Movies: Charles Vanel

Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters....

A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper refuses to give them a room; they wind up in the cowshed of a farm where she gives birth to her baby, the very night of Christmas....

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Karl de Linken, an elegant young man, adventurous and unattached, arrives in the square of a small Corsican village perched in the mountains. His presence intrigues Baron Ucciani, who reigns supreme over Santa Lucia. The meeting with the baron and hi...

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For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other h...

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While the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to the family home. There they meet their grandfather Léon, an old communist militant who has shaken Lenin's hand....

A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father learns that he's not her biological father....

Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres"....

As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated....

Cléo d'Aubigny, a music-hall star, once had a love affair with the rich Lord Sedley and had a son from him. But Cléo, putting her career first, has always neglected little Hugues, letting Lord Sedley take him with him and educate him. Now she feels t...

An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion ....

The owner of a fairground shooting gallery, haunted by the crime he committed ten years before with the complicity of his friend and associate, is ridden with guilt. One day, as he is under the influence of alcohol, he confesses his crime. In vain, f...

A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of a former suitor....

When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance....

The body of a young man in a dress suit is found on a country road by Lake Biel in Switzerland. The victim happens to be none other than Schmied, the new police inspector who had just been appointed to replace Baerlach, the old police captain....

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A gypsy has cast a spell on Livette, the fiancee of Renaud, the proud guardian nicknamed, King of the Camargue. Renaud wants to punish the witch who frightened Livette. But then, meeting the gypsy, he is taken under the strange spell that emanates fr...