
Jacques Marin
Actor · 1919 – 2001 · Paris, France
Jacques Marin (9 September 1919 – 10 January 2001) was a French actor on film and television. Marin's fluency in English and his instantly recognisable features made him a familiar face in some major American and British productions (Charade, The Train, Marathon Man), and Disney movies (The Island at the Top of the World and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo). Source: Article "Jacques Marin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Movies24
Movie7.2ThrillerCrimeA graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Marathon Man
1976 · 1.3K votes
Movie7.7ComedyMysteryAfter Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
Charade
1963 · 1.6K votes
Movie5.9RomanceComedyHerbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
1977 · 362 votes
Movie7.5ComedyCrimeA woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
How to Steal a Million
1966 · 683 votes
Movie6.7ComedyCrimeIn the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.
Movie6.4CrimeThrillerThe film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
Flic Story
1975 · 121 votes
Movie6.2ActionWarAfter being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
Lost Command
1966 · 63 votes
Movie6.5AdventureFamilyA Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished while searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
The Island at the Top of the World
1974 · 95 votes
Movie7.8DramaWarOrphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.
Movie7.6DramaRomanceAs Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
Movie7.3ComedyWar1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.
Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie ?
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
1973 · 394 votes
Movie6.7AnimationComedyWhen seven archaeologists find an ancient Inca temple, they become victims of an ancient curse. Back in Europe, one by one they fall into a deep sleep and only once a day, all at the same time, they wake up for a few minutes and experience hallucinations where the sinister living mummy of Rascar Capac appears.
Movie7.2DramaIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Les Misérables
1958 · 126 votes
Movie7.2ComedyCrimeA writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
Jo
1971 · 350 votes
Movie5.7DramaRomanceNewly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men.
The Girl on a Motorcycle
1968 · 68 votes
Movie7.6WarThrillerAs the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
The Train
1964 · 393 votes
Movie7.3ComedyDramaTwo unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.
La Traversée de Paris
1956 · 315 votes
Movie6.1AdventureCrimeDetective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Shaft in Africa
1973 · 86 votes
Movie6.9DramaMysteryPolice Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.
Movie9.0ComedyPétrus
1974 · 1 votes
Movie5.7ComedyBrigitte, the beautiful daughter of the French premier, falls for one of her father's aides, the womanising Michel, and attempts to get him to settle down with her. However, as Michel can't curb his flirtations with other women, Brigitte makes a play to seduce the married Prince Charles, resulting in a battle of wills between the gorgeous girl of privilege and her beau.
Movie6.1AdventureDramaIn French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause attracts a mix of characters, including a U.S. commentator, a government aide opposed to him, and an ivory hunter with conflicting interests.
The Roots of Heaven
1958 · 27 votes
Movie7.0CrimeComedy"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
Movie6.1ComedyCrimeMystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978 · 99 votes
Series8
TV5.7Talk ShowSacrée soirée
1987 · 5 votes
TV6.0Talk ShowA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · 2 votes
- TVReality
Système 2
1975
TV10.0CrimePolizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.
Polizeiinspektion 1
1977 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaLa Porteuse de pain
1973 · 3 votes
TV4.7ComedyMarie Lorieux, a contract worker at the Paris Police Prefecture, is tired of distributing tickets. While walking the streets of the capital, she finds herself mingled with intrigues all wacky and incredible as each other and decides to act alone in its investigations to the chagrin of his head of department who does not know how to do for the reason and her husband, Hervé, worried constantly.
Marie Pervenche
1984 · 5 votes
- TV7.0Drama
Bel ami
1983 · 1 votes
TVDramaSi c'était vous
1957