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José Giovanni
Writer 1923 - 2004

José Giovanni

Paris, France

José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was... Read full bio →

Filmography

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14 titles
Two Men in Town

Two Men in Town

Rachid Bouchareb 2014 2h 5.0

A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.

Le ruffian

Le ruffian

José Giovanni 1983 1h 48m

Aldo, in his fifties, works in a gold mine in Northern Canada, in the middle of a bunch of adventurers.

Les égouts du paradis

Les égouts du paradis

José Giovanni 1979 1h 55m 5.0

Albert Spaggiari, who organises a group of gangsters to break into the vault of the Societé Générale Bank in Nice by tunnelling up through the sewers below.

Le gitan

Le gitan

José Giovanni 1975 1h 43m

Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.

Deux hommes dans la ville

Deux hommes dans la ville

José Giovanni 1973 1h 39m 8.0

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

La scoumoune

La scoumoune

José Giovanni 1972 1h 42m 4.0

For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive.

Un aller simple

Un aller simple

José Giovanni 1971 2h

After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer.

Dernier domicile connu

Dernier domicile connu

José Giovanni 1970 1h 42m 7.0

Après avoir reçu la Légion d'Honneur pour acte de bravoure, un policier est mis sur le banc de touche , pour avoir arrêté en état d'ivresse la mauvaise personne...

Le clan des Siciliens

Le clan des Siciliens

Henri Verneuil 1969 2h 1m 7.6

An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

Le rapace

Le rapace

José Giovanni 1968 1h 45m

1938, a Central America country. A Frenchman who goes by the name "Le Rital" is hired to take out the local dictator. Young Chico is assigned as his right-hand man, whom he impresses. Will a friendship form between them?

Les Aventuriers

Les Aventuriers

Robert Enrico 1967 1h 52m 6.0

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.

Le deuxième souffle

Le deuxième souffle

Jean-Pierre Melville 1966 2h 30m 8.3

ois hommes s'évadent de la prison de Castres, dont Gustave, dit "Gu" qui vient d'y passer huit ans. Le commissaire Blot disparaît tandis qu'un hold-up s'organise...

Symphonie pour un massacre

Symphonie pour un massacre

Jacques Deray 1963 1h 55m 8.0

A band of gangster devises a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.

Le trou

Le trou

Jacques Becker 1960 2h 12m 9.1

Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer.

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