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Jean Gaven
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Jean Gaven

actor (1918-2014)
January 16, 1918 (May 5, 2014)
Fr. 1993. Drama by Serge Korber with Jean Yanne, Geneviève Fontanel, François-Éric Gendron. After a short stay in prison, the owner of a Parisian guinguette regains interest in life thanks to his friendship with his cellmate.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1988. Mores drama by Sébastien Japrisot with Laetitia Gabrielli, Anne Parillaud, Eric Damain. A child found in front of a lighthouse in a small provincial town on July 14 returns there at the age of twenty with the hope of tracing her origins.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1985. Crime drama by Serge Korber with Alain Doutey, Sophie Barjac, Claude Villers. Recently chosen to conduct an important concert in Paris, a conductor is kidnapped by terrorists.

One Deadly Summer

V.O.: L'Été meurtrier
Fr. 1982. Psychological drama by Jean Becker with Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon. A young girl marries a nice boy and uses him to exact revenge.
Runtime: 128 min.
Fr. 1981. Mores comedy by Serge Korber with Alain Doutey, Nathalie Courval, Catherine Serre. Abandoned by his future wife, a young executive is forced to take care of their baby alone.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1979. Crime drama by Serge Korber with Mylène Demongeot, Patrick Préjean, Alain Doutey.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 1977. Drama by Just Jaeckin with Françoise Fabian, Murray Head, Dayle Haddon. A young photographer causes trouble for the director of a call-girl network.
Runtime: 111 min.

The Story of O

V.O.: Histoire d'O
Fr. 1975. Erotic drama by Just Jaeckin with Corinne Cléry, Udo Kier, Anthony Steel. To please her lover, a young photographer agrees to submit to a curious form of erotic initiation in a castle.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1975. Satirical drama by Sébastien Japrisot with France Dougnac, Olivier Jallageas, Marie Dubois. In 1944, a fourteen-year-old boy begins a romantic relationship with a young nun.
Runtime: 117 min.

And Hope to Die

V.O.: La Course du lièvre à travers les champs
Fr. 1972. Crime drama by René Clément with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari. A Frenchman pursued by gypsies takes refuge with criminals who use him to carry out a daring kidnapping.
Runtime: 140 min.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1970. Crime drama by José Giovanni with Jean-Claude Bouillon, Maurice Garrel, Nicoletta. Wounded in a hold-up, a thief escapes from a hospital to exonerate his fianc
Runtime: 100 min.

Rider on the Rain

V.O.: Le Passager de la pluie
Fr. 1969. Thriller by René Clément with Marlène Jobert, Charles Bronson, Annie Cordy. The tribulations of a young woman who kills a stranger who came to attack her in her house.
Runtime: 120 min.

Pasha

V.O.: Le Pacha
Fr. 1968. Crime drama by Georges Lautner with Jean Gabin, Dany Carrel, André Pousse. A police commissioner sets a trap for the murderer of one of his detectives.
Runtime: 82 min.

Bagarre à Bagdad pour X 27

V.O.: Il Gioco delle spie
It. 1966. Spy drama by Paolo Bianchini with Rory Calhoun, Roger Hanin, Jean Gaven. An American agent breaks into a Soviet spy ring.
Fr. 1965. Psychological drama by André Cayatte with Dany Carrel, Jean Gaven, Madeleine Robinson. A young girl struck by amnesia goes in search of her identity.
Runtime: 117 min.
Fr. 1962. Psychological drama by Denys de La Patellière with Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Pierre Brasseur. A simple, hard-working man has to deal with the machinations of an industrialist.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1959. Drama by Alfred Rode with Claudine Dupuis, Jean Gaven, Pierre Dudan. A prison escapee forces his former lover to help him escape.
Runtime: 90 min.

Riff Raff Girls

V.O.: Du rififi chez les femmes
Fr. 1959. Crime drama by Alex Joffé with Nadja Tiller, Robert Hossein, Silvia Monfort. In Brussels, gangsters planning a daring bank robbery come into conflict with other mobsters who want their share of the loot.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1958. Adventures by Jean Bastia with Dominique Wilms, Jean Gaven, Jean-Pierre Kerien. An adventurer hires four men to help her find a treasure.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1957. Crime drama by Yves Allégret with Robert Hossein, Antonella Lualdi, André Luguet. A gang leader falls in love with a young woman without suspecting that she holds information that could compromise him.
Runtime: 90 min.

The River of Three Junks

V.O.: La Rivière des 3 jonques
Fr. 1956. Spy drama by André Pergament with Dominique Wilms, Jean Gaven, Lise Bourdin. A young Frenchwoman attached to the counter-espionage services is in charge of monitoring a gang of bacteriological bomb traffickers.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 1956. Social drama by Ralph Habib with Raymond Pellegrin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Silvana Pampanini. Two teenagers escape from a reformatory and land in Paris, where they survive by committing a few petty thefts.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1955. Drama by Christian-Jaque with Jean Gaven, André Valmy, Jean-Louis Trintignant. A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the rescue of the crew.
Fr. 1955. Crime drama by Pierre Gaspard-Huit with Marina Vlady, Peter Van Eyck, Pierre Dux. A journalist leads an investigation to discover who murdered one of her neighbours.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1955. Adventures by Henri Diamant-Berger with Gisèle Pascal, Erich von Stroheim, Philippe Mareuil. In South America, business agents plot to win the heart of a rich widow.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1955. Crime drama by Alfred Rode with Claudine Dupuis, Jean Tissier, Jean Gaven.
Runtime: 1955

Obsession

V.O.: Domanda di grazia
Fr. 1954. Psychological drama by Jean Delannoy with Michèle Morgan, Raf Vallone, Marthe Mercadier. Although she suspects her husband of the murder, a young trapeze artist lets a fellow circus performer be arrested.
Runtime: 103 min.

Plume au vent

V.O.: Pluma al viento
Fr. 1952. Musical by Louis Cuny with Georges Guétary, Carmen Sevilla, Jean Gaven. While claiming to be the heir of a pharmacy in Paris, a young Basque has various adventures.
Runtime: 85 min.

The Wild Oat

V.O.: Le Boulanger de Valorgue
Fr. 1952. Comedy by Henri Verneuil with Fernandel, Jean Gaven, Leda Gloria. A baker refuses to bake bread for those who persist in believing that his son has made his bride a child mother.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1951. Drama by Jack Pinoteau with Michel Jourdan, Arlette Merry, Jean Gaven. Demobilized, five young men who fought in the war together and swore to remain friends, find their beautiful promise put to the test, when returning to civilian life.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 1951. Spy drama by Georges Combret, Claude Orval with Maurice Régamey, Lysiane Rey, Pierre Cressoy. A Second Bureau agent goes after a group of spies.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1950. Crime drama by René Jolivet with Roger Pigaut, Pierre Larquey, Colette Ripert. A retired criminalist investigates the mysterious murder of a singer.
Runtime: 98 min.
Runtime: 80 min.

Six Heures à perdre

V.O.: 6 Heures à perdre
Fr. 1947. Dramatic comedy by Alex Joffé, Jean Lévitte with André Luguet, Denise Grey, Pierre Larquey. Mistaken for another, a man succeeds in restoring quite a bit of order to the affairs of the one who is absent.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1946. Police comedy by René Delacroix with Albert Préjean, Jacqueline Gauthier, Jules Berry. Suspected of the murder of the three young leads of a crime film, a novelist-screenwriter conducts his own investigation to clear his name.
Runtime: 82 min.

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