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8.1

♡ 25

93%

95%

avarice

franco regime (francoism)

Claude Berri Director

Yves Montand as Cesar Soubeyran dit 'Le Papet'

Gérard Depardieu as Jean de Florette

Clement Cal as Méderic

Daniel Auteuil as Ugolin

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.

Le hasard et la violence

5.5

Philippe Labro Director

Hans Christian Blech as

Katharine Ross as Docteur Constance Weber

Sergio Fantoni as Inspecteur Tanner

Yves Montand as Laurent Bermann

A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is attacked by a karate fanatic, he decides not to press charges. He refuses help from the police, preferring to take care of himself...

Roads to the South

5.5

older man younger woman relationship

paris, france

spain

Joseph Losey Director

France Lambiotte as Ève Larréa

Yves Montand as Jean Larréa

Miou-Miou as Julia

Eugene Braun Munk as Le producteur Egon

France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)

The Devil by the Tail

1969

6.7

♡ 1

70%

Comedy

Crime

Philippe de Broca Director

Maria Schell as La comtesse Diane

Yves Montand as Le baron César Maricorne

Jean Rochefort as Le comte Georges

Jacques Balutin as Max, un gangster

In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.

I... For Icarus

1979

based on myths, legends or folklore

7.8

♡ 7

assassination

scientific experiment

Thriller

Henri Verneuil Director

Yves Montand as Le procureur Henri Volney

Georges Trillat as L'inspecteur au bar 'Manhattan'

Georges Beller as Sam Kido

Brigitte Lahaie as Ursula Hoffmann, la strip-teaseuse

Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.

La grande strada azzurra

1957

Italian

6.8

♡ 4

Gillo Pontecorvo Director

Yves Montand as Giovanni Squarciò

Terence Hill as Renato

Alida Valli as Rosetta, la moglie

Francisco Rabal as Salvatore

Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…

La Menace

1977

6.6

♡ 1

Alain Corneau Director

Marie Dubois as Dominique Montlaur, Truck Company Manager

Yves Montand as Henri Savin

Carole Laure as Julie Manet, a Canadian Girl

Claude Valmont as Un client de l'agence de voyage

Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.

The Confession

1970

based on memoir or autobiography

♡ 12

100%

85%

Costa-Gavras Director

Yves Montand as Gérard

Guy Mairesse as Le médecin

Simone Signoret as Lise

László Szabó as Secret policeman

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement.

Manon of the Spring

1986

8.0

♡ 37

81%

93%

Claude Berri Director

Pierre-Jean Rippert as Cabridan

Yves Montand as Cesar Soubeyran dit 'Le Papet'

Emmanuelle Béart as Manon

Daniel Auteuil as Ugolin

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.

Le cercle rouge

1970

7.9

♡ 35

96%

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Alain Delon as Corey

Yves Montand as Jansen Bourvil

Bourvil as Le Commissaire Mattei

Gian Maria Volonté as Vogel

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

The Crucible

1957

7.2

♡ 6

Raymond Rouleau Director

Simone Signoret as Elisabeth Proctor

Hans Klering as Field

Michel Piccoli as James Putnam

Yves Montand as John Proctor

Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.

The Wages of Fear

1953

8.1

♡ 37

100%

94%

Adventure

central and south america

Henri-Georges Clouzot Director

Darling Légitimus as (as Miss Darling)

Darío Moreno as Hernandez

Yves Montand as Mario

René Baranger as (uncredited)

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

Choice of Arms

1981

6.9

♡ 3

82%

Alain Corneau Director

Guy Mairesse as L'entraîneur de boxe

Gérard Depardieu as Mickey

Catherine Deneuve as Nicole Durieux

Yves Montand as Noel Durieux

A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.

Delusions of Grandeur

1971

7.2

♡ 16

85%

Adventure