Yves Verhoeven
Also Known As: Yves Vérhoeven
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ferrières-en-Bray, Seine-Maritime, France
Birthday: October 27, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Secret
Overview: In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-03
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I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive
Overview: Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-30
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Edy
Overview: Edy, an insurer with questionable morals, knows his business inside and out, so much so that he is not stingy with all kinds of schemes to help some of his privileged clients collect their spouse's life insurance. However, Edy is tired of this life, which does not really bring him satisfaction anymore. So he decides to end his life. As he tries to do so, he finds himself involved in a dark story.
Genres: Thriller Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-02
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Bellamy
Overview: A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-25
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See How They Fall
Overview: A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-08-31
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À boire
Overview: Three disparate people meet in a bizarre skiing accident: an alcoholic doctor who has just been left by his wife, a beautiful but directionless woman, and the bumbling Algerian man who caused the accident. They become fond of each other, and of liquor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-29
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A Parting Shot
Overview: A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-30
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Class Trip
Overview: A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-23
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My Place in the Sun
Overview: Three couples and a single guy, from different social and career backgrounds, and of various ages, struggle with finding happiness in their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-14
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A Self-Made Hero
Overview: Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-15
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Clement
Overview: Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-06-06
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The Key
Overview: Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de récupérer les cendres de son père. D'abord réticent, il finit par accepter et se retrouve plongé au coeur d'une machination infernale.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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Holiday
Overview: After a crazy and tumultuous night embellished with singular encounters, Michel's awakening is brutal and painful. Not only does he find himself accused of murder, but his wife cannot be found.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-08
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Betty Fisher and Other Stories
Overview: When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother resorts to unusual actions to alleviate Betty's grief, actions which set off a chain reaction among a promiscuous waitress and her criminal associates.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-01
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Still Waters Run Deep
Overview: Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three examples of Jean's difficulties over the course of his long life. Each of the three episodes takes place beside the same river. He is first seen as a small boy playing on the river banks with the teenage girl he secretly loves. She mischievously promises to tell him her darkest secret if only he will perform a certain task for her. The story then takes a more surreal turn as a now-grown Jean, once again beside the river, toys with a beautiful woman at a picnic. She wants a commitment from him, but wily Jean is unwilling to satisfy her. In the final segment, Jean has become an old man and is once again deeply in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-13
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Madame Bovary
Overview: 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 pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-03
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Torment
Overview: Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning his past choices. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to see every male guest as a potential threat. What follows is Paul's downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy where he finally discovers that hell is not a state of mind – hell is himself.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-16
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La Ceremonie
Overview: Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-30
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The Swindle
Overview: Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-15
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Sous le bleu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Comme un jeu d'enfants
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-12
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Daddy or Mommy
Overview: Florence and Vincent Leroy are a model couple. They have great jobs, a perfect marriage and delightful children. And now they want their divorce to be an equal success. But when they are both simultaneously promoted to their dream jobs, their relationship becomes a nightmare. From that moment on, the gloves are off, the two exes declare war and will do everything in their power to NOT have custody of their children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-02-04
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L'Affaire Ranucci : Le Combat d'une mère
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-24
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La fille de son père
Overview: A man decides to pose as his friend and claim to be the father of a child that isn't his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-10
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J'ai tué Clémence Acéra
Overview: A man's wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-04-11
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Les pygmées de Carlo
Overview: Carlo Ercole, a maestro of Italian cinema, asks his assistants to depart immediately for the Central African rainforest to find some Pygmies, "the incarnation of life", for the film he plans to shoot in Paris. Hardly cut out for such an adventure, Marc and Olivier are thrown into the maelstrom of a major African city. With the help of their beautiful guide, Désirée, they eventually make it into the equatorial rainforest, headed for a Pygmy Utopia.
Genres: Comedy Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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The Prey
Overview: A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him. A cop is sent after the robber who, despite his best efforts, soon becomes Public Enemy Number One. As the protagonists are driven to their limits, it becomes increasingly unclear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-12
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Discount
Overview: To fight against the introduction of automatic checkouts that threaten their jobs, staff members at Hard Discounts secretly create their own "Alternative Discount" outlet by salvaging products that would otherwise have been wasted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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La voleuse de Saint-Lubin
Overview: Françoise Barnier, the film's heroine, is a mother. One day, she stole something. She was in dire straits but no more so than usual. She was not in debt. She had always refused the degradation of excessive debt and charities, attempting to live in line with the rules laid down by society and the law. We follow her journey through the judicial institution. Here, two ideas of justice and law collide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Volpone
Overview: A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-01
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The Chambermaid on the Titanic
Overview: Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Look at Me
Overview: Talented 20-year-old Lolita dreams of a singing career. But her self-esteem is low due to her weight problem and her narcissistic father, Étienne, a literary star with scant interest in his daughter's life. Lolita finds little comfort in the attentions of her vocal coach, suspecting the woman is using her to meet her influential father. Étienne's second wife proves to be Lolita's only trustworthy ally in her private battle to find a sense of worth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-18
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La tentation de l'innocence
Overview: Raphaëlle André is a brillant lawyer. The enigmatic death of her husband lead her into an investigation where she discovers new sides of the life of her late husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-07-14
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Cherry on the Cake
Overview: Amanda believes men are too complicated and has lost faith finding the perfect one. Her friend and a psychoanalyst have a plan how to make her fall in love. She insists that Amanda not stay home alone on New Year's Eve, and only gets her way after swearing that all the other guests will be couples, except for Maxime, a gay colleague. But Maxime leaves at the last minute to join his lover in Amsterdam, and Antoine, recently separated from his wife, arrives alone at the party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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Miracle of Marcellino
Overview: In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-12-19
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Betty
Overview: A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of Betty. Recovering in a hotel room, Betty begins to recount to Laure the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy and unfaithful marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-19
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Le chasseur de la nuit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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