Robert Hossein

Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes... (imdb)

While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French ambassador in a British hotel. But after a negligence of Bérurier (one more little sex affair...), San-Antonio witnessed, helpless, to the ambassador's abduction, organized by a gorgeous Italian girl... (imdb)

Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes... (imdb)

French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the French secret service turns him in to the African authorities, and he is sentenced to a long-term imprisonment. After the daring escape he returns to France and deliberately informs his former chiefs of his presence promising them to kill Njala who has just arrived to the country with the official visit. (imdb)

Hossien stars as a leather-clad killer, drawn into a tragic kidnap/murder plot by his former flame Michelle Mercier. An almost totally visual film with perhaps not more than two dozen lines of dialogue. (imdb)

A veritable orgy of campy decor and even campier dialogue, this would-be erotic extravaganza stars Brigitte Bardot as a jet-set nymphomaniac - who fancies herself a reincarnation of the 16th century Spanish seducer... (IMDB Comments)

Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor at an anti-famine concert (imdb)

In this first part of the Angélique cycle, set in Mid-17th century France under the young Sun King Louis XIV, still struggling for his throne, while beggars and brigands roam the country, Angélique de Sancé de Monteloup, fifth child of an impoverished country nobleman in the Poitou marshlands, expected to struggle for a meager subsistence, educated in a nunnery, is betrothed at 17 to Joffrey de Peyrac... (imdb)

The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different espionage operations that he was involved in. (imdb)

Orson Welles plays the role of Akerman, a venetian savant, in this all star production of Marco Polo's adventures. Young Marco travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder. (imdb)

The meeting of a divorced couple in a small provincial town and their discussion of what had been their married life. Adapted by Duras from her own play. (bfi.org.uk)

Gallic crime-flick icon Jean Paul Belmondo plays a slick jewel thief who steals a valuable emerald. He is stalked by cop Omar Sharif, who when he catches up to Belmondo reveals himself to be a fellow crook, interested only in a piece of the action. (All Movie Guide)

Set during the titular desert battle of 1942, the film departs from expectation by concentrating on the Axis point of view. Though they mistrust one another, the German and Italian troops are forced to work shoulder to shoulder to ward off the British. And talk about revisionist history: Rommel is the hero of the piece, and Montgomery is the villain! (imdb)

Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon's army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon's victory, so that after the war the grateful Emperor bestows on the now married couple the title of Duke and Duchess. Catherine squabbles with Napoleon's haughty sisters, scandalizes the nobility with her lack of courtly manners, flirts with the men - and consistently creates havoc... (imdb)

A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl - what could go wrong? Almost everything. (imdb)

Mlle de Maupin, an Hungarian young woman, escapes from her country under the guise of a monk. A strict army officer forces Theodore the 'monk', to enlist in the King's army, for the times are of war, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. (imdb)

Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone (Michele Mercier), Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who comes looking for Simone, and Brassac is happy when she later falls in love with his neighbor, and they make Brassac a "grandfather." (Allmovie)

When the Parisian bourgeois Geneviève Le Theil travels to Dijon to resolve outstanding subjects in the inheritance left by her wealthy aunt, she mistakenly opens the door of another room in the hotel, finding a suicidal near death on the bed. Later Geneviève goes to the hospital and is introduced to Renaud Sarti, the nihilistic alcoholic vagrant she saved. Geneviève falls in love for Renaud and brings him to her apartment in Paris. (imdb)

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger. (imdb)

An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane? (imdb)

Peter is a laborer who dons fancy clothes and cruises the seedy dives of Dusseldorf for women. Whenever he is rejected by one of the females, he turns into a sadistic murderer. A shy young cabaret singer falls for Peter, but she too becomes a victim of his rage.

A very faithful jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. (imdb)

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions. So Cornacchia decides to report Spada to two "Carbonari" (kind of Freemasons) to kill Spada... (imdb)

When he gets out of prison, Sam (Georges Géret) seeks to track down his little girl, now a grown woman (Juliet Berto). After a series of violent encounters, he discovers that she has been sold into prostitution -- and likes it. She marries one of her procurers, and that would seem to be that. However, when she is killed, the father has the opportunity to exact his revenge on at least some of the people responsible for the deplorable condition he found his daughter in. (Allmovie)

In the third of the Angélique series, the heroine is sent on a mission by King Louis XIV, and later finds herself the subject of rumors. (imdb)

In the fifth and final of the Angélique series, the beautiful heroine is sold into a sultan's harem. (imdb)

Tells the story of a widow who begins to receive blackmail letters demanding money as almost everybody has disliked her husband in a small town. (Wikipedia)

A British soldier and his German counterpart are equally affected by the heat of a North African desert during a battle. (allrovi.com)

Comedy about self-made woman (Vitti) in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder. (imdb)

At a reception hosted by the novelist Verate ( Jean Servais ), a blackmailer is murdered. During the investigation, it comes out that each of the various guests had good reasons to have killed him. (fr.wikipedia)

While the president of a West African Republic arrives in France to sell uranium to the state, spies all over the world are on the spot in order to defeat the transaction.

