The best Albert Michel’s crime movies

Albert Michel

Albert Michel

03/10/1909- 06/07/1981
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Le Deuxième Souffle

Le Deuxième Souffle
7.9/10
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

The Counterfeiters of Paris

The Counterfeiters of Paris
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 27/09/1961
  • Character: Postman
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.

Obsession

Obsession
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/10/1954
  • Character: Le réptionniste de l'hôtel rouennais
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured. The two get into a fight and the following day Alexandre is discovered dead. Hélène suspects her husband is responsible for the murder.

Anyone Can Kill Me

Anyone Can Kill Me
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/12/1957
  • Character: Le gardien-brigadier Bricart
The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place than a prison cell? As a result the five gangsters have themselves arrested on minor charges and start waiting until they are released. Unfortunately three of them die mysteriously, another one is openly murdered. The only man still alive, Tony, is scared. Easy to understand why...

Action Man

Action Man
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/05/1967
  • Character: Gaston
An American (Robert Stack) talks a retired French crook (Jean Gabin) into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.

Love Is My Profession

Love Is My Profession
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 17/09/1958
  • Character: Eugène, le patron du bazar (uncredited)
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.

La menace

La menace
6.6/10
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.

Maigret Sees Red

Maigret Sees Red
6.2/10
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures to save the life of the witness...

Private Screening

Private Screening
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/10/1973
  • Character: Le concierge de Denis
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past remains unchanged. Among the complications is his growing regard for the woman who plays his cinematic wife. She may wind up replacing his actual wife in real life. One of the highlights of this film is the insight it gives into the actual mechanics of filmmaking.

Back to the Wall

Back to the Wall
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/03/1958
  • Character: le concierge
Rich industrialist Jacques Decret learns his wife Gloria is having an affair with a young actor. For revenge, he bombards her with anonymous letters, convincing her that her lover is the culprit while Gloria desperately seeks a way out.

The Gardener of Argenteuil

The Gardener of Argenteuil
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 07/10/1966
  • Character: le patron du bistro
Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.

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