Yves MontandFilmography

IP5: L'Île aux Pachydermes

Actors: Yves Montand, Olivier Martinez, Sekkou Sall, Géraldine Pailhas

Synopsis: In this French adventure, two Parisian street kids embark upon a strange journey to Grenoble in the back of a delivery truck. One of the lads is an adolescent Spanish graffiti artist while the other is an 11-year-old black rapper. Once there, the young boy is delighted to see his first snowfall. Read More

Netchaïev Est de Retour

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Yves Montand, Miou-Miou, Carolina Rosi, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: Very few people know that Pierre Marroux (Yves Montand) is the father of the famous terrorist Netchaiev (Vincent Lindon), and that's the way he likes to keep it. His boy is now presumed to be dead, and he has a job to do, protecting the safety of those who pay him. However, the boy has recently Read More

Musical Masterpiece at Massada with Zubin Mehta

Synopsis: When Israel celebrated its 40th anniversary, many spectacular cultural events were planned to honor the occasion, including this concert. Zubin Mehta conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as it played Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection next to the fortress of Masada. The program was Read More

Resurrection at Masada

Trois Places Pour Le 26

Actors: Yves Montand, Mathilda May, Françoise Fabian, Patrick Fierry, Catriona MacColl

Synopsis: Yves Montand plays himself in this musical romantic comedy by Jacques Demy. Demy and Michel Legrand wrote the songs with Montand in mind as a tribute to the famous French singer and actor in his most celebrated roles. Choreography is provided by Michael Peters for the many background dancers who Read More

Manon of the Spring

Actors: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Elisabeth Depardieu

Synopsis: 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 Claude Berri's Jean de Florette. Both films are drawn from the same source: Filmmaker/novelist Marcel Pagnol's 1952 rural romance, also titled Jean de Florette. Manon (Emmanuelle Beart Read More

Jean de Florette

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Ernestine Mazurowna

Synopsis: Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farming community. City dweller Jean Cadoret (Gérard Depardieu) assumes ownership of the spring when Read More

Garçon!

Actors: Yves Montand, Jacques Villeret, Nicole Garcia, Bernard Fresson, Rosy Varte, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Yves Montand stars in this French seriocomedy as a middle-aged waiter. He has long harbored dreams of becoming a singer, and is also anxious to prove he's as virile as he was when he started pushing plates. Montand gets a chance to rev up his sexual energy and his musical skills when an old flame (Nicole Garcia Read More

Tout Feu, Tout Flamme

Actors: Yves Montand, Isabelle Adjani, Lauren Hutton, Alain Souchon, Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis: Yves Montand is Victor Valance, a long-lost father who has come home to his brood of daughters and his mother in order to weazel some money out of them to front a gambling casino. Unable to tell them the real reason he wants the money, he just says it is for a country house for them - though his Read More

Le Choix des armes

Actors: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin

Synopsis: This French production concerns a gangster (Yves Montand) who retires to the countryside after living a full life of traditional crime. After settling into his new residence with his wife (Catherine Deneuve), his home is invaded by an unruly punk (Gerard Depardieu) who has some new-fangled ideas Read More

Carne: L'Homme A La Camera

Actors: Marcel Carné, Yves Montand

Synopsis: This was 76-year-old director Christian-Jacque's last film before his retirement, and it is dedicated to one of his contemporaries, Marcel Carne. Carne's film history is extolled through clips from some of his award-winning or acclaimed works such as Nogent, Eldorado du Dimanche (1929), Le Jour Se Leve Read More

Clair De Femme

Actors: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Lila Kedrova, Heinz Bennent

Synopsis: Noted political filmmaker Costa-Gavras turned his attention to personal issues in this drama. Michel (Yves Montand) has had to deal with the death of his wife, while Lydia (Romy Schneider) is mourning the loss of her daughter. Both Michel and Lydia are lonely, and they are attempting to start a Read More

I... Comme Icare

Actors: Yves Montand, Michel Etcheverry, Roger Planchon, Pierre Vernier, Georges Staquet, Jacques Denis

Synopsis: Henry Volney (Yves Montand) is a crusading district attorney who refuses to believe the official investigation on the death of an assassinated President in this uneven suspense thriller. He interview a waitress who is the only one who can positively identify the killer, but conspirators trace his Read More

Les Routes Du Sud

Actors: Yves Montand, Laurent Malet, Miou-Miou, France Lambiotte, José Luis Gómez

Synopsis: Roads to the South is often omitted from the "official" lists of Joseph Losey's films, principally because it was made for French television rather than theatres. Conceived by screenwriter Jorge Semprun and star Yves Montand as a sequel to Alain Resnais' La Guerre est Finie, the film details the Read More

