Yves RobertFilmography

Born:: June 19, 1920 in Saumur, France
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Yves Robert held down a variety of jobs before settling on acting in 1942. Seven years later, Robert made his first film, maturing into one of France's most engaging leading men. One of his most enjoyable on-screen appearances was as Felix Leroy in Rene Clair's Les Grandes Manouevres (1933)....Read More

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Winged Migration

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: While practically everyone is aware of the fact that birds fly south for the winter, and return home in the spring, few are aware of just how arduous the journey can be. Jacques Perrin, a noted actor and film producer in his native France, decided to document this process, using flocks of birds Read More

12/12/01
The Specialist

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: French/Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan has fashioned an unusual documentary about the Holocaust from video footage (originally shot for American television) of the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Using sophisticated editing techniques and digital image manipulation to give the visuals Read More

4/12/00
Disparus

Actors: Grégoire Colin, Anouk Grinberg, Xavier Beauvois, Frederic Pierrot, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo

Synopsis: Sex, avant-garde art, and Communist ideology are at the heart of this compelling historical drama. The film opens just as the Soviet Empire crumbles in 1989. As Louise (Brigitte Catillon) mourns the death of her lover, she discovers the journal of Alfred Katz (Gregoire Colin), an earnest Jewish Read More

1999
Sortez Des Rangs

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stanislas Crevillen, Laure Duthilleul, Erwan Dujardin, Pierre-Arnaud Crespeau

Synopsis: In 1917, the French army used a brutal technique in its attempt to prevent mutinies by its increasingly disaffected soldiers. After lining a unit up on parade, one randomly chosen soldier would be required to step forward and he would be shot, as an example to the others that refusal to fight Read More

1996
Montparnasse-Pondichery

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Miou-Miou, Yves Robert, André Dussollier, Jacques Perrin, Maxime Leroux

Synopsis: After raising her daughter to be a beautiful young woman and developing a lively career as a wallpaper designer, one would think that Julie's (Miou-Miou) life was rather full. However, she recently got an offer from the French consul to a mission in Pondicherry, India to teach her skills to Read More

1994
La Crise

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Zabou, Maria Pacome, Yves Robert

Synopsis: In this comedy, Victor thought he really had it bad when he lost his wife and his job on the same day. However, when he tries to get some sympathy from his friends, he discovers just how bad things can get, because although everything seems to be just fine with their lives, they are incredibly Read More

12/2/92
Le Bal des Casse-Pieds

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Odette Laure, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible number of irritating or even genuinely upsetting encounters with inveterate pains-in-the-neck. He suffers from the rudeness (and worse) of Parisian drivers, his relatives, and Read More

1992
My Mother's Castle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Caubère, Julien Ciamaca, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Therese Liotard

Synopsis: This charming motion picture relives the beautiful childhood memories of noted film director and writer Marcel Pagnol. While attending school in Marseilles, Marcel Julien Ciamaca daydreams about the nearby hills where he and his family spend vacations at a cottage. It is not enough to sojourn Read More

10/31/90
My Father's Glory

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Therese Liotard, Julien Ciamaca

Synopsis: This 1990 French film presents idyllic episodes from the childhood of novelist and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974). Together, the episodes present a portrait of an ordinary family with an extraordinary ability to love. Set in Provencal in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the film first Read More

8/29/90
Le Crime D'Antoine

Actors: Tom Novembre, Catherine Wilkening, Jacques Weber, Yves Robert, Patrick Timsit

Synopsis: Le Crime D'Antoine stars Tom Novembre as a sensitive composer. Novembre's world comes crashing down upon him when his new bride (Catherine Wilkening) suddenly dies. Years pass: still mooning over his lost love, Novembre answers a personal advertisement. The woman who placed the ad is the living Read More

1989
Frequence Meurtre

Crew: Producer

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, André Dussollier, Martin Lamotte, Etienne Chicot, Ines Claye

Synopsis: When Jenny Quester (Catherine Deneuve) is harassed over the phone by a mysterious caller, she enlists the help of her policeman brother Frank (Andre Dussolier) in this suspenseful crime drama. She fears the calls may be from a murderer who recently was discharged from an insane asylum. Later Jenny Read More

