Fanny ArdantFilmography

Tresor

Actors: Mathilde Seigner, Alain Chabat, Fanny Ardant

Face

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Laetitia Casta, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Lee Kang-Sheng, Lu Yi-ching

Synopsis: A filmmaker is attempting to complete an ambitious project in the midst of a family tragedy in this self-referential drama from writer and director Tsai Ming-Liang. Hsaio-Kong (Lee Kang-Sheng) is a director from Taiwan who is soon to begin shooting his next picture, a stylized adaptation of Read More

Ashes and Blood

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ronit Elkabetz, Abraham Belaga, Olga Tudorache, Tudor Aaron Istodor, Claire Bouanich

Synopsis: A woman's presence at a family wedding opens old wounds and resurrects long-simmering tensions between two warring clans in this drama from director Fanny Ardant. Ten years ago, Judith's husband was murdered. In the aftermath of the crime, she and her three children were exiled. Today they live in Read More

The Secrets

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Ania Bukstein, Michal Shtamler, Adir Miller

Synopsis: Within the Orthodox Jewish Community, the attitudes toward females have remained virtually unchanged for 2,000 years. In this religious-themed drama, accomplished Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher explores the complications that arise when the relationships between a group of women residing in a Read More

Roman de Gare

Actors: Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana, Zinedine Soualem, Myriam Boyer, Michèle Bernier

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's thriller Roman de Gare (aka Crossed Tracks) features a number of characters and a timeline that skips back and forth, keeping the audience guessing as to how these characters all relate to each other. Fanny Ardant plays a novelist named Judith whose famous works might have been Read More

Hello Goodbye

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Benguigui, Lior Ashkenazi, Sasson Gabay

Synopsis: A couple find they're fish out of water when they journey back to their ancestral homeland in this comedy from France. Alain (Gerard Depardieu) is a successful doctor in his mid-fifties who has been married to Gisele (Fanny Ardant) most of his adult life. Alain and Gisele have grown tired of life Read More

Paris, Je T'Aime

Synopsis: Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris, Je T'Aime features 18 short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two segments were produced by two filmmakers in Read More

L'Ora di punta

Actors: Michele Lastella, Fanny Ardant, Giulia Bevilacqua, Augusto Zucchi, Antonio Gerardi

Synopsis: Director/screenwriter Vincenzo Marra crafts this tale of an unscrupulous civil servant who rises through the ranks to become a powerful businessman, only to see his empire buckle when the mistakes of the past catch up with him. Filippo Costa (Michele Lastella) began his career in the lower ranks Read More

Nathalie...

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu, Judith Magre, Vladimir Yordanoff

Synopsis: A middle-aged woman fears that her husband is cheating on her -- and chooses a very unlikely method for verifying her paranoia -- in this psychological drama from the writer of Une Liaison Pornographique. Catherine (Fanny Ardant) is a successful Parisian gynecologist whose long-term marriage to Read More

Pigalle

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: From writer/director Richard LaGravanese (Freedom Writers) comes this sexually tinged short film about a middle-aged married couple. Pigalle stars Bob Hoskins and Fanny Ardant and is part of Paris, Je T'Aime the star-studded tribute to the City of Lights. Other directors contributing to the Read More

L'Odore Del Sangue

Actors: Michele Placido, Fanny Ardant, Giovanna Giuliani, Sergio Tramonti

Francois Truffaut, une Autobiographie

8 Women

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen

Synopsis: A gaggle of mothers, wives, daughters, maids, and mistresses gather for a holiday homecoming at their country mansion -- and end up having to solve a murder-mystery -- in this musical-comic homage to studio-era "women's pictures" from acclaimed French director François Ozon. Partly inspired by George Cukor Read More

Callas Forever

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright, Jay Rodan, Gabriel Garko

Synopsis: A mournful look at the last days of opera diva Maria Callas, director Franco Zeffirelli's biographical drama attempts to explore the irresistible allure of a comeback for a fallen star who hungers for the success of her past. Weathered from the excess of the previous decade and with her best Read More

Don't Tempt Me

Actors: Victoria Abril, Penélope Cruz, Demián Bichir, Fanny Ardant, Gael García Bernal

Synopsis: Two of Spain's biggest female stars headline this offbeat comedy about the battle of wills between good and evil. Heaven is not getting its fair share of business for the afterlife, so Lola (Victoria Abril), an angel who sings in a nightclub located beyond the pearly gates, is sent to Earth to Read More

Change-moi ma vie

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Roschdy Zem, Fanny Cottençon, Sami Bouajila, Olivier Cruveiller

Synopsis: Two lost souls make a pact to lift each other up and provide the support needed to kick their bad habits and take one last shot at living their dreams in this introspective drama starring Fanny Ardant and Rochdy Zem. Nina (Ardent) is an unemployed actress who has just taken a lethal overdose of Read More

