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Jean Gabin is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer French born on 17 may 1904 at Paris (France)
Jean Gabin participated to 104 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 45 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about families, Mafia films, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Films about hijackings
Actors Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick, Sydney Chaplin, Gino Buzzanca
Roles Vittorio Manalese
Rating74%
In Paris, bloodthirsty jewel thief Roger Sartet (Alain Delon) escapes from custody with the help of the Manalese, a small-time but well-organised Sicilian Mafia clan led by patriarch Vittorio (Jean Gabin) and which includes his sons Aldo (Yves Lefebvre) and Sergio (Marc Porel) and son-in-law Luigi (Philippe Baronnet). While in prison, Sartet got to know an electrician (Christian de Tillière) who was involved in the setting up of an extensive security system at a diamond exhibition in Rome — the electrician returned home early, unannounced, caught his wife in bed with a lover and shot them. Unaccustomed to prison life, he made friends with Sartet and bit-by-bit supplied him with details of the exhibition.
Directed by Jean Renoir
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Évasion, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette
Roles Le lieutenant Maréchal
Rating80%
During the First World War, two French aviators, aristocratic Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and working-class Lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin), embark on a flight to examine the site of a blurred spot on photos from an earlier air reconnaissance mission. They are shot down by a German aviator and aristocrat, Rittmeister von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim). Von Rauffenstein, upon returning to base, sends a subordinate to find out if the aviators are officers and, if so, to invite them to lunch. During the meal, von Rauffenstein and de Boeldieu discover they have mutual acquaintances—a depiction of the familiarity, if not solidarity, within the upper classes that crosses national boundaries.
Directed by Georges Lacombe
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Jean Gabin, Simone Valère, Gérard Oury, Suzanne Dehelly, Robert Arnoux, Jacques Dynam
Roles Raymond Pinsard
Rating70%
Devenu aveugle à la suite d'un accident, un cheminot, chauffeur de locomotive à vapeur, doit s'adapter à sa nouvelle vie de non-voyant, notamment grâce aux soutiens de sa famille et d'autres non-voyants, dont une femme qui tombe sous son charme.
Directed by Jean Renoir
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, Giani Esposito, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Michel Piccoli
Roles Henri Danglard
Rating72%
Set in 1890s Paris, Henri Danglard is the owner of a cafe, which features his mistress, Lola, as a belly dancer. Losing money, Henri finds himself in Montmartre and finds that the old-fashioned can-can is still being performed there. Inspired, Henri comes up with a new business scheme that aims to revive the can-can, featuring a new dancer, Nini, a laundress he meets by chance.
Directed by Jacques Becker, Marc Maurette, Jean Becker, Jean-François Hauduroy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Dora Doll, René Dary, Vittorio Sanipoli
Roles Max dit Max le Menteur
Rating76%
The entire film takes place over the course of three days. Max, a decent and principled gangster, has dinner at Madame Bouche's restaurant, a hangout for criminals, with his longtime associate Riton, their burlesque-dancer girlfriends, and his protege Marco. A newspaper is seen to mention eight bars of stolen gold. The group goes to Pierrot's nightclub, where the girls perform. Max gets Marco a job as a drug dealer working for Pierrot. After the show, Max finds Riton's girlfriend Josy making out with Angelo, another gangster.
Directed by Sacha Guitry
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Daniel Gélin, Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Raymond Pellegrin, Michèle Morgan, Sacha Guitry
Roles Marshal Jean Lannes
Rating60%
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Cooking films, Medical-themed films, Peinture, Films about drugs, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Jean Gabin, André Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Jeannette Batti, Jacques Marin, Robert Arnoux
Roles Grandgil, artist painter
Rating72%
Action takes place in Paris during WWII in 1942. Unemployed Taxi-Driver, Marcel Martin makes his living delivering parcels on the black market. One day, he must carry by foot, to the other side of the capital, four suitcases containing pork meat. He goes to the basement of a grocer named Jambier and plays the accordion while the animal is butchered.
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Actors Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Gérard Blain, Lucienne Bogaert, Gabrielle Fontan, Germaine Kerjean
Roles André Chatelin
Rating74%
In Les Halles, in the heart of Paris, the restaurateur André Chatelin (Jean Gabin), leads an uneventful life until the arrival from Marseille of Catherine (Danièle Delorme), the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle (Lucienne Bogaert). She tells him her mother is dead and that she is without resources. Chatelin welcomes her under his roof - then marries her. Gérard (Gérard Blain), a young student that Chatelin looks upon as a son, becomes Catherine's lover, and she sets him at odds with Chatelin. She asks him to kill the restaurateur. He refuses. She kills him. Having discovered that Gabrielle is still alive, declined and drug addicted, Chatelin realises the darkness of Catherine's soul who has always lied to him.
Directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes La provence
Actors Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel, Silvia Monfort, Henri Arius, Antoine Balpêtré, Georges Lannes
Roles le docteur Laurent
Rating64%
Dédicace : « Ce film est dédié respectueusement aux pionniers de la méthode psychoprophylactique d’accouchement sans douleur. Il a été réalisé avec l’aide de la maternité des métallurgistes à Paris où cette méthode a été pratiquée la première fois en France en 1952. »
Directed by Gilles Grangier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Marcel Bozzuffi, Annie Girardot, Paul Frankeur, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Roles Louis Bertain/Louis le blond
Rating65%
Louis Bertain (Gabin) is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when "the red light is on" at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis' younger brother is a police informer.
Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Jean Gabin, Edwige Feuillère, Nicole Berger, Franco Interlenghi, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Roles Maître André Gobillot
Rating66%
Maitre André Gobillot (Jean Gabin), a distinguished lawyer in his mid 50s, successfully defends a beautiful young woman, Yvette Maudet (Brigitte Bardot), who has committed a robbery.
Directed by Jean Delannoy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Jean Desailly, Olivier Hussenot, Lino Ventura, Lucienne Bogaert
Roles Commissaire Maigret
Rating71%
Dans le quartier parisien du Marais, plusieurs femmes seules ont été successivement assassinées chaque fois la nuit venue. Le commissaire Maigret soupçonne le criminel de chercher à le provoquer. Il fait arrêter un faux coupable consentant, Mazet, de manière à obliger le vrai meurtrier à se manifester lors de la reconstitution du dernier crime. Une auxiliaire de la police, qui servait d'appât, est agressée, mais riposte et son agresseur parvient à s'enfuir. Pendant ce temps, l'inspecteur Lagrume prend en filature une jeune femme, Yvonne Maurin, dont l'attitude lui paraît suspecte. Maigret rend visite à celle-ci et fait la connaissance de son mari Marcel, architecte-décorateur. Il s'avère que Marcel a passé sa jeunesse place des Vosges et que sa mère habite précisément le pâté de maisons où disparut l'assassin lors de sa dernière tentative. Bientôt, Maigret est certain de tenir le coupable et arrête Marcel Maurin. Mais un nouveau crime est commis alors que le suspect est en garde à vue au quai des Orfèvres.
Directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Origin German
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes La provence
Actors Jean Gabin, Werner Dissel, Bernard Blier, André Bourvil, Danièle Delorme, Béatrice Altariba
Roles Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
Rating73%
Jean Valjean, un paysan condamné à cinq ans de travaux forcés pour avoir volé un pain, sort du bagne de Toulon en 1815 après y avoir passé dix-neuf ans, sa peine initiale ayant été prolongée à cause de ses multiples tentatives d'évasion. Son destin bascule lorsque l'évêque de Digne, Monseigneur Myriel, se dévoue pour lui éviter d'être de nouveau incarcéré à la suite du vol qu'il a perpétré dans sa maison. Dès lors, Jean Valjean va s'évertuer à ne faire que le bien autour de lui au détriment de son propre bonheur.
, 1h37
Directed by Jean Delannoy
Origin France
Genres Crime
Actors Jean Gabin, Valentine Tessier, Michel Auclair, Robert Hirsch, Jacques Morel, Jacques Hilling
Roles komisař Jules Maigret
Rating69%
Le commissaire Maigret revient à Saint-Fiacre, village où il a passé son enfance, à l'invitation de la comtesse de Saint-Fiacre.
Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Politic
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Renée Faure, Alfred Adam, Henri Crémieux, Robert Vattier
Roles Emile Beaufort
Rating71%
Ancien président du Conseil, Émile Beaufort consacre une large partie de son temps à l'écriture de ses mémoires, qu'il dicte à sa dévouée secrétaire, M Milleran, à La Verdière, sa propriété provinciale. Retiré des affaires publiques, il ne garde pas moins un regard attentif sur l'actualité politique nationale.