Edith Piaf: I Regret Nothing

Synopsis: A music biography video of Edith Piaf, with clips from concerts and interviews. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

La Menace

Actors: Yves Montand, Marie Dubois, Carole Laure, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: After many years of managing a trucking concern for his lover Dominique (Marie Dubois), Savin (Yves Montand) is planning to leave her for the girl who is bearing his child. Hysterical, Dominique threatens suicide then goes to a meeting between Savin and the girl and tries everything she can think Read More

Le Grand Escogriffe

Actors: Yves Montand, Claude Brasseur, Agostina Belli, Valentina Cortese

Synopsis: 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 a big job and needs the services of one of his former assistants. He also persuades a young actress to help out with part of the plan: kidnapping the child of a very shady Read More

Police Python 357

Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, François Perier, Stefania Sandrelli, Mathieu Carrière

Synopsis: A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot (Yves Montand) is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia (Stefania Sandrelli). Sylvia, however, is having an affair with Read More

Le Sauvage

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Yves Montand, Luigi Vannucchi, Tony Roberts, Dana Wynter

Synopsis: In this romantic adventure comedy from French writer/director Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Catherine Deneuve stars as Nelly, a young French bride who gets cold feet and flees the altar with her irate Italian groom Vittorio (Luigi Vannucchi in hot pursuit. While she is on the run in Venezuela, Nelly Read More

Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres

Actors: Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Gérard Depardieu, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others is a gentle character study of a group of friends who meet each weekend in the country for food, drink and conversation. Over the course of the film, the three main characters undergo a variety of personal and professional struggles, which are all vividly Read More

Le Hasard et la Violence

Actors: Yves Montand, Katharine Ross, Riccardo Cucciolla, Jean-Claude Dauphin

Synopsis: In this ironic French tale of tragedy and love, Laurent (Yves Montand), a world-weary ex-convict and prison-reform writer is coming back to the dreary town his old prison is in. To someone whose life is so imbued with violence, everything he sees seems like a threat. Indeed, the town appears to be Read More

La Solitude du Chanteur de Fond

Actors: Yves Montand

Love and Chance

Synopsis: This drama tells the story of a successful author who visits the French village where he was once imprisoned. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Le Fils

Actors: Yves Montand, Lea Massari, Marcel Bozzuffi, Germaine Delbat

Synopsis: This French drama shows what happens to the folks at home when someone who has been gone for a long time returns. Ange (Yves Montand) has been to America, but an uneasy feeling brings him back to his native island of Corsica. There he discovers his father has been killed, his mother is deathly Read More

State of Siege

Actors: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis: Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true story. The incident dramatized herein is the kidnapping of a U.S. official somewhere in Latin America. The director's sympathies clearly lie with the kidnappers, especially since the official (played by Yves Montand Read More

Cesar & Rosalie

Actors: Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Sami Frey, Umberto Orsini, Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's romantic drama César et Rosalie (Cesar and Rosalie) stars Romy Schneider as Rosalie, a beautiful young woman happily married to successful businessman Cesar (Yves Montand). One day, Rosalie's former flame David (Sami Frey) appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a Read More

Tout Va Bien

Actors: Jane Fonda, Yves Montand, Vittorio Caprioli

Synopsis: After collaborating on a series of small-scale political films under the alias of the Dziga Vertov Group, pioneering French director Jean-Luc Godard and filmmaker and activist Jean-Pierre Gorin attempted to fuse their Maoist theories of revolutionary art with a more accessible structural framework Read More

La Folie des Grandeurs

Actors: Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Paul Preboist

Synopsis: This French historical comedy/farce, loosely based on Victor Hugo's play Ruy Blas, benefits greatly from having Louis De Funes and Yves Montand in the roles of Saluste and Blaze. Saluste is a nobleman who has been exiled from court and sent to collect taxes in the countryside. Blaze is his Read More

Le Cercle Rouge

Actors: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, François Perier

Synopsis: Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonté) hides in the trunk of Corey's car. The two enlist the help of an alcoholic former cop (Yves Montand) for an elaborate jewelry-store robbery. Police Read More

L'Aveu

Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Vitold, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: This Costa-Gavras thriller stars Yves Montand as an East European government functionary, inexplicably imprisoned by his Communist superiors. He is not told why he has been arrested, nor has his wife (Simone Signoret) been informed of his fate. Undergoing psychological torture, Montand is grilled Read More

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this feature film version. Barbra Streisand stars as Daisy Gamble, a chain smoker who, at the urging of her uptight fiance Warren (Larry Blyden), seeks help in kicking the habit from Read More

