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Jean Wiéner is a Actor, Musical and Sound French born on 19 march 1896 at Paris (France)

Jean Wiéner

Jean Wiéner
Jean Wiéner participated to 72 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 8 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Sound

Touchez Pas au Grisbi, 1h34
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 Original Music Composer
Rating76% 3.841843.841843.841843.841843.84184
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.
Deadlier Than the Male, 1h53
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Actors Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Gérard Blain, Lucienne Bogaert, Gabrielle Fontan, Germaine Kerjean
Roles Music
Rating74% 3.737153.737153.737153.737153.73715
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.
Lovers of Paris, 1h55
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Dany Carrel, Jane Marken, Jacques Duby, Olivier Hussenot
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating68% 3.426223.426223.426223.426223.42622
A young provincial, Octave Mouret, arrives in Paris during the Second Empire. Madame Josserand, a society woman who thinks of little other than marrying off her daughter Berthe, sets her sights on him. But Octave has already turned his attention to the married Madame Hédouin, who runs a large department store, "Au Bonheur des Dames", where he is hired as a salesman. She is beautiful, but remains distant despite Octave's efforts to be noticed. Upset, Madame Josserand forces Berthe, against her will, to marry Auguste Vabre, a shopkeeper with little money. Berthe soon becomes Octave's mistress, and Octave applies his commercial talents to straightening out Auguste's finances. Madame Hédouin, now widowed, then realizes the business and romantic possibilities with her handsome young salesman.
Back Streets of Paris, 1h40
Directed by Jacques Feyder, Marcel Blistène
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Françoise Rosay, Andrée Clément, Paul Demange, Jeannette Batti
Roles Music
Rating68% 3.410253.410253.410253.410253.41025
This story involves Madame Rose, a hotelkeeper in a Paris suburb who will stop at nothing, including murder. Other characters include one of her former accomplices who carries a suitcase full of cash, a kindhearted street vendor, the gangster’s mistress, and the landlady’s daughter, Simone, who dreams of a better life.
The Count of Monte Cristo, 3h3
Directed by Édouard Molinaro, Robert Vernay
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Prison films, La provence, Films about capital punishment
Actors Daniel Ivernel, Jean Marais, Lia Amanda, Roger Pigaut, Jacques Castelot, Claude Génia
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70% 3.538093.538093.538093.538093.53809
Edmond Dantès, second d'un navire de commerce de retour d'Orient ayant pris le commandement de son navire après la mort du capitaine, accoste à l'île d'Elbe pour transmettre une lettre à Napoléon. À la suite de cette imprudence, commise pour respecter la volonté de son prédécesseur, il est victime d'une machination ourdie par le marin Caderousse, par l'officier Fernand Mondego (plus tard devenu comte de Morcerf), épris de Mercédès, la fiancée de Dantès, et le magistrat Gérard de Villefort (qui craint d'être compromis par les activités ultrabonapartistes de son père, le général Noirtier). Dantès est alors conduit au secret dans les profondeurs du château d'If, au large de Marseille.
Our Agent Tiger, 1h35
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Roger Hanin, Michel Bouquet, Margaret Lee, Micaela Pignatelli, Carlos Casaravilla, José Nieto
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating44% 2.2442452.2442452.2442452.2442452.244245
The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresure in it, he is constantly thwarted by international enemies. Among them is an old Nazi named Hans von Wunchendorf who dreams of world domination. He hides behind the codename "The Orchid" and needs the treasure to sustain a worldwide network of exiled former comrades. Once sanified by the gold his organisation plans to realise the endsieg after all.
Immortal France, 1h53
Directed by Guy Hamilton, Julien Duvivier, Robert Vernay
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about families
Actors Raimu, Michèle Morgan, Louis Jouvet, Renée Devillers, Suzy Prim, Georges Biscot
Roles Music
Rating61% 3.0886753.0886753.0886753.0886753.088675
The film follows a family in Montmartre from the Franco-Prussian War to World War II.
The Diary of an Innocent Boy, 1h40
Directed by Michel Deville
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about virginity
Actors Michèle Morgan, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Clémenti, Michel Piccoli, Odile Versois, Jacques Dufilho
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63% 3.1894053.1894053.1894053.1894053.189405
In the eighteenth century, seventeen-year-old virgin Benjamin comes with his old servant to stay at the estate of his aunt, Countess de Valandry, who is having an affair with Count Philippe. Benjamin is pursued by various woman, including the beautiful Anne, who really loves Philippe.