Jean Gabin
Among those, 45 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
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Add to a movie listThe Sicilian Clan (1969)
, 1h57Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about families, Mafia films, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Films about hijackings
Actors Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick, Sydney Chaplin, Gino Buzzanca
Roles Vittorio Manalese
Rating74%
In Paris, bloodthirsty jewel thief Roger Sartet (Alain Delon) escapes from custody with the help of the Manalese, a small-time but well-organised Sicilian Mafia clan led by patriarch Vittorio (Jean Gabin) and which includes his sons Aldo (Yves Lefebvre) and Sergio (Marc Porel) and son-in-law Luigi (Philippe Baronnet). While in prison, Sartet got to know an electrician (Christian de Tillière) who was involved in the setting up of an extensive security system at a diamond exhibition in Rome — the electrician returned home early, unannounced, caught his wife in bed with a lover and shot them. Unaccustomed to prison life, he made friends with Sartet and bit-by-bit supplied him with details of the exhibition.
Grand Illusion (1937)
, 1h54Directed by Jean Renoir
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Évasion, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette
Roles Le lieutenant Maréchal
Rating80%
During the First World War, two French aviators, aristocratic Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and working-class Lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin), embark on a flight to examine the site of a blurred spot on photos from an earlier air reconnaissance mission. They are shot down by a German aviator and aristocrat, Rittmeister von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim). Von Rauffenstein, upon returning to base, sends a subordinate to find out if the aviators are officers and, if so, to invite them to lunch. During the meal, von Rauffenstein and de Boeldieu discover they have mutual acquaintances—a depiction of the familiarity, if not solidarity, within the upper classes that crosses national boundaries.
The Night Is My Kingdom (1951)
, 1h50Directed by Georges Lacombe
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Jean Gabin, Simone Valère, Gérard Oury, Suzanne Dehelly, Robert Arnoux, Jacques Dynam
Roles Raymond Pinsard
Rating70%
Devenu aveugle à la suite d'un accident, un cheminot, chauffeur de locomotive à vapeur, doit s'adapter à sa nouvelle vie de non-voyant, notamment grâce aux soutiens de sa famille et d'autres non-voyants, dont une femme qui tombe sous son charme.
French Cancan (1954)
, 1h48Directed by Jean Renoir
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, Giani Esposito, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Michel Piccoli
Roles Henri Danglard
Rating72%
Set in 1890s Paris, Henri Danglard is the owner of a cafe, which features his mistress, Lola, as a belly dancer. Losing money, Henri finds himself in Montmartre and finds that the old-fashioned can-can is still being performed there. Inspired, Henri comes up with a new business scheme that aims to revive the can-can, featuring a new dancer, Nini, a laundress he meets by chance.
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
, 1h34Directed by Jacques Becker, Marc Maurette, Jean Becker, Jean-François Hauduroy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Dora Doll, René Dary, Vittorio Sanipoli
Roles Max dit Max le Menteur
Rating76%
The entire film takes place over the course of three days. Max, a decent and principled gangster, has dinner at Madame Bouche's restaurant, a hangout for criminals, with his longtime associate Riton, their burlesque-dancer girlfriends, and his protege Marco. A newspaper is seen to mention eight bars of stolen gold. The group goes to Pierrot's nightclub, where the girls perform. Max gets Marco a job as a drug dealer working for Pierrot. After the show, Max finds Riton's girlfriend Josy making out with Angelo, another gangster.
Napoleon (1955)
, 3h2Directed by Sacha Guitry
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Daniel Gélin, Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Raymond Pellegrin, Michèle Morgan, Sacha Guitry
Roles Marshal Jean Lannes
Rating60%
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
La Traversée de Paris (1956)
, 1h20Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Cooking films, Medical-themed films, Peinture, Films about drugs, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Jean Gabin, André Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Jeannette Batti, Jacques Marin, Robert Arnoux
Roles Grandgil, artist painter
Rating72%
Action takes place in Paris during WWII in 1942. Unemployed Taxi-Driver, Marcel Martin makes his living delivering parcels on the black market. One day, he must carry by foot, to the other side of the capital, four suitcases containing pork meat. He goes to the basement of a grocer named Jambier and plays the accordion while the animal is butchered.
Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
, 1h53Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Actors Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Gérard Blain, Lucienne Bogaert, Gabrielle Fontan, Germaine Kerjean
Roles André Chatelin
Rating74%
In Les Halles, in the heart of Paris, the restaurateur André Chatelin (Jean Gabin), leads an uneventful life until the arrival from Marseille of Catherine (Danièle Delorme), the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle (Lucienne Bogaert). She tells him her mother is dead and that she is without resources. Chatelin welcomes her under his roof - then marries her. Gérard (Gérard Blain), a young student that Chatelin looks upon as a son, becomes Catherine's lover, and she sets him at odds with Chatelin. She asks him to kill the restaurateur. He refuses. She kills him. Having discovered that Gabrielle is still alive, declined and drug addicted, Chatelin realises the darkness of Catherine's soul who has always lied to him.
