Jean Yanne Movies

Weekend

73/100

A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance.

Indochine

71/100

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was ... See full summary »

Le Boucher

76/100

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

This Man Must Die

79/100

A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son's death.

Madame Bovary

67/100

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love ... See full summary »

Die verrücktesten 90 Minuten vor Christi Geburt

58/100

Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.

We Won't Grow Old Together

74/100

Jean has been married to Francoise for years, but his relationship with his wife has been all but over for a long time. She's hardly ever around, always traveling to Russia for work, and ... See full summary »

See How They Fall

67/100

Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a ... See full summary »

Payoff

48/100

Two dirty copies decide to extort a lord mobster using an account book they found during the investigation of a murder case.

Die große Masche

67/100

According to "Radio closer to God", nothing is conceived without God, especially shampoos, cosmetics, the sale of records... An animator, Christian Gerber, denounces this scam on the air, ... See full summary »

Die Chinesen in Paris

64/100

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.

Hanna K.

67/100

An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.

Proper Attire Required

63/100

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.

I Follow in My Father's Footsteps

65/100

Armaguedon

62/100

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 ... See full summary »

Troubleshooters

62/100

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. ... See full summary »

Adolphe

60/100

Die Augen des Wolfes

62/100

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 ... See full summary »

Attention bandits!

65/100

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife...

Doppelte Tarnung

55/100

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

Das Floß der Medusa

70/100

Jean Yanne, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Jade: A la recherche de la fortune et du paradis ils ne connurent que l'enfer.

À la mode

58/100

Fausto enters an orphanage and is initially bullied, but then makes friends with a new bunkmate, Raymond. He is apprenticed to Mietek, a tailor in the Jewish quarter, who teaches him the ... See full summary »

Zwei halbe Helden

49/100

A bombing raid makes travelling companions of a blind man, Fernand, and Antoine, a criminal. Fernand is a virgin and is depending on his new friend to find him a woman. But to Antoine, on the run, his fellow victim is more a burden than a boon.

Angel's Leap

59/100

The electoral battle is raging in Marseilles. The Corsican Clan, under the rule of the Orsini family, is being challenged by the next generation, younger gangsters who support the ... See full summary »

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs

50/100