Jean Yanne

Inspired by actual events taking place during the reign of King Louis XV, Brotherhood of the Wolf revisits one of the rare French myths, that of the "Beast of Gevaudan" which killed a number of persons before being vanquished under mysterious circumstances. (Universal Focus)

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.

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary)... (imdb)

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband. (imdb)

Butcher Popaul meets schoolteacher Helene at a marriage in a small rural French village. They become friends... (imdb)

As a man (Vincent Lindon) exchanges wedding vows with his pregnant fiancee (Mathilde Seigner), he spies her mother (Catherine Deneuve) and feels an instant attraction.

A young trainee chef Sauveur learns the existence of his father he never knew. At first hostile to this intrusion, he ends up associating his son until one day Sauveur falls in love with Sandra, a young photograph who is their next victim...

Indochina during the 30's. One of the largest rubber-tree plantations is owned by the French colonist Eliane, a proud but imprudent woman. She lives with her father and her native adoptive daughter Camille. At an auction Eliane gets to know the young officer Jean-Baptiste... (imdb)

The story of an Israeli lawyer, Hannah Kaufman, who is appointed by the court to defend a Palestinian, Salim Bakri, accused of terrorism.

Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed "le paltoquet") and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. (FilmFrance)

Charles Thénier's nine year old son is run over by a reckless driver. He vows to have his revenge, yet the police investigation is fruitless. Partly following his hunches and partly by chance he discovers actress Hélène Lanson is the owner of the car. He seduces her under a false name as part of his revenge plan, but loses courage to carry it through as he develops feelings for her. (Wikipedia)

Axel Heyst lives on a secluded island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya. The year is 1913. While on personal business to the port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German Schomberg. An all-woman orchestra plays in the hotel each night, and orchestra owner, San Giacomo agrees to "sell" one of the girls, Alma, to Schomberg... (imdb)

The film delves deeply into the last days of an affair between a married man and a young woman who have been together for six years. (BFI)

Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers (imdb)

A town comes alive with violence as one man seeks revenge! (imdb)

Jean Yanne directs and stars in this French comedy. He plays a radio reporter who is fired when he recounts on the air just how his brave colleagues report on Latin American revolutions: from a lounge chair next to the pool of a luxury hotel, or from cabanas along the beach. He is briefly hired back to run the station but gets fired yet again when he airs an exposé of phony name-brand products. (Allmovie)

The setting for this story is Rahatlcoum, a Roman colony in North Africa, but the "colonists" watch television, have gay bars, trade unions, and traffic problems. A gay Jules César's expensive vacation causes the population to grumble and gripe, they would rather have mechanic Ben Hur Marcel take Jules' place as their exalted leader. Once she gets out of jail, Cleopatra declares that old Ben is actually her long-lost half-brother. (Allmovie)

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris. (imdb)

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! (imdb)

The action takes place at the turn of the 19th Century. Adolphe (Stanislas Merhar) is a carefree, somewhat jaded 22-year-old, scion of a preeminent aristocratic family, with a very promising political career ahead of him. To Adolphe, love means conquest, and since he is bored, love is a good pastime. (imdb)

A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal. (imdb)

After an unfortunate initiative the financial advisor Benoît Lepape is dismissed. He convinces his uncle, a union activist, to invest funds of the union and apply capitalist methods in a successful bicycle business, and then in a model electronics factory.

Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists. (imdb)

In April 1789, the commander of the faithful left Baghdad for Paris to acquire the salon equipment executioner (the Sicob) an infallible guillotine, because the pal no distracted him. Presentation follows a parody of the Revolution which will see Louis XVI to escape to get not to Varennes but in Baghdad . (Wikipedia)

All five stories in this anthology comedy are tied together by their theme: they concern the encounters of a youthful psychiatrist (Thierry Lhermitte) with his patients, or with people so crazy they ought to be his patients. Each one is filmed by a different director. (Allmovie)

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. (imdb)

Sagamore Noonan lives secluded on a farm in Alabama where he distills whisky clandestinely. He was visited by his brother Doc Noonan and his son Billy. A young stripper, whose bikini contains her adornment of diamonds, and her companion gangster come to disturb their tranquility.

An industrialist would have everything to live happily if his family did not cause him so much worry.

People annoy and bore a Paris veterinarian (Jean Rochefort), until he meets someone (Miou-Miou) new and awkwardly falls in love.

Story about arms trafficking between governments. (bfi)

This movie chronicles the relationship between a famed yet depressive hairdresser and the suicidal plumber who becomes his "adopted" son after he rescues him from a canal. Georges is the hairdresser who gained notoriety as a hairdresser to stars such as Grace Kelly, and Ava Gardner. Gus, after being mistreated in love, decides to end it all by jumping into a canal. Georges tries to save him and the soggy twosome become bosom buddies. (Allmovie)

During World Business Forum,some influential guests have assembled at Hotel Charles VII including governor of Iowa's wife and her former husband who is waiting outside the hotel. (imdb)

This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover. (imdb)

Trailer for the film "Week End".

Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends, Annie starts feeling left aside by her husband, and trying to attract in a number of ways - and failing. (imdb)

This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, who entered the world of antiquity by studying its history lesson and two Romans, and TICKETBUS PROSPECTUS, who prefer to leave their life of legionnaires and discover the lifestyle of Gaulois. Antoine meeting Asterix cartoon form, which explains certain peculiarities of life in Lutetia.

During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial. (imdb)