Gabriel Jabbour — Actor (9)
Three Men and a Cradle (1985) [Movie] TMDB
3 Hommes et un couffin
director: Coline Serreau actor: Roland Giraud / Michel Boujenah
other title: Tre uomini e una culla / 3 Hommes et un couffin
Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one-month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
Womanlight (1979) [Movie] TMDB
Clair de femme
director: Costa-Gavras actor: Yves Montand / Romy Schneider
other title: Chiaro di donna / Clair de femme
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Z (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
Z
director: Costa-Gavras actor: Yves Montand / Irene Papas
other title: Z - L'orgia del potere
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
Madame Rosa (1977) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
La Vie devant soi
other title: La vita davanti a sé / La Vie devant soi
Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.
Ubu Roi (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ubu Roi
director: Jean-Christophe Averty actor: Jean Bouise / Rosy Varte
Le Père Ubu, capitaine des Dragons en Pologne, est poussé par sa femme la Mère Ubu, insatisfaite de leur position, à assassiner son souverain le roi Venceslas et les nobles du pays afin d'obtenir le pouvoir absolu. Après s'être emparé du trône, Ubu qui n'est jamais rassasié, projette de tuer le Tzar de Moscou. Mais entre la Mère Ubu qui veut lui dérober tout son argent et le jeune prince Bougrelas, fils du roi assassiné, qui compte bien reconquérir son pays le Père Ubu court à sa perte...
Far West (1973) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Le Far West
director: Jacques Brel actor: Jacques Brel / Gabriel Jabbour
other title: Le Far West / Le Far-West
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process.
The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Prés
director: Bob Swaim actor: Michel Galabru / Mort Shuman
other title: La Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Prés / The Night of Saint Germain des Pres
In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seemed easy and Burma got an appointment with a well-known black trumpet player in the neighborhood who could provide him with information. But the musician does not come and we find him murdered. The investigation becomes more complicated and Nestor must find an alibi so as not to be suspected of the crime.
The Doll (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Poupée
director: Jacques Baratier actor: Zbigniew Cybulski / Sonne Teal
other title: Die Puppe – La poupée / La Poupée
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
The Burning Court (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Chambre ardente
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Jean-Claude Brialy / Claude Rich
other title: I peccatori della foresta nera / Das brennende Gericht
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.