Yves Montand
1) Le Joli Mai
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Français
Description
Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, LE JOLI MAI documents the hopes, beliefs and uncertainties of Parisians in the early 1960s. Interviews with workers, students, houswives and lovers combine to create a panoramic portrait of social and political life in Paris.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
Español
Description
Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. Will be shown the mental tortures during the investigations and how a faithful top-ranking civil servant is made to confess to treason. Based on the true story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London, this is not an anticommunist film but a plea against totalitaism....
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
Français
Description
Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Wanting revenge, he tries to compromize the Queen with his valet Blaze, introduced as his cousin. But poor Blaze gets stuck with a rather repulsive duenna, who is madly in love with him and very keen on getting her way. This wild comedy takes off at a dashing pace set by the De Funès, Montand and Sapritch trio.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in a fishing village off Italy's Dalmatian coast, under a brilliant, turquoise sky, Yves Montand plays Squarcio, a rogue fisherman who manages to feed his family (his wife played by the exquisite Alida Valli) by tossing bombs into the water to kill the maximum number of fish. When a new chief of police puts Squarcio's illegal and dangerous exploits under closer scrutiny, his livelihood is threatened. Montand's unforgettable, complex character...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
The master of the political thriller became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the perhaps even more riveting. Based on a harrowing true story, influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country's Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation, leading to violence.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
Inspector Ferrot meets Sylvia, an intriguing woman, on one of his missions and an affair begins between them. He becomes jealous, thinking that the young woman has another lover but unaware that it is in fact Ganay, his superior. One evening he argues with her in front of her home before several witnesses and Sylvia is murdered by Ganay later that night. Ferrot, who is put in charge of the inquiry, finds himself trapped as all the leads point to him....
Series
Criterion collection volume 36
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
"In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves"--Container.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Language
Français
Description
An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage trims and neglected reels.
12) Choice of Arms
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Français
Description
Noël, an aging crook who has long lived on the edge of society, now wants only a peaceful life, but agrees to take in Mickey, a criminal on the run. When the fugitive catches Noël talking to a police inspector, he is convinced that he has been betrayed and turns dangerous...
13) Grand Prix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"The revved up Oscar winner about the world's most celebrated racing experience! Nine races. One champion. James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford and Antonio Sabato portray Formula One drivers competing to be the best in this slam-you-into-the-driver's-seat tale of speed, spectacle, and intertwined personal lives. Eva Marie Saint and Toshiro Mifune also star. John Frankenheimer (who 32 years later would again stomp the petal to the metal for...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Chain-smoking kooky Daisy consults psychiatrist Chabot to help her stop smoking. Chabot is astonished to learn she has amazing ESP powers and that under hypnosis she reveals her former life as Melinda, an 1840 English coquette.
Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search