Catherine HiegelFilmography

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Actors: Eric Caravaca, Nathalie Baye, Josiane Balasko, Isabelle Carré, Catherine Hiegel

Synopsis: Gallic actress-turned-director Josiane Balasko - a Euro cinema mainstay best known for her unconventional romantic lead in Bertrand Blier's 1989 Trop belle pour toi - helms and co-stars in Cliente, a quirky and offbeat look at the bittersweet life of a male prostitute, which Balasko co-adapted Read More

10/1/08
It's Our Life!

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Josiane Balasko, Eric Cantona, Michel Muller, Catherine Hiegel

Synopsis: Two women try to pass along what they've learned about life, love and work to a handful of kids with unexpected results in this French comedy. For years, Blanche (Josiane Balasko) and her husband ran a diner in a small village in France, with their daughter Louise (Sylvie Testud) coming aboard to Read More

2005
Les Côtelettes

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Michel Bouquet, Farida Rahouadj, Catherine Hiegel, Hammou Graia

Synopsis: Well into his sixties, iconoclast director Bertrand Blier continued to provoke Cannes audiences with this absurdist sex comedy in 2003. Les Côtelettes profiles the antics of two aging friends/antagonists who battle for the affections of one's maid. Leonce (Philippe Noiret) and Potier (Michel Bouquet Read More

2003
Hygiène de l'assassin

Actors: Jean Yanne, Barbara Schulz, Sophie Broustal, Catherine Hiegel, Eric Prat

Synopsis: Part police thriller and part exploration of the dark side of men's attitudes about women, Hygiene de l'assassin concerns a young female journalist, Nina (Barbara Schulz). Nina has scored a plumb assignment, an interview with Tach (Jean Yanne), a well-known but reculsive novelist who rarely speaks Read More

1999
L'Homme Est Une Femme Comme Les Autres

Actors: Antoine de Caunes, Elsa Zylberstein, Gad Elmaleh, Michel Aumont, Maurice Bénichou

Synopsis: British TV host Antoine de Caunes (Eurotrash) stars in this French comedy about gay clarinetist Simon. His mother and wealthy uncle know he's gay, so the uncle says he'll give him $2 million dollars and a house if he will get married. Simon, who can barely survive on his income as a piano-bar Read More

3/11/98
L'Autre Coté De La Mer

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Roschdy Zem, Marthe Villalonga

Synopsis: An Algeria born and raised French citizen (known as a pied noir) finds himself forced to choose between his beloved but still war-torn homeland and a new life in Paris after he leaves his olive farm and goes to France for a cataract operation. Georges Montero initially only plans to spend a Read More

5/21/97
Fred

Actors: Clotilde Courau, François Berléand, Vincent Lindon

Synopsis: Fred lives in a housing project outside of Paris with his lover Lisa and her five-year old son. When not working in a factory or being with his little family, he hangs out with his close friend and neighbor Michel. Like the other factory workers, Fred and Michel live humble lives. Unfortunately Read More

3/12/97
Jeunesse Sans Dieu

Synopsis: This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It attempts to provide insight as to why certain German youths were so easily lead into becoming Nazis by using two narrators, one a teacher who challenged Read More

1996
La Servante Aimante

Actors: Alain Pralon, Claire Vernet, Catherine Hiegel, Nicolas Silberg

Synopsis: After many years of service to her aged employer Ottavio, widowed servant Coraline leaves to take care of Ottavio's son Florindo whom Ottavio's second wife booted out to insure that her son Lelio would inherit Ottavio's fortune. As the story for this drama is set in 1700s, Coraline's moving in Read More

1996
French Twist

Actors: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a man discovers that he has something unexpected in common with his wife -- they're both involved with another woman. Loli (Victoria Abril) is a woman of Spanish blood married to a French businessman, Laurent (Alain Chabat). Loli is not especially happy as a housewife Read More

1995
Le Mangeur De Lune

Actors: Chick Ortega, Mohamed Camara, Rufus, Catherine Hiegel

1994
Tout le Monde n' a pas eu la Chance d'Avoir des Parents Communistes

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Maurice Bénichou, Catherine Hiegel, Jean-Francois Derec

Synopsis: This bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and grateful French men and women, the promise of Russian communism was bright, and everything Russian was a source of joy and amazement. In the story, Irene (Josiane Balasko) was rescued from Auschwitz by Read More

1993
Mechant Garcon

Actors: Joachim Lombard, Catherine Hiegel, Donald Sumpter

1991
La Petite Amie

Actors: Jean Poiret, Jacques Villeret, Agnes Blanchot, Eva Darlan, Jacques Sereys

Synopsis: Martin Morel (Jean Poiret) is a philandering executive who talks his friend Guillaume (Jacques Villeret) into posing as the husband of his teenage mistress in this uneven romantic comedy. Morel's indulgent wife Beatrice (Eva Darlan) must decide whether or not to forgive Martin after Guillaume and Read More

1988
Life Is a Long Quiet River

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Benoît Magimel, Valerie Lalande, Catherine Hiegel, Hélène Vincent, André Wilms, Christine Pignet

Synopsis: Life is a Long Quiet River is the satirically philosophical title for this French domestic comedy. Borrowing a page from The Corsican Brothers, the film begins with a castoff mistress spitefully switching a pair of newborn babies at the maternity ward managed by her doctor lover. As a result, the Read More

1988
Noyade Interdite

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Guy Marchand, Elizabeth Bourgine, Anne Roussel, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: Molinat (Phillippe Noiret) and Leroyer (Guy Marchand) are two cops who hate each others guts but are called on to solve the gunshot deaths of victims found on an Atlantic beach resort. The two focus on some females who have a psychological problem with men who are breathing. Molinat sends Leroyer Read More

12/2/87