Annie Girardot Filmography

Born:: October 25, 1931 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: More handsome than beautiful, versatile Annie Girardot was the most popular female star in France during the 1970s. Girardot typically played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her with women...Read More

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A Year In My Life

Actors: Jean-Paul Rouve, Anne Brochet, Lorant Deutsch, Raphael Katz, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: The gently evocative, nostalgia-seeped autobiographical drama A Year In My Life cinematizes writer-director Daniel Duval's recollections of his youth in 1950s France. As a thinly-veiled onscreen fictionalization of the filmmaker, Raphael Katz is Pippo, a 9-year-old boy whose parents are arrested Read More

2006
C'est Beau une Ville La Nuit

Synopsis: This French-language feature, starring and directed by the acclaimed blues maestro Richard Bohringer, was loosely adapted from the musician's roman-a-clef, and almost completely omits a central narrative. In it, a young writer pursues an idolized artist through the various experiences and exotic Read More

2006
Caché

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Lester Makedonsky, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Daniel Duval, Nathalie Richard

Synopsis: Paranoia grips a bourgeois European family when a series of menacing videotapes begin turning up on their doorstep in Piano Teacher director Michael Haneke's dark drama. From the outside, Georges (Daniel Auteuil), Anne (Juliette Binoche), and son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky) are the typical Read More

12/23/05
Let's Be Friends

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Paul Rouve, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Renauld, Yves Jacques

2005
La Prophetie Des Grenouilles

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Anouk Grinberg, Annie Girardot, Michel Galabru, Laurentine Milebo

2003
The Piano Teacher

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar

Synopsis: How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a veteran piano instructor at a famous music conservatory in Vienna. Erika is highly respected for her remarkable talent and strong discipline, but she's also known to be a harsh taskmistress and does not Read More

3/29/02
The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti

Actors: Helmut Berger, Meralda Caracciolo Di Melito, Claudia Cardinale, Luchino Gastel, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Legendary Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti's life and remarkable cinematic achievements are investigated in depth in Adam Low's 2002 documentary produced by the BBC entitled The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti. Born into Italian aristocracy in 1906, Visconti's life was one of Read More

2002
Ceci Est Mon Corps

Actors: Louis Garrel, Jane Birkin, Melanie Laurent, Annie Girardot, Elisabeth Depardieu

2001
Epstein's Night

Actors: Mario Adorf, Bruno Ganz, Otto Tausig, Günter Lamprecht, Annie Girardot

2001
L'Age De Braise

Actors: Annie Girardot, France Castel, Michel Ghorayeb, Sheila Rose, Domini Blythe

Synopsis: Jacques Leduc directed and co-scripted (with Jacques Marcotte) this Canadian-French co-production, a drama about an aging Montreal woman, Caroline (Annie Girardot), in her 60s and contemplating impending death. She destroys old correspondence, cleans her apartment by putting furniture in the Read More

7/29/98
Preference

Actors: Georges Corraface, Jean-Marc Barr, Anna Galiena, Annie Girardot, Marisa Paredes

Synopsis: In this erotic French-Italian-Spanish drama, Max (Georges Corraface), having spent a decade behind bars on a murder conviction, exits the prison a free man. Mysterious museum-worker Mila (Anna Galiena) is parked at the prison gate and speaks to him from her car. Mila is married to businessman Read More

6/17/98
Hotel Shanghai

Actors: Agnieszka Wagner, Annie Girardot, James McCaffrey, Elliott Gould, Nicolas Clay

Synopsis: Based on the sprawling novel by Vicki Baum, this convoluted melodrama follows nine people whose lives converge during the days leading up to the tragic August 14, 1937 "Bloody Sunday" bombing in which a major downtown Shanghai hotel was demolished by the Japanese, an event that launched the Read More

1997
Les Misérables

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Annie Girardot, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on the story of two men, a father and a son, whose life stories bear striking similarities to Hugo's character Jean Valjean. The father is Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a Read More

1995
Les Bidochon

Actors: Anémone, Jean-François Stévenin, Annie Girardot, Daniel Gélin

1995
Les Braqueuses

Actors: Catherine Jacob, Clémentine Célarié, Alexandra Kazan, Nanou Garcia, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Four clever girls who tire of their mundane lives turn to a life of crime in this light-hearted French comedy. Cecile, an electronics teacher, has a terribly overdrawn checking account. Bijou, after giving birth to her third child is abruptly abandoned by her abusive spouse. Lola has recently Read More

1994
A Cry in the Night

Actors: Perry King, Carol Higgins Clark, James Rae

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the film explores the life of an art-gallery manager (Carol Higgins Clark) who marries a famous Canadian painter (Perry King). After moving her two young daughters to his mansion, she soon comes to the frightening realization that he is much more than the Read More

1993
Merci La Vie

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together after discovering sufficient provocations in their lives to deliberately set out to wreak havoc in the world around them. Joelle (Anouk Grinberg) has just been thrown out Read More

3/13/91
Il y a des Jours...Et des Lunes...

