Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers decides to return to his hometown La Rochelle to die. Read More »
Tag Archives: Lino Ventura
The Slap / La gifle (1974) Claude Pinoteau, Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani
Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife. His mistress has also left him. Read More »
The Gorilla Greets You / Le gorille vous salue bien (1958) Bernard Borderie, Lino Ventura, Charles Vanel, Pierre Dux
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must Read More »
Happy New Year (1973) Claude Lelouch, Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard
Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed Read More »
To Skin a Spy / Avec la peau des autres (1966) Jacques Deray, Lino Ventura, Jean Bouise, Marilù Tolo
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna Read More »
Way of Youth (1959) Michel Boisrond, Françoise Arnoul, Bourvil, Lino Ventura
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation Read More »
Birds of Prey (1968) José Giovanni, Lino Ventura, Rosa Furman, Aurora Clavel
Vera Cruz, 1938. “Le Rital”, a tough French hit man, agrees to serve Mexican revolutionaries Read More »
Les misérables (1982) Robert Hossein, Lino Ventura, Jean Carmet, Michel Bouquet
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert. Read More »
The Dictator’s Guns / L’arme à gauche (1965) Claude Sautet, Lino Ventura, Sylva Koscina, Leo Gordon
Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo Read More »
The French Detective / Adieu poulet (1975) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux
When political thugs murder an opponent’s volunteer and also kill a cop Read More »