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.

The Wax Mask

1997

Italian

5.8

♡ 8

24%

Sergio Stivaletti Director

Rosa Pianeta as Anna's Mother

Robert Hossein as Boris Volkoff

Aldo Massasso as Inspector Lanvin

Massimo Vanni as Victor

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. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...

The Wicked Go to Hell

1955

French

6.5

♡ 2

Robert Hossein Director

Marina Vlady as Eva

Robert Hossein as Fred

Serge Reggiani as Rudel

Serge Sauvion as (uncredited)

Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our "heroes," Vlady intends to avenge the death of her sweetheart at the hands of Hossein and his confreres. Not only do these heels go to Hell, but they do so with a spectacular flourish. Les Salauds Vont en Enfer was adapted by Rene Wheeler from a play by Frederic Dard.

La menace

1961

French

5.9

♡ 4

Action

Drama

Gérard Oury Director

Paolo Stoppa as Cousin

Elsa Martinelli as Lucile

Philippe Forquet as Patrick

Robert Hossein as Savary

Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the semi-delinquent group to accept her, Josepha runs to the police with a tall tale about the local druggist, Savary. The police are looking for a sex murderer, and Josepha insists Savary is their man. What she does not know, however, can do her considerable damage.

Lévy et Goliath

1987

French

4.6

♡ 1

Gérard Oury Director

Olivia Brunaux as

Danielle Volle as (as Daniel Volle)

Jean-Claude Brialy as Bijou / Delaroche

Robert Hossein as Client de Goliath

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 (you guess it) 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 ('Goliath') 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. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.

Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman

1973

French

5.1

♡ 7

Roger Vadim Director

Mathieu Carrière as L'abbé Paul

Ann Zacharias as La jeune Suédoise blessée

Robert Hossein as Louis Prévost

Maurice Ronet as Pierre Gonzague

Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's conscience. What does Jeanne want?

Love Is Better Than Life

5.3

Claude Lelouch Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Elsa

Béatrice Dalle as L'avocate du diable

Robert Hossein as Robert Prat

Sandrine Bonnaire as Sandrine Massaro

Upon their release from prison twenty years earlier, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked themselves if honesty was not the best racket of them all. Today, they are inseparable and scrupulously above board. But Gérard learns he is terminally ill. Their friend’s days being numbered, Ary and Philippe want to offer him one last love story… because, as Gérard likes to say : love is better than life.

Cemetery Without Crosses

1969

Italian

6.7

♡ 5

50%

Robert Hossein Director

Benito Stefanelli as Ben Caine

Robert Hossein as Manuel

Michèle Mercier as Maria Caine

Simón Arriaga as Rogers Ranch Hand

A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.

The Secret Killer

1965

French

6.7

♡ 3

Robert Hossein Director

Marie-France Pisier as Anna

Robert Hossein as Peter Kuerten

Tanya Lopert as Une fille

Michel Charrel as Un policier

A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.

The Professional

1981

French

7.4

♡ 23

81%

husband wife relationship

Georges Lautner Director

Elisabeth Margoni as Jeanne Baumont

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Josselin Beaumont dit 'Joss'

Robert Hossein as Le commissaire Rosen

Jean Desailly as Le ministre

French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.

Crime and Punishment

1956

French

6.6

♡ 3

Crime

Drama

Georges Lampin Director

Bernard Blier as Antoine Monestier

Lino Ventura as Gustave Messonnier

Roland Lesaffre as L'ouvrier accusé

Robert Hossein as René Brunel

A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders a pawnbroker to steal his money. Very quickly, it is taken from remorse and confides to a young prostitute. The latter, very believing, advises him to go. He opposes this idea, but guilt devours him. He is soon struck by remorse, and confides in a young prostitute, who advise him to surrender. He opposes this idea, but guilt devours him.

The Second Twin

1966

French

6.0

♡ 3

Christian-Jaque Director

André Luguet as L'avocat

Raymond Gérôme as Le juge

Michèle Mercier as Nathalie Neuville, Medical student

Robert Hossein as Pierre Montaud, the Advocate

Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer can't bring himself to leave his wife over the young woman. When the dancer's wealthy suitor is murdered, Pierre is accused of the crime.

Brigade antigangs

5.5

Bernard Borderie Director

Robert Hossein as Le commissaire principal Le Goff

Henri Cogan as Le Limousin

Raymond Pellegrin as Roger Sartet Aldini

Aldini as Un inspecteur

The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.

Shadow of Evil

1964

French

5.5

♡ 3

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

André Hunebelle Director

Robert Hossein as Dr. Guna Sinn

Kerwin Mathews as Hubert Barton alias OSS 117 / Tony Burt

Yasumoto Soichi as Le tuer

Pier Angeli as Lila Sinn

A secret agent sets out to stop an evil scientist who is about to unleash on the world a virulent biological strain he has developed during experiments on rats.

The Burglars

1971

French

6.6

♡ 10

33%

Henri Verneuil Director

Omar Sharif as Abel Zacharia

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Azad

Dyan Cannon as Lena Gripp's

Robert Hossein as Ralph

In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.

The Big Pardon

1982

French

5.8

♡ 5

Action

Crime

Drama

Alexandre Arcady Director

Serge Gainsbourg as Cameo

Richard Bohringer as Le 'sacristain' / Sacristan

Robert Hossein as Manuel Carreras

Gérard Darmon as Roland

The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.

Carbon Copy

1970

French

5.6

♡ 5

Sergio Gobbi Director

Robert Hossein as Dillinger

Charles Aznavour as Le Commissaire Kramer

Virna Lisi as Stella Menzoni

Guy Di Rigo as Un tueur

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. The mob decides to take things into their own hands as they approach the doomed man with a noose when he runs out of bullets.