Le Libertin

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko, Christian Charmettant, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Gabriel Aghion directs this bawdy period romp about a day in the life of 18th century philosopher and sensualist Denis Diderot (Vincent Perez), who produced the first ever encyclopedia while living a life of delicious decadence. Though the Church immediately banned Diderot's opus, which they Read More

Le Fils du francais

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Fanny Ardant, Thierry Frémont, Luca Barbareschi

Synopsis: A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure. Benjamin (David-Alexandre Parquier), whose mom is dead and whose dad is off in the jungle searching for gold, is more cool-headed than his two Read More

Balzac

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jeanne Moreau, Virna Lisi, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: Gérard Depardieu stars as the great French author Honoré de Balzac in this historical biography produced for French television. Balzac's childhood is marked by a difficult relationship with his mother, Charlotte-Laure (Jeanne Moreau), whose strident criticism and inability to show affection are Read More

La Debandade

Actors: Claude Berri, Fanny Ardant, Claude Brasseur, Alain Chabat, Danièle Lebrun

Synopsis: This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann (Claude Berri, who is also the director) a middle-aged auctioneer who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform Read More

Elizabeth

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Richard Attenborough

Synopsis: This British-made historical drama depicts the rise of young Elizabeth Tudor to Queen of England, a reign of intrigue and betrayals. In 1554, Queen Mary I (Kathy Burke) tries to restore Catholicism as England's single faith. With no heir to the crown, she maneuvers to keep her Protestant Read More

La Cena

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Lea Gramsdorff, Eros Pagni

Synopsis: This complexly plotted comedy interweaves snippets from the lives of nearly 40 diverse patrons sitting at 14 tables in a little Italian trattoria. Though the diners come from all levels of society, most are bound by one or two common threads: their engagement in illicit romantic affairs and the Read More

Désiré

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Fanny Ardant, Béatrice Dalle, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Based on a play by Sacha Guitry this romantic French comedy of manners sparkles and bubbles like freshly uncorked champagne. Set in Paris before the dawn of the Jazz Age and centers on the exploits of sexy, womanizing butler Désiré after he begins working for former actress and current mistress of Read More

Ridicule

Actors: Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrëche, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Giraudeau

Synopsis: This is a French costume drama from director Patrice Leconte that recalls both Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Restoration (1995). Gregoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling) is a baron of the 18th century French countryside, wealthy in property and high in social position but poor in cash. Read More

Pedale Douce

Actors: Patrick Timsit, Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry, Michèle Laroque

Synopsis: A closeted gay man's attempts to "act straight" for the sake of his job have unexpected consequences in this French comedy. Adrien (Patrick Timsit) is a businessman who is trying to close a major deal with Alexandre (Richard Berry), a powerful banker. Alexandre invites Adrien to attend an upcoming Read More

A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

Sabrina

Actors: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, John Wood, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: A remake of a 1954 Billy Wilder romance, this updated version of the play Sabrina Fair was directed by Sydney Pollack. Julia Ormond stars as Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a kindly chauffeur (John Wood) at the Long Island estate of the upper-crust Larrabee family. Sabrina has grown up Read More

Beyond the Clouds

Actors: John Malkovich, Kim Rossi Stuart, Ines Sastre, Sophie Marceau, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four part drama. As a filmmaker (John Malkovich) tries to sort out his plans for his next film, he considers several stories about women and the men who love them. Silvano (Kim Rossi Stuart Read More

Colonel Chabert

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Daniel Prévost

Synopsis: This metaphorical drama, about the changes brought to French society by revolution, stars Gérard Depardieu as Chabert, a French soldier who served under Napoleon in 1807 and was thought to have died in battle. In fact, Chabert was nearly buried in a mass grave with a large number of deceased Read More

Amok

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernard Le Coq, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules of the society they have left behind. This seems to have been particularly the case for Europeans living in colonial establishments in Africa and Read More

La Femme du Deserteur

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Sharon Alexander

Synopsis: Nina (Fanny Ardant) is a French concert pianist, Ilan (Sharon Alexander) is an Israeli computer specialist visiting Paris. A romance springs up between them, and they get married. Not long afterward, Ilan is called into the Israeli army to serve his obligatory tour of duty. Things are heating up Read More

Francois Truffaut: Portraits Volés

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Claude Chabrol

Synopsis: In homage to one of France's great directors, this highly personal documentary features those that knew him best, including his daughter Ewa and fellow filmmaker Claude Chabrol as they offer their comments and analysis of his career and his fascinating life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Afraid of the Dark

Actors: Ben Keyworth, James Fox, Paul McGann, Fanny Ardant, Clare Holman, Robert Stephens

