Chiara Mastroianni Filmography

Un conte de noël

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon

Synopsis: The devastating reverberations of a profound tragedy echo through generations of a long-suffering French family in this emotional family drama from director Arnaud Desplechin. When Abel and his wife Junon started a family, it seemed like the seeds of true happiness had been planted. But while Read More

Persepolis

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn, Iggy Pop

Synopsis: Filmmakers Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi collaborated to co-write and co-direct this adaptation of Satrapi's bestselling autobiographical graphic novel detailing the trials faced by an outspoken Iranian girl who finds her unique attitude and outlook on life repeatedly challenged during the Read More

Towards Zero

Actors: François Morel, Danielle Darrieux, Melvil Poupaud, Laura Smet, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: By the Pricking of My Thumbs director Pascal Thomas returns to the written word of Agatha Christie for inspiration, and the result is a lively whodunit centering on a deadly family gathering and the exquisite sleuthing skills of hyper-perceptive crime-fighter Superintendent Bataille. For the past Read More

Marcello: A Sweet Life

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Ettore Scola, Armando Trovajoli, Chiara Mastroianni, Barbara Mastroianni

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was arguably the most famous and respected leading man in the history of Italian cinema. A favorite of such directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Michelangelo Antonioni, Mastroianni's fame in Europe extended to the United States, where he was nominated Read More

It's Easier for a Camel...

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Denis Podalydès, Marysa Borini

Synopsis: A wealthy but dysfunctional family teeters on the brink of collapse in this emotional drama leavened with a strong dose of dark comedy. Federica (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) is the daughter of a wealthy Italian business magnate (Roberto Herlitzka) who relocated himself and his family to France in the Read More

Carnage

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Lucia Sanchez, Esther Gorintin, Marylin Even

Synopsis: Carnage, an example of what the French call un film chorale, tells several intertwining stories. In the central tale, a young second-generation bullfighter, Victor (Julien Lescarret), is gored, and is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. A little girl, Winnie (Raphaëlle Molinier) Read More

Hotel

Actors: Max Beesley, Rhys Ifans, Saffron Burrows, David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek, Burt Reynolds

Synopsis: Following up on his innovative work Timecode, which featured four stories being told in real time simultaneously, Mike Figgis returns to a modified form of his technique in this film about the tourists, the prostitutes, the tour guides, a killer, and a film crew who frequent the Hungarian Palace Read More

Searching for Debra Winger

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Rosanna Arquette, Emmanuelle Béart, Katrin Cartlidge, Laura Dern

Synopsis: Directed by actress Rosanna Arquette, this candid documentary is not only about the iconoclastic and somewhat reclusive film star Debra Winger (who does not even appear onscreen until an hour into the film), but also about the trials and tribulations of actresses in Hollywood who have reached Read More

Le Parole Di Mio Padre

Actors: Fabrizio Rongione, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: A young man who was an outcast in his own family finds himself embraced by another, with troubling results, in this drama based on a novel by Italo Svevo. Zeno (Fabrizo Rongione) is the son of a wealthy family whose father (Toni Bertorelli) did not place much faith in the young man's abilities; Read More

Time Regained

Actors: Marcelo Mazzarella, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Pascal Greggory, Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis: An ambitious project of Chile-born, Paris-based Raul Ruiz, this psychological drama brings to the screen the famous classic of Marcel Proust with fidelity to its interior monologues and streams of consciousness. Proust (Marcelo Mazzarella), on his deathbed in his small apartment on Rue Hamelin, is Read More

Six-Pack

Actors: Richard Anconina, Frédéric Diefenthal, Chiara Mastroianni, François Berléand, Jonathan Firth

Synopsis: While the French have a knack for fine wine and fine food, they can't come up with a decent serial killer of their own, so an American has to step in to terrorize Paris in this crime thriller. A lunatic is on the loose in the City of Lights, murdering women and disemboweling their bodies. The Read More

A Carta

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Silveira, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: Veteran Portuguese director Manoel Oliveira brings the events and characters of a famous 17th-century French novel, La princesse de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette, to the modern day in this film about passion and matrimonial virtues. Mademoiselle de Chartres (Chiara Mastroianni) has her first Read More

For Sale

Actors: Sandrine Kiberlain, Sergio Castellitto, Jean-François Stévenin, Chiara Mastroianni, Aurore Clément

Synopsis: Letitia Masson wrote and directed this tale told in flashbacks as a detective tracks a young woman. After France Robert (Sandrine Kiberlain) steals cash and then leaves Marseilles nightclub owner Pierre (Jean-Francois Stevenin) at the altar, he still yearns for her, so he puts private investigator Read More

Nowhere

Actors: James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Chiara Mastroianni, Guillermo Diaz, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Jordan

Synopsis: Described by director Gregg Araki as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid" (with no suggestions of what it might be cut with), Nowhere is a companion piece with Araki's previous meditations on youth gone wild in the 1990s, Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation -- Araki's self-described "teen Read More

My Sex Life (...Or How I Got Into an Argument)

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: In this satiric comedy-drama from France, Paul (Mathieu Amalric) is an assistant professor of philosophy disenchanted with teaching and distracted enough that he can't (or won't) finish the dissertation that would allow him to become a full professor. Esther (Emmanuelle Devos) has been his Read More

Three Lives and Only One Death

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni plays several different roles in this off-beat, witty exploration of a man with multiple personalities from world-class filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. Mastroianni first appears as Parisian traveling salesman Mateo Strano who suddenly shows up at the home of Maria, the wife he abandoned Read More

Cameleone

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Seymour Cassel, Jackie Berroyer, Antoine Chappey

Synopsis: After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she Read More

All Men Are Mortal

Synopsis: This European drama is adapted from Simone de Beauvioir's novel of the same name. It is set in post WW II France and tells the story of renowned theatrical actress, Regina, a temperamental diva who feels a great hole in her life until she goes on a provincial tour and meets an enigmatic stranger Read More

N'Oublie Pas Que Tu Vas Mourir

Actors: Xavier Beauvois, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Bulle Ogier

Synopsis: In this downbeat drama from France, Benoit (Xavier Beauvois) is an upper class art student who is shocked to discover that he's been drafted into the Army. Eager to avoid military service, Benoit feigns illness, consults a psychiatrist for depression, and even tells the draft board he's gay, all Read More

Le Journal D'Un Seducteur

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Hubert Saint-Macary, Serge Merlin, Mathieu Amalric

Synopsis: This gentle French comedy, takes an intellectualized look at the nature of a crush as it tells the tale of 20-year-old Claire, a young woman seemingly suffering a terminal case of ennui. She glumly goes through the minimal motions of living until she falls in love with handsome Gregoire, a highly Read More

3000 Scenarios Contre un Virus

Actors: Anémone, Daniel Gélin, Patachou, François Cluzet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000 ideas put in by French school children and were made by filmmakers on a voluntary basis. Most of the vignettes deal with heterosexuality and AIDS, but one deals with drug-usage Read More

Prêt-à-Porter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More

My Favorite Season

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: French critic and filmmaker André Téchiné directs the intense family drama Ma Saison Préférée (My Favorite Season), which he co-wrote with screenwriter Pascal Bonitzer. Family matriarch Berthe (Marthe Villalonga) is advancing in years and developing health problems, so she goes to live with her Read More

À La Belle Etoile

Actors: Mathieu Demy, Julie Gayet, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: In this very physical comedy, Thomas (Mathieu Demy) is an unusually goofy young man, and is forever tripping over something. However, when he chances upon the lovely Marion (Aurelia Thieree), he achieves new heights of ineptitude because he is thoroughly smitten. Luckily for him, his best friend Read More