01 A retired French president reflects on decades of political maneuvering while advising his ambitious former rival.
Drama intensethought provoking
Jean Gabin was the defining leading man of French cinema for decades, bringing a weary, working-class gravitas to both prewar poetic realism and postwar crime dramas.
01 A retired French president reflects on decades of political maneuvering while advising his ambitious former rival.
02 A Parisian impresario's ambitious plan to open a new cabaret is complicated by tangled romances among his performers.
03 An aging gangster's plans for retirement are disrupted when rivals learn about his hidden stash of gold.
04 A factory worker barricaded in his apartment after a murder recalls the doomed romance that led him there.
05 French prisoners of war plan an escape from a German camp, forming unlikely bonds across class lines.
06 A charismatic gangster hiding in Algiers's Casbah is drawn out by his fatal attraction to a visiting Parisian woman.