Charlotte Gainsbourg Filmography

Born:: July 22, 1971 in London, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: One of the more compelling French actresses of her generation, Charlotte Gainsbourg initially made her screen name parlaying wayward adolescence into an understated art form. Tall, long-necked, and elegantly gawky, Gainsbourg first impressed critics and audiences with her portrayal of the naive...Read More

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Terminator Salvation

Actors: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anton Yelchin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Moon Bloodgood

Synopsis: The fourth installment of the Terminator series follows an adult John Connor (played by Christian Bale) as he attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be humankind's last true hope for survival in the war against their intelligent robot overlords. Aussie Sam Worthington Read More

5/22/09
Antichrist

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: A grieving couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) are the subject of evil forces during a cabin getaway shortly after their son has died in this horror film from auteur Lars von Trier. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
The City of Your Final Destination

Actors: Omar Metwally, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: James Ivory's adaptation of Peter Cameron's The City of Your Final Destination tells the story of how the family of a writer makes sense of their past decades after the author commits suicide. The plot begins when a graduate student approaches the writer's offspring about access to their father's Read More

1/1/08
I'm Not There

Actors: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere

Synopsis: Director Todd Haynes's unconventional biopic of the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan features different actors playing the part of the Minnesota native at various stages of his remarkable career. Among the actors playing the singer are Cate Blanchett, who portrays the man during his Don't Read More

11/21/07
Golden Door

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo

Synopsis: A family living in poverty leaves behind the world they know in hope of finding new opportunities in this historical drama from director Emanuele Crialese. The Mancusos are a family struggling to make ends meet in a small farming community in Sicily in 1913. Life has long been hard for the Mancuso Read More

5/25/07
The Science of Sleep

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: Inventive Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry takes a surreal trip through the mind of an introverted but wildly creative man whose attempts to balance his colorful dreams with his stark reality are complicated by the arrival of a beautiful woman into his life. Shy Read More

9/22/06
Lemming

Actors: Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, André Dussollier, Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis: The charmed life of a successful young engineer is thrown into chaos following a decidedly uncomfortable dinner with his powerful boss and the man's socially scabrous wife in With a Friend Like Harry director Dominik Moll's twisted, semi-supernatural thriller. Upon relocating to an ultra-modern Read More

5/19/06
I Do

Actors: Alain Chabat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Vladimir Yordanoff, Gregoire Oestermann

Synopsis: A man tries to hold on to his bachelor lifestyle by getting engaged in this romantic comedy. Luis (Alain Chabat) is a man in his mid-fourties who has been happily unmarried all his life. Luis nearly wed his sweetheart when he was 21, but the meddling of his mother (Bernadette Lafont) and five Read More

2006
Happily Ever After

Actors: Yvan Attal

Synopsis: Writer, director, and actor Yvan Attal takes another look at the ups and downs of love and monogamy in this biting romantic comedy. Vincent (Yvan Attal), Fred (Alain Cohen), and Georges (Alain Chabat) are three Parisian men in their early forties who are coming to the unfortunate realization that Read More

4/8/05
21 Grams

Actors: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo

Synopsis: Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu makes his first English-language feature with the downbeat drama 21 Grams. Set in an unnamed U.S. urban center, the film uses a nonlinear structure to piece together the intertwined lives of three very different people. Paul (Sean Penn) is a math Read More

11/21/03
My Wife Is An Actress

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp, Noemie Lvovsky, Laurent Bateau, Ludivine Sagnier, Keith Allen, Lionel Abelanski

Synopsis: Actor Yvan Attal follows up on his 1997 directorial debut of I've Got a Woman with this wry romantic comedy about a regular guy dealing with his wife's fame and career. Yvan (Attal) is a youngish sports writer who, through some improbable luck, finds himself happily married to the beautiful Read More

7/12/02
Felix et Lola

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Philippe Torreton, Alain Bashung, Philippe du Janerand

2001
La Bûche

Actors: Claude Rich, Françoise Fabian, Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Béart, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: Noted French screenwriter Daniele Thompson makes her directorial debut with this lighthearted romantic comedy. After the December 21st funeral of Yvette's (Francoise Fabian) second husband, she is consoled by the three daughters from her first marriage to Stanislas (Claude Rich), a Russian-Jewish Read More

11/24/00
Passionnement

Actors: Bérénice Bejo

Synopsis: Camille Claudel director Bruno Nuytten brings us a tale of the kind of l'amour fou that only the French can do so persistently. A moody, intense drama that opens with a present day car crash, Passionnement is told partially as an extended flashback centering on events that took place around Read More

2000
Les Miserables

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Virginie Ledoyen, Christian Clavier, Enrico Lo Verso

Synopsis: Victor Hugo's classic story of one man's struggle to redeem himself -- and another man's efforts to bring him down -- is brought to the screen again (there have been at least 18 previous screen adaptations) in this epic-scale television production with a distinguished international cast. Jean Read More

2000
Love Etc.

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Charles Berling, Thibault de Montalembert

Synopsis: Though unemployed, Pierre is buoyant, outgoing, affable, and experienced with women. This last is a point he never fails to drive home to Benoit, his gentle, hapless best friend. In an effort to compensate for his romantic failures, Benoit turns to the newspaper personals ads, and meets Marie. Read More

4/2/99
The Intruder

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charles Powell, Nastassja Kinski, Molly Parker, John Hannah

Synopsis: Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in this 1990s updating of George Cukor's Gaslight (1944). In an unnamed North American city, young Frenchwoman Catherine (Gainsbourg) stumbles into a police station and confesses to murdering her husband's ex-wife Stella. The cops remain unconvinced, as according to Read More

