Lino Ventura

Lino Ventura

July 13, 1919 · 107 years old

Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his…

Known For

25 titles
1
Army of Shadows

Army of Shadows

1969 · 2h 25m · Movie

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.

8.1
2
The Sicilian Clan

The Sicilian Clan

1969 · 2h 2m · Movie

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

7.4
3
Don't Touch the Loot

Don't Touch the Loot

1954 · 1h 36m · Movie

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.

7.7
4
The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

1978 · 1h 49m · Movie

A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.

6.9
5
Le deuxième souffle

Le deuxième souffle

1966 · 2h 30m · Movie

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

7.9
6
The Grilling

The Grilling

1981 · 1h 27m · Movie

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.

7.6
7
The Valachi Papers

The Valachi Papers

1972 · 2h 5m · Movie

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.

6.4
8
The Last Adventure

The Last Adventure

1967 · 1h 52m · Movie

Best friends become aware of a crashed plane lying on the bottom of the ocean, allegedly stuffed with wealth. Adventurers set off in search of prey. And along with them, Letizia is linked, with whom both friends are secretly in love.

7.0
9
A Pain in the Ass

A Pain in the Ass

1973 · 1h 25m · Movie

Milan must kill Louis Randoni before he testifies in a court of law. He is disturbed by his depressed roommate François Pignon who commits suicide by hanging himself from the toilet pipe flooding Milan's room. Here he is stuck in ...

7.1
10
Greed in the Sun

Greed in the Sun

1964 · 2h 2m · Movie

A rough trucker assigns his new truck and its mysterious cargo to his newest employee, only to see it hijacked by one of his experienced drivers. Now, his friends are after him to retrieve the goods. Are 100,000 dollars worth dyin...

7.0
11
Inspector Maigret

Inspector Maigret

1958 · 1h 59m · Movie

In the Marais district in central Paris, somebody is going round murdering young women. Maigret is called to investigate.

7.2
12
Taxi for Tobruk

Taxi for Tobruk

1961 · 1h 35m · Movie

During World War II, French commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.

7.2
13
Happy New Year

Happy New Year

1973 · 1h 55m · Movie

Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he ...

7.3
14
The Great Spy Chase

The Great Spy Chase

1964 · 1h 24m · Movie

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.

6.8
15
The French Detective

The French Detective

1975 · 1h 31m · Movie

Two policemen risk of interfering with a corrupt politician.

6.9
16
Montparnasse 19

Montparnasse 19

1958 · 1h 48m · Movie

Chronicling the last year of the life of Modigliani, an Italian painter living in abject poverty in Paris who falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents do not approve of him.

7.3
17
Marie-Octobre

Marie-Octobre

1959 · 1h 30m · Movie

Fifteen years after WWII, a group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, so that the former members of the network can finally relive one fateful night and find out who betrayed their murdered leader, Cas...

7.5
18
Razzia

Razzia

1955 · 1h 45m · Movie

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of ...

7.0
19
Escape to Nowhere

Escape to Nowhere

1973 · 1h 57m · Movie

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to be...

6.9
20
Le ruffian

Le ruffian

1983 · 1h 48m · Movie

Aldo, in his fifties, works in a gold mine in Northern Canada, in the middle of a bunch of adventurers.

6.0
21
Rum Runners

Rum Runners

1971 · 2h 15m · Movie

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.

5.5
22
The Cage

The Cage

1975 · 1h 30m · Movie

A vengeful woman traps her ex husband in their basement. He realizes that the only chance he has of ever getting out is to try and beat her at her own psychological mind game.

6.3
23
La ragazza in vetrina

La ragazza in vetrina

1961 · 1h 30m · Movie

Italians migrate to Holland to make money in coal mining. After their first work accident, two friends make different future plans: one spends money on a weekend holiday; the other determines to return to Italy soon.

7.0
24
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

1956 · 1h 47m · Movie

Modern update of Dostoievski's novel Crime and Punishment.

6.6
25
Three Penny Opera

Three Penny Opera

1963 · 2h 4m · Movie

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronat...

5.3