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Patrick Chesnais, Vincent Lindon, Francis Huster, Marie-Sophie L., Annie Girardot

Synopsis: In this somewhat odd exploration of human romantic difficulties, the people in the film are all put under extra stress by the fact that on the day in question, they have lost an hour to daylight savings time. In addition, it is a full moon. Neither factor improves their response to the mild Read More

1990
Toujours Seuls

Actors: Annie Girardot, Yan Epstein, Claude Evrard

1990
Prisonnières

Actors: Agnes Soral, Marie-Christine Barrault, Fanny Bastien, Annie Girardot, Bernadette Lafont, Milva

Synopsis: Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the warden Dessombes (Marie-Christine Barrault). The warden frames Nelly (Bernadette Lafont) for drug Read More

1989
Comedie d'amour

Actors: Michel Serrault, Annie Girardot, Aurore Clément, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Carel

Synopsis: The very busy actor Michel Serrault lends his talents to the depiction of a monstre sacree of French literature, the extremely repugnant but very clever Paul Leautaud, who was famous for his rude, clever observations and his epigrams. Although unkempt and very mean, his rapier-like wit and strong Read More

1989
Cinq Jours en Juin

Actors: Annie Girardot, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Jacques Moreau

Synopsis: In this reportedly autobiographical piece, Michel Legrand makes his directorial debut. He is much better known for his orchestral scores for other movies. In this story, he is fourteen and living in Paris under the German occupation. It is June of 1944, and he and his mother, along with a young Read More

1988
Adieu Blaireau

Actors: Philippe Léotard, Annie Girardot, Jacques Penot, Christian Marquand

1985
Partir, Revenir

Actors: Evelyne Bouix, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Anconina, Annie Girardot, Michel Piccoli, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: This melodrama, set in WW II during the French occupation, tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the Germans and end up hiding in the country manse of two aristocrats. Unfortunately, the Gestapo finds them and they are sent to a concentration camp. The film then leaps ahead to Read More

1985
Mussolini and I

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon, Bob Hoskins, Annie Girardot, Kurt Raab

Synopsis: The last days in the life of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his family are told from the point of view of his ill-fated son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano (Anthony Hopkins) in this crammed, two-hour historical biography. Originally filmed as a four-part miniseries, the two-hour reduction Read More

1985
Liste Noire

Actors: Annie Girardot, Francois Marthouret, Bernard Brieux, Sandrine Dumas, Pascal Tedes

Synopsis: In cold-blooded, vigilante style, a mother exacts revenge for the deaths of her daughter and her daughter's lover in this run-of-the-mill thriller by Alain Bonnot. Jeanne Dufour (Annie Girardot) knows her daughter lives on the wrong side of the law, but when the daughter takes part in a bank Read More

1984
Souvenirs Souvenirs

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Gabrielle Lazure, Claude Brasseur, Marlène Jobert

Synopsis: This well-articulated, engaging story about the differing fortunes of two brothers just after Algeria's war for independence is conventional in its outlines, and may have several more characters than can be developed in a short time, but its subtle handling by director Ariel Zeitoun helps to Read More

1984
Jacko and Lise

Synopsis: This French comedy stars Laurent Malet as Jacko, an aging delinquent who falls for businessman's fiancee Lise (Evelyne Bouix). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
All Night Long

Actors: Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Gene Hackman plays a disgruntled suburbanite who manages the Ultra-Sav, an all-night drugstore. He hates his job, hates his debts and responsibilities, and isn't overly fond of his wife (Diane Ladd) and son (Dennis Quaid). Partly as a form of protest, Hackman enters into an affair with Barbra Streisand Read More

1981
La Revanche

Actors: Annie Girardot, Dominique Labourier, Victor Lanoux, Claude Rich

1981
La Vie Continue

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Pierre Dux, Michel Aumont, Giulia Salvatori

Synopsis: In this French melodrama, the unexpected, untimely death of her husband leaves Jeanne (Annie Girardot) struggling to come to terms with the implications of her new life and take care of her three children. Filmed in French, this movie is available with English subtitles or dubbing. ~ Iotis Read More

1981
Le Coeur a l'Envers

Actors: Annie Girardot, Laurent Malet, Charles Denner, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: A potentially destructive relationship between mother and son is the topic of this drama by Franck Apprederis. Laure (Annie Girardot) has held her own as a successful child psychiatrist for many years. When her adult son Julien (Laurent Malet) shows up after a twelve-year absence, it leads to a Read More

