The best Daniel Ceccaldi’s movies

Daniel Ceccaldi

Daniel Ceccaldi

25/07/1927- 27/03/2003
We present our ranking of the best Daniel Ceccaldi’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Daniel Ceccaldi.
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Stolen Kisses

Stolen Kisses
7.5/10
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

Pouic-Pouic

Pouic-Pouic
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/11/1963
  • Character: Pedro Castelli
Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...

Bed and Board

Bed and Board
7.4/10
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

Incorrigible

Incorrigible
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/10/1975
  • Character: Le préfet de police
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?

The Soft Skin

The Soft Skin
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/04/1964
  • Character: Clément
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.

Death of a Corrupt Man

Death of a Corrupt Man
6.8/10
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...

That Man from Rio

That Man from Rio
7/10
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 who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
6.1/10
The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada.

For a Cop's Hide

For a Cop's Hide
6.4/10
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.

People in Luck

People in Luck
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/04/1963
  • Character: L'homme amoureux de Virginie (« Le Repas gastronomique »)
A light French comedy of 5 segments.

Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/09/1972
  • Character: Gérard
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

Famous Love Affairs

Famous Love Affairs
5.2/10
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

Barbara

Barbara
6.1/10
Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.

The Toy

The Toy
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/12/1976
  • Character: Le père de famille
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.

Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons

Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons
6.9/10
The story opens in a Western saloon, where a young musician with a banjo begins to tell a tale of Lucky Luke and his sworn enemies the Dalton brothers: Joe, William, Jack and Averell. Luke has, once again, as he has done many times before, thrown the four outlaws into jail. The prison is also the abode of a guard dog named Rin Tin Can (Rantanplan in the original French language version).

The Four Charlots Musketeers

The Four Charlots Musketeers
5.4/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedy
  • Release: 13/02/1974
  • Character: Louis XIII / Le roi
This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.

Witness in the City

Witness in the City
6.9/10
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.

The Four Charlots Musketeers 2

The Four Charlots Musketeers 2
5.2/10
This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.

Cloportes

Cloportes
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/10/1965
  • Character: l'inspecteur de police Lescure
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 22/03/1957
  • Character: Jacques Gauthier
He is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, he removes his vault in Alsace, steals two paintings of old masters, steals valuable gems and calls out to the police prefect to avoid his arrest. But this time he risks being seriously recognized. Lupine must once again use his fine intellect to deftly escape the situation.

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