Direction: Yves Robert

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yves Robert. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


My Father's Glory

1990 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Julien Ciamaca · Philippe Caubère · Nathalie Roussel · Didier Pain

Synopsis A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence, and Marcel befriends...

7.1

237 votes

7.1

237 votes

The War of the Buttons

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast André Treton · Michel Isella · Martin Lartigue · Jean Richard

Synopsis In rural France, children of 2 villages begin 'war'. They take buttons as the proof of victory.

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

My Mother's Castle

1990 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Philippe Caubère · Nathalie Roussel · Philippe Uchan · Didier Pain

Synopsis Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence (France). He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With the co-operation of an ex-pupil...

7.0

158 votes

7.0

158 votes

Alexander

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Philippe Noiret · Marlène Jobert · Françoise Brion · Paul Le Person

Synopsis Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is...

6.6

228 votes

6.6

228 votes

Pardon Mon Affaire

1976 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Jean Rochefort · Claude Brasseur · Guy Bedos · Victor Lanoux

Synopsis Etienne (Rochefort) falls in love with a sexy woman he meets in his bureau. This woman is then chosen for an advertisement... He will do everything for conquering her, unless telling it his wife.

6.2

71 votes

6.2

71 votes

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1972 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Pierre Richard · Bernard Blier · Jean Rochefort · Mireille Darc

Synopsis A seemingly normal orchestra player, Francois Perrin, becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

6.1

326 votes

6.1

326 votes

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Pierre Richard · Jean Carmet · Jean Rochefort · Mireille Darc

Synopsis With the 'little captain' raising serious doubt on the reality of the super spy, the colonel Toulouse kidnap Christine and bind Francois to play again the character of the Tall Blond in some fake adventures. All this to stop the...

5.6

55 votes

5.6

55 votes

The Twin

1984 · Movie · 108 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Pierre Richard · Jean-Pierre Kalfon · Camilla More · Carey More

Synopsis Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother and will play both characters.

5.6

42 votes

5.6

42 votes

5.5

27 votes

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

1958 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Louis de Funès · Noëlle Adam · Frédéric Duvallès · Claude Rich

Synopsis In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.

5.4

71 votes

5.4

71 votes

Montparnasse-Pondichéry

1994 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Miou-Miou · Yves Robert · André Dussollier · Jacques Perrin

Synopsis Montparnasse-Pondichery is a metro station in Paris. When a 40-year old woman gets lost there after too many drinks, she doesn't know the station is going to change her life...

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Salut l'artiste

1973 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Françoise Fabian · Jean Rochefort · Evelyne Buyle

Synopsis Nicolas is an actor who only manages to get small roles in films, theatre and commericals. His domestic life does not fare much better as his mistress leaves him and he tries to return to his wife who is pregnant...

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Bebert and the Train

1963 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Martin Lartigue · Blanchette Brunoy · Pierre Mondy · Jean Richard

Synopsis While their parents are busy shopping in a department store, Tiennot, who would rather chase girls, buys the complicity of Bébert, his little brother. In the train on the way back home, Tiennot, infuriated by his whims, leaves Bébert in...

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Signed, Arsene Lupin

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Robert Lamoureux · Alida Valli · Jacques Dufilho · Jean Bellanger

Synopsis 1919: le lieutenant André Laroche est en convalescence pour une blessure qu'il a essuyée alors qu'il était aviateur pendant la guerre mondiale. A l'hôpital, il fit la connaissance de la belle Aurélia Valéano, une roumaine, et entre les deux une...

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Les copains

1965 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Philippe Noiret · Guy Bedos · Michael Lonsdale · Christian Marin

Synopsis Seven pals decide to take a few days'holidays to free up the time necessary to pull three enormous pranks. Their aim is to ridicule three established bodies: the army, the church and the administration. Quite arbitrarily, they set their hearts...

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La famille Fenouillard

1961 · Movie · 78 min. · France

Direction Yves Robert

Cast Sophie Desmarets · Jean Richard · Annie Sinigalia · Marie-José Ruiz

Synopsis The story takes the Fenouillard family to Paris where they want to see the Eiffel tower;but they take the wrong train (after the laborious explanations of the station master),winds up on a ship who sails away to Brazil:here ,they get...

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Le bal des casse-pieds

1992 · Movie · 99 min. · France

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Clérambard

1969 · Movie · 92 min. · France

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Monnaie de singe

1966 · Movie · 93 min. · France

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