Yves Montand (1921-1991), like many leading men of his era, left a life offscreen which was at least as dramatic as anything...
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Himself
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1994
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In this French adventure, two Parisian street kids embark upon a strange journey to Grenoble in the back of a delivery truck....
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Leon Marcel
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1992
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Pierre Marroux
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1991
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When Israel celebrated its 40th anniversary, many spectacular cultural events were planned to honor the occasion, including...
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1990
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1989
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Himself
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1988
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Manon of the Spring (Manon des Sources) has also been released as Jean de Florette II in the US, as it is a sequel to...
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Cesar Soubeyran
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1986
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Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a...
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Cesar Soubeyran
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1986
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Yves Montand stars in this French seriocomedy as a middle-aged waiter. He has long harbored dreams of becoming a singer, and...
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Alex
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1983
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Yves Montand is Victor Valance, a long-lost father who has come home to his brood of daughters and his mother in order to...
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Victor Valance
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1981
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This French production concerns a gangster (Yves Montand) who retires to the countryside after living a full life of...
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Noel Durieux
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1981
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This was 76-year-old director Christian-Jacque's last film before his retirement, and it is dedicated to one of his...
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1980
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Noted political filmmaker Costa-Gavras turned his attention to personal issues in this drama. Michel (Yves Montand) has had...
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Michel
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1979
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Henry Volney (Yves Montand) is a crusading district attorney who refuses to believe the official investigation on the death...
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Henry Volney
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1979
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A music biography video of Edith Piaf, with clips from concerts and interviews. ~ Rovi...
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1978
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Roads to the South is often omitted from the "official" lists of Joseph Losey's films, principally because it was made for...
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Larrea
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1978
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Chris Marker's remarkable documentary about the rise and fall of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s was originally released...
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1977
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After many years of managing a trucking concern for his lover Dominique (Marie Dubois), Savin (Yves Montand) is planning to...
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Savin
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1977
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When he is not working as a stage performer, Emile (Yves Montand) works as a small-time con-man. He has a brand-new plan for...
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Emile
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1976
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A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller....
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Ferrot
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1976
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In this romantic adventure comedy from French writer/director Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Catherine Deneuve stars as Nelly, a young...
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Martin
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1975
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others is a gentle character study of a group of friends who meet each weekend in the country...
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Vincent
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1974
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In this ironic French tale of tragedy and love, Laurent (Yves Montand), a world-weary ex-convict and prison-reform writer is...
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Laurent
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1974
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This drama tells the story of a successful author who visits the French village where he was once imprisoned. ~ Rovi...
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1974
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1974
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This French drama shows what happens to the folks at home when someone who has been gone for a long time returns. Ange...
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Ange
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1973
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Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true story. The incident dramatized...
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Philip Michael Santore
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1973
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Cesar
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1972
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After collaborating on a series of small-scale political films under the alias of the Dziga Vertov Group, pioneering French...
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He
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1972
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This French historical comedy/farce, loosely based on Victor Hugo's play Ruy Blas, benefits greatly from having...
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Blaze
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1971
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Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel...
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Jansen
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1970
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This Costa-Gavras thriller stars Yves Montand as an East European government functionary, inexplicably imprisoned by his...
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Gerard
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1970
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Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this...
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Dr. Marc Chabot
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1970
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An eccentric family in need of money turns their crumbling chateau into a hotel in order to renovate the old place. Repairs...
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Cesar
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1969
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To help fight the communists, comic-strip superhero Mister Freedom (John Abbey) is sent to France by an American group called...
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1969
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Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a...
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The Deputy
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1969
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Mathias (Yves Montand) is a Flemish professor who takes a vacation when the university students go on strike. He decides he...
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Mathias
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1968
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French director Claude Lelouch followed up his hit A Man and a Woman with this tale of a love triangle set against the...
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Robert Colomb
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1967
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There's a few million dollars' worth of star power and a nickel's worth of plot in the lavish race-car melodrama Grand Prix....
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Jean-Pierre Sarti
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1966
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La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his...
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Diego
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1966
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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1966
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Inspector Grazzi
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1965
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This is an untraditional film documentary that concerns Paris. Instead of covering the usual sights and sounds of the city,...
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1963
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In this romantic comedy, a popular actress disguises herself as a Japanese geisha to land a part in a film directed by her...
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Paul Farley
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1962
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Roger Demarest
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1961
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Combining elements from William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, its sequel Requiem for a Nun, and a stage adaptation of Requiem...
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Candy Man
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1961
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Let's Make Love is a breezy comedy about an off Broadway musical production. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is the richest...
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Jean-Marc Clement
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1960
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Jules Dassin, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, directs this routine, ostensibly romantic tale that really courts an...
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Matteo Brigante
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1959
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Yves Montand, who has so often portrayed an unflappable man of the world, is rendered virtually helpless by a small boy in...
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1958
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1958
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American playwright Arthur Miller was still under an "unfriendly" cloud in 1958, so far as the anti-Communist brigades were...
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John Proctor
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1957
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Uomini e Lupi was released outside of Italy as Men and Wolves. Pedro Armendariz and Yves Montand star as a pair of courageous...
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1957
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This standard documentary follows a 1956 tour by singer-actor Yves Montand through various cities in the USSR as he performs...
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Commentary
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1957
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1956
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La Grande Strada Azzura was also released as Squarcio, which happens to be the name of the character played by star Yves...
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Squarcio
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1956
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Marguerite de la Nuit is filmmaker Claude Autant-Lara's spin on the "Faust" legend. Though updated to 1925, the story of the...
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1955
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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1955
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A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in...
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Michel
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1955
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This Italian anthology is comprised of five separate episodes. In the first tale, two impoverished parents must leave their...
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1954
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1954
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Mario
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1953
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Parigi e Sempre Parigi (Paris is Always Paris) was the second feature-length effort from famed Italian documentary director...
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1952
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Autant-Lara's L'Auberge Rouge (The Red Inn) is black comedy at its very blackest. The scene is a rustic little inn in a...
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1951
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1947
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Etoile Sans Lumiere (Star Without Light) represents a rare screen appearance by French singing sensation Edith Piaf. The plot...
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Pierre
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1946
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Marcel Carne's 1946 production La Porte de la Nuit was released in the U.S. four years later as Gates of the Night. Scripted...
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Jean Diego
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1946
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