Le Diable Par La Queue

Actors: Yves Montand, Maria Schell, Madeleine Renaud, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: An eccentric family in need of money turns their crumbling chateau into a hotel in order to renovate the old place. Repairs are made to the aging structure, but they only have one guest and too many empty rooms. The young granddaughter, with the help of her mechanic boyfriend, manages to make sure Read More

Mister Freedom

Actors: John Abbey, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Rouvel

Synopsis: To help fight the communists, comic-strip superhero Mister Freedom (John Abbey) is sent to France by an American group called Freedom Incorporated. Receiving his orders from Doctor Freedom (Donald Pleasence), he battles the Russian Moujik Man and a fire-breathing dragon named Red China Man in this Read More

Z

Actors: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, François Perier

Synopsis: Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a political assassination. Zei (Yves Montand) is a scientist who is scheduled to give a speech against the use of the atomic bomb. On the way to the event, he is attacked outside Read More

Un Soir ... un Train

Actors: Yves Montand, Anouk Aimée, François Beukelaers, Hector Camerlynck, Adriana Bogdan

Synopsis: Mathias (Yves Montand) is a Flemish professor who takes a vacation when the university students go on strike. He decides he will visit his mistress Anne (Anouk Aimee) to get away from the social and political upheaval. He finds that Anne has embraced the social causes despite an illness that could Read More

Vivre Pour Vivre

Actors: Yves Montand, Annie Girardot, Candice Bergen, Irène Tunc, Uta Taeger

Synopsis: French director Claude Lelouch followed up his hit A Man and a Woman with this tale of a love triangle set against the background of late 1960s political unrest. A French television reporter, Robert Colomb (Yves Montand), on assignment in Kenya, has an affair with a young fashion model, Candice (Candice Bergen Read More

La Guerre Est Finie

Actors: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his beloved flashbacks and flashforwards, Resnais sticks to a logical progression of events in relating this jaundiced tale of political activism. Yves Montand plays a tired Read More

Grand Prix

Actors: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune, Brian Bedford

Synopsis: 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. Among the participants in this annual cross-continent competition are characters played by James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, and Antonio Sabato. Interested parties Read More

Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

The Sleeping Car Murders

Actors: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Mondy, Simone Signoret, Catherine Allegret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The first film directed by Costa-Gavras, The Sleeping Car Murders was based on a novel by Sebastien Japrisot. During a Marseilles-to-Paris overnight train trip, a girl is found dead in a sleeping car. As Paris detective Yves Montand steps up his investigation, more and more passengers turn up Read More

Le Joli Mai

Actors: Yves Montand

Synopsis: This is an untraditional film documentary that concerns Paris. Instead of covering the usual sights and sounds of the city, writer/director Chris Marks takes his film crew to the street and interviews people on the spot and in their homes. Comments range from the French-Algerian conflict and the Read More

My Geisha

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yoko Tani

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a popular actress disguises herself as a Japanese geisha to land a part in a film directed by her husband. Shirley MacLaine stars as Lucy Dell, a comic actress married to equally successful director Paul Robaix (Yves Montand). Though Paul has found success creating comic Read More

Aimez-Vous Brahms?

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Jesse Royce Landis, Jackie Lane

Synopsis: Based on the Francoise Sagan novel Aimez vous Brahms?, Goodbye Again stars Ingrid Bergman as Paula Tessier, a successful Parisian interior decorator (with a personal wardrobe by Christian Dior) and Yves Montand as her roving-eye lover, Roger Demarest. Worried that she'll be left in the lurch by Read More

Sanctuary

Actors: Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dillman, Harry Townes, Odette

Synopsis: Combining elements from William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, its sequel Requiem for a Nun, and a stage adaptation of Requiem for a Nun by Ruth Ford, director Tony Richardson's film is set in 1920s Mississippi and recounts the story of Temple Drake (Lee Remick), a young, lustful white woman who Read More

Let's Make Love

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: Let's Make Love is a breezy comedy about an off Broadway musical production. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is the richest man in the world and looking for someone who loves him instead of his money. He reads in Variety he is to be satirized in the new production and tries out for the part. The Read More

The Law

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Pierre Brasseur, Marcello Mastroianni, Melina Mercouri, Yves Montand, Raf Mattioli

Synopsis: Jules Dassin, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, directs this routine, ostensibly romantic tale that really courts an underlying theme of the misuse of power. Based on a popular French novel and set in a small Mediterranean town, the story involves a small group of men and the woman several of Read More

Premier Mai

Actors: Yves Montand, Nicole Berger, Yves Noel, Georges Chamarat

Synopsis: Yves Montand, who has so often portrayed an unflappable man of the world, is rendered virtually helpless by a small boy in Man to Man Talk. The plot (actually little more than an anecdote) has us believe that Montand is a suburban husband whose wife is expecting a baby. Montand's son must be told Read More

