The best Jean Servais’s movies

Jean Servais

Jean Servais

24/09/1910- 17/02/1976
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Le Plaisir

Le Plaisir
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/02/1952
  • Character: l'ami de Jean
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.

The Longest Day

The Longest Day
7.7/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 25/09/1962
  • Character: RAdm. Janjard
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
8.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 03/02/1934
  • Character: Marius Pontmercy
The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.

Lost Command

Lost Command
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionWar
  • Release: 01/05/1966
  • Character: Gen. Melies
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.

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.

Rififi

Rififi
8.1/10
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.

He Who Must Die

He Who Must Die
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/05/1957
  • Character: Priest Fotis
Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920s, each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.

The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/12/1950
  • Character: Laurent Bartel
Evelyne (Michèle Morgan), a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy (Jean Marais) while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.

They Came to Rob Las Vegas

They Came to Rob Las Vegas
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/02/1968
  • Character: Gino
After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang collide, causing undesirable consequences.

Fever Mounts at El Pao

Fever Mounts at El Pao
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/12/1959
  • Character: Alejandro Gual
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.

Tamango

Tamango
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 24/01/1958
  • Character: Dr. Corot
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.

The Devil's Nightmare

The Devil's Nightmare
5.9/10
  • Genre: FantasyHorror
  • Release: 06/06/1971
  • Character: Baron von Rhoneberg
Six of seven tourists in a east European castle overnight are victims of a helper of the devil. Is Satan willing to spare their souls?

Coplan Saves His Skin

Coplan Saves His Skin
5.3/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 13/07/1968
  • Character: Saroghu
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot that threatens world security. When Coplan arrives, he is told the woman has been killed, and the trail of the murderer leads to her mad-scientist brother.

The Corsican Brothers

The Corsican Brothers
5.5/10
The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.

Le crime ne paie pas

Le crime ne paie pas
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/07/1962
  • Character: Vaughan
Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film.

Better a Widow

Better a Widow
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/10/1968
  • Character: Baron Misceni
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.

Les Jeux dangereux

Les Jeux dangereux
6/10
  • Release: 19/12/1958
  • Character: Fournier

The Game of Truth

The Game of Truth
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 26/11/1961
  • Character: Jean-François Vérate
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise, while outside the storm is raging. Enter a hateful person (played by Paul Meurisse, the nasty headmaster in "Les Diaboliques") who seems to know a lot about them. Someone is murdered. Whodunit?

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin
6.4/10
Short documentary on Paul Gauguin by Alain Resnais

Black Jesus

Black Jesus
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/05/1968
  • Character: Commander
A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.

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