3 Movies Starring Jean Servais

Rififi

Rififi

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-06-05

Languages:

French, Italian, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

122 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (17219 Reviews)

Director:

Jules Dassin

Cast:

Writer:

Auguste Le Breton (novel)

Jules Dassin (adaptation)

Renè Wheeler (collaboration)

Auguste Le Breton (collaboration)

Auguste Le Breton (dialogue)

Fullplot:

After five years in prison, Tony le Stèphanois meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and they invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous jewelry Mappin & Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who became the lover of the gangster owner of the night-club L' ège d' Or Louis Grutter, and he humiliates her, beating on her back for being unfaithful. Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry. They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant wolf Cesar to join their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are successful in their plan, but the Don Juan Cesar makes things go wrong when he gives a valuable ring to his mistress.

He Who Must Die

He Who Must Die

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-05-04

Languages:

French

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

122 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (454 Reviews)

Director:

Jules Dassin

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Ben Barzman

Jules Dassin

Nikos Kazantzakis (novel)

Andrè Obey

Fullplot:

Greece, in the 1920's, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920's each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.

That Man from Rio

That Man from Rio

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-02-05

Languages:

French, English, Portuguese

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

112 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (2564 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Paul Rappeneau (screenplay)

Ariane Mnouchkine (screenplay)

Daniel Boulanger (screenplay)

Philippe de Broca (screenplay)

Daniel Boulanger (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her sweetheart, Adrien, an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy), foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must traverse Rio, Brasèlia, and the Amazon heartland... all before the end of his week's leave.

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