1989
Billy Ze Kick

Actors: Francis Perrin, Zabou, Dominique Lavanant, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: "Billy ze Kick" is the nickname of a character in a bedtime story, told by a French police inspector to his little daughter. For the purposes of the plot (it can't possibly be in the interests of proper child psychology), Billy is a make-believe serial killer! Shortly afterwards, three young girls Read More

1985
Le Jumeau

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Richard, Carey More, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Camilla More, Andréa Ferréol, Jacques Frantz

Synopsis: When a man decides to play the role of twins in order to romance another set of twins, life becomes much more complicated than he wants or needs in this interesting farce by Yves Robert, adapted from the much blacker comedy by Donald Westlake, Two Much. Matthias Duval (Pierre Richard) is a humble Read More

1984
The Woman in Red

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Gene Wilder, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey, Michael Huddleston

Synopsis: Gene Wilder's remake of this 1976 French comedy is a Hollywood version of what happens when Theodore (Wilder), an ordinary ad agency executive, is captivated by a gorgeous woman (Kelly Le Brock). The woman just happens to be standing on a grate when her skirt blows up over her waist (a scene first Read More

1984
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

1983
Vive la Sociale!

Actors: François Cluzet, Robin Renucci, Elizabeth Bourgine, Jean-Yves Dubois, Yves Robert

Synopsis: In this charming, semi-autobiographical look at his politicized past, director Gerard Mordillat focuses on the ironic, the wistful, and the sometimes ludicrous events that spin off from the Communist/anarchist upbringing of his main character, Maurice Decques (François Cluzet). Maurice's tendency Read More

1983
Qu-est-ce Qui Fait Courir David?

Crew: Producer

Actors: Francis Huster, Charles Aznavour, Magali Noël, Nicole Garcia, Nathalie Nell

Synopsis: In making this film about a director who is presently working on an autobiographical movie, real-life director Elie Chouraqui has played on a Jewish cultural theme (the "reel" director is Jewish) and the intermixing of 1960s movie-making techniques. In the film, director David is in his 30s and Read More

1982
Un Etrange Voyage

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Camille de Casabianca, Arlette Bonnard, Dominique Besnehard

Synopsis: A father-daughter relationship is melded, strained, and deepened by a shared angst: the grandmother in the family left her home by train and never arrived at her destination. The father Pierre (Jean Rochefort) is distraught that the police could basically dismiss the issue as inexplicable, and he Read More

1981
La Fille Prodigue

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Natasha Parry, René Feret, Eva Renzi

Synopsis: Anne (Jane Birkin) is a seriously disturbed young woman who is driven to leave her husband for awhile and go home to her parents in the countryside. Once there, she comes up against many of the primal causes of her own imbalanced mind. Her father is in an indecisive relationship with both his wife Read More

1981
Un Mauvais Fils

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Dufilho, Yves Robert, Claire Maurier

Synopsis: This is a quiet drama about the struggles of a former drug addict and dealer, Bruno Calgagni (Patrick Dewaere), as he is released from prison in the U.S. and arrives back home in France. His unhappy father blames this disgraceful prison stint for the death of Bruno's mother. No one wants to hire Read More

1980
La Drôlesse

Crew: Producer

Actors: Madeleine Desdevises, Claude Hebert

Synopsis: Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives with his grossly insensitive mother and stepfather. Mado is a gawky 11-year old, who is neglected by her family because of the oddness of the way she expresses her affection. Read More

1979
Courage Fuyons

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu, Robert Webber

Synopsis: Martin (Jean Rochefort) is a coward who is swept up in the revolt by French students in May, 1968 in this Gallic comedy of errors. He helps the rioters destroy his own auto as his wife and children watch the proceedings in disbelief. Martin wakes up in a student commune and sees the beautiful Eva Catherine Deneuve Read More

1979
Nous Irons Tous au Paradis

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme

Synopsis: This French comedy is the sequel to the well-regarded Pardon Mon Affaire. This version centers on the sexual fantasies of a quartet of four married, middle-class men attempting to deal with the onset of middle-age. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Pardon Mon Affaire

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme

Synopsis: When this French romantic comedy was released in English-speaking countries, its French title was changed to Pardon Mon Affaire. The four buddies in this picture help one another out, especially when it concerns affairs of the heart. Etienne (Jean Rochefort) is happily married, but when he sees a Read More

1976
Le Petit Marcel

Actors: Jacques Spiesser, Isabelle Huppert, Yves Robert, Michel Aumont, Anouk Ferjac