1980
Une Robe Noire Pour un Tueur

Actors: Annie Girardot, Claude Brasseur, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Perrin, Jean de Coninck

Synopsis: The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat (Annie Girardot) who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler (Claude Brasseur), a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Read More

1980
L'Ingorgo

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Orazio Orlando, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1/12/79
Le Cavaleur

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Nicole Garcia, Catherine Alric, Catherine Leprince, Lila Kedrova

Synopsis: A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama (with English subtitles). ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Bobo, Jacco

Actors: Laurent Malet, Annie Girardot, Michel Montanary, Evelyne Bouix, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: Jacco (Laurent Malet) and his buddy Freddie (Michel Montanary) are the shiftless louts who frequent a bar run by Madga (Annie Girardot). Magda is Jacco's mistress, and she looks out for him like a surrogate mother. When Jacco meets Magda's daughter Lise (Evelyne Bouix), he drops Magda and Freddie Read More

1979
Cause Toujours... Tu M'interesses

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Blanc, Jacques Francois

1979
Vas-y Maman

Actors: Annie Girardot, Pierre Mondy, Eleonore Klarwein, Richard Constantini, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: The whole household revolves around the Annie (Annie Girardot), the mother, but no one helps her do anything. Without her support, her husband could not spend so much time being preoccupied with his job at a company which makes everything from sunglasses to kitchen appliances (not very good ones Read More

1978
La Zizanie

Actors: Louis de Funès, Annie Girardot, Maurice Risch, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Jacques Moreau

Synopsis: An inventor and a small-time industrialist, Guillaume (Louis De Funes) has come up with something which will take advantage of air pollution and manages to confuse a delegation of Japanese into placing an order for 3,000 of the things. Just a few obstacles stand in the way of his delivering on the Read More

1978
La Clé Sur la Porte

Actors: Annie Girardot, Patrick Dewaere, Eleonore Klarwein, Stephane Jobert, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an Read More

1978
L'Amour En Question

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Annie Girardot, Michel Galabru, Michel Auclair, Jacques Morel, Georges Géret

Synopsis: In the French legal system, a judge-magistrate conducts criminal investigations. In this story, Suzanne Corbier (Annie Girardot) is one such magistrate who is called upon to determine whether Catherine, who has been having an affair with an Englishman, conspired with him to murder her impotent Read More

1978
Jambon D'Ardenne

Actors: Annie Girardot, Ann Petersen, Christian Barbier, Dominique Drouot

Synopsis: During the height of the tourist season, the rivalry between the manager of a slightly fancy restaurant and the proprietor of a nearby fast-food stand becomes quite heated, and shots are fired. In this comedy, the restaurant is run with an iron hand by its "patronne," (Annie Girardot), and the Read More

1977
À Chacun Son Enfer

Actors: Annie Girardot, Stéphane Hillel, Hardy Kruger, Bernard Fresson, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: When her 10-year-old daughter is killed by kidnappers, Madeleine (Annie Girardot) goes a little nuts. However, she is fully able to continue investigating what went wrong, despite badgering by news reporters and curious neighbors. Her 19-year-old son has behaved strangely throughout the whole Read More

1977
Le Point De Mire

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jacques Dutronc, Matthais Habich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation involving super-secret conflicts between NATO, the CIA and the Pentagon. An American politician, whom she has been photographing, is the target of an assassination conspiracy. Her Read More

1977
Le Dernier Baiser

Actors: Annie Girardot, Maria Pacome, Bernard Fresson, Dagmar Meyniel

Synopsis: After being left by her husband, the woman cab driver in this comedy will only take women fares. When one of those women asks her to follow another cab containing the lady's husband, she is only too happy to oblige. When the cab containing her passenger's husband picks up a woman without letting Read More

1977
Tendre Poulet

Actors: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps, Paulette Dubost

Synopsis: Dear Inspector and Dear Detective were the English-language titles of Philippe De Broca's Tendre Poulet. Annie Girardot plays the old flame of Greek professor Philippe Noiret. The prof tries to rekindle the flames of passion, but Girardot seems curiously preoccupied. It turns out that she's a Read More

1977
Cours Après Moi Que Je T'Attrape

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Marilù Tolo, Geneviève Fontanel, Sylvain Rougerie

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two separate people place "mate wanted" ads in the newspaper personals. Jacqueline (Annie Girardot) is a dog-groomer, and Jean-Pierre (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a tax-collector. There are a number of quite substantial obstacles to their getting together: she has a lot of Read More

