Jo Dest

Jo Dest

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Biography: Jo Dest is known for The Wages of Fear (1953), The Damned (1947) and Flesh and the Woman (1954).

Movies

The Wages of Fear
The Wages of Fear

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...

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Good Lord Without Confession
Good Lord Without Confession

Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another ma...

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Behind These Walls
Behind These Walls

June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by...

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Resistance
Resistance

An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and disman...

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A Friend Will Come Tonight
A Friend Will Come Tonight

Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps...

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Mr. Orchid
Mr. Orchid

This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief o...

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Sky Battalion
Sky Battalion

Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp du...

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Man to Men
Man to Men

The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross,...

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The Sharks of Gibraltar
The Sharks of Gibraltar

In order for important British admiralty papers to pass into the hands of the Germans, the spy Gordo...

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Firemen's Ball
Firemen's Ball

1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the vario...

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Return to Life
Return to Life

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war afte...

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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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Farewell Mister Grock
Farewell Mister Grock

The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous...

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The Big Meeting
The Big Meeting

One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces dr...

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Rue des Saussaies
Rue des Saussaies

The brother of Jeanne Masson, a young nightclub singer, has been murdered by Brasier, a criminal who...

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The Damned
The Damned

A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding ...

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Full House
Full House

Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and...

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The Contessa's Secret
The Contessa's Secret

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's li...

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Flesh and the Woman
Flesh and the Woman

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless lo...

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Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy

FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Ca...

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Stain on the Snow
Stain on the Snow

La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon ...

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Mission in Tangier
Mission in Tangier

During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents ...

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