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- DirectorYves BoissetStarsClaudio BrookMargaret LeeKlaus KinskiIn Istanbul, a young woman is attacked by six thugs and the agent Frank Milland who had set a rendez-vous with her, is outnumbered, and she dies. Frank is menaced later in order to stop his inquiry about the thugs identities. Each clue he follows leads to more and more danger. Then he comes across Eva, a young woman who is the dead girl's spitting image; either she is her twin sister, or the woman who died in his arms. Eventually he encounters a mad sculptor, who is more than he pretends to be. Frank ends up a prisoner is an abandoned castle hidden in Turkey's mountainous hinterland, trying to save his own life and to prevent the development of a mysterious weapon that would put an end to civilization as we know it.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsBruno CremerRenaud VerleyMarianne ComtellA doctor struck off the order for euthanasia is called by a man to help his depressed son since the suicide of his companion.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsMichel BouquetFrançoise FabianGianni GarkoWhile investigating a drug case, an inspector is shot dead by a gangster. His colleague, Inspector Favenin, is assigned to solve this crime. He is ready to do anything to save his colleague's honor, even if it means going beyond the law.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsJean YanneSenta BergerSterling HaydenThe electoral battle is raging in Marseilles. The Corsican Clan, under the rule of the Orsini family, is being challenged by the next generation, younger gangsters who support the candidature of Forestier, an estate promoter. To ensure his election and to get his hands on the city, Forestier stops at nothing and has the Orsini brothers liquidated one by one. During this clearing operation, a little girl is accidentally shot. Her father, Louis Orsini, a former mercenary, decides to take revenge...
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsJean-Louis TrintignantMichel PiccoliJean SebergSadiel, a Leftist leader in a North African state, takes refuge in Switzerland in the aftermath of a coup. Aware of the threat Sadiel poses, ruthless Colonel Kassar contacts the French security services for help to capture the political activist. Darien, a police informer, is forced to lure Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to make a television piece about the newly independent Western colonies. When Sadiel gets to Paris, he is captured and delivered to his opponents. Disgusted by the way he has been manipulated, Darien tries to turn back the clock, but he doesn't know with whom he's dealing. Loosely based on the true story of Mehdi Ben Barka.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsJacques SpiesserJacques VilleretJacques WeberThree French conscripts with diverse political motives, are sent to a disciplinary battalion in the midst of the Algerian war. Major Lecoq is to build an elite unit with these wayward soldiers who are exposed to war, torture and death.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsJean CarmetPierre TornadeJean BouiseA family holiday turns to tragedy when hostilities between the French holidaymakers and a group of local Arab workers turns violent.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsMarlène JobertTomas MilianThomas WaintropA young woman, out of a psychiatric clinic, is engaged as a governess of the nephew of a rich industrialist.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsPatrick DewaereAurore ClémentPhilippe LéotardThe young judge Fayard is not afraid of anybody as he does his work honestly.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsCharlotte RamplingPhilippe NoiretPeter UstinovWith his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully (Fred Astaire) runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patients, while trying to help them find their way.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsAnnie GirardotPatrick DewaereStéphane JobertThe life of Marie, a French teacher, is completely upset by the arrival in her class of a hectic schoolboy.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsMiou-MiouJean-Marc ThibaultLeny EscudéroCorinne Levassuer, a Paris police inspector, uncovers some embarrassing evidence during one of her investigations and is transferred to a northern French mining town.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsLucas BelvauxJean CarmetJean-Pierre AumontThis is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence it's coveted reciprocity. On the eve of his much anticipated graduation day, Word War II ensues and swaps out the freedom he earned for the brutality of its first front lines. An original score by French composer Phillipe Sarde with photography directed by Yves Boisset sets the atmosphere of 1932 in France.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsLino VenturaMichel PiccoliBruno CremerSébastien Grenier, a secret agent, eliminates all his rivals in order to decipher who has killed some of his associates.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsGérard LanvinMichel PiccoliMarie-France PisierIn a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsLee MarvinMiou-MiouJean CarmetA fugitive on the run from the law, and carrying several million dollars, hides out in the home of a farm family. The tables turn when the family proves to be even more criminally oriented than he is--and begins to terrorize him instead of the other way around.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsLambert WilsonTchéky KaryoMyriem RousselA sweet and sexy thug actually a wolf in a sheep clothing and a violent and abusive cop with rugged good looks and verging on criminality are inflamed with uncontrollable desire by the provocative and suggestive attitude of the latter's young wife. When she decides to go AWOL with the thug, the infuriated possessive and humiliated cop throws himself in a car chase after them under the scorching sun.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsZabou BreitmanAnna GalienaValérie SteffenAn emotionally and professionally frustrated young woman decides to pose as a man in order to gain control of her life.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsClaude BrasseurPierre ArditiChristine BoissonIn a small French town, a pirate radio begins telling lies (or are they unsavory truths) about people and nobody seems able to catch the guilty party or even guess his or her identity.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsStéphane FreissCatherine WilkeningMaxime LerouxOlivier Rohan, a young doctor, has just opened a general practice. However, having only a small clientele, he continues to work in the hospital's emergency room. One night, he will witness the unnatural death of a young man.