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Lino Ventura is a Actor Italien born on 13 july 1919 at Parma (Italie)
Lino Ventura participated to 81 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 36 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 Commissaire Le Goff
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-Pierre Melville, Jean-François Adam
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes French war films, La provence, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Serge Reggiani, Christian Barbier
Roles Philippe Gerbier
Rating80%
Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura), the head of a Resistance network, is arrested by Vichy French police, imprisoned in a camp, and transported to Paris for questioning. He makes a daring escape.
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 Angelo Fraiser
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 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 Pepito
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 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 Inspecteur Torrence
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 Maurice Labro
Origin France
Genres Drama, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Lino Ventura, Paul Frankeur, Estella Blain, François Chaumette, Nadine Alari, Jess Hahn
Roles Paul Lamiani
Rating64%
Ancien truand, ancien agent du Deuxième Bureau, Paul Lamiani (Lino Ventura) est devenu un honnête père de famille, patron de restaurant. Un jour, la DST le fait appeler et lui demande de renouer avec un dénommé Raymond (Paul Frankeur), truand mêlé à un trafic de documents touchant la Défense nationale.
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Danielle Darrieux, Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier, Lino Ventura, Robert Dalban, Paul Frankeur
Roles Carlo Bernardi
Rating74%
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin (Danielle Darrieux). The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.
Directed by Denys de La Patellière
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, Politique, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Hardy Krüger, Charles Aznavour, Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud, Germán Cobos, Roland Ménard
Roles le brigadier Théo Dumas
Rating71%
Le film commence par une présentation de la nuit du réveillon de Noël 1941 et comment les divers personnages du film la fêtent :
Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Jean-Claude Brialy, Claudia Cardinale, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Lino Ventura, Darry Cowl
Roles le docteur André Challenberg
Rating58%
Albertine, une séduisante jeune femme de province en instance de divorce, devient l'objet d'une rivalité entre un médecin fameux, André Challenberg, et un écrivain snob du Paris mondain, Didier Marèze.
, 2h7
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Claude Rich, Michel Simon, Louis de Funès, Micheline Presle, Françoise Arnoul, Lucien Baroux
Roles Garigny
Rating66%
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken. The episodes are either mini-dramas. The version available in Germany and Japan has eight episodes.
Directed by Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Cooking films, Gangster films
Actors Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Jean Lefebvre, Francis Blanche, Venantino Venantini, Sabine Sinjen
Roles Fernand Naudin
Rating76%
Fernand Naudin (Lino Ventura) is an ex-gangster, who now deals in agricultural machinery and lives in Montauban. His modest, quiet life is disrupted when his childhood friend, nicknamed "The Mexican", who has become the Boss of a gangster organisation, summons him to his death bed. He has to take care of his friend's "business" and of his daughter, Patricia, who only thinks about having fun and has never been kept in a college for more than six months. Mister Folace (Francis Blanche) watches after "The Mexican"'s camp followers with a benevolent neutrality, as he don't feel really concerned by the upcoming quarrel about the succession, like Jean (Robert Dalban), butler and former housebreaker.
Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Reginald Kernan, Gert Fröbe, Henri Verneuil
Roles Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc'
Rating69%
Dans un endroit du sud marocain et du Sahara espagnol à l'approche des années 1960, Castagliano qui est un patron aux méthodes douteuses et surnommé « la Betterave » à cause de son diabète, dirige d'une main de fer une entreprise de transport routier dont il exploite les employés. Il engage John Steiner, un routier « mexicain » soi-disant né à Saltillo pour conduire sur 2 000 km vers le sud un véhicule articulé Berliet rouge flambant neuf, affrété d'un mystérieux chargement d'une valeur déclarée de 100 000 dollars, direction Moussorah. Pendant une conversation téléphonique entre Castagliano et son client, on apprend qu'il a engagé Steiner la veille pour qu'il en sache le moins possible sur ce camion.
