The best Robert Dalban’s drama movies

Robert Dalban

Robert Dalban

19/07/1903- 03/04/1987
Today we present the best Robert Dalban’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 Robert Dalban’s movies.
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The Party

The Party
6.7/10
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.

Diabolique

Diabolique
8.1/10
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 20/10/1982
  • Character: Le cocher
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

The Party 2

The Party 2
6.2/10
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.

The Slap

The Slap
6.3/10
A Parisian teacher (Lino Ventura) loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.

Daughters of Destiny

Daughters of Destiny
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/01/1954
  • Character: D'Aulon (segment "Jeanne")
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.

Pasha

Pasha
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/03/1968
  • Character: l'inspecteur Albert Gouvion, amant de Nathalie
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...

Espion, lève-toi

Espion, lève-toi
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 27/01/1982
  • Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.

Quai des Orfèvres

Quai des Orfèvres
7.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/10/1947
  • Character: Paulo, un truand
Jenny Lamour sings in a music hall in postwar Paris, accompanied by her husband, Maurice Martineau, on piano. When Martineau notices his wife flirting with an older businessman named Georges Brignon, he follows her to Brignon's house with the intent to kill him. At the house, Brignon is found murdered -- but by someone else. Inspector Antoine conducts an investigation that implicates Martineau, whose planned alibi comes loose.

Manon

Manon
6.8/10
A World War II French freedom fighter falls under a devious woman's spell.

Love on a Pillow

Love on a Pillow
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 05/09/1962
  • Character: Le brigadier
A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.

Obsession

Obsession
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/10/1954
  • Character: Inspecteur Chardin
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.

The Seventh Juror

The Seventh Juror
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1962
  • Character: Fisherman
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.

Witness in the City

Witness in the City
6.9/10
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.

The Menace

The Menace
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/03/1961
  • Character: Inspektor
Josepha is only eighteen and longs for the companionship of a group of her peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the semi-delinquent group to accept her, Josepha runs to the police with a tall tale about the local druggist, Savary. The police are looking for a sex murderer, and Josepha insists Savary is their man. What she does not know, however, can do her considerable damage.

The Walls of Malapaga

The Walls of Malapaga
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/09/1949
  • Character: le Bosco du navire "Flora"
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

Hi-Jack Highway

Hi-Jack Highway
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/10/1955
  • Character: Félix, l'affréteur
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.

Marie-Octobre

Marie-Octobre
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 24/04/1959
  • Character: Léon Blanchet
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.

When You Read This Letter

When You Read This Letter
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/07/1953
  • Character: Dick
After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister. Both of them fall prey to a womanizing mechanic with psychopathic tendencies.

King on Horseback

King on Horseback
5.3/10
Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis XV, the Duke of Saint-Sever takes offense at it and challenges Henri to a duel. However, while they fight, a group of Austrian soldiers appear suddenly and the two rivals instantly unite to repel their enemies. Unfortunately, Saint-Sever is mortally wounded and, feeling he is about to die, he entreats his new friend to offer protection to Toinon, his natural daughter, whose life is being threatened...

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