19 July 1903 – 3 April 1987) was a French actor. His work included stage acting, roles in TV shows and dubbing American stars. Moreover, he was a fixture in French cinema for many decades. Source: Article "Robert Dalban" from Wikipedia in... Read full bio →
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P'tit con
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.
Les compères
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
La boum 2
The second film from the Le Boum series about a young French teenage girl who after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
Prends ta rolls et va pointer
Camille Vigault, takes advantage of his vacation to visit a cousin winemaker in Roussillon. Quickly tired by work in the countryside, he prefers to buy an old abandoned Rolls Royce from his cousin.
La chèvre
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Le coup du parapluie
Grégoire Lecomte, acteur raté, se retrouve confondu avec un dangereux tueur à gages dont il est chargé du nouveau contrat : tuer à l'aide de la pointe d'un parapluie un riche industriel.
La boum
Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Coup de tête
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
La carapate
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Je suis timide... mais je me soigne
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes.
Quand la ville s'éveille
An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.
Le gang
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?
Armaguedon
After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon".
Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur
A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case.
Dracula père et fils
With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl.
Pas de problème!
A man with a gunshot wound in the stomach comes to first house and collapses in Anita's apartment. A minute later he dies and the girl horrified by what happened, must look for somebody who would help her get rid of the corpse...
On a retrouvé la 7ème compagnie!
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Le téléphone rose
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business".
L'incorrigible
Incorrigible (French:L'incorrigible) is a 1975 French comedy film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold and Capucine.
La gifle
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Comment réussir... quand on est con et pleurnichard
Antoine Robineau est démarcheur en boissons. Il réussit toutes ses ventes en pleurnichant sur son sort. Il séduit les dames par le même procédé, ce qui lui vaudra, par le biais d'une richissime nymphomane, de devenir directeur d'un palace.
Salut l'artiste
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.
Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles
Les habitants de Loubressac voient d'un mauvais oeil l'installation chez eux d'une bande de hippies. Un meurtre est commis, on accuse les nouveaux venus. Quelques citoyens décident nonobstant de mener une enquête...
Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie
Pendant la débâcle française de 1940, la 7ème compagnie se réfugie dans les bois. Mais, elle est prise en embuscade par l'armée allemande. Seuls trois hommes partis en éclaireur en réchappent. Ils se retrouvent livrés à eux-mêmes dans une France occupée.
La valise
A beautifull and thoroughly modern young French women, Francoise, gets involved with an Israeli agent working in Lybia. The agent is exposed and in order to save his life, he has to be smuggled out of the country in a trunk ("valise").
La raison du plus fou
The supervisor of a nursing home accompanies in their escape two young loving residents who dream of seeing the sea.
Un cave
Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...
Les malheurs d'Alfred
Les aventures d'Alfred, architecte désespéré, qui au moment de mettre fin a sa vie, rencontre une presentatrice de télévision qui a eu la même idée.
Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Il était une fois un flic...
Pour piéger un trafiquant de drogue, un commissaire, célibataire endurci, doit jouer les pères de famille.
Point de chute
Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, in charge of watching her, let accidentally the girl see his face and it becomes no longer possible to return her alive...
Le distrait
Le destin de Pierre Malaquet, dont la distraction légendaire l'amène à vivre de nombreuses aventures.
Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Des truands se servent d'Alfred pour passer des diamants en Turquie dans un cercueil...
Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause!
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
Sous le signe du taureau
In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.
Mon oncle Benjamin
In the amorous mid 18th century under Louis XV, a country doctor risks danger and prison to pursue his seduction of the women of the bourgeoisie.
Le cerveau
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Le pacha
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
Faut pas prendre les enfants du Bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages
Rita a l'habitude de prendre des gangsters pour amants. Celui qui est actuellement en titre l'a grugée en ne lui donnant pas sa part dans un partage de lingots d'or. Furieuse, Rita decide de se venger. Elle fait appel a sa tante Léontine, une vieille dame qui a inspiré autrefois la terreur dans le monde des truands.
Un idiot à Paris
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles").
Un choix d'assassins
Since the car accident that caused the death of his wife, the comics author Stéphane Destouches sinks into alcohol and wanders the roads of Morocco.
Fantômas contre Scotland Yard
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Ne nous fâchons pas
Antoine Beretto, ancien gangster, est armateur sur la côte d'Azur. Deux anciens amis, qui ont la police à leurs trousses, lui rendent un jour visite et lui empruntent un bateau ainsi que la somme de 40.000 francs. Afin que Antoine Beretto puisse récupérer son argent, ils lui donnent le nom de Léonard Michalon, qui leur doit certaines créances.
Le grand restaurant
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime (Louis de Funès), is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Piège pour Cendrillon
Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.
Le gentleman de Cocody
An Embassy attache and a butterfly hunter become involved in a treasure hunt between two rival gangs.
Fantômas se déchaîne
In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.
Les gorilles
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Les Barbouzes
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
Le monocle rit jaune
près une vague d'attentats visant des centrales atomiques, le commandant Dromard, des services secrets français, est envoyé à Hong Kong sur les traces d'un suspect, Bergourian. Il se lance à la poursuite d'un gang de terroristes asiatiques qui projetent de faire exploser un porte avion nucléaire américain.
Hardi Pardaillan!
1588. King Henry III is forced to flee to Chartres. Meanwhile, two French dukes are vying for the throne. When the musketeer Pardaillan is tasked with delivering an important message, he finds himself caught in the crossfire.
Fantômas
Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.
