Jules Dassin — Director (11)
Brute Force (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Brute Force
director: Jules Dassin actor: Burt Lancaster / Hume Cronyn
other title: Forza bruta / Brutal magt
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
Rififi (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
Du rififi chez les hommes
director: Jules Dassin actor: Jean Servais / Carl Möhner
other title: Guld På Gaden / Du rififi chez les hommes
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
Topkapi (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Topkapi
director: Jules Dassin actor: Melina Mercouri / Peter Ustinov
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
Uptight (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Uptight
director: Jules Dassin actor: Julian Mayfield / Raymond St. Jacques
other title: Black Power / Point noir
Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Tell-Tale Heart
director: Jules Dassin actor: Joseph Schildkraut / Roman Bohnen
other title: Le Cœur révélateur / El corazón delator
In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.
The Rehearsal (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Rehearsal
director: Jules Dassin actor: Melina Mercouri / Míkis Theodorakis
other title: I dokimi
An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.
Phaedra (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Phaedra
director: Jules Dassin actor: Melina Mercouri / Anthony Perkins
other title: Fedra / Phèdre
A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.
Thieves' Highway (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Thieves' Highway
director: Jules Dassin actor: Richard Conte / Valentina Cortese
other title: I corsari della strada / Gefahr in Frisco
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
Two Smart People (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Two Smart People
director: Jules Dassin actor: Lucille Ball / John Hodiak
other title: La taverna dei quattro venti
Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.