The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957)
Directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes La provence
Actors Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel, Silvia Monfort, Henri Arius, Antoine Balpêtré, Georges Lannes
Roles le docteur Laurent
Rating64%
Dédicace : « Ce film est dédié respectueusement aux pionniers de la méthode psychoprophylactique d’accouchement sans douleur. Il a été réalisé avec l’aide de la maternité des métallurgistes à Paris où cette méthode a été pratiquée la première fois en France en 1952. »
Speaking of Murder (1957)
, 1h25Directed by Gilles Grangier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Marcel Bozzuffi, Annie Girardot, Paul Frankeur, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Roles Louis Bertain/Louis le blond
Rating65%
Louis Bertain (Gabin) is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when "the red light is on" at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis' younger brother is a police informer.
Love Is My Profession (1958)
, 2h2Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Jean Gabin, Edwige Feuillère, Nicole Berger, Franco Interlenghi, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Roles Maître André Gobillot
Rating66%
Maitre André Gobillot (Jean Gabin), a distinguished lawyer in his mid 50s, successfully defends a beautiful young woman, Yvette Maudet (Brigitte Bardot), who has committed a robbery.
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
, 1h59Directed by Jean Delannoy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Jean Desailly, Olivier Hussenot, Lino Ventura, Lucienne Bogaert
Roles Commissaire Maigret
Rating71%
Dans le quartier parisien du Marais, plusieurs femmes seules ont été successivement assassinées chaque fois la nuit venue. Le commissaire Maigret soupçonne le criminel de chercher à le provoquer. Il fait arrêter un faux coupable consentant, Mazet, de manière à obliger le vrai meurtrier à se manifester lors de la reconstitution du dernier crime. Une auxiliaire de la police, qui servait d'appât, est agressée, mais riposte et son agresseur parvient à s'enfuir. Pendant ce temps, l'inspecteur Lagrume prend en filature une jeune femme, Yvonne Maurin, dont l'attitude lui paraît suspecte. Maigret rend visite à celle-ci et fait la connaissance de son mari Marcel, architecte-décorateur. Il s'avère que Marcel a passé sa jeunesse place des Vosges et que sa mère habite précisément le pâté de maisons où disparut l'assassin lors de sa dernière tentative. Bientôt, Maigret est certain de tenir le coupable et arrête Marcel Maurin. Mais un nouveau crime est commis alors que le suspect est en garde à vue au quai des Orfèvres.
Les Misérables (1958)
, 3h37Directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Origin German
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes La provence
Actors Jean Gabin, Werner Dissel, Bernard Blier, André Bourvil, Danièle Delorme, Béatrice Altariba
Roles Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
Rating73%
Jean Valjean, un paysan condamné à cinq ans de travaux forcés pour avoir volé un pain, sort du bagne de Toulon en 1815 après y avoir passé dix-neuf ans, sa peine initiale ayant été prolongée à cause de ses multiples tentatives d'évasion. Son destin bascule lorsque l'évêque de Digne, Monseigneur Myriel, se dévoue pour lui éviter d'être de nouveau incarcéré à la suite du vol qu'il a perpétré dans sa maison. Dès lors, Jean Valjean va s'évertuer à ne faire que le bien autour de lui au détriment de son propre bonheur.
, 1h37Directed by Jean Delannoy
Origin France
Genres Crime
Actors Jean Gabin, Valentine Tessier, Michel Auclair, Robert Hirsch, Jacques Morel, Jacques Hilling
Roles komisař Jules Maigret
Rating69%
Le commissaire Maigret revient à Saint-Fiacre, village où il a passé son enfance, à l'invitation de la comtesse de Saint-Fiacre.
The President (1961)
, 1h50Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Politic
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Renée Faure, Alfred Adam, Henri Crémieux, Robert Vattier
Roles Emile Beaufort
Rating71%
Ancien président du Conseil, Émile Beaufort consacre une large partie de son temps à l'écriture de ses mémoires, qu'il dicte à sa dévouée secrétaire, M Milleran, à La Verdière, sa propriété provinciale. Retiré des affaires publiques, il ne garde pas moins un regard attentif sur l'actualité politique nationale.