Les tontons flingueurs
La vie de Fernand Naudin, ex-truand devenu depuis petit propriétaire d'une usine de tracteurs, est bouleversée quand son ami d'enfance, un gangster notoire, l'appelle à son chevet...
Le vice et la vertu
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTUE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of cinema's most provocative filmmakers, Roger Vadim.
Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an Italian gigolo and a nightclub hostess, a family of butchers and an apprentice rocker, a mystic tailor, a writer sending himself telegrams, an alert paralytic woman, a thoughtful concierge, a…
Chair de poule
In this French crime drama, two safe-crackers are breaking into a safe when they are caught in the act by a guard. One of the crooks kills the guard and flees leaving his partner behind. The abandoned accomplice is captured and convicted. One year passes before the convict is able to escape from prison and set out to exact his revenge.
Maléfices
Adaptation of a novel by Boileau & Narcejac about a young veterinarian who falls under the influence of a strange woman, who might be a Voodoo priestess.
Les mystères de Paris
The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.
Le septième juré
In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.
Le repos du guerrier
A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
Le monte-charge
On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide.
Le chevalier de Pardaillan
In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy "Violetta", in reality Isabelle, daughter of the Comte d'Entraigues and prey of his sworn enemy, the Duke Henri de Guise. Pardaillan and Isabelle fall in love, and the valiant chevalier will not rest until the advent of King Henri IV.
L'oeil du monocle
1942, au large de Bonifacio. La Wehrmacht a fait immerger de l'or et des documents classés secret défense. Les espions du monde entier convoîtent ce trésor. Les services secrets français font alors appel à leur meilleur agent, Dromart, alias "Le Monocle".
Madame Sans Gêne
Catherine, a laundress, joins lover Lefevre in war. Their heroics help Napoleon win. As a reward, they're granted nobility. Catherine's lack of courtly etiquette shocks high society, but she remains authentic despite her new rank.
Le monocle noir
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle. - from IMDB
Le cave se rebiffe
Pour Charles, Lucas et Eric monter une affaire de fausse monnaie avec le "Dabe", c'est encore mieux que de s'associer avec la Banque de France. Tout est en place quand "le Dabe" apprend avec surprise que le graveur est un "cave".
La menace
Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line.
La bride sur le cou
Sophie, a flighty young model, learns that her boyfriend is planning to leave her for another woman. Sophie resolves to either win him back or assassinate her rival. A handsome doctor (who happens to be falling for Sophie himself) assists her with the former plan so that she won't have to resort to the latter.
Les vieux de la vieille
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
Le baron de l'écluse
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man.
Boulevard
A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.
Un témoin dans la ville
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
Signé Arsène Lupin
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure of the Golden Fleece.
Marie-Octobre
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed.
Les amants de demain
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.
Cargaison blanche
A female journalist beats two male rivals to a scoop by exposing a white slave racket going on right in 50s Paris.
La rivière des trois jonques
In Saigon, the heads of the French counter-espionage network replace the secretary of dangerous traffickers with one of their agents to uncover a trade in bacteriological bombs.
Le chanteur de Mexico
Vincent Etchebar is spotted by the impresario Cartoni who gives him the opportunity to break into Paris. But nothing will go as planned.
Des gens sans importance
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father.
Les salauds vont en enfer
Two convicts wind up in a small house by the sea where they meet a gorgeous girl whose lover they savagely kill.
Les diaboliques
Les Diaboliques is a Horror mystery thriller from French director Henri-Georges Clouzot about a triangle relationship that leads to murder.
Le fils de Caroline chérie
A young, innocent Brigitte Bardot plays the sister of the handsome French officer Juan D'Arandra. Close in a manner inappropriate of siblings, their attraction for each other tortures their souls, and sends them in a series of comic misadventures, that, through a strange twist of fate, brings them even closer.
Gas-oil
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
Quand tu liras cette lettre
After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister. Both of them fall prey to a womanizing mechanic with psychopathic tendencies.
Leur dernière nuit
Madeleine arrives in Paris looking for a job as an English teacher. She finds a room in a boarding house where she meets and takes interest in Pierre Ruffin, a quiet librarian, who actually lives a double life.
Ouvert contre X
A wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion.Two lieutenants, a tough guy and a rookie, investigate.
La minute de vérité
After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers from Madeleine. A long night of explanations ensues.
Ils étaient cinq
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a student and Philippe remains what he has always been, a young man of good social standing.
Un homme marche dans la ville
Le Havre, France, in 1949. In a town that still shows the scars of war, several friends meet up in Albert's café. One of them, Laurent, has lost his job on the docks and his marriage to Madeleine is falling apart. He knows that his wife wants to start an affair with friend, Jean Sauviot.
Manon
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.
Le mura di Malapaga
Pierre, un homme recherché par la police française pour le meurtre de sa maîtresse, débarque clandestinement dans le port de Gênes en Italie. Aidé par Cecchina, une petite fille, il fait bientôt la rencontre de la mère de celle-ci, Marta...
Fandango
In the Basque Country, two friends, José and François, live a cheerful life. The two sly foxes use their wit to boost the business of an innkeeper they have a connection with. José is in love with Angélica, the innkeeper"s daughter, while François courts petite Annette.
Berlin Express
Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Quai des orfèvres
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
Non coupable
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
Les jeux sont faits
Two people learn to love each other in the afterlife and get a second chance.
La maison sous la mer
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with Constant in a cave they call “home under the sea.”
Boule de suif
An adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif.