Jean Yanne
1933 - 2003During his career, he won a Cannes Film Festival Award for his leading role in We Won't Grow Old Together (1972) and received a César Award nomination for his supporting role in Indochine (1992).
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This Man Must Die
Claude Chabrol
Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
This Man Must Die
Life Upside Down
Alain Jessua
Charles Denner, Anna Gaylor
A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By conventional standards, maybe, but it's clear that the life he's fleeing is madder still from his point of view, and since that point of view is unfailingly witty and astute, we even come to accept his delusions as more "real" than reality.
Life Upside Down
We Won't Grow Old Together
Maurice Pialat
Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne
Jean, a married 40-year-old filmmaker, and his young working class lover, Catherine, engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative reunions, their mutual desire a fire that burns them again and again.
We Won't Grow Old Together
La ligne de démarcation
Claude Chabrol
Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet
Line of Demarcation. is a 1966 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is La Ligne de démarcation. It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre (Ronet), is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German command centre. Whilst he is obliged to co-operate with the enemy, his wife Mary (Seberg) supports the resistance movement and is willing to risk her life for it. The Nazis step up their activity against the resistance, insisting that any who attempt to cross the line of demarcation will be shot. When his wife is arrested, Pierre decides to switch his allegiance.
Line of Demarcation
Indochine
Régis Wargnier
Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez
Eliane Devries is the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina, circa 1930. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upper class society
Indochine
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Christophe Gans
Samuel Le Bihan, Венсан Кассель
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
L'Affaire Seznec
Yves Boisset
Christophe Malavoy, Nathalie Roussel
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with the former about 30 kilometers from Paris. The body will never be found. Seznec quickly became the main suspect and was sent to prison for life, even though nothing clearly indicated that he was the culprit.
L'Affaire Seznec
Weekend
Jean-Luc Godard
Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Weekend
Une preuve d'amour
Bernard Stora
Anouk Grinberg, Eric Elmosnino
A beautiful, cultured Parisian nurse working in a backwards French region, ends up falling in love with a seemingly crass farmer. She finds out that he actually is very intelligent, and she tries to help him to study again.
Une preuve d'amour
Papy fait de la résistance
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Édouard Molinaro
Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
