The best Jean Yanne’s drama movies

Jean Yanne

Jean Yanne

18/07/1933- 23/05/2003
Today we present the best Jean Yanne’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jean Yanne’s movies.

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/04/1991
  • Character: M. Homais
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

Indochine

Indochine
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/04/1992
  • Character: Guy Asselin
Eliane Devries is the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina, circa 1930. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upper class society

The Butcher

The Butcher
7.3/10
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

The Horseman on the Roof

The Horseman on the Roof
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/09/1995
  • Character: Le colporteur
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

Weekend

Weekend
6.9/10
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

The Wolf at the Door

The Wolf at the Door
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/09/1986
  • Character: William Molard
Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.

This Man Must Die

This Man Must Die
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 04/09/1969
  • Character: Paul Decourt
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.

We Won't Grow Old Together

We Won't Grow Old Together
7.2/10
Jean has been married to Francoise for years, but his relationship with his wife has been all but over for a long time. She's hardly ever around, always traveling to Russia for work, and she drifts in and out of the film as well, reflecting the ephemeral nature of their marriage.

Victory

Victory
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/12/1996
  • Character: Mr. Schomberg
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.

Hanna K.

Hanna K.
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/09/1983
  • Character: Victor Bonnet
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.

Bandits

Bandits
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/06/1987
  • Character: L'Expert (Simon Verini)
On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?

See How They Fall

See How They Fall
6.5/10
Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, Simon's story is related with Marx and Johnny's one. But the thriller is only a pretext for a psychological description of the three main characters.

The Nonentity

The Nonentity
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/08/1986
  • Character: Kommissar
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. All the evidence suggests that the doctor did the deed, but we soon learn that nothing is quite what it seems…

Low Profile

Low Profile
5.5/10
A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.

Asphalte

Asphalte
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/01/1981
  • Character: Arthur Colonna

Line of Demarcation

Line of Demarcation
7.1/10
Line of Demarcation. is a 1966 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is La Ligne de démarcation. It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre (Ronet), is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German command centre. Whilst he is obliged to co-operate with the enemy, his wife Mary (Seberg) supports the resistance movement and is willing to risk her life for it. The Nazis step up their activity against the resistance, insisting that any who attempt to cross the line of demarcation will be shot. When his wife is arrested, Pierre decides to switch his allegiance.

Life Upside Down

Life Upside Down
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1964
  • Character: Kerbel
A Paris real estate developer who feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By conventional standards, maybe, but it's clear that the life he's fleeing is madder still from his point of view, and since that point of view is unfailingly witty and astute, we even come to accept his delusions as more "real" than reality.

Small Cuts

Small Cuts
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/02/2003
  • Character: Gérard
Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his political beliefs battered by the wind of history, Bruno seems to have lost his bearings.

L'Affaire Seznec

L'Affaire Seznec
7/10

Adolphe

Adolphe
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/10/2002
  • Character: The Count
In the nineteenth century, Adolphe, a young man of twenty four carefree years, plans to obtain favors Ellenore, a beautiful woman of thirty years, much more vulnerable. This yields to his advances and he disclaims all. But already, Adolphe loves less. Yet the idea of ​​the pain is unbearable.

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