Yvan Attal

Yvan Attal

1965-01-04 Tel-Aviv, Israel 83 Credits

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Yvan Attal (born 4 January 1965) is an Israeli-born French actor and director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yvan Attal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Squad 36

Squad 36

2025

as Charles Balestra

6.5
Acting

Forced out of his elite unit, a troubled cop launches his own rogue investigation when mysterious killings claim the lives of his former colleagues.

Freedom

Freedom

2024

as George Moréas

6.4
Acting

Inspired by the true events of one of France's most notorious non-violent robbers, Bruno Sulak, in the 1980s. He led multiple heists, then captured pu...

Jane Birkin by Friends

Jane Birkin by Friends

2024

as Self

Acting

Jane Birkin was scheduled to perform at the Olympia in Paris on February 3, 2024. After she passed away on July 16, 2023, her daughters and her friend...

Being Maria

Being Maria

2024

as Daniel Gélin

6.4
Acting

A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as h...

Brothers

Brothers

2024

as Michel (adulte)

7.2
Acting

Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.

Breaking Point

Breaking Point

2024

as Mathieu

5.8
Acting

Mathieu owes everything to his friend Vincent : his house, his job, and even his life, ten years ago. With their wives, they are an inseparable quarte...

Breaking Point

Breaking Point

2024

Producer, Director, Writer

5.8
Producing Directing Writing

Mathieu owes everything to his friend Vincent : his house, his job, and even his life, ten years ago. With their wives, they are an inseparable quarte...

The Family

The Family

2023

as Self

6.0
Acting

Two intertwined families who have made half a century of cinema. La Grande Bouffe, We won’t grow old together, Tchao Pantin, Apocalypse Now, Bienvenue...

La Syndicaliste

La Syndicaliste

2023

as Luc Oursel

6.8
Acting

The true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing ...

Maestro(s)

Maestro(s)

2022

as Denis Dumar

5.8
Acting

The Dunars are conductors from father to son. François' long and brilliant international career come to an end, whereas Denis has just won an umpteent...

The Accusation

The Accusation

2021

Screenplay, Producer, Director

7.1
Writing Producing Directing

The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a ...

Stuck Together

Stuck Together

2021

as Jean-Paul

5.9
Acting

Seven families live in the Parisian apartment building at 8, Rue de l’Humanite - and they didn’t escape to the countryside at the arrival of the coron...

L’autre

L’autre

2021

as SDF

Acting
Seberg

Seberg

2019

as Romain Gary

5.9
Acting

An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement ...

My Dog Stupid

My Dog Stupid

2019

as Henri Mohen

6.0
Acting

Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wif...

My Dog Stupid

My Dog Stupid

2019

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wif...

Cinéma par... Yvan Attal

Cinéma par... Yvan Attal

2019

as Self

Acting
Sweetheart

Sweetheart

2019

as Franck

6.5
Acting

A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out...

Le Brio

Le Brio

2017

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

After an incident, a brilliant professor known for his outbursts is forced to mentor the student he wronged for a speech contest.

Rock'n Roll

Rock'n Roll

2017

as Producer Yvan

5.2
Acting

Guillaume Canet is told by a young co-star that he's no longer Rock'n' Roll and can't sell films anymore. He then tries to prove her wrong and gets he...

R.A.I.D. Special Unit

R.A.I.D. Special Unit

2017

as Viktor

5.7
Acting

The story of a woman who dreams to join an intervention group in the police department called RAID. Unfortunately, she is rather clumsy and both her f...

Heaven Will Wait

Heaven Will Wait

2016

as Yvan Thenot

7.0
Acting

Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when s...

The Jews

The Jews

2016

as Yvan

4.3
Acting

Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the...

The Jews

The Jews

2016

Director, Writer

4.3
Directing Writing

Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the...

En moi

En moi

2016

as Director

2.5
Acting

A movie director goes to the Paris Opera to shoot his new film. Lacking inspiration, he looks for ways out of his solitude and fear of failure. With e...

