Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Julius "Jules" Dassin (December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008) was an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France, where he revived his career. Dassin quickly became better known for his noir films Brute Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), and Thieves' Highway (1949), which helped him to become "one of the leading American filmmakers of the postwar era." ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin
2023
as Himself
In 1968, filmmaker Jules Dassin collaborated with Ruby Dee and civil rights activist Julian Mayfield on Uptight, a "politically radical" film noir abo...
Urok Francuzskogo
2008
as Himself
A documentary about a relationships between USSR and France.
Filmmakers in Action
2006
as Self
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in...
Buzz
2005
A journey to places, where the overlooked Hollywood screenwriter Albert Isaac "Buzz" Bezzerides lived and worked, revealing the operation of Hollywood...
The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Filled with humor and defining experiences in both his own life and in the lives of some of his closest friends, William Faulkner and Robert Aldrich, ...
Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos
1993
as Himself
Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his wo...
Circle of Two
1981
Director
A 60-year-old artist shares a secret, platonic romance with a 16-year-old girl.
A Dream of Passion
1978
Producer, Director, Screenplay
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clue...
The Rehearsal
1974
Director, Writer
An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Ath...
Promise at Dawn
1970
as Ivan Mosjukine
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never...
Promise at Dawn
1970
Director, Producer, Writer
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never...
Uptight
1968
Director, Writer, Producer
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Survival 1967
1968
Director
This film documentary uses the 1967 Six-Day War and its immediate aftermath as its basis. The material primarily presents Israeli sources and perspect...
10:30 P.M. Summer
1966
Director, Producer, Screenplay
A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
Topkapi
1964
Producer, Director
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal...
Phaedra
1962
as Christos (uncredited)
A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson ...
Phaedra
1962
Director, Writer, Producer
A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson ...
Never on Sunday
1960
as Homer Thrace
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Never on Sunday
1960
Writer, Director, Producer
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
The Law
1959
Director, Screenplay
A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
He Who Must Die
1957
Director, Writer
Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that...
Rififi
1955
as Cesar le Milanais
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend ...
Rififi
1955
Director, Adaptation
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend ...
Night and the City
1950
Director
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed...
Thieves' Highway
1949
as Man in Freight Elevator (uncredited)
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his fa...
Thieves' Highway
1949
Director
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his fa...
The Naked City
1948
Director
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
Brute Force
1947
Director
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of e...
Two Smart People
1946
Director
Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.
A Letter for Evie
1946
Director
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-hal...
The Canterville Ghost
1944
Director
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
Young Ideas
1943
Director
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
Reunion in France
1942
Director
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get hi...
The Affairs of Martha
1942
Director
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
Nazi Agent
1942
Director
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and...
The Tell-Tale Heart
1941
Director
In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.
Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film
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Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film