Charles Vanel Movies

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying,...

Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.

After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family...

The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl...

A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is...

A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office....

In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell...

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...

A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems...

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

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

The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he encounters a number of adventures.

Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign...

Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.

An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his...

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...

Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds. The lad comes from...

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...

A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper,...