Jean Servais

Jean Servais

Birthday: 1912-09-24

Place of Birth: Antwerp, Belgium

Biography: Jean Servais was a Belgian actor best known for the French heist movie 'Rififi' and Luis Bunuel's 'Fever Mounts at El Pao'.

Movies

Rififi
Rififi

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offer...

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Mater Dolorosa
Mater Dolorosa

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessive...

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That Man from Rio
That Man from Rio

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But wh...

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Jeunesse
Jeunesse

After being saved from suicide due to an unhappy marriage, Marie hesitates between two other men, bu...

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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle

Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning ho...

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Le Plaisir
Le Plaisir

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep ...

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Angele
Angele

Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane D...

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Coplan Saves His Skin
Coplan Saves His Skin

Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic...

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Fever Mounts at El Pao
Fever Mounts at El Pao

Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow ...

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Such a Pretty Little Beach
Such a Pretty Little Beach

During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pi...

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Les Misérables
Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

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To Skin a Spy
To Skin a Spy

A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in th...

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Criminal
Criminal

A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison....

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La Voix sans visage
La Voix sans visage

The singer Saltore is accused of the murder of his wife's lover, and is sentenced to ten years' hard...

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Dernière heure
Dernière heure

A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hou...

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Bourrasque
Bourrasque

A young settler from Algeria is in love with the boss's niece. Of course, the father of the young ma...

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Daddy's Girl
Daddy's Girl

After winning the lottery, an orphan who wants to find a husband asks a hotel porter to be her fathe...

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Rose
Rose

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Gigolette
Gigolette

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Les Réprouvés
Les Réprouvés

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attack...

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Social Police
Social Police

For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful l...

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Those of the Sky
Those of the Sky

An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up h...

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Loguivy-de-la-Mer
Loguivy-de-la-Mer

A small Breton port is falling asleep: individual and coastal fishing is dying, as is the case for F...

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Patricia
Patricia

Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But i...

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Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Fromont Young and Risler Elder

An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists....

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L'Étrange Nuit de Noël
L'Étrange Nuit de Noël

Taking advantage of their uncle's absence, André and Raymond Rafet organize a New Year's Eve party a...

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Tornavara
Tornavara

In a lost village in Lapland, Gérard comes to the aid of his friend Anders, in conflict with his fat...

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Finance noire
Finance noire

In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introdu...

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Mahlia the Mestiza
Mahlia the Mestiza

Daughter of a French officer and an Annamite, Mahlia was brought up in Indochina by Mr. and Mrs. de ...

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Life of Pleasure
Life of Pleasure

An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of ...

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When a Woman Meddles
When a Woman Meddles

French film favorite Edwige Feuillere plays a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's f...

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The Devil's Nightmare
The Devil's Nightmare

Seven tourists sent by Satan to a castle are caught by a ghastly woman as they commit deadly sins....

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Song of Farewell
Song of Farewell

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The Ferret
The Ferret

A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them o...

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The Game of Truth
The Game of Truth

A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agath...

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Thomas the Impostor
Thomas the Impostor

In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princes...

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Black Jesus
Black Jesus

A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ...

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They Came to Rob Las Vegas
They Came to Rob Las Vegas

After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the...

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Tourbillon
Tourbillon

Taking advantage of the shooting of a film, gangsters stage a hold -up. A black man, Selim, is unfai...

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He Who Must Die
He Who Must Die

Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uproo...

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Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin

A short documentary on Paul Gauguin, a French painter and sculptor....

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The Corsican Brothers
The Corsican Brothers

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link....

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Amok
Amok

Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled...

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La Femme de 100 têtes
La Femme de 100 têtes

Surrealist short film of images viewed to a surrealist poem by Max Ernst....

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Crime Does Not Pay
Crime Does Not Pay

A man walks into a movie theater in Paris and starts watching a film—the same one we're watching, co...

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The Cage
The Cage

An African physician returns home after studying medicine in Paris. He marries and settles down to l...

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On Friday at Eleven
On Friday at Eleven

An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck ...

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Agent of Doom
Agent of Doom

Scientist André Ségonne hits the headlines with his discovery of anti-matter. On his way to a few da...

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Sunless Neighborhood
Sunless Neighborhood

In a slum set to be demolished, dramas are played out among the picturesque slum dwellers, including...

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The Knight of the Night
The Knight of the Night

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

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Les Crimes de l'amour
Les Crimes de l'amour

Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young sec...

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The Longest Day
The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...

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Murder at 45 R.P.M.
Murder at 45 R.P.M.

Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. W...

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Every Man Is My Enemy
Every Man Is My Enemy

When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him......

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Tamango
Tamango

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slav...

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Valse éternelle
Valse éternelle

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That Night
That Night

Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sy...

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Heroes and Sinners
Heroes and Sinners

A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republ...

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The Crazy Capo Affair
The Crazy Capo Affair

Jean Diserens has a double life: he's a property developer and... drug dealer. He's looking for a ne...

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Land of Fire
Land of Fire

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The Wheel
The Wheel

Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the imag...

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Lovers Without Love
Lovers Without Love

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata na...

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Chicken Soup
Chicken Soup

The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, ar...

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Better a Widow
Better a Widow

Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landown...

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Sahara on Fire
Sahara on Fire

A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which w...

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X-Ray of a Killer
X-Ray of a Killer

The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy....

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Rififi in the City
Rififi in the City

In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer worki...

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Mademoiselle de la Ferté
Mademoiselle de la Ferté

Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close...

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Harvest
Harvest

In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to...

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Threshold of the Void
Threshold of the Void

The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arriv...

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House of Sin
House of Sin

In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in A...

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Dangerous Games
Dangerous Games

Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where ...

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The Lebanese Mission
The Lebanese Mission

In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèv...

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Lost Command
Lost Command

After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quel...

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Der Mann aus London
Der Mann aus London

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The Knife to the Throat
The Knife to the Throat

Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his ...

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The Protector
The Protector

Recently released from prison, Samuel Malakian, a wealthy architect, investigates the disappearance ...

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Rue de l'estrapade
Rue de l'estrapade

While Henri Laurent speeds along on the racing circuits, his pretty wife Françoise goes from luxury ...

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The Seventh Door
The Seventh Door

An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He take...

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La Danse de mort
La Danse de mort

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have lo...

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La Déroute
La Déroute

How to make the most of a defeat. How to make money from Napoleon's fiasco at Waterloo....

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La vie est magnifique
La vie est magnifique

Two campers meet two young girls in the Landes. Love will bloom, with its heartbreaks....

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Mina de Vanghel
Mina de Vanghel

A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love ...

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