Jean Gabin’s films to watch for free this weekend in streaming

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of his death, the Arte and France Télévisions platforms are offering several great Gabin classics, to watch or rewatch online for free. From the Quai des Mignes to the Crossing of Paris…

The beautiful teamby Julien Duvivier (1936) – on Arte.tv

Bathed in the spirit of the Popular Front, the story of five unemployed Parisian workers who win the jackpot and decide to invest their fortune in a tavern on the banks of the Marne. But between disillusions, rivalries and affairs of the heart, their collective dream will be shattered. Opposite Charles Vanel, the young Jean Gabin, 32, plays one of his first major roles.

The Quay of Mistsby Marcel Carnet (1938) – on Arte.tv

“You have beautiful eyes, you know!“Jacques Prévert signs the screenplay for one of the most cult films of the French 7th art, with Gabin as a deserter from the Coloniale who falls in love with Michèle Morgan, a melancholic orphan. A classic among classics.

The Coral Reefby Maurice Gleize (1939) – on TV5 monde

Just after having walked the Quai des Mignes together, Michèle Morgan and Jean Gabin find themselves in this film long considered lost but then found in 2002 at the Belgrade Cinematheque and restored. The actor plays Ted Lennard, who flees a crime scene in Australia, where he kills an old gangster during a fight. He boards a freighter leaving for Mexico…

Watch on this link: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/fr/films/policier-et-suspense/le-recif-de-corail/play

The night is my kingdomby Georges Lacombe (1951) – on Arte.tv

One of Gabin’s most emotionally charged roles. A hardened bachelor and passionate railway worker, Raymond Pinsard lost his sight in a work accident. Forced to relearn how to live with his disability, he must give up his old habits and rebuild himself, helped in particular by a young blind teacher. A romance with an almost documentary approach where Jean Gabin reveals the full extent of his playing palette.

Dieselby Gilles Grangier (1955) – on Arte.tv

Facing Jeanne Moreau and with the dialogues of Michel Audiard to give even more verve to his banter, Jean Gabin plays a quiet driver whose daily life changes when he discovers the corpse of a gangster who disappeared with 50 million francs. Targeted by the thug’s former accomplices, he can count on his truck friends to defend himself. Grangier adapts a novel from the Série Noire in rural France in the 1950s.

Crossing Parisby Claude Autant (1956) – on France.tv

Facing Bourvil and Louis de FunèsGabin plays a fanciful painter drawn into a perilous journey through Paris under the Occupation. Responsible for transporting four suitcases of clandestine meat with a brave unemployed man, he transforms this high-risk mission into an incredible adventure. A scathing comedy, a corrosive portrait of occupied France.

To be seen from Sunday on France.tv

A monkey in winterby Henri Verneuil (1962) – on France.tv

Revealed by Out of breath and just after the success of CartridgeJean-Paul Belmondo is the young leader of French cinema on the rise. He will meet the legend Gabin in this melancholic comedy. In a Norman inn, Albert Quentin, a former repentant alcoholic, befriends Gabriel Fouquet, a young man who drowns his romantic sorrows in alcohol. A tender and tasty encounter, carried by the dialogues of Michel Audiard.

Watch on this link: https://www.france.tv/films/films-drame/8998762-un-singe-en-hiver.html

The Catby Pierre Granier-Deferre (1971) – on France.tv

One of Gabin’s last roles. Opposite Simone Signoret, he plays a retired typographer who shares with his wife, a former trapeze artist, an existence made of resentment and silences. Since she killed the cat to whom he had devoted all his affection, their old couple has been torn apart in a house slated for demolition.

Watch on this link: https://www.france.tv/films/films-drame/288651-le-chat.html

Jean Gabin: War is not cinemaby Patrick Jeudy (2026) – on Arte.tv

To pay tribute to Gabin, Arte is also putting online a new one-hour documentary, which looks back on a little-known episode in the artist’s life: his commitment to the Free French Forces, from 1943 to 1945. An absolute star of French cinema, the actor first joined the marines during the “phoney war”, before fleeing occupied France and reaching Hollywood. But Californian comfort was soon no longer enough for him. In 1943, alongside Marlene Dietrich, who also joined her side, Gabin decided to resume the fight against Nazi Germany. Another role, far from movie sets, that this film traces through two years of his life.