
August 21, 1892
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel (21 August 1892 in Rennes, France - 15 April 1989, in Cannes, France) was a French director and actor. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow. His 77 year career comprised appearances in more th…

A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.

A liberated small-town girl stands on trial to determine whether she killed her lover in a crime of passion or in premeditation.

An investigation of the judges' assassinations reveals a political background.

Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, ...

The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offe...

Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.

World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.

A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the Mafia.

Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.

A criminal ship-owner claims to find radium ore in a lost island in Antarctic Ocean. The ship approaches and the crew find a white woman who lives with her husband with half-insane and his child. She sings Breton songs. All the cr...