Jean Yanne

Jean Yanne

Birthday: 1933-07-18

Place of Birth: Les Lilas, Seine, France

Biography: Jean Yanne (born Jean Roger Gouyé; 18 July 1933 – 23 May 2003) was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, director and composer. In 1972, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film We Won't Grow Old Together. Source: Article "Jean Yanne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

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Le radeau de la Méduse
Le radeau de la Méduse

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous ...

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This Man Must Die
This Man Must Die

When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and mu...

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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

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Indochine
Indochine

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

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Life Upside Down
Life Upside Down

A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a wor...

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The Butcher
The Butcher

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides...

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Brotherhood of the Wolf
Brotherhood of the Wolf

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the...

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Weekend
Weekend

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic ...

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The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof

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

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Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful

Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de...

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Should Not!...
Should Not!...

Bernard, an executive for a big company, tries to get home in time for his wedding but is caught in ...

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Desire
Desire

Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, bu...

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We Won't Grow Old Together
We Won't Grow Old Together

Jean, a married 40-year-old filmmaker, and his young working class lover, Catherine, engage in a cir...

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Hanna K.
Hanna K.

Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Se...

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See How They Fall
See How They Fall

A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earl...

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Victory
Victory

Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Suraba...

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La Légende
La Légende

A young girl sees the theater in which her parents play burn down, and they disappear in the fire. T...

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Erotissimo
Erotissimo

Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and ...

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Small Cuts
Small Cuts

Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëll...

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Adolphe
Adolphe

Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten yea...

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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier an...

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The Accuser
The Accuser

In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the Frenc...

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Fantasia Among the Squares
Fantasia Among the Squares

Sagamore Noonan lives in seclusion on a farm in Alabama, where he distills moonshine during Prohibit...

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Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ

In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is ...

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Je règle mon pas sur le pas de mon père
Je règle mon pas sur le pas de mon père

Sauveur (Savior) needs someone to save him, and so he begins to look for his father, a fast- talking...

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Armageddon
Armageddon

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death...

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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Gramps Is in the Resistance

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Ger...

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

In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a...

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Line of Demarcation
Line of Demarcation

It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcat...

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Chinese In Paris
Chinese In Paris

Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese pe...

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Troubleshooters
Troubleshooters

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse ass...

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Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures

Catherine Guérande, a 19-year-old Parisian girl, decides to become a prostitute after a messy love a...

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Belle Maman
Belle Maman

At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother...

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The Men in the Family
The Men in the Family

Gabriel Pelletier, sales manager for a major industrial firm, would be the happiest of men if he did...

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Low Profile
Low Profile

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

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Le Bal des casse-pieds
Le Bal des casse-pieds

A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in l...

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Leathernose
Leathernose

After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behin...

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News from the Good Lord
News from the Good Lord

When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord...

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Enfants de salaud
Enfants de salaud

Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American a...

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Dr. Schweitzer
Dr. Schweitzer

In 1912, the Alsatian Albert Schweitzer, missionary doctor and musician, goes to Gabon, a French col...

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The Road to Damascus
The Road to Damascus

Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the a...

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Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70
Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70

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Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous

Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for h...

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Payoff
Payoff

Two very different cops are forced to work together......

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Angel's Leap
Angel's Leap

In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne...

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The Saint Lies in Wait
The Saint Lies in Wait

Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secr...

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That's Show Business
That's Show Business

Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected ...

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Proper Attire Required
Proper Attire Required

His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He ap...

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L'Affaire Seznec
L'Affaire Seznec

Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the ...

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Bandits
Bandits

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murd...

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Fucking Fernand
Fucking Fernand

A bombing raid makes travelling companions of a blind man, Fernand, and Antoine, a criminal. Fernand...

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Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Liberté, égalité, choucroute

A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, w...

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La sévillane
La sévillane

An orange, yellow and gray film which tells a love story or more precisely the birth of the feeling ...

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The Wolf at the Door
The Wolf at the Door

Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in ...

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Funny Money
Funny Money

Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman p...

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The Viscount
The Viscount

Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a ple...

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Ils n'ont pas vingt ans
Ils n'ont pas vingt ans

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Quicker Than the Eye
Quicker Than the Eye

An expert magician is hired to entertain world leaders at a peace summit. Unfortunately, he finds hi...

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Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 & 2
Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 & 2

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Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?

Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten an...

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Stop Calling Me Baby!
Stop Calling Me Baby!

A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen...

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Run for Your Life
Run for Your Life

Nicolas, 13 years old, lives in a suburb north of Paris with his mother, a cleaning lady, and his ol...

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Bang Bang
Bang Bang

Sheila's uncle has just died; many of his relatives come, but,much to their displeasure, it's his ni...

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State Reasons
State Reasons

Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions...

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Every Man for Yourself
Every Man for Yourself

Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the ...

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Vertiges de l'amour
Vertiges de l'amour

A man has pre-wedding jitters on the eve before his marriage. His thoughts switch between sweet drea...

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Hygiène de l'assassin
Hygiène de l'assassin

Part police thriller and part exploration of the dark side of men's attitudes about women, Hygiene d...

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La dame du jeu
La dame du jeu

Venice, 1580. The Marquis Della Porta lives alone in his villa with his secretary Jacopo, his servan...

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A Day in a Taxi
A Day in a Taxi

Two men spend 24 hours driving around the outskirts of Montreal....

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The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox

The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist an...

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À la Mode
À la Mode

Fausto enters an orphanage and is initially bullied, but then makes friends with a new bunkmate, Ray...

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Asphalt
Asphalt

Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their...

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Tell Me Whom to Kill
Tell Me Whom to Kill

On the Côte d'Azur, a beautiful adventuress and a strange German tourist set themselves the courteou...

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Une preuve d'amour
Une preuve d'amour

A beautiful, cultured Parisian nurse working in a backwards French region, ends up falling in love w...

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The Nonentity
The Nonentity

Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted ...

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Pétain
Pétain

During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied...

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Jean Yanne (La Joie de vivre)
Jean Yanne (La Joie de vivre)

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Cayenne Palace
Cayenne Palace

French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this ...

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The Year of Certificate
The Year of Certificate

This certificate was formerly obtained by pupils at the end of primary school. The teacher of a smal...

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Jaloux comme un tigre
Jaloux comme un tigre

Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he spends m...

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Night Women
Night Women

A mondo-movie on the theme of women, with interviews and mock reports: plastic surgery, transvestite...

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A Strange Kind of Colonel
A Strange Kind of Colonel

Barton and Cutterfeet, two London mobsters, team up with stripper Marina to pull off the big jobs. B...

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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

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Actors
Actors

Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, ...

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The Telephone Always Rings Twice
The Telephone Always Rings Twice

Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particul...

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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather pe...

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Deux Romains en Gaule
Deux Romains en Gaule

This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles th...

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Le triomphe inattendu de Ben-Hur Marcel
Le triomphe inattendu de Ben-Hur Marcel

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Les Shadoks, mythe ou légende ?
Les Shadoks, mythe ou légende ?

Documentary on the French phenomenon in celebration of a reboot of the series....

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Le ciel pour témoin
Le ciel pour témoin

Sophie investigates the death of her sister who disappeared while taking pictures in the mountains w...

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De la pauvreté du dessin Shadoks attribuée au manque de crédits de l'Office
De la pauvreté du dessin Shadoks attribuée au manque de crédits de l'Office

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Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with a...

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