Charles Vanel Movies

Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.

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

A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.

The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris'...

Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who encourages her aspirations at performing, a married...

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

Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of...

Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the...

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

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...

Reymat is killed during an aerobatic exhibition in a plane. Hélène, his fiancée, to forget her grief, decides to become an...

In 1906, François left the Basque country with his father, who had decided to settle in Argentina following an incident between him and...

A gypsy and a boatman fall in love with each other. They do not understand each other and make each other suffer. When, at last, their hearts are...

A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.

Laurangeais stays in a nursing home after his wife dies following an accident caused by Terrian, his adopted son. When he leaves he finds Terrian who...

Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.

As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.

A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper. Two inspectors come to investigate the affair....

When bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man Nicolas Koline, he offers him a wager: if Koline and...