One dark night, in the deserted streets of Nice... An American car slowly drives past Victor Menda, then slowly pulls up... A come on from the mysterious blonde at the wheel and Victor finds himself kissing her and making love with the gorgeous creature... But as soon as the embrace is over the mantis-like beauty rejects him and, under the threat of a gun, makes him leave the car... Worse, she tries - and nearly manages - to kill him by running over him. (imdb)

Crime and Punishment is Dostoyevsky's story about the Nietzchean student Raskolnikov, played in this 1958 French film version by Bernard Bleier. Raskolnikov believes himself above such bourgeois concepts as morality and conscience, which leads to his murder of a hateful old woman. A perceptive police inspector (Jean Gabin) wears down Raskolnikov's sociopathic tendencies, until the student--who has a conscience after all--breaks down and confesses. (allmovie.com)

Jean (Trintignant), a psychopath, casually witnesses a young woman's suicide. In his sick mind, he begins to be convinced he murdered her and starts sending letters to newspapers with details of his "murder", which eventually lead to the police actually searching for him. As he is about to be caught, he meets a young woman Florinda (Bolkan) and the idea of a real crime begins to shatter his disturbed mind. (imdb)

Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi). Dillinger is cornered by the police and kills several innocent victims in a crowd during the shootout. (allmovie.com)

In this thrilling mystery of mistaken identity, Jacques (Pierre Vaneck) is a piano player in a nightclub who is approached by a man he never met before. The stranger offers him a job posing as the husband of a mentally challenged woman. He will be rewarded for taking care of the woman. Since his contract has expired at the club, he readily accepts the proposition. The stranger turns out to be the valet of the woman, who other than playing with decapitated dolls, seems quite normal. (allmovie.com)

With the help of his twin daughters, commissioner Duche monitors from his car the reception at the villa of Raymond Bettoun, the heads of the clan of jews Pied-Noir. (imdb)

This is the fourth film of the Angélique series. Having discovered that her beloved is still alive, Angélique boards a galley ship and sails the Mediterranean. However, their ship is attacked by pirates and Angélique once more finds herself in peril... (imdb)

Three thugs abduct a girl of fifteen to get a ransom from her wealthy father. But one of them, Eddie, does not support methods used by his two sidekicks...

It'd just before Christmas in Paris and most are happily cruising the streets and shops but....Robert Herbin, meets a beautiful Italian woman Marthe Drévet, she hints.... (my own summary, honestly knowing or seeking more will detract from your enjoyment).

Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTURE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of cinema's most provocative filmmakers Roger Vadim. (imdb)

The story follows young orphan Lamiel as she rises from poverty into high society under the guidance of a doctor, who lives vicariously through her. (imdb)

An enigmatic maid is hired by a complex couple who are grieving the loss of their only son.

Paul is almost relieved by the death of Marie, his cantankerous wife, in a road accident. He hopes to be able to at last marry Françoise. That's when a blackmailer comes along, who accuses himself of the murder of Marie, to quench Paul's desires.

Josépha (Marie-José Nat), after years of living under the thumb of a drunkard uncle (Paolo Stoppa), is disaffected. A chance encounter with the new local chemist (Robert Hossein) further upsets her situation. To escape a lonely and aimless existence she reaches out to a self-entitled gang of rebellious youth, but in attempting to prove her worth to them she traps herself in a web of lies.

Friends since they're out of jail, Gerard, Ary and Philippe swore always to remain honest. 20 years later, Gerard learns he's about to die. His two friends want to offer him a last love, since he always repeated: love is better than life.

Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She’s ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure. She has no education, no knowledge of right or wrong. One summer, a young man comes to spend the holidays in her village. (themoviedb.org)

This European "western" by Robert Hossein (screenwriter, director, and lead) is set in an unnamed Latin American country suffering under a dictator. A revolution is underway, or at least there is a strong guerrilla movement here. The leader of the guerrillas manages to capture the daughter of the dictator, and then, has to take her as a captive back to the revolutionary forces' base.

An American agent is killed in Bangkok while investigating suspicious virus outbreaks in south east Asia. Agent OSS 117 is sent to Thailand to unravel the mysteries behind the man called Dr. Sinn. (imdb)