The best Jean Gaven’s movies

Jean Gaven

Jean Gaven

16/01/1922- 05/05/2014
Today we present the best Jean Gaven’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 Gaven’s movies.
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The Story of O

The Story of O
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/08/1975
  • Character: Pierre
The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion...

Rider on the Rain

Rider on the Rain
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 21/01/1970
  • Character: Inspector Toussaint
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.

Madame Claude

Madame Claude
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/05/1977
  • Character: Gustave Lucas
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets...

Pasha

Pasha
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/03/1968
  • Character: Marc, un inspecteur
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...

One Deadly Summer

One Deadly Summer
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 11/05/1983
  • Character: Leballech, boss of the sawmill
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
6.4/10
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

The Wild Oat

The Wild Oat
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/02/1953
  • Character: l'abbé Daniel
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.

The Witches of Salem

The Witches of Salem
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 26/04/1957
  • Character: Peter Corey
Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass from her home and John, feeling damned, agrees. Abigail vows revenge. Her chance comes when she accuses Elisabeth of witchcraft and manipulates younger girls to support her claims of seeing spirits. The town's minister and politicians want a cause: ridding the town of witchcraft is the ideal repression.

Signé Furax

Signé Furax
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 01/04/1981
  • Character: L'agent sans panier à salade
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

And Hope to Die

And Hope to Die
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/09/1972
  • Character: Rizzio
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

Girl on the Third Floor

Girl on the Third Floor
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/08/1955
  • Character: Ernest Sapinaud

Venus on Fire

Venus on Fire
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/05/1984
  • Character: Waldo
Two American executives for a cosmetics company travel to the Greek islands in search for a model for their new line of suntan lotion, "Venus". They run into more than they bargained for

Les Bidochon

Les Bidochon
3.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/07/1996
  • Character: Maître Nerval
Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur, in which they participate.

A Trap for Cinderella

A Trap for Cinderella
6.5/10
Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.

Riff Raff Girls

Riff Raff Girls
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 20/05/1959
  • Character: acteur
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...

Obsession

Obsession
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/10/1954
  • Character: Alexandre Buisson
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.

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/01/1961
  • Character: Grégoire
During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.

Méfiez-vous fillettes

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

Six heures à perdre

Six heures à perdre
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/01/1947
  • Character: Antoine

They Were Five

They Were Five
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/01/1952
  • Character: Marcel - le boxeur
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a student and Philippe remains what he has always been, a young man of good social standing. Roger, who can't find any role, is introduced through his singer sister Valérie, to Frédo, a shady nightclub owner.Roger soon becomes one of Frédo's henchmen. To make matters worse, he swipes Jean's fiancée, Simone. Marcel, who loses fight after fight, ends up joining Fredo's gang as well. André, who wanted to redeem the faults of his father during the Occupation, gets killed in the Indochina war. Marcel is shot down while taking part in a robbery. In her turn, Valérie is bumped off by an accomplice of Fredo and Roger is sent to jail.

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