La folle histoire de Sophie Marceau

La folle histoire de Sophie Marceau

2016

as Self

7.3
Acting
A Bigger Splash

A Bigger Splash

2015

Co-Producer

6.2
Producing

An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daugh...

The Last Diamond

The Last Diamond

2014

as Simon

6.3
Acting

Simon, a burglar on probation, agreed to go on the biggest shot of his life: The flight of the "Florentine", a mythical diamond set auction by its own...

His Wife

His Wife

2014

as Joseph de Rosa

5.3
Acting

Gracie, a young Tamil woman living near Madras, has been having behavioural disorders since the day she was married. The memory of her French friend C...

Do Not Disturb

Do Not Disturb

2012

as Ben Azuelos

4.4
Acting

In this lively French remake of Humpday, best buds reunite and revive their friendship on a questionable dare. Can two straight guys really make a gay...

Do Not Disturb

Do Not Disturb

2012

Writer, Director

4.4
Writing Directing

In this lively French remake of Humpday, best buds reunite and revive their friendship on a questionable dare. Can two straight guys really make a gay...

Drancy 1941–1944, the Internment Camp Next Door

2012

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

The untold story of a world-renowned place of remembrance of the Holocaust in France, the internment camp of Drancy, which was the central transit for...

One Night

One Night

2012

as Pierre Morvand

5.6
Acting

In the harbor city of Le Havre, France, a woman is stabbed during the night, just below the windows of her neighborhood. Pierre (Yvan Attal) has witne...

Dans la tourmente

Dans la tourmente

2012

as Max

4.4
Acting

Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euro...

Research in the Interest of Families

Research in the Interest of Families

2011

as Stéphane Monnereau

5.8
Acting

A policeman takes his family on a holiday, and after almost hitting a wild hog, the car won't start. They get hike with a guy scrutinizing his pretty ...

Rapt

Rapt

2009

as Stanislas Graff

6.1
Acting

A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the ...

Regrets

Regrets

2009

as Mathieu Lievin

5.1
Acting

After the death of his mother, fortysomething introvert Mathieu enters into a second relationship with his high-school girlfriend, Maya.

Les rafles d'août 1942 en zone libre, un crime de l'État Français

Les rafles d'août 1942 en zone libre, un crime de l'État Français

2009

as Narrator (voice)

6.0
Acting
Leaving

Leaving

2009

as Samuel

6.1
Acting

A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfort...

All About Actresses

All About Actresses

2009

as Yvan Attal

5.9
Acting

A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the forgo...

New York, I Love You

New York, I Love You

2008

Director

6.0
Directing

New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond Dist...

Manhunt

Manhunt

2008

as Serge Klarsfeld

7.0
Acting

Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld devoted twelve years of their lives to relentlessly tracking down Klaus Barbie, who had fled to Latin America u...

Rush Hour 3

Rush Hour 3

2007

as George

6.5
Acting

After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous...

The Candidate

The Candidate

2007

as Michel Dedieu

5.4
Acting
The Snake

The Snake

2006

as Vincent

6.1
Acting

A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next victim....

Munich

Munich

2005

as Tony

7.1
Acting

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black Septem...

The Interpreter

The Interpreter

2005

as Philippe

6.3
Acting

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to i...

Anthony Zimmer

Anthony Zimmer

2005

as François Taillandier / Anthony Zimmer

6.3
Acting

François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up on the train and invited him to spend the weekend w...

An Innocent Little Game

An Innocent Little Game

2004

as Bruno

5.9
Acting

Claire et Bruno forment depuis douze ans un couple établi, une "institution". Au cours d'une journée à la campagne réunissant tous leurs proches, ils ...

Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After

2004

as Vincent

5.9
Acting

Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.

Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After

2004

Writer, Director

5.9
Writing Directing

Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.

The Car Keys

The Car Keys

2003

as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent

5.1
Acting

Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

It's Easier for a Camel...

It's Easier for a Camel...

