Charles Vanel Movies

Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they...

A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.

Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He...

Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But...

Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famous writer.

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man...

Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland,...

A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father learns that he's not her biological father.

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.

Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that...

An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, thus disposessing her of her land. Revolted, the...

This is the second feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around...

After his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in love with him.

One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.

A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to...

Some peasants are excited to marry their first-born with a beautiful young woman, but they are unaware of her ambitious personality. When the...