1976
Fraiche

Actors: Annie Girardot, Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: Jip (Julien Clerc) is a piano teacher with two girlfriends who live in entirely different worlds. One is a young, kooky lass (Miou-Miou), the other is an older, middle-class married woman (Annie Giradot). The occasional juxtaposition of these two worlds, as narrated by Jip, fuel the laughs in this Read More

1976
Le Gitan

Actors: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Maurice Barrier, Paul Meurisse, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: The plotline of Le Gitan concerns a devil-may-care "good badman" with gypsy blood flowing through his veins. Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, our hero confounds the authorities in contemporary France. The film makes implications that the attitudes of French society towards the gypsies Read More

12/5/75
Il Sospetto

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: Political intrigues and infighting within the Italian Communist Party are the overriding themes of this drama. Emile (Gian Maria Volonte) has been sent to Turin by the Italian Communist Central Committee in Paris, ostensibly to find out which of the four Party representatives working in the Fiat Read More

2/21/75
Il Faut Vivre Dangereusement

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Annie Girardot, Sydne Rome, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: Diquet (Claude Brasseur) is a private investigator. Usually, he just follows people around and records what he sees them doing. His latest case becomes progressively stranger. After he is hired to follow a man's young mistress, the detective finds that her journeys begin to tie into his own life Read More

1975
It's Raining on Santiago

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Maurice Garrel, John Abbey, Riccardo Cucciolla, André Dussollier, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Salvador Allende was a Marxist who became the President of Chile. Forces within that country and from outside, including the U.S.'s CIA, conspired to bring about an end to his rule, and his life, on September 11, 1973. This French/Bulgarian drama explores the events leading up to his election and Read More

1975
D'Amour Et D'Eau Fraiche

Actors: Miou-Miou, Annie Girardot

1975
Docteur Françoise Gailland

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, François Perier, Isabelle Huppert, William Coryn

Synopsis: A doctor gains a new perspective on her life and career when she faces a life-threatening illness in this drama. Francoise (Annie Girardot) is a French physician with a very busy schedule. While she's well respected by her patients and colleagues, she has precious little time to spend with her Read More

1975
La Gifle

Actors: Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Courcel

Synopsis: In this film, a group of French kids face the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood as they struggle through their teenage years. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

10/23/74
Juliette et Juliette

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Annie Girardot, Pierre Richard, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: In this French drama, when magazine journalist Juliette (Annie Giradot) goes to work on a story, she gets serious. This gets her into trouble when she interviews the other Juliette (Marlene Jobert), the winner of her magazine's contest, and she discovers a real person with a job instead of a Read More

2/27/74
Ursule et Grelu

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Roland Dubillard, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: The on-again, off-again relationship between a man and a woman who first meet during a shipwreck (she is a Salvation Army soldier, he is a sailor, both are adrift) is the subject of this French film. The two meet and separate numerous times during the movie, until they are finally able to Read More

1/9/74
Il N'y a Pas de Fumée Sans Feu

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Michel Bouquet, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: This French political thriller depicts the world of troubles that descend upon a relatively innocent doctor who decides to serve as a political candidate running against a thoroughly corrupt and devious mayor. In a recent campaign, the mayor and his henchmen were responsible for the murder of a Read More

5/16/73
Traitement De Choc

Actors: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Jean-Francois Calve

Synopsis: Losing her young lover makes Helene (Annie Giradot) feel old, so she heads off to a health resort she has heard does wonders for people. The treatments really do make her and the other guests feel better, and for a while that is enough. She cavorts nude on the beach with the head of the clinic (Alain Delon Read More

1/18/73
Elle Cause Plus... Elle Flingue

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Roger Carel

Synopsis: In this satirical French comedy, Rosemunde (Annie Girardot) earns her living selling relics to the Catholic church. She manufactures them using a specialized machine made by her grandfather, which transforms corpses into bone. Needless to say, since she must have dead bodies in order to do this Read More

8/23/72
Les Feux de la Chandeleur

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis: This tragic French melodrama brings to the screen the story of Marie-Louise (Anne Giradot), a woman whose love for her ex-husband will not die even though he seems to be a heartless cad. Alexandre left her, he says, because she attended a few leftist marches and demonstrations. However, he has set Read More

5/24/72
La Mandarine

Actors: Murray Head

Synopsis: Director Edouard Molinaro is better known for his later film Le Cage Aux Folles. In La Mandarine, an eccentric family runs a luxury hotel in Paris. They are not extremely interested in the business they run, preferring instead to dote on the family's grandmother. Things get lively when a Read More

3/17/72
La Vieille Fille

Actors: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Michel Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: Muriel (Annie Giradot) is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French Read More

1/5/72
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