Directed by Robert Enrico
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Actors André Bourvil, Lino Ventura, Jess Hahn, Marie Dubois, Michel Constantin, Paul Crauchet
Roles Laurent Dannecker
Rating69%
Hector Valentin, un Français qui bûcheronnait depuis plusieurs années au Canada, est de retour dans les Vosges où il hérite de la scierie familiale après la mort de son père. Sur place, il constate avec dépit que le « haut-fer » (terme vosgien désignant une scierie traditionnelle hydraulique) est en ruine, mais décide de faire revivre l'entreprise. Cependant, une autre scierie, beaucoup plus moderne et puissante, existe déjà dans le village, et son propriétaire, Therraz, heureux de la disparition de son concurrent, se présente à Valentin dans le but de lui acheter son héritage. Devant le refus de vendre et la détermination du nouveau venu, Therraz n'aura de cesse de mettre des bâtons dans les roues de Valentin.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-François Adam
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La provence, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, Christine Fabréga, Pierre Zimmer, Michel Constantin
Roles Gustave 'Gu' Minda
Rating78%
After escaping from prison Gustave discovers his fiancée is being blackmailed from other criminals. Gustave then plans one last caper to steal enough money in hopes of retiring, but he has to deal with the betrayal of Paul Ricci by his own brother, Jo (played by Marcel Bozzuffi), as well as with the brutal and corrupt police inspector Fardiano.
Directed by Michel Audiard, Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Lino Ventura, Jean Lefebvre, Michel Constantin, Mireille Darc, Tommy Duggan, Robert Dalban
Roles Antoine Beretto
Rating66%
Antoine Beretto, alias « Tonio », est un ancien gangster qui s'est recyclé dans un commerce de location de bateaux, ski nautique, et école de plongée à Collioure. Deux anciens complices, traqués par la brigade anti-gang, lui rendent visite pour lui emprunter de l'argent et lui demander de les faire passer en Italie par la mer. Beretto, d'abord réticent, finit par accepter et leur avance quatre millions (c'est-à-dire 40 000 nouveaux francs).
Lino Ventura
Among those, 36 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 Commissaire Le Goff
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.
Army of Shadows (1969)
, 2h19Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-François Adam
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes French war films, La provence, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Serge Reggiani, Christian Barbier
Roles Philippe Gerbier
Rating80%
Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura), the head of a Resistance network, is arrested by Vichy French police, imprisoned in a camp, and transported to Paris for questioning. He makes a daring escape.
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 Angelo Fraiser
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.
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 Pepito
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.
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 Inspecteur Torrence
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.
The Tiger Attacks (1959)
, 1h40Directed by Maurice Labro
Origin France
Genres Drama, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Lino Ventura, Paul Frankeur, Estella Blain, François Chaumette, Nadine Alari, Jess Hahn
Roles Paul Lamiani
Rating64%
Ancien truand, ancien agent du Deuxième Bureau, Paul Lamiani (Lino Ventura) est devenu un honnête père de famille, patron de restaurant. Un jour, la DST le fait appeler et lui demande de renouer avec un dénommé Raymond (Paul Frankeur), truand mêlé à un trafic de documents touchant la Défense nationale.
Marie-Octobre (1959)
, 1h35Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Danielle Darrieux, Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier, Lino Ventura, Robert Dalban, Paul Frankeur
Roles Carlo Bernardi
Rating74%
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin (Danielle Darrieux). The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.
Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
, 1h35Directed by Denys de La Patellière
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, Politique, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Hardy Krüger, Charles Aznavour, Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud, Germán Cobos, Roland Ménard
Roles le brigadier Théo Dumas
Rating71%
Le film commence par une présentation de la nuit du réveillon de Noël 1941 et comment les divers personnages du film la fêtent :
The Lions Are Loose (1961)
, 1h38Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Jean-Claude Brialy, Claudia Cardinale, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Lino Ventura, Darry Cowl
Roles le docteur André Challenberg
Rating58%
Albertine, une séduisante jeune femme de province en instance de divorce, devient l'objet d'une rivalité entre un médecin fameux, André Challenberg, et un écrivain snob du Paris mondain, Didier Marèze.
