Jean Servais

Halloween Monster Bash (1991)

1991's NBC Halloween special with John Astin and Rhonda Shear. Features clips from classic horror movies with commentary. ...

The Protector (1974)

Recently released from prison, Samuel Malakian, a wealthy architect, investigates the disappearance of his daughter, Nathalie, kidnapped by thugs linked to the underworld. When he discovers that she is a prostitute, he will descend into the slums of the ci ...

Threshold of the Void (1974)

The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now dec ...

The Crazy Capo Affair (1973)

Jean Diserens has a double life: he's a property developer and... drug dealer. He's looking for a new way to sell it. But his superior, Crazy Capo, doesn't see things the same way. ...

The Devil's Nightmare (1971)

Seven tourists sent by Satan to a castle are caught by a ghastly woman as they commit deadly sins. ...

Der Mann aus London (1971)

Donkey Skin (1970)

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father. ...

Better a Widow (1968)

Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but di ...

Coplan Saves His Skin (1968)

Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot that threatens world security. When Coplan arrives, he is told the woman has been killed, and the trail of t ...

Black Jesus (1968)

A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortur ...

They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968)

After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang collide, causing undesirable consequences. ...

La Femme de 100 têtes (1968)

Surrealist short film of images viewed to a surrealist poem by Max Ernst. ...

Every Man Is My Enemy (1967)

When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him... ...

To Skin a Spy (1966)

A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French. ...

Lost Command (1966)

After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts ...

Thomas the Impostor (1965)

In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities wi ...

X-Ray of a Killer (1965)

The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy. ...

Rififi in the City (1964)

In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncovering the shady works of popular politician Maurice Leprince is killed. However, thugs working for Leprince b ...

That Man from Rio (1964)

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen ...

Agent of Doom (1963)

Scientist André Ségonne hits the headlines with his discovery of anti-matter. On his way to a few days' vacation, he is involved in a motorcycle accident. Rescued by Piort and Florence, a strange couple, André is taken to their equally peculiar house: a ...

Chicken Soup (1963)

The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine... ...

The Cage (1963)

An African physician returns home after studying medicine in Paris. He marries and settles down to life in the bucolic splendor of his native land. When he has a confrontation with a white plantation owner, the white man sees red and casts a spell on the A ...

The Longest Day (1962)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied ...

Crime Does Not Pay (1962)

A man walks into a movie theater in Paris and starts watching a film—the same one we're watching, consisting of four stories of best criminal intentions gone awry from the Middle Ages to the present day. ...

The Corsican Brothers (1961)

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link. ...

The Game of Truth (1961)

A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more an ...

House of Sin (1961)

In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in Africa. He is looking for a wife and begins advertising in the newspaper. Instead he finds himself victimized by con-artists. ...

On Friday at Eleven (1961)

An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned. ...

Sahara on Fire (1961)

A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced ...

Murder at 45 R.P.M. (1960)

Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the d ...

Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arr ...

Dangerous Games (1958)

Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where he is spotted by Fleur, a poor girl: she is going to kidnap him and demand a ransom from the young man's parents, money which will be used to pay for a goo ...

That Night (1958)

Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sylvie. They both work for André Reverdy, a very cynical man, who openly covets Sylvie. ...

Tamango (1958)

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown. ...

When a Woman Meddles (1957)

French film favorite Edwige Feuillere plays a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's first husband and daughter pay a visit, it's an awkward time for our heroine and her current amour, gang boss Godot (Jean Servais). In addition to fielding a ...

The Wheel (1957)

Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the image of her mother. ...

He Who Must Die (1957)

Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, ...

La Déroute (1957)

How to make the most of a defeat. How to make money from Napoleon's fiasco at Waterloo. ...

The Lebanese Mission (1956)

In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèvre, a Frenchman, and Mokhrir, a Lebanese, with the prospecting of an isolated region granted to him by Countess Athelstane Orloff. Their search remains fru ...

The Knife to the Throat (1955)

Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his henchmen, Le Chinois, who killed a woman during the last bank stickup. ...

Heroes and Sinners (1955)

A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a stopping-off point for a number of shady characters. Yves Montand plays a French ex-pilot who becomes invol ...

Rififi (1955)

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash- ...

The Knight of the Night (1953)

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a few years together, the couple slowly sinks into weariness. Bella has forgotten what happiness used to taste like. Then a mysterious squire appears. Aware ...

Tourbillon (1953)

Taking advantage of the shooting of a film, gangsters stage a hold -up. A black man, Selim, is unfairly accused. ...

