The best Jean Gabin’s crime movies

Jean Gabin

Jean Gabin

16/05/1904- 15/11/1976
Today we present the best Jean Gabin’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jean Gabin’s movies.

Two Men in Town

Two Men in Town
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/10/1973
  • Character: Germain Cazeneuve
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

The Sicilian Clan

The Sicilian Clan
7.4/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/12/1969
  • Character: Vittorio Manalese
Roger Santet is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese. They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's American friend Tony Nicosia suggests that a better way to get the rocks would be to hijack the transport plane while it is en route to New York. The dogged inspector Le Goff is using all the available resources to thwart their plans. Though the heist itself is successful, Santet finds himself trapped by the mob because of his fling with Manalese's daughter-in-law.

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.

Pasha

Pasha
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/03/1968
  • Character: Comissaire Joss, le Pacha
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...

Maigret Sets a Trap

Maigret Sets a Trap
7.2/10
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.

La Bête Humaine

La Bête Humaine
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/12/1938
  • Character: Jacques Lantier
On board a train bound for the port city of Le Havre, France, railroad stationmaster Roubard murders Grandmorin, who seduced his beautiful young wife, Severine. Engineer Jacques Lantier, stuck in Le Havre while the train is being repaired, also begins a passionate affair with Severine, who tries to entice the handsome stranger to murder her controlling husband. However, Lantier has a secret urge of his own that changes everything.

Razzia

Razzia
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/04/1955
  • Character: Henri Ferré dit 'Le Nantais'
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.

Pépé le Moko

Pépé le Moko
7.7/10
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

The Counterfeiters of Paris

The Counterfeiters of Paris
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 27/09/1961
  • Character: Ferdinand Maréchal, aka 'le Dabe'
"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.

Hi-Jack Highway

Hi-Jack Highway
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/10/1955
  • Character: Jean Chape
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.

Killer

Killer
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 01/03/1972
  • Character: Commissaire Le Guen
Christmas Eve in Paris. Leo Zimmerman is a businessman who lives for his beloved little daughter’s smile. Outwardly, his life is exemplary. However, when Dimitri Kopas walks into his office, pretending to be a normal client, Leo understands that a contract is out on his head and that the young man has come to town to kill him. Overcome with anxiety and paranoia, no longer able to sleep, Leo decides to meet the killer face to face and to broker a strange deal.

Port of Shadows

Port of Shadows
7.7/10
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

The Upper Hand

The Upper Hand
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 02/03/1966
  • Character: Paul Berger dit Paulo les Diam's
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggle business.

The Lower Depths

The Lower Depths
7.5/10
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.

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...

Love Is My Profession

Love Is My Profession
6.7/10
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.

Le Jour Se Lève

Le Jour Se Lève
7.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/06/1939
  • Character: François
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the led him to the killing.

The Gentleman from Epsom

The Gentleman from Epsom
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 03/10/1962
  • Character: Richard Briand-Charmery
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.

Action Man

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

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