Henri Verneuil

Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Yves Montand, Michel Etcheverry, Roger Planchon

A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli

An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura

During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tested by a charming advertising professional who loves to drink.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon

A truck driver ventures into the Moroccan desert to retrieve a stolen truck, facing danger, bad luck, and uneasy alliances. Chaos builds to a climactic showdown.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier

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.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon

Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Anthony Quinn, Charles Bronson, Jaime Fernández

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, Georges Géret

In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Fernandel, René Havard, Bernard Musson

A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a town where trust is scarce.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier

April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfully counter attack. The bank manager and his seductive wife arrive, and so does a German lieutenant, whom the French arrest. Augagneur wants to steal the gold; warrant officer Mahuzard wants to do his duty. A series of alliances form and break apart, the group dwindles in number, and the gold heads south toward Betahoua. But in whose possession?

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Constantin, Jacques Villeret