Yvon Back

Acting

Yvon Back

Born 1961-09-17

Acting credits

The Ax poster
6.9

Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.

The Ax

2005

The Shiny Shrimps poster
6.6

Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion at the end of his career, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, a flamboyant and amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one thing in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games in Croatia where the hottest international LGBT athletes compete. It's the start of a bumpy and joyful ride - Faster, Higher, Stronger.

The Shiny Shrimps

2019

Every Jack Has a Jill poster
5.4

Jack is encouraged to take the romantic Paris vacation he won, despite just being dumped by his girlfriend. His trip soon devolves into chaos and adventure, when his luggage is swapped for a French businesswoman's belongings who soon takes a liking to his belongings -- especially his shoes -- and sets out to find him.

Every Jack Has a Jill

2009

The Devil Inside poster
5.5

Catherine Borowiak, 50 years old, is the head of a conditional release agency. Being in charge of 20 years old Hugo's case, recently released from jail on parole, she starts a relationship with him, a highly risky one.

The Devil Inside

2020

Bad Ronald poster
9.0

A teenager, Ronald, unintentionally causes the death of a young girl on a beach. So that the police do not find him, his mother locks him in a cubicle, under the stairs of the house. On her death, the house was rented to an English family.

Bad Ronald

1992

Scotch poster
9.0

Two friends who are almost forty, confront the difficulties of loving, in their own way.

Scotch

2003

Roméo et Juliette n'aura pas lieu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Roméo et Juliette n'aura pas lieu

2017

Twice Upon a Time poster
5.9

Alice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most strikingly glamorous couple of the 70s. But this pair haven't seen each other in thirty years.

Twice Upon a Time

2006

See How They Fall poster
6.5

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.

See How They Fall

1994

The Fruit of Our Womb poster
8.0

Andrea lives with her girlfriend Marie. Getting pregnant, and never having had sex with a man, Marie believes it might, in fact, be a miracle.

The Fruit of Our Womb

2017

Jusqu'à l'enfer poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Jusqu'à l'enfer

2009

The Masked Avenger: Lagardere poster
7.1

France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.

The Masked Avenger: Lagardere

2003

The Liars poster
5.2

Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless street bum in an expensive neighborhood. Marcus sends Zac to a posh hotel. He then sends Daisy, an ambitious secretary and aspiring screenwriter to learn what happened to the great director. It takes a lot of mutual verbal sparring and false turns (which are presented as creatively filmed vignettes that are done using a variety of techniques) from Zac before he finally tells her the truth. The two then decide to turn the story into a film. As they write, Daisy and Zac slowly fall in love. At the same time, Marcus has his hands full trying to avoid some tough Russian Mafiosos who want the money they invested back.

The Liars

1996

The Woman I'm Watching poster
7.0

The unpredictable destiny of a woman abandoned by the man she loves. Who could have predicted that the simple address of a private detective agency, found by chance in the yellow pages of the directory, would throw her into a strange adventure and lead her to another existence?

The Woman I'm Watching

1998

Le Prix de la loyauté poster
5.0

Marie Jourdan hears that her friend Paul is in jail and travels to Provence to help.

Le Prix de la loyauté

2019

Le sourire du clown poster
7.5

A clown from Romania (Ticky Holgado) has more than amusing tricks for children on his mind -- he has in his possession a computer disc with information wanted by the police, several organized crime figures and the European Agency for Atomic Energy.

Le sourire du clown

1999

Best Friends Forever poster
5.6

A weekend in the green with your best friends. Those who really love you. Those in whom you have absolute confidence. Those who understand you and always tell you the truth. And above all, those who rot you without knowing that they pressed the callback key of their phone.

Best Friends Forever

2010

Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour poster
6.1

Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the art of seduction well enough to become accepted even by the Queen, corpulent mother of ten. As a sensibly chosen Royal 'favorite' mistress she is soon ennobled Marquise of Pompadour to facilitate her introduction at court. The immature dauphin (crown prince) proves a bitter and unrelenting enemy, joined by his imposed Saxon bride, and his sister at her deathbed. Although friends at court help Pompadour return, her health gives way.

Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour

2006

Doors of Glory poster
5.3

A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.

Doors of Glory

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mariés... ou presque

2006

Les enfants, j'adore ! poster
5.5

Estelle, 30, thinks she is going to remain single for the rest of her life. A free-lance journalist, she also thinks she will never cover any news bigger than fillers. One day, Estelle sees her chance when she gets to interview soccer superstar Stefano Paudretto... only to ruin it all by slapping him for getting too fresh! But that same day reserves another surprise: love at first sight! His name is Renaud. He is a sports radio journalist. Estelle starts dreaming again. But the wonderful love affair is in trouble when the Prince Charming's children declare war on their potential stepmother. Estelle is ready to fight back. After all, she's reached the ripe old age of 30 - it's now or never!

Les enfants, j'adore !

2006

La rupture poster
6.0

Upon the sudden death of President Georges Pompidou, the French right is taken aback. Who will succeed him? It is finally Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, aged 48, elected with the support of Jacques Chirac, who is then appointed Prime Minister. Their alliance seems strong, but it will quickly crack.

La rupture

2013

Two Lives Plus One poster
4.8

Everyone knows that Eliane Weiss is dedicated in everything she does, from her husband, to her daughter and pupils. But not everyone knows that she longs for more - more time for her, more fun, more thrills. So when she decides to start working on her passion, writing, and incidentally meets an attractive publisher, everyone is taken by surprise. As their seemingly perfect life starts to fall apart, everyone will have to readjust to the new Eliane Weiss.

Two Lives Plus One

2007

Plus là pour personne poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Plus là pour personne

2009

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