Synopsis: A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Section Spéciale

Actors: Louis Seigner, Michel Lonsdale, François Maistre, Ivo Garrani, Roland Bertin, Henri Serre, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France, but the parallels to contemporary political persecution are inescapable. A young German naval officer is killed in occupied Paris. The supplicative Vichy government sets about to locate the Read More

4/23/75
Le Juge et l'Assassin

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Jean-Claude Brialy, Renée Faure, Isabelle Huppert

Synopsis: Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French judge who holds the fate of convicted child killer Bouvier (Michel Galabru) in his hands. Should Rousseau decide that Bouvier is insane, the killer will not go prison. As Read More

1975
Let Joy Reign Supreme . . .

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: The humanistic actions of Philippe D'Orleans, the cultured gentle regent to young Louis the XV in pre-revolutionary France (1719) are chronicled in this French costumer. Though the regent endeavors to keep his subjects cultured and happy to stop the peasants from rising up, he knows he has no real Read More

1975
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Richard, Mireille Darc, Jean Rochefort, Jean Carmet, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: Not quite in the same league as the runaway hit The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, this 1974 sequel is still amiable and enjoyable on its own terms. Once more, innocent violinist Pierre Richard (the tall blonde man of the title) is up to his neck in espionage. Enemy spy boss Jean Rochefort Read More

1974
Salut L'Artiste

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Françoise Fabian, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: Marcello Mastrioanni stars as an aging actor whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Mastrioanni attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Mastrioanni is doomed to disillusionment and failure. Salut L'Artiste should be Read More

12/6/73
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: In this wacky French spy comedy, the chief of the French secret service wants very much to keep his job and stoops to chicanery to prevent rivals from closing in. He points to a man chosen at random from a crowd of people (Pierre Richard), and identifies him to his rival as an important spy who Read More

12/6/72
Chère Louise

Actors: Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis: In this French romance, Louise (Jeanne Moreau) lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi (Julian Negulesco Read More

9/6/72
L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Charles Gerard, Aldo Maccione

Synopsis: In the French L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure, a gang of thieves, suffering a drop in business, enter into a new phase of larceny. Passing themselves off as terrorists, the gang begins committing political crimes, extorting huge sums to prevent further "dissidence". As a result, they're more Read More

5/4/72
Le Viager

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Rosy Varte, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the most elaborate designs of a greedy family are unwittingly undone by an ailing old man. The family has made a complicated financial arrangement which will result in their Read More

1972
Absences Repetées

Actors: Patrick Penn, Patrick Jouane, Natalie Delon, Danièle Delorme

Synopsis: The young protagonist of this French film has decided to live his life "as a poem," but finds that this is not possible. He is also undecided about whether he is homosexual or not, and if so, what to do about it. His disinterest in coping with messy realities is sufficient to send him to his death Read More

1972
La Grande Paulette

Actors: Yves Robert, Catherine Samie, Yves Barsacq

1971
Les Malheurs d'Alfred

Crew: Producer

Actors: Pierre Richard, Anny Duperey, Pierre Mondy, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: The notable French comedian Pierre Richard stars in and directs this, his second feature film. Here he plays Alfred, about whom it may be said, "if it weren't for bad luck, he'd have no luck at all." Unlucky in love, he tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a Read More

1971
The Crook

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christine Lelouch, Charles Denner, Danièle Delorme, Judith Magre

Synopsis: Simon (Jean-Claude Trintignant) gets out of prison and summons his old friend Charles (Charles Gerard) and Martine (Christine Lelouch), his one time lover now married to a wealthy man. The three kidnap a little boy and then blackmail the bank where the boy's father works to pay the ransom of one Read More

11/20/70
Le Pistonné

Actors: Guy Bedos, Yves Robert, Rosy Varte, Georges Géret, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Synopsis: Claude (Guy Bedos) is content with his life. He has a girlfriend Tania (Zorica Lozic) and he aspires to become an actor. When he receives his draft notice, a friend convinces Claude he can get out of military service with his connections in Paris. When the connections fall through, Claude is sent Read More

4/15/70
Le Cinema de Papa

Actors: Yves Robert, Claude Berri, Alain Cohen, Arlette Gilbert

Synopsis: Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father (Yves Robert) owns a profitable fur shop but longs to be an actor like his father and grandfather before him. Initially, Claude's father hopes his son will take over the fur shop, but he later Read More

