The Valachi Papers (1972)
Crime | Drama
Gangster Joe Valachi is a marked man in the same joint where mob boss Don Vito Genovese is imprisoned and he's forced to co-operate with the DA in exchange for protection.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Joseph Wiseman, Fausto Tozzi, Pupella Maggio
Director: Terence Young
Touchez Pas au Grisbi / Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Crime | Drama
An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
Starring: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Marilyn Buferd, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll
Director: Jacques Becker
The Slap / La gifle (1974)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife. His mistress has also left him. He has to do everything he can to be able to win his young daughter Isabelle's love and affection.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Courcel, Francis Perrin
Director: Claude Pinoteau
Boulevard du Rhum / Rum Runners (1971)
Adventure
In the prohibition years, the 'rumrunners' travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. While on the run, one of the bootleggers falls in love with an actress on a movie set.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Brigitte Bardot, Bill Travers, Clive Revill
Director: Robert Enrico
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Horror | Sci-Fi
London police are called to the apartment of murder victim John Morlar. As they investigate his death, they learn about a man who claimed to be responsible for numerous deaths and disasters due to supernatural powers — and somehow he's still alive.
Starring: Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Alan Badel, Marie-Christine Barrault
Director: Jack Gold
L'emmerdeur / A Pain in the Ass (1973)
Comedy
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darras, Nino Castelnuovo
Director: Édouard Molinaro
Classe tous risques / Classe Tous Risques (1960)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children despite a death sentence hanging over his head. Accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo, fresh off his star turn in Breathless) and beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that's both throat grabbing and soul searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope, this rugged noir from Claude Sautet (Un coeur en hiver) is a thrilling highlight of sixties French cinema.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio
Director: Claude Sautet
Les tontons flingueurs / Crooks in Clover (1963)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, and Francis Blanche star in this quirky French comedy. To keep a promise to a dying friend, ex-criminal Fernand (Ventura) must return to the life he left behind as he takes over his friend's empire.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche
Director: Georges Lautner
Cent mille dollars au soleil / Greed in the Sun (1964)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
Rocco, Hervé Marec, and Mitch-Mitch are long-distance lorry drivers who work for Morocco-based Castigliano and Co. When a mysterious lorry with an unknown consignment is assigned to a new driver, Hans Steiner, they become suspicious. Realising that the lorry is carrying a valuable cargo, Rocco secretly drives the lorry away, accompanied by his girlfriend. When he learns what has happened, Castigliano offers Hervé and Mitch-Match a reward of two million francs if they can recover the lorry. A long, desperate chase ensues…
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Reginald Kernan, Bernard Blier, Andréa Parisy, Gert Fröbe
Director: Henri Verneuil
Les aventuriers / The Last Adventure (1967)
Adventure | Drama
Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot. Going with them is Laetitia, an artistic young woman who treats them like brothers, plays along with their schemes, makes sculptures of found objects, and dreams of buying an old fort off the coast of Provence. The Congo tip turns out to be a double cross, and the adventurers must pick up the pieces. A trip to southern France completes a circle.
Starring: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus, Serge Reggiani, Hans Meyer
Director: Robert Enrico
Army of Shadows / L'armée des ombres (1969)
Drama | War
The film follows a band of resistance fighters in German-controlled France. As the war continues, the grip of the occupying force tightens, and friendships, loyalty and trust give way to suspicion, secrecy and loss.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, André Dewavrin
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
