The best Dominique Davray’s drama movies

Dominique Davray

Dominique Davray

27/01/1919- 16/08/1998
We present our ranking of the best Dominique Davray’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 Dominique Davray.

Going Places

Going Places
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/03/1974
  • Character: Ursula
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Touchez Pas au Grisbi
7.7/10
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.

Any Number Can Win

Any Number Can Win
7.3/10
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.

Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/04/1962
  • Character: Angèle
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Casque d'Or

Casque d'Or
7.6/10
Ex-convict Georges Manda returns to the free world determined to go straight and takes a steady job as a carpenter. Unable to completely shake his connections with the underground, he meets with a former prison mate, older gangster Félix Leca, who introduces him to his mistress, the sweet but guarded Marie "Casque d'Or". Marie and Georges fall into a passionate relationship, driving Félix to do everything in his power to ruin the couple.

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 20/10/1982
  • Character: Mère Magnon
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/10/1965
  • Character: Mme Blanche
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.

Méfiez-vous fillettes

Méfiez-vous fillettes
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/07/1957
  • Character: Arlette

Emile's Boat

Emile's Boat
6.2/10
Charles-Edmond, l'aîné des frères Larmentiel, décide de revenir à La Rochelle, sa ville natale pour y mourir. Quarante ans plus tôt il en avait été chassé par son père. Avant de trépasser, le vieil original annonce qu'il a un fils caché, Émile, marin-pêcheur auquel il souhaite lèguer ses biens. François, le frère cadet, que Charles-Edmond déteste, lorgne sur l'héritage pour renflouer la puissante entreprise familiale, véritable trust de la pêche, et va tenter de s'approprier l'affection et les biens de cet héritier inopportun. Émile, quant à lui, est trop occupé à se disputer avec Fernande, chanteuse de beugland, pour se douter de ce qui l'attend…

Guinguette

Guinguette
5.2/10

Closed Shutters

Closed Shutters
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/02/1973
  • Character: Victoire
1930. Adelaide is fed up with Paris and founds a 'retreat' for her women friends in a Breton port. They live well and take their pleasure seriously, until the attractive sailor Thomas arrives and nothing is ever the same again.

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