Acting

Yvette Merlin

Acting credits

Snow poster
6.0

Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients.

Snow

1981

6 Calvary Street poster
9.0

Octave Verbrugge, a powerful Belgian building contractor, met Hugo Saint-Laurent, a brilliant French engineer, during a business trip and made friends with him. Now that his bureau of expertise is experiencing difficulties with one of their important projects he has the idea to hire his friend to help resolve the problem. Hugo agrees and stays as a guest at Octave's home in Ghent, where the promoter lives with his two unmarried sisters, Françoise, a beautiful but mysterious woman, and Aurélie, a very strict and withdrawn lady.

6 Calvary Street

1973

Istanbul poster
5.3

Martin, a drifter, is on his way to Istanbul when he meets Willy, a student working in Belgium. Fascinated by Martin, Willy decides to go with him to Istanbul, but soon discovers pieces of his dark past.

Istanbul

1985

Salt on the Skin poster
3.0

After a computer operator has been through a painful relationship, he is determined to look the other way every time any interesting woman enters his life. He has his other loves - photography and model planes - to challenge him anyway. However, one day a car breaks down in front of his house, and a young mother with her 10-year-old daughter come in looking for assistance. The daughter is endearing and would make a terrific subject for a photo contest. As both the young mother and the computer operator studiously ignore the flicker of romantic sparks, it is only a matter of time before the flame either grows or is extinguished.

Salt on the Skin

1984

God Wills It So poster
7.0

A crusader gets lost with his horse in the desert and stops to die. He ponders over the recent events, the pillaging of villages, and the four women who followed them to rob whatever was left.

God Wills It So

1978

The Music Teacher poster
7.0

Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for relationships to develop between the three.

The Music Teacher

1988

The Debut poster
5.7

The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.

The Debut

1977

No artwork available
NR

Hubert Durieux is a mild-mannered provincial banker whose orderly life—with an ex-wife, an adoring daughter, and a mistress—gets hilariously upended when he becomes entranced by a free-spirited Roma woman who steals his car and hides in its trunk.

La Tzigane

1985

The Red Dwarf poster
6.3

Lucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her.

The Red Dwarf

1998

No artwork available
4.4

In the Brussells suburb known as "Bear Cage," a poor grocer is at odds with his sexually hyperactive and fashionably Maoist son, who is also a college student. When the students at the college stage a protest in which his son is involved, his exasperation mounts.

The Bear Cage

1974

Fête de quartier poster
9.0

Pouske runs the "Le Bienvenu" café with his wife Antoinette and daughter Jeanne. On the market square, the fairgrounds are setting up their rides and the neighborhood is getting ready to party. But Jeanne is about to fall in love with a sweetheart who has come from who knows where to cause trouble.

Fête de quartier

1955

Not All Dads Pee Standing Up poster
4.8

Not All Dads Pee Standing Up is about Zoe and Dan who love one another. They live cheerfully with Simon, their multi year old child, close to Bruges.

Not All Dads Pee Standing Up

1998

Simona poster
3.2

While at a bullfight Simona begins flashing back to a torrid sexual relationship she had with George. Her relationship with George was one of open sexual discoveries which eventually led to revenge and murder.

Simona

1974

Les noces dérobées poster
NR

The story of a dysfunctional family in a miserable butcher shop.

Les noces dérobées

1976

Single tree street poster
NR

Series of comic situations set up by improvisations with Luc De Smet around a character who walks along a wall.

Single tree street

1983

The Cool Lakes of Death poster
6.3

Hedwig, a young wealthy woman growing up in the straight-jacket of bourgeois morality in the Victorian era, descends into madness after years of sexual repression and tragedy.

The Cool Lakes of Death

1982

Le mouchoir de poche poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le mouchoir de poche

1987

Je suis vivante et je vous aime poster
8.0

During World War II, a woman aboard a railroad car full of deportees slips French railway worker Julien a note with an address and a simple message: "I am alive, and I love you," and he decides to track down the intended recipients. When he finds the woman's Jewish family, he is inspired to do what he can to protect them from the Nazi atrocities.

Je suis vivante et je vous aime

1998

The Erasers poster
7.0

A detective is seeking an assassin in a murder that has not yet occurred, only to discover that it is his destiny to become that assassin.

The Erasers

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Antoine Kredler ou l'histoire de la malle

1981