The best Maurice Teynac’s crime movies

Maurice Teynac

Maurice Teynac

08/08/1915- 28/03/1992
Today we present the best Maurice Teynac’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 Teynac’s movies.

The Trial

The Trial
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1962
  • Character: Deputy Manager
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals
7.2/10
An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also involved in a plot to kill Hitler

Brelan d'as

Brelan d'as
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 10/10/1952
  • Character: Heldinge
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmu Caution and Maigret.

La Mort de Belle

La Mort de Belle
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 02/03/1961
  • Character: L'ivrogne / Stephane's Friend
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is found murdered. Despite Stéphane's innocence, the evidence points to him, and he learns that Belle harbored romantic feelings for him. Suspicions mount against him; even Christine thinks he is the culprit. Stéphane's sanity begins to crumble, and he lashes out in unprecedented ways.

Bedevilled

Bedevilled
4.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/04/1955
  • Character: Trevelle
A seminary student (Steve Forrest) helps a nightclub singer (Anne Baxter) sought by Paris police for killing her married lover.

The Case of Poisons

The Case of Poisons
6.2/10
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as a fortune teller, a doctor, a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons. Some time later Marie-Angélique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty...

Criminal Brigade

Criminal Brigade
4.8/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 05/09/1947
  • Character: Fred

The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl

The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl
5.8/10
Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.

Massacre in Lace

Massacre in Lace
5/10
  • Genre: AdventureCrime
  • Release: 12/03/1952
  • Character: Sophocle Zélos
Cock-eyed reporter Georges Masse enjoys a peaceful vacation in Venice. Which does not please his boss as he is not supposed to be... in vacation! P'tit Louis, Georges' blundering but faithful photographer, is sent to Venice with a mission: pull up his socks. But Georges is not so dormant as he appears. Behind the scenes, he investigates the activities of a gang that cleans out Venice. Quite logically, he soon finds himself face to face with a bunch of shady brutal characters, among whom Zélos, a Greek nightclub owner, and Alessandro Cassidi, a powerful motor manufacturer married to the alluring Clara, twice younger than he is...

Night Without Stars

Night Without Stars
6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 03/04/1951
  • Character: Louis Malinay
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.

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