Three townspeople cause an uproar when they try to help refugees on a Greek island occupied by Turks. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jean Servais
Such a Pretty Little Beach / Une si jolie petite plage (1949) Yves Allégret, Madeleine Robinson, Gérard Philipe, Jean Servais
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and Read More »
Rififi / Du rififi chez les hommes (1955) Jules Dassin, Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel
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Murder at 45 R.P.M. / Meurtre en 45 tours (1960) Etienne Périer, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Auclair, Jean Servais
Danielle Darrieux stars in this Belgian chiller as a songstress whose obsessively jealous husband suddenly dies. Read More »
That Night / Cette nuit là… (1958) Maurice Cazeneuve, Mylène Demongeot, Maurice Ronet, Jean Servais
Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married Read More »
Black Jesus AKA Seduto alla sua destra (1968) Valerio Zurlini, Woody Strode, Franco Citti, Jean Servais
A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Read More »
Tamango (1958) John Berry, Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, Jean Servais
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. Read More »
Rififí en la ciudad (1963) Jesús Franco, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jean Servais, Laura Granados
In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election Read More »
Every Man Is My Enemy (1967) Franco Prosperi, Robert Webber, Elsa Martinelli, Jean Servais
When a heist goes wrong a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who’s betrayed him… Read More »
Le château de verre / The Glass Castle (1950) René Clément, Michèle Morgan, Jean Marais, Jean Servais, Drama
Laurent Bertal is a successful attorney who lives in Berne with his beautiful and adoring wife Evelyne. Theirs appears to be the perfect marriage, but while on holiday in Italy Evelyne falls in love with a young Frenchman, Rémy. While Evelyne is profoundly unsettled by this romantic entanglement, Rémy regards it as a mere distraction and soon heads back to Paris where he lives with his mistress, Marion. One day, Evelyne is overjoyed when she receives an invitation from Rémy to spend a weekend with him in Paris. The morning after their first night together in Rémy’s apartment, Evelyne accidentally breaks a glass ornament in the shape of a castle. The incident proves to be an omen of bad luck.
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