Jean Servais — Actor (24)
Coplan Saves His Skin (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Coplan sauve sa peau
director: Yves Boisset actor: Claudio Brook / Margaret Lee
other title: L'assassino ha le ore contate / Der Teufelsgarten
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot that threatens world security. When Coplan arrives, he is told the woman has been killed, and the trail of the murderer leads to her mad-scientist brother.
Angele (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Angèle
director: Marcel Pagnol actor: Fernandel / Orane Demazis
other title: Angèle
Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a naive young woman who is seduced and abandoned. It is based on the novel Un de Baumugnes by Jean Giono.
On Friday at Eleven (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
An einem Freitag um halb zwölf
director: Alvin Rakoff actor: Nadja Tiller / Rod Steiger
other title: Il mondo nella mia tasca / Un vendredi à onze heures passées
An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned.
The Game of Truth (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le Jeu de la vérité
other title: Il gioco della verità / Mitternachtsparty
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise, while outside the storm is raging. Enter a hateful person (played by Paul Meurisse, the nasty headmaster in "Les Diaboliques") who seems to know a lot about them. Someone is murdered. Whodunit?
To Skin a Spy (1966) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Avec la peau des autres
director: Jacques Deray actor: Lino Ventura / Jean Bouise
other title: Sciarada per quattro spie / Die Haut des Anderen
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
Thomas the Impostor (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Thomas l'imposteur
other title: Thomas, der Betrüger / Thomas l'imposteur
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
Murder at 45 R.P.M. (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Meurtre en 45 tours
other title: Mord bei 45 Touren / Meurtre en 45 tours
Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.
He Who Must Die (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Celui qui doit mourir
director: Jules Dassin actor: Jean Servais / Carl Möhner
other title: Colui che deve morire / Der Mann, der sterben muß
Greece, in the 1920s, 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 1920s, each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.
Lost Command (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Lost Command
director: Mark Robson actor: Anthony Quinn / Alain Delon
other title: Né onore né gloria / Den tabte kommando
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
Rififi in the City (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rififí en la ciudad
director: Jesús Franco actor: Fernando Fernán Gómez / Jean Servais
other title: La Chasse à la Mafia / Rififí en la ciudad
In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncovering the shady works of popular politician Maurice Leprince is killed. However, thugs working for Leprince began to be killed one by one as well.
Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Une si jolie petite plage
director: Yves Allégret actor: Madeleine Robinson / Gérard Philipe
other title: Ein hübscher kleiner Strand / Une si jolie petite plage
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.
Tourbillon (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Tourbillon
director: Alfred Rode actor: Monique Aïssata / Raymond Cordy
other title: Turbine
1953 film by Alfred Rode
Threshold of the Void (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le Seuil du vide
director: Jean-François Davy actor: Dominique Erlanger / Odette Duc
other title: Le Seuil du vide
The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now deceased sister). Wanda doesn't know yet that this room will change all her life shortly after it slightly opens a mysterious forbidden door.
Black Jesus (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Seduto alla sua destra
director: Valerio Zurlini actor: Woody Strode / Franco Citti
other title: Seduto alla sua destra / Sentado à Sua Direita
A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.
Harvest (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Regain
director: Marcel Pagnol actor: Fernandel / Robert Le Vigan
other title: La vita trionfa / Das Mädchen und der Scherenschleifer
The narrative revolves around a farming village where only three inhabitants remain, but they are told that if only one of them, Panturle, manages to find a wife, the village will be able to prosper again.
The Devil's Nightmare (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
La Plus Longue Nuit du Diable
director: Jean Brismée actor: Erika Blanc / Jean Servais
other title: La terrificante notte del demonio / La Plus Longue Nuit du Diable
Seven tourists sent by Satan to a castle are caught by a ghastly woman as they commit deadly sins.
That Man from Rio (1964) [Movie] IMDb Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData
L'Homme de Rio
director: Philippe de Broca actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / Françoise Dorléac
other title: L'uomo di Rio / Orlov i Rio
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.