List of the best Jean Yanne movies: Les Sous(1973), Attention Bandits!(1986), Laisse aller... c'est une valse(1970), We Won't Grow Old Together(1972), Le Boucher(1970), Weekend(1967), See How They Fall(1994), Asphalt(1980), This Man Must Die(1969), Adolphe(2002), Indochine(1992), Madame Bovary(1991) ... ...
Comedy
Canada
1973
110 Minutes
Director
A family refuses to leave their native village after being ordered to by the government and are pursued by the authorities as a result of an accidental shooting.
Drama
France
1986
111 Minutes
L'Expert
Jean Yanne Patrick Bruel Charles Gérard Marie-Sophie Berthier Corinne Marchand Hélène Surgère
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 ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
France|Italy
1970
100 Minutes
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 »
Drama
1972
103 Minutes
Jean
Jean Yanne Marlène Jobert Macha Méril Christine Fabréga Jacques Galland Maurice Risch Muse Dalbray Patricia Pierangeli Harry-Max
A married man's (Jean Yanne) six-year affair with a much-younger mistress (Marlène Jobert) reaches its end.
Mystery & Thriller
France|Italy
1970
93 Minutes
Popaul
Stéphane Audran Jean Yanne Roger Rudel Antonio Passalia Mario Beccaria Pasquale Ferone William Gueralt
headmistress butcher teacher student police officer dark chilling wedding school countryside butcher shop household street serial murders suspicion romance small-town life mystery 1970s
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.
Comedy, Drama
France|Italy
1967
103 Minutes
Mireille Darc Jean Yanne Jean-Pierre Kalfon Valerie Lagrange Paul Gégauff Virginie Vignon Jean Eustache Ernest Menzer Jean-Pierre Léaud
husband wife saint madcap frenetic amusing france countryside paris weekend getaway marriage murder accident adultery adventure quest 1960s
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.
Drama
France
1994
98 Minutes
Jean-Louis Trintignant Jean Yanne Mathieu Kassovitz Bulle Ogier Christine Pascal Yvon Back Yves Verhoeven Marc Citti
criminal apprentice police officer salesman best friend creative suspenseful emotional france hospital street hideout office murder investigation crime mentorship grief friendship unlikely hero mystery
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 »
Drama
France
1980
100 Minutes
Arthur Colonna
Carole Laure Jean Yanne Georges Wilson Jean-Pierre Marielle Philippe Ogouz Louis Seigner Danièle Lebrun Nicole Vassel
Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever.
Drama
France|Italy
1969
115 Minutes
Paul Decourt
father son police officer actress killer tense suspenseful emotional seaside paris repair shop hit and run vengeance deception revenge 1960s
A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son's death.
Drama
France
2002
102 Minutes
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 ... See full synopsis »
Romance
France
1992
158 Minutes
Guy
Catherine Deneuve Vincent Perez Linh Dan Pham Jean Yanne Dominique Blanc Henri Marteau Mai Chau
mother daughter lover grandchild revolutionary colonist brutal dense emotional spectacular indochina plantation saigon, vietnam france love triangle colonialism mother/daughter relationship affair pregnancy struggle
Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.
Romance, Drama
France
1991
130 Minutes
M. Homais
Isabelle Huppert Jean-François Balmer Christophe Malavoy Jean Yanne Lucas Belvaux Christiane Minazzoli Jean-Louis Maury Florent Gibassier Marie Mergey
wife husband lover student father landowner passionate tender touching france party wedding fair country house church madame bovary marriage boredom infidelity fantasy
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.
Drama, Romance
France
1995
135 Minutes
Le Colporteur
Olivier Martinez Juliette Binoche Isabelle Carré François Cluzet Jean Yanne Claudio Amendola Pierre Arditi Gérard Depardieu Laura Marinoni Richard Sammel Elisabeth Margoni
soldier noblewoman friend doctor priest spy spectacular melodramatic france village house parade french alps italy cholera outbreak war journey chivalry love triangle resistance
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Horror, Action, Fantasy
France
2001
142 Minutes
Le Comte de Morangias
Samuel Le Bihan Mark Dacascos Émilie Dequenne Vincent Cassel Monica Bellucci Jérémie Renier Jean Yanne Jean-François Stévenin Hans Meyer Édith Scob Jacques Perrin
beast hunter friend scientist naturalist priest gory thrilling frightening creepy engaging france small town bordello provincial town chateau catacombs science french revolution superstition
In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king's behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
Drama, Romance, History
France
1996
97 Minutes
Fabrice Luchini Manuel Blanc Sandrine Kiberlain Michel Serrault Jacques Weber Michel Piccoli Jean-François Balmer Claire Nebout Florence Thomassin Dominique Besnehard Jean-Claude Brialy
The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.