1970
Clerambard

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Dany Carrel, Lise Delamare, Gerard Lartigau, Claude Piéplu

Synopsis: Clerambard (Philippe Noiret) feeds his large family by killing cats and dogs. He also makes his family run hand looms with very little respite. His life forever changes when he sees Saint Francis. The Saint helps him prepare his horse as Clerambard suddenly goes out into the world to preach the Read More

1969
Pierre et Paul

Crew: Producer

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Bulle Ogier, Madeleine Barbulee

Synopsis: Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with a harridan mother and plenty of unresolved anger about his life. After his father's death, his mother feels compelled to move in with him. Having just moved there with his beautiful girlfriend, he begins to feel the pressure at home and at work. When the Read More

1969
Le Mois Le Plus Beau

Actors: Georges Géret, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin, Magali Noël, Yves Robert, Muriel Baptiste

Synopsis: A French soldier is discharged from the army and returns to his village in the early days of World War ll. His daughter is pregnant, but the father is the son of the local mayor, who refuses to let his son marry the girl. When Italy declares war on France, two Italian workers are nearly lynched by Read More

1968
Alexandre le Bienheureux

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Françoise Brion, Marlène Jobert, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: This amiable French comedy stars Philipe Noiret as Alexander, an shiftless farmer who prefers sleep to work. After his nagging wife dies, Alexander becomes even lazier. The farmer becomes entranced by a beautiful young woman, and proposes marriage. But when his prospective wife gives evidence of Read More

1967
Monnaie De Singe

Crew: Director

Actors: Dr. Robert Hirsch, Sylva Koscina, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: Fulbert (Robert Hirsch) is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter in this slapstick situation comedy. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs who want Read More

3/9/66
La Communale

Actors: Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Yves Robert, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: A schoolteacher (Robert Dhery) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean Lhote taken from his own novel. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
Les Copains

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Pierre Mondy, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale

1964
Bebert et l'omnibus

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Jacques Higelin, Jean Richard, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: Bebert (Martin Lartigue) is a five-year-old boy who gets separated from his older brother on a train. Comedy ensues as the precocious moppet observes the less-than-grown-up activities of the adults as he seeks to be reunited with his family. Panic-stricken adults continue the search for the Read More

1963
Cleo from 5 to 7

Actors: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanc, Michel Legrand

Synopsis: Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that Cleo, a pop singer, awaits the results of her tests for cancer. Director Agnes Varda stages the film in "real" rather than subjective time, its various Read More

4/11/62
La Guerre des Boutons

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Richard, Jacques Dufilho, Michel Galabru, Yvette Etievant

Synopsis: In this gentle anti-war comedy, a class of French schoolboys divides into two factions who begin to battle each other, with the victors claiming the buttons off the clothes of the vanquished. One day, some of the boys pull a strategic coup by running into battle naked, therefore leaving their Read More

1962
La Mort de Belle

Actors: Jean Desailly, Alexandra Stewart, Yves Robert, Marc Cassot, Monique Melinand

Synopsis: Transference of guilt, a theme near and dear to the heart of French author Georges Simenon, forms the basis of Passion of Slow Fire, adapted from Simenon's novel La Mort de Belle. American student Alexandra Stewart completing her education in France, turns up murdered. The prime suspect is Read More

1961
La Famille Fenouillard

Crew: Director

Actors: Sophie Desmarets, Jean Richard

Synopsis: This innovative though uneven comedy by Yves Robert, known for his droll sense of humor, is based on a late 19th-early 20th-century illustrated book about a zany, provincial French family. The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are Read More

1960
Love and the Frenchwoman

Actors: Sylvia Montfort, Marie-José Nat, Darry Cowl, Sophie Desmarets, Jacqueline Porel, Dany Robin, Valerie Lagrange, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, François Perier, Martine Carol

Synopsis: Love and the Frenchwoman (La Francaise et L'Amour) concentrates on the nature of love by illustrating seven separate aspects of the emotion. In "Childhood," 9-year old Pierre-Jean Vaillard suffers a traumatic experience when he takes his parents' "cabbage patch" theory of conception too literally. Read More

1960
Signe Arsene Lupin

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Lamoureux, Alida Valli, Yves Robert, Roger Dumas

