The best Maurice Biraud’s crime movies

Maurice Biraud

Maurice Biraud

03/03/1922- 24/12/1982
Today we present the best Maurice Biraud’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 Maurice Biraud’s movies.

The Gypsy

The Gypsy
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/12/1975
  • Character: Pierrot le Naïf
Hugo Sennart is a French Gypsy, wanted by the police for theft. The same inspector who's searching for him is also looking for a jewel thief, Yan Kuq, whose wife has died under suspicious circumstance just after a major burglary. The Gypsy needs to settle a few scores and make one more heist before going to ground, and, by coincidence, his path takes him close to Yan, who's hiding in the hotel of a close friend and former lover, Ninie. The Gypsy lives by a code of honor, which puts him at risk on occasion; and he despises those who treat his people as worse than dogs. The police close in. Is there honor among thieves?

Flic Story

Flic Story
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 01/10/1975
  • Character: Owner of the Saint-Appoline hotel
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

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.

The Counterfeiters of Paris

The Counterfeiters of Paris
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 27/09/1961
  • Character: Robert Mideau, aka 'le Cave'
"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.

Cloportes

Cloportes
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/10/1965
  • Character: Arthur
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 Seventh Juror

The Seventh Juror
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1962
  • Character: Veterinarian
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.

She No Longer Talks, She Shoots

She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 23/08/1972
  • Character: Herbert
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...

Le monte-charge

Le monte-charge
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 04/05/1962
  • Character: Adolphe Ferrie

The Eye of the Monocle

The Eye of the Monocle
6.2/10
In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns to Corsica to recuperate the treasure -- with British and Soviet spies on his heels, and closely monitored by Dromard, from the French intelligence services. The monocled Dromard is convinced that he can outfox his opponents, but difficulties accumulate: despite his plump appearance, Herr Schlumpf is a sly fellow; Corsica is teeming with treasure hunters from various nationalities; and all parties readily resort to unnatural alliances, brazen treachery, and strong-arm tactics. Who will get the treasure?

Sorrel Flower

Sorrel Flower
6.1/10
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot...

Un dimanche de flic

Un dimanche de flic
5.8/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 31/10/1983
  • Character: Fred
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia.

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
6.5/10
An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.

Quai des blondes

Quai des blondes
5.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/04/1954
  • Character: Laurent
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Pete the Tender

Pete the Tender
4.5/10
In this crime drama, Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stereotype -- he is soft-hearted. After a petty criminal betrays his cohorts by taking off with the loot from a big robbery, he is caught and sent to jail. Now he has served his time, and Pierrot is given the task of retrieving the stolen cash. The tyro criminal tries to use a pretty young woman who has fallen in love with him as a red herring for Pierrot's investigation. Everything backfires though, and Pierrot is left considering what to do with the loot, and with the criminal who does not yet realize he loves his attractive accomplice and could have a good life with her if he opts for walking the straight and narrow.

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