1999
Anna Oz

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gérard Lanvin, Sami Bouajila, Grégori Derangère

Synopsis: This taut psychological chiller tells the twisted story of Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose dreams of her Venetian counterpart, a secretive young woman who lives in a fine palace with her brother and an enigmatic older man, become frighteningly real. Anna's world begins coming apart after she Read More

1996
Jane Eyre

Actors: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright, Anna Paquin, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Director Franco Zeffirelli stresses emotional realism over gothic chills in this restrained adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic. The screenplay, by Zeffirelli and Hugh Whitmore, remains relatively faithful to the original story, beginning with a condensed look at the troubled childhood of Read More

1996
Dead Tired

Actors: Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: A burned out actor begins to question his sanity in this French comedy that stars the writer/director Michel Blanc in a dual role. In the first role Blanc plays himself as an exhausted actor. He has been doing too much TV and too many movies. Odd things begin to happen and Blanc becomes convinced Read More

1994
The Cement Garden

Actors: Andrew N. Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sinéad Cusack, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin

Synopsis: Ian McEwan's disturbing novel is given a chilly shimmer in this film adaptation by Andrew Birkin. The film takes place in a concrete slab of a house situated on the outskirts of an English town. The father (Hanns Zischer) is a consumptive creep, while the mother (Sinead Cusack) is a sweet and Read More

1993
Amoureuse

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Thomas Langmann, Aurelle Doazan

Synopsis: Nine women gather in a seaside home to discuss life, love, and the search for men in this routine comedy. The hostess leaves after her boyfriend calls her up, and one of the others picks up an American tourist at a local bar. She confiscates his passport to keep him for her temporary boytoy. ~ Dan Read More

1992
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
Contre L'Oubli

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the lives of political prisoners around the world. Each filmmaker speaks passionately on behalf of an individual whose life has been warped by political intolerance, imprisonment Read More

1991
Night Sun

Actors: Julian Sands, Nastassja Kinski, Patricia Millardet, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti

Synopsis: In this film, Tolsoy's classic story Father Sergius is translated from 19th century Russia to 19th century Italy. As in the original story, Sergio (Julian Sands) is a nobleman and a military cadet who is posted in a position close to the (in this case Neapolitan) throne. He is about go through Read More

1990
Aux Yeux du Monde

Actors: Yvan Attal, Kristin Scott Thomas, Marc Berman, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: Bruno is bored and frustrated. His attempts to woo Juliette, an attractive hairdresser in the village next to his have fallen flat, and he just plain doesn't like his life. He decides to do something to spice things up and at the same time impress Juliette that he's really smitten with her. That Read More

1990
The Little Thief

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Simon de la Brosse, Didier Bezace, Raoul Billerey, Chantal Banlier

Synopsis: From time to time a deceased novelist or artist is sufficiently revered that, as a form of homage, his disciples will take one of his unfinished projects and attempt to bring it to completion. The screenplay for La Petite voleuse was written by Claude Miller, Luc Beraud and Anne Miller based on a Read More

8/25/89
Jane B. Par Agnes V.

Actors: Jane Birkin, Philippe Léotard, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Farid Chopel, Alain Souchon

Synopsis: Jane B. is London-born actress and recording star Jane Birkin. Agnes V. is Belgian filmmaker and "grandmother of the New Wave" Agnes Varda. Jane B. Par Agnes V is a cinematic recounting of Birkin's career, from her breakthrough appearance as one of the nude models in Blow-Up to her pinnacle as Read More

1988
Kung Fu Master

Actors: Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou Doillon, Eva Simonet

Synopsis: Veteran French director Agnes Varda's Le Petit Amour is based on a short story by actress/songstress Jane Birkin. Birkin herself plays the main character, a loving but lonely 40-year-old divorcee. Her life is brightened a bit by the presence of a handsome 15-year-old, played by Mathieu Demy. Their Read More

1987
Paroles Et Musique

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lambert, Richard Anconina, Jacques Perrin, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: This routine French melodrama features Catherine Deneuve) as Margaux, an unhappily married recording-company executive with two children at home who starts an affair with Jeremy (Christophe Lambert), one of the singers she promotes through her company. Margaux's husband is away in New York working Read More

7/23/86
Charlotte Forever

Actors: Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Roland Bertin, Roland Dubillard, Anne Zamberlan

Synopsis: This drama with incestual nuances features singer-songwriter turned director Serge Gainsbourg as Stan, a screenwriter who has seen much better days. He is currently agonizing over his daughter, Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Charlotte blames him for the death of her mother in an accident. Stan Read More

1986
La Tentation d'Isabelle

Actors: Ann-Gisele Glass, Fanny Bastien, Jacques Bonnaffé, Xavier DeLuc, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: In this argumentative, fractious drama about a warped sense of male-female love, Bruno (Jacques Bonnafe) who is clearly not playing with a full deck, devises a means to test the love of his girlfriend Isabelle (Ann Gisel Glass). Since Isabelle had been in love with Alain (Xavier Deluc) in the Read More

1985
L'Effrontée

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy, Clothilde Baudon, Raoul Billerey

Synopsis: The dreams and naivete of Charlotte, a young, working-class girl (Charlotte Gainsbourg in an award-winning performance) clash with reality as she meets the young pianist she admires (Clothilde Baudon), and a younger pest she would like to shed (Julie Glenn). Charlotte is surrounded by a drab life Read More

1985