2003

as Man in Park

4.7
Acting

As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton ...

Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage

2003

as Raoul

6.3
Acting

On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impa...

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

2002

as David

5.8
Acting

A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

2002

as Self

Acting

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

At Dawning

2002

as Falling Man

6.4
Acting

At Dawning stars Jenny Agutter as a woman escaping from a one night stand, who encounters a suicidal Yvan Attal in bizarre circumstances. A story of e...

My Wife Is an Actress

My Wife Is an Actress

2001

as Yvan

6.2
Acting

A "normal" guy who is married to a hot actress gets worried that she is involved with her costar. This worry turns into jealousy and causes problems i...

My Wife Is an Actress

My Wife Is an Actress

2001

Writer, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

A "normal" guy who is married to a hot actress gets worried that she is involved with her costar. This worry turns into jealousy and causes problems i...

Le Prof

Le Prof

2000

as Hippolyte

2.5
Acting

A teacher uses new methods to captivate his audience. Some kids take it too far, some colleagues are worried traditional ways are going to be lost... ...

The Criminal

The Criminal

1999

as Mason

4.8
Acting

Jasper Rawlins, a none-too-successful musician, finds himself chatting with a beautiful woman at his neighborhood bar. She goes home with him, direct ...

With or Without You

With or Without You

1999

as Benoit

5.5
Acting

Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They'r...

Sitcom, A Movie

Sitcom, A Movie

1999

as Eric

4.5
Acting

In the morning, two friends, a producer and an actor, discover the corpse of a young woman who accompanied them the previous night. The shooting of th...

Melody for a Hustler

Melody for a Hustler

1998

as Gaston

2.6
Acting

French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionair...

Alissa

Alissa

1998

as Luc Kaufmann

5.0
Acting

The son of an editor discovers that one of his father's writers is a former criminal from the Eastern bloc.

Saraka Bo

Saraka Bo

1997

as Taïeb

5.0
Acting

A pair of French detectives enter a different world after they are assigned to solve a puzzling double homicide that occurred in an African neighborho...

I Got a Woman

1997

as Arnaud

Acting

Yvan Attal's first short film.

I Got a Woman

1997

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Yvan Attal's first short film.

Love, etc.

Love, etc.

1996

as Benoît

5.6
Acting

A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the wor...

Shadow Play

Shadow Play

1996

as Yves

7.4
Acting

Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also job...

Delphine : 1, Yvan : 0

Delphine : 1, Yvan : 0

1996

as Un monsieur

5.6
Acting

C'est une histoire d'amour banale présentée comme un match de foot ordinaire. Ce sont donc Thierry Roland et Jean-Michel Larqué qui commentent, avec l...

The Patriots

The Patriots

1994

as Ariel Brenner

6.6
Acting

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years...

Love After Love

Love After Love

1992

as Romain

5.7
Acting

Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to...

Lover

Lover

1992

as Paul

5.4
Acting

Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada. Paul is instantly smitten and wants her to marry him....

White Nightmare

White Nightmare

1992

as René

5.8
Acting

Four racists plan to assault a local Arab man, but soon things get out of control.

In the Eyes of the World

In the Eyes of the World

1991

as Bruno

5.5
Acting

Bruno's girlfriend, who lives in another town, doesn't believe he loves her. Therefore, he decides to prove his love by doing something "crazy" and en...

Mauvaise fille

Mauvaise fille

1991

as Vincent

2.0
Acting

Rose, 20, lives in Camargue with her brother Vincent, her elder, and her mechanic father who has never recovered from the departure of their mother wh...

Love Without Pity

Love Without Pity

1989

as Halpern

7.2
Acting

25 year-old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker w...

Bandit rouge

N/A

Acting

Janine

N/A

Acting

Fucklove

N/A

Acting
Rush Hour 4

Rush Hour 4

N/A

as George

Acting

The fourth movie in the Rush Hour franchise.

Marguerite Yourcenar biopic

N/A

Director

Directing