Synopsis: A young boy comes to fear that his blind mother may become the next victim of a serial killer in this complex psychological thriller. Unfolding at first as a traditional suspense tale, the film follows the terrified boy's attempts to determine the killer's identity, a task his policeman father has Read More

Double Vue

Actors: James Fox, Fanny Ardant, Clare Holman

Rien Que des Mensonges

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Alain Bashung, Jacques Perrin, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Christine Pascal, Alexandra Kazan

Synopsis: Reviewers declared that the main attraction of this romantic drama was the chance to see the ever-elegant Fanny Ardent in action as a well-to-do woman who wants to put her life in better order. Muriel (Ardent) is married to a philandering publisher, who quite openly entertains mistresses. Read More

Aventure de Catherine C.

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Hanna Schygulla, Robin Renucci, André Wilms

Australia

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Tchéky Karyo, Agnes Soral, Hélène Surgère

Synopsis: Widower Edouard Pierson (Jeremy Irons) fought for Australia in World War Two, but he was born (and married) in Belgium. For the past twelve years, he has been living in Australia with his daughter. His occupation as a wool merchant is in keeping with his family's tradition. He is determined to Read More

Pleure Pas My Love

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Remi Martin, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: Writer/director Tony Gatlif tells an offbeat tale about a romance between two people living on the fringes of the film world who have difficulty distinguishing between movies and real life. Fred Lary (Remi Martin) is the son of a movie starlet, whose one great role before she committed suicide was Read More

Paura e amore

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino, Sergio Castellitto, Paolo Hendel

Synopsis: The loves and lives of three sisters provides the basis of this melodrama. The eldest is intelligent and very aware of life's ticking clock. The middle sister lives on emotions, while the youngest is an idealistic, impassioned pre-med student. The story is loosely based on Chekhov's play Three Read More

Mélo

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Jacques Dacqmine

Synopsis: Director Alain Resnais faithfully adapted his script for Melo from a 1929 play by Henry Bernstein--the first time that Resnais handled his own screenplay. Violinists and lifelong friends Pierre Arditi and Andre Dussolier have each found happiness in adulthood, but only Dussolier has become famous. Read More

La Famiglia

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli, Andrea Occhipinti, Alberto Gimignani

Synopsis: A family history is recalled by the venerable patriarch Carlo (Vittorio Gassman) as he prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday. Young Carlo (Andrea Massimo) marries Beatrice (Stefania Sandrelli) in 1926 but later has an illicit affair with her bohemian artist sister Adriana (Fanny Ardant). Read More

L'Été Prochain

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: The emotional ups-and-downs of a closely-knit but often feuding family is the focus of this sentimental drama by Nadine Trintignant. She is the wife of Jean-Louis Trintignant, who appears as Paul, an impoverished playwright married to Dino (Fanny Ardant). Dino and Paul argue all the time, enough Read More

Le Paltoquet

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Moreau, Daniel Auteuil, Richard Bohringer, Fanny Ardant, Jean Yanne, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: With ingenious camera work, witty dialogue, and a setting that almost never wanders from the cavernous interior of a mod cafe-bar, this drama by Michel Deville has a lot of pluses. A woman (Jeanne Moreau) and a man (Michel Piccoli, the "nonentity" of the title) jointly run the vast cafe and every Read More

Conseil De Famille

Actors: Johnny Hallyday, Fanny Ardant, Guy Marchand, Laurent Romor, Remi Martin

Synopsis: Renowned director Constantin Costa-Gavras (whose 1969's feature Z won multiple international awards and was a box office success) tries his hand at an unusual mix of comedy and crime in this story. When a father (Johnny Hallyday) gets out of prison, he comes home to his wife (Fanny Ardant) and two Read More

Vivement Truffaut

Synopsis: A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he Read More

Les Enrages

Actors: Fanny Ardant, François Cluzet, Jean-Roger Milo, Marie Christine Rousseau

Synopsis: This is an overwrought drama about two repugnant petty criminals who terrorize a movie star in her home. Marc (Francois Cluzet) and Laurent (Jean-Roger Milo) have just committed a robbery and as they are speeding through the countryside to get away, they run out of gas. When they come across the Read More

Benvenuta

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Françoise Fabian, Mathieu Carrière, Claire Wauthion

Synopsis: This complex French tale eschews a single linear narrative in favor of two parallel storylines that move freely between past and present, reality and fantasy, to chronicle a scandalous love affair between a female author and a certain man who may or may not be a fabrication and the attempts of a Read More

Desiderio

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Leonardo Treviglio, Francesca de Sapio, Carlo Giuffré

Synopsis: In director Anna Maria Tato's shallow depiction of an equally shallow dalliance, Lucia (Fