Yves Boisset
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 14, 1939, Paris, France
- Died
- March 31, 2025
- Movies
- 43
Yves Boisset (14 March 1939 – 31 March 2025) was a French film director and scriptwriter.
Boisset began his career as an assistant director. After working with such directors as Hossein, Ciampi, Melville and Clement, he began directing short films until the late 1960s when he made his feature film debut. Boisset frequently contributes to the scripts he shoots and is known for his fast-paced action-adventures and his social and political thrillers. His 1972 film L'Attentat entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2022 | Patrick Dewaere, My Hero | Self (voice) (archive footage) - director |
| 2022 | Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément | Self |
| 2013 | Yves Boisset - Le Cinéaste le plus censuré de France | Self - filmmaker, subject |
| 2012 | Lino, il n'était que lui-même | Self |
| 2011 | Le cinéma de Boris Vian | Self |
| 2011 | Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde | Self |
| 2002 | A Day in the Life of French Cinema | Self |
| 1983 | Canicule | |
| 1982 | Spy, Stand Up | Richard's assistant |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2009 | 12 balles dans la peau pour Pierre Laval | Director |
| 2009 | L'Affaire Salengro | Director, Writer |
| 2007 | La Bataille d'Alger | Director |
| 2006 | Les Mystères sanglants de l'OTS | Director, Screenplay |
| 2001 | Cazas | Director |
| 2001 | Dormir avec le diable | Director |
| 1997 | Le Pantalon | Director, Writer |
| 1997 | Run for Your Life | Director |
| 1997 | Private Lessons | Director |
| 1995 | L'Affaire Dreyfus | Director, Writer |
| 1993 | L'Affaire Seznec | Director |
| 1992 | Les Carnassiers | Director |
| 1991 | The Tribe | Director, Writer |
| 1989 | Radio corbeau | Director |
| 1988 | La Fée Carabine | Director |
| 1988 | La Travestie | Director, Screenplay |
| 1988 | Les Karens, le pays sans péché | Director |
| 1986 | Blue Hell | Director, Writer |
| 1984 | Dog Day | Director, Screenplay |
| 1983 | The Prize of Peril | Director, Writer |
| 1982 | Spy, Stand Up | Director, Writer |
| 1981 | The Boy Soldier | Director, Screenplay |
| 1980 | La Femme flic | Director, Writer |
| 1978 | The Key Is in the Door | Director, Writer |
| 1977 | The Purple Taxi | Director |
| 1977 | Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff | Director, Writer |
| 1975 | Mad Enough to Kill | Director, Screenplay |
| 1975 | The Common Man | Director |
| 1973 | Nothing to Report | Director |
| 1972 | The Assassination | Director |
| 1971 | Angel's Leap | Director, Screenplay |
| 1970 | The Cop | Director, Screenplay |
| 1970 | Safety Catch | Director |
| 1968 | Coplan Saves His Skin | Director |
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