Synopsis: A repeat featuring the same gentleman burglar, Signe Arsene Lupin is the effective, leisurely told sequel to the 1956 Les Aventures d'Arsene Lupin that started it all. The burglar of the title, played by Robert Lamoureux, has just been released from military service after World War I and is hot on Read More

11/11/59
La Jument Verte

Actors: Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Yves Robert, Sandra Milo, Valerie Lagrange

Synopsis: In this French drama a horse dealer is quite surprised when one of his mares foals a green colt. The verdant critter brings his family fame and fortune. When the mare dies, her picture is hung in a prominent place in the house. It is not long after her death, that the dealer dies, leaving his land Read More

10/29/59
Nina

Actors: Sophie Desmarets, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Yves Robert

1958
Le Petit Prof

Actors: Darry Cowl, Beatrice Altariba, Yves Robert

Synopsis: This uneven comedy was the last feature film by director and writer Carlo Rim, and it features French comic Darry Cowl in a series of humorous sketches. These episodic divisions portray the personal lives of two different professors afflicted with stuttering and a stereotyped academic mien Read More

1958
Ni Vu, Ni Connu

Crew: Director

Actors: Louis de Funès, Moustache, Noëlle Adam, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Ni Vu, Ni Connu (Neither Seen Nor Recognized) is built around the talents of rubber-faced Gallic comedian Louis De Funes. Our hero is a poacher in a small provincial village, who always manages to stay one step ahead of the Law. Through a fluke, De Funes finds himself the town's Leading Citizen Read More

1958
Folies-Bergère

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Zizi Jeanmaire, Nadia Gray, Yves Robert, Jacques Morel

Synopsis: Eddie Constantine stars as Bob, an American GI at large in Paris. After attending a performance of the fabled Folies-Bergere, Bob becomes convinced that one of the dancers, a feisty little number named Claudia (Zizi Jeanmaire), has stolen his wallet. When he confronts her with this accusation, she Read More

1957
Les Femmes Sont Marrantes

Actors: Micheline Presle, Yves Robert, Pierre Dudan, Sophie Daumier

1957
Un Soir Au Music Hall

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Zizi Jeanmaire, Nadia Gray, Yves Robert

1956
La Terreur Des Dames

Actors: Noël-Noël, Yves Robert, Noël Roquevert, Jacqueline Pagnol

Synopsis: Noel-Noel is the nonplused star of the aptly titled Le Terreur des Dames (The Terror of Women). The film's central character is a mild-mannered provincial soul who goes off on a drunken toot in Paris. The next morning, our hung-over hero discovers that he's somehow earned the reputation as a sex Read More

1956
Les Grandes Manoeuvres

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Jean Desailly, Brigitte Bardot, Yves Robert, Simone Valere

Synopsis: Rene Clair's Grand Maneuver was originally titled Les Grandes Manoeuvres, which should surprise no one. Gerard Phillipe plays a dashing dragoons officer, vintage 1913, who wagers his friends that he can make the next woman who enters the room fall in love with him. In strides drop-dead gorgeous Michele Morgan Read More

10/26/55
Les Mauvaises Rencontres

Actors: Jean Pascal, Anouk Aimée, Claude Dauphin, Philippe Lemaire, Yves Robert

Synopsis: Anouk Aimee stars as a young woman of humble means who maneuvers her way into the uppermost rungs of French society. How she does it, and the price she has to pay along the way, is unfolded through a series of flashbacks. Since Anouk is recalling her life while in the offices of an abortionist Read More

1955
Les Hommes Ne Pensent Qu'a Ca

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The title of this Gallic "filmed essay" translates to Men Think Only of That. What plot there is concerns "timid soul" Jean Bellanger, who loves salesgirl Catherine Erard from afar but hasn't the nerve to tell her. Bellanger is visited by the ghost of Don Juan (Jean-Marie Amato), who demonstrates Read More

1954
Juliette ou La Clé Des Songes

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Suzanne Cloutier, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Yves Robert

Synopsis: The English-language title of this Marcel Carne cinematic exercise is Juliette or Key of Dreams. The central character is not Juliette (Susan Clouthier), however, but a young incipient thief named Michel (Gerard Phillipe). Smitten by Juliette's charms, Michel steals for her sake, and ends up in Read More

1951
La Rose Rouge

Actors: Yves Deniaud, Dora Doll, Yves Robert

1950

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