Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Squad 36
2025
as Charles Balestra
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
2024
as George Moréas
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
2024
as Self
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
2024
as Daniel Gélin
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
2024
as Michel (adulte)
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
2024
as Mathieu
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
2024
Producer, Director, Writer
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
2023
as Self
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
2023
as Luc Oursel
The true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing ...

Maestro(s)
2022
as Denis Dumar
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
2021
Screenplay, Producer, Director
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
2021
as Jean-Paul
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
2021
as SDF

Seberg
2019
as Romain Gary
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
2019
as Henri Mohen
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
2019
Director, Screenplay
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
2019
as Self

Sweetheart
2019
as Franck
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
2017
Director, Writer
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
2017
as Producer Yvan
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
2017
as Viktor
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
2016
as Yvan Thenot
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
2016
as Yvan
Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the...

The Jews
2016
Director, Writer
Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the...

En moi
2016
as Director
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
2016
as Self

A Bigger Splash
2015
Co-Producer
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
2014
as Simon
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
2014
as Joseph de Rosa
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
2012
as Ben Azuelos
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
2012
Writer, Director
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)
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
2012
as Pierre Morvand
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
2012
as Max
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
2011
as Stéphane Monnereau
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
2009
as Stanislas Graff
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the ...

Regrets
2009
as Mathieu Lievin
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
2009
as Narrator (voice)

Leaving
2009
as Samuel
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
2009
as Yvan Attal
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
2008
Director
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
2008
as Serge Klarsfeld
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
2007
as George
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
2007
as Michel Dedieu

The Snake
2006
as Vincent
A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next victim....

Munich
2005
as Tony
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
2005
as Philippe
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
2005
as François Taillandier / Anthony Zimmer
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
2004
as Bruno
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
2004
as Vincent
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.

Happily Ever After
2004
Writer, Director
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.

The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
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...
2003
as Man in Park
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
2003
as Raoul
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...
2002
as David
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
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
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
2001
as Yvan
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
2001
Writer, Director
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
2000
as Hippolyte
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
1999
as Mason
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
1999
as Benoit
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
1999
as Eric
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
1998
as Gaston
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
1998
as Luc Kaufmann
The son of an editor discovers that one of his father's writers is a former criminal from the Eastern bloc.

Saraka Bo
1997
as Taïeb
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
Yvan Attal's first short film.
I Got a Woman
1997
Director, Writer
Yvan Attal's first short film.

Love, etc.
1996
as Benoît
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
1996
as Yves
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
1996
as Un monsieur
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
1994
as Ariel Brenner
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
1992
as Romain
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
1992
as Paul
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
1992
as René
Four racists plan to assault a local Arab man, but soon things get out of control.

In the Eyes of the World
1991
as Bruno
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
1991
as Vincent
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
1989
as Halpern
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
Janine
N/A
Fucklove
N/A

Rush Hour 4
N/A
as George
The fourth movie in the Rush Hour franchise.
Marguerite Yourcenar biopic
N/A
Director