, 2h7Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Claude Rich, Michel Simon, Louis de Funès, Micheline Presle, Françoise Arnoul, Lucien Baroux
Roles Garigny
Rating66%
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken. The episodes are either mini-dramas. The version available in Germany and Japan has eight episodes.
Crooks in Clover (1963)
, 1h45Directed by Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Cooking films, Gangster films
Actors Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Jean Lefebvre, Francis Blanche, Venantino Venantini, Sabine Sinjen
Roles Fernand Naudin
Rating76%
Fernand Naudin (Lino Ventura) is an ex-gangster, who now deals in agricultural machinery and lives in Montauban. His modest, quiet life is disrupted when his childhood friend, nicknamed "The Mexican", who has become the Boss of a gangster organisation, summons him to his death bed. He has to take care of his friend's "business" and of his daughter, Patricia, who only thinks about having fun and has never been kept in a college for more than six months. Mister Folace (Francis Blanche) watches after "The Mexican"'s camp followers with a benevolent neutrality, as he don't feel really concerned by the upcoming quarrel about the succession, like Jean (Robert Dalban), butler and former housebreaker.
Greed in the Sun (1964)
, 2h10Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Reginald Kernan, Gert Fröbe, Henri Verneuil
Roles Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc'
Rating69%
Dans un endroit du sud marocain et du Sahara espagnol à l'approche des années 1960, Castagliano qui est un patron aux méthodes douteuses et surnommé « la Betterave » à cause de son diabète, dirige d'une main de fer une entreprise de transport routier dont il exploite les employés. Il engage John Steiner, un routier « mexicain » soi-disant né à Saltillo pour conduire sur 2 000 km vers le sud un véhicule articulé Berliet rouge flambant neuf, affrété d'un mystérieux chargement d'une valeur déclarée de 100 000 dollars, direction Moussorah. Pendant une conversation téléphonique entre Castagliano et son client, on apprend qu'il a engagé Steiner la veille pour qu'il en sache le moins possible sur ce camion.
The Wise Guys (1965)
, 2h8Directed by Robert Enrico
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Actors André Bourvil, Lino Ventura, Jess Hahn, Marie Dubois, Michel Constantin, Paul Crauchet
Roles Laurent Dannecker
Rating69%
Hector Valentin, un Français qui bûcheronnait depuis plusieurs années au Canada, est de retour dans les Vosges où il hérite de la scierie familiale après la mort de son père. Sur place, il constate avec dépit que le « haut-fer » (terme vosgien désignant une scierie traditionnelle hydraulique) est en ruine, mais décide de faire revivre l'entreprise. Cependant, une autre scierie, beaucoup plus moderne et puissante, existe déjà dans le village, et son propriétaire, Therraz, heureux de la disparition de son concurrent, se présente à Valentin dans le but de lui acheter son héritage. Devant le refus de vendre et la détermination du nouveau venu, Therraz n'aura de cesse de mettre des bâtons dans les roues de Valentin.
Le deuxième souffle (1966)
, 2h30Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-François Adam
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La provence, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, Christine Fabréga, Pierre Zimmer, Michel Constantin
Roles Gustave 'Gu' Minda
Rating78%
After escaping from prison Gustave discovers his fiancée is being blackmailed from other criminals. Gustave then plans one last caper to steal enough money in hopes of retiring, but he has to deal with the betrayal of Paul Ricci by his own brother, Jo (played by Marcel Bozzuffi), as well as with the brutal and corrupt police inspector Fardiano.
Let's Not Get Angry (1966)
, 1h40Directed by Michel Audiard, Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Lino Ventura, Jean Lefebvre, Michel Constantin, Mireille Darc, Tommy Duggan, Robert Dalban
Roles Antoine Beretto
Rating66%
Antoine Beretto, alias « Tonio », est un ancien gangster qui s'est recyclé dans un commerce de location de bateaux, ski nautique, et école de plongée à Collioure. Deux anciens complices, traqués par la brigade anti-gang, lui rendent visite pour lui emprunter de l'argent et lui demander de les faire passer en Italie par la mer. Beretto, d'abord réticent, finit par accepter et leur avance quatre millions (c'est-à-dire 40 000 nouveaux francs).