The best Michel Serrault’s crime movies

Michel Serrault

Michel Serrault

24/01/1928- 29/07/2007
Today we present the best Michel Serrault’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 Michel Serrault’s movies.

Deadly Circuit

Deadly Circuit
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 09/03/1983
  • Character: Beauvoir, « l'Œil »
Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never approaches her directly, he follows her and increasingly feels to be telepathically connected to her, because she reminds him of his daughter he never met. After he led a blind artist, Catherine's truly beloved spouse, into a bus accident, she makes a living by bank robbery with young Betty till Betty gets shot. Alone again, Catherine leads a sad, uneventful life as a waitress, when she meets her follower.

The Swindle

The Swindle
6.5/10
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.

The Inquisitor

The Inquisitor
7.6/10
Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year's Eve. What initially is a routine procedure, soon becomes a harsh interrogation that seems to confirm the initial suspicions.

Buffet Froid

Buffet Froid
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 19/12/1979
  • Character: Le quidam, comptable
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

Carom Shots

Carom Shots
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/05/1963
  • Character: Le commissaire Baudu
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...

Assassin(s)

Assassin(s)
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/04/1997
  • Character: Mr. Wagner
Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to be his successor.

The Hatter's Ghost

The Hatter's Ghost
7.1/10
A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).

Old Rascal

Old Rascal
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 25/12/1992
  • Character: Darius Caunes
A story of a modest ordinary crook trying his best to turn his boring life into an affordable extraordinary adventure.

Have Mercy on Us All

Have Mercy on Us All
5.6/10
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner Danglard investigate...

Let Sleeping Cops Lie

Let Sleeping Cops Lie
5.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 10/11/1988
  • Character: Roger Scatti
This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) understands the feelings which motivate these deeds, but does not approve. However, he is not highly motivated to put an end to the group's activities until it begins to appear that they are now attacking fellow cops for reasons which are unclear.

He Died with His Eyes Open

He Died with His Eyes Open
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 09/10/1985
  • Character: Robert Staniland
On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara (Charlotte Rampling), the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth, with surprising results. Both Serrault and Rampling are outstanding in this well-directed, well-paced film. On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois was also released as He Died With His Eyes Open and won the Jury Prize at the 1985 Montreal World Film Festival.

No Pockets in a Shroud

No Pockets in a Shroud
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/10/1974
  • Character: Justin Blesh
Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer?

Breaking it up !

Breaking it up !
4.3/10
A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.

L'affaire Dominici

L'affaire Dominici
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/10/2003
  • Character: Gaston Dominici

Ville à vendre

Ville à vendre
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/02/1992
  • Character: Rousselot, le maire

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 10/02/1971
  • Character: Alfred Mullanet

The Other One's Mug

The Other One's Mug
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/12/1979
  • Character: Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.

Dr. Petiot

Dr. Petiot
6.8/10
A true story shot in a German Impressionistic style. In France during the Nazi occupation, Dr. Petiot (Michel Serrault) offered to help Jews escape the Nazis. They would come to his house, and he would kindly give them lethal "vaccinations" for their anticipated travel to Argentina. Then he would steal everything the brought with them (in addition to their up-front payment to him) and burn their bodies in his home-made crematorium.

Bloody Murder

Bloody Murder
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 06/03/1974
  • Character: Edouard Henricot

Heads or Tails

Heads or Tails
6.6/10
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.

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