Un Denomme Squarcio

Actors: Yves Montand, Alida Valli, Federica Ranchi, Mario Girotti

Les Sorcières de Salem

Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Mylène Demongeot, Raymond Rouleau, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: American playwright Arthur Miller was still under an "unfriendly" cloud in 1958, so far as the anti-Communist brigades were concerned. Thus, the film version of Miller's stage play The Crucible was lensed in France. Drawing several parallels to the McCarthy era, Miller dramatizes the Salem Witch Read More

Yves Montand Chante

Crew: Commentary

Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: This standard documentary follows a 1956 tour by singer-actor Yves Montand through various cities in the USSR as he performs in theaters, sports stadiums, and other venues. Aside from clips of him on stage, there is Soviet newsreel footage of the French star's receptions and public appearances. Read More

Uomini e Lupi

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Yves Montand, Pedro Armendáriz, Irene Cefaro

Synopsis: Uomini e Lupi was released outside of Italy as Men and Wolves. Pedro Armendariz and Yves Montand star as a pair of courageous wolf-hunters in the Abruzzi region of Italy. When Montand returns to his village with a dog instead of a wolf, he is branded a coward. He redeems himself by teaming with Read More

The Wide Blue Road

Actors: Yves Montand, Alida Valli, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: La Grande Strada Azzura was also released as Squarcio, which happens to be the name of the character played by star Yves Montand. Squarcio is a provincial fisherman who expedites his daily catch through the illegal use of dynamite. The other villagers disapprove of Squarcio's methods, but they Read More

The Idol

Marguerite de la Nuit

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Yves Montand, Jean-Francois Calve, Jean Debucourt, Palau

Synopsis: Marguerite de la Nuit is filmmaker Claude Autant-Lara's spin on the "Faust" legend. Though updated to 1925, the story of the ageing pedant who sells his soul to Satan in exchange for youth and knowledge is fairly faithful to the Goethe original. The one major alteration is Satan's decision to "go Read More

Napoléon

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Daniel Gélin, Sacha Guitry, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic Napoleon, and also costarred as Talleyrand. It is now hard to assess the quality of the film, since most American prints are severely edited, and the color photography Read More

Les Heros Sont Fatigués

Actors: Yves Montand, Maria Felix, Jean Servais, Curd Jürgens

Synopsis: A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a stopping-off point for a number of shady characters. Yves Montand plays a French ex-pilot who becomes involved in a scheme to smuggle stolen Read More

Tempi Nostri

Synopsis: This Italian anthology is comprised of five separate episodes. In the first tale, two impoverished parents must leave their baby because they cannot afford to feed it. The second concerns two aristocrats who have fallen into poverty and end up reunited when they both are cast as extras in a movie. Read More

Quelques Pas Dans La Vie

Actors: François Perier, Yves Montand, Danièle Delorme, Michel Simon

The Wages of Fear

Actors: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck, William Tubbs, Véra Clouzot

Synopsis: Together with Diabolique, The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur) earned Henri-Georges Clouzot the reputation as a "French Hitchcock." In truth, Clouzot's ability to sustain suspense may have even exceeded Hitchcock's; when originally released, Wages ran 155 tension-filled minutes. Based on the Read More

Parigi e sempre Parigi

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Lucia Bosé, Ave Ninchi, Marcello Mastroianni, Franco Interlenghi

Synopsis: Parigi e Sempre Parigi (Paris is Always Paris) was the second feature-length effort from famed Italian documentary director Luciano Emmer. Whereas Emmer's first feature, Domenica d'Agosto (Sunday in August) was a warm-hearted study of the Italian middle class, Parigi concentrates on a gentle Read More

L'Auberge Rouge

Actors: Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Gregoire Aslan, Julien Carette, Jacques Charon

Synopsis: 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 remote rural area of France. The inn's proprietors Pierre (Carette) and Marie (Francoise Rosay) industriously support themselves by murdering the various stagecoach passengers Read More

L'Idole

Actors: Suzanne Dehelly, Danielle Godet, Yves Montand, Albert Prejean

Etoile Sans Lumiere

Actors: Mila Parély, Edith Piaf, Marcel Herrand, Yves Montand, Paul Frankeur, Jules Berry, Colette Brosset

Synopsis: Etoile Sans Lumiere (Star Without Light) represents a rare screen appearance by French singing sensation Edith Piaf. The plot is something of a predecessor to Hollywood's Singin' in the Rain (1952), albeit with a less happy denouement. Piaf plays an aspiring singer who tries to break into films Read More

Les Portes De La Nuit

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Jean Vilar

Synopsis: 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 by Carne's longtime collaborator Jacques Prevert, the film is set in Paris just after its liberation from the Nazis. The script points out that this was not only a time for Read More