Rue de l'estrapade (1953)

While Henri Laurent speeds along on the racing circuits, his pretty wife Françoise goes from luxury boutique to luxury boutique with her best friend Denise. One day, Denise lets her know that Henri has a lover. Outraged, Françoise moves out of marital ho ...

Mina de Vanghel (1953)

A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work for him as a servant, but after a night of love with him, she commits suicide. ...

Les Crimes de l'amour (1953)

Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the provinces, who evokes a strange adventure. Staying with an old couple, he acts as acquaintance with Albertine ...

Le Plaisir (1952)

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her n ...

Loguivy-de-la-Mer (1952)

A small Breton port is falling asleep: individual and coastal fishing is dying, as is the case for François, an old sailor close to retirement. The only solution is to form a cooperative to buy a motor trawler. Five young sailors help rebuild the Roches-D ...

The Glass Castle (1950)

Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy. ...

The Ferret (1950)

A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant. ...

Gauguin (1950)

A short documentary on Paul Gauguin, a French painter and sculptor. ...

Mademoiselle de la Ferté (1949)

Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him. ...

Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949)

During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the are ...

Lovers Without Love (1948)

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy. ...

La Danse de mort (1948)

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past. ...

The Seventh Door (1947)

An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key into the ...

Sunless Neighborhood (1946)

In a slum set to be demolished, dramas are played out among the picturesque slum dwellers, including a young couple who, denounced by the police, are forced to leave home. ...

Life of Pleasure (1944)

An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir". ...

Mahlia the Mestiza (1943)

Daughter of a French officer and an Annamite, Mahlia was brought up in Indochina by Mr. and Mrs. de Roussière. Their son, Henri, would like to marry her but they are against it. Mahlia flees and Henri is killed for trying to protect her. The young girl en ...

Finance noire (1943)

In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A woman, Helene, betrays them first, then in love with Francois, the pilot, helps the two friends to escape. ...

Tornavara (1943)

In a lost village in Lapland, Gérard comes to the aid of his friend Anders, in conflict with his father, a rich owner of gold mines. ...

Patricia (1942)

Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt but they only hide a heart of gold. Doesn't she bring up four orphans, Dominique, Fabien, Chantal and Jean ...

Fromont Young and Risler Elder (1941)

An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists. ...

Those of the Sky (1941)

An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up having an accident because of fatigue, and pushes the sacrifice to help his rival. ...

L'Étrange Nuit de Noël (1939)

Taking advantage of their uncle's absence, André and Raymond Rafet organize a New Year's Eve party at his house. The uncle returns unexpectedly, disturbs the party, threatens his nephews to disinherit them and then locks himself in his office. A few minut ...

La vie est magnifique (1939)

Two campers meet two young girls in the Landes. Love will bloom, with its heartbreaks. ...

Land of Fire (1939)

Harvest (1937)

In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from being farmers living in relative poverty. Only a few old people and the poacher Panturle remain. Panturle ...

Social Police (1937)

For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other hand, ...

Les Réprouvés (1937)

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy. ...

Gigolette (1937)

Daddy's Girl (1936)

After winning the lottery, an orphan who wants to find a husband asks a hotel porter to be her father. ...

Valse éternelle (1936)

Rose (1936)

Bourrasque (1935)

A young settler from Algeria is in love with the boss's niece. Of course, the father of the young man is formally opposed to the marriage. But helped by his mother and by the kingpin himself, the boy achieves his goals. ...

Song of Farewell (1934)

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Angele (1934)

Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a naive young woman who is seduced and abandoned. It is based on the novel Un de Baumugnes by Jean Giono. ...

Dernière heure (1934)

A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hours of happiness, before his arrest... ...

Jeunesse (1934)

After being saved from suicide due to an unhappy marriage, Marie hesitates between two other men, but lands up rejoining her husband in the colonies as she now expects a baby. ...

Amok (1934)

Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions now are alcohol and his work, which takes him to villages ravaged by dirt, fever and a strange illness whic ...

Les Misérables (1934)

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. ...

La Voix sans visage (1933)

The singer Saltore is accused of the murder of his wife's lover, and is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. His daughter proves his innocence when she discovers the culprit to be his wife, who wanted to end an embarrassing love affair. ...

Mater Dolorosa (1933)

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully his wife. ...

Criminal (1933)

A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison. ...

The Cage (1963)

An African physician returns home after studying medicine in Paris. He marries and settles down to life in the bucolic splendor of his native land. When he has a confrontation with a white plantation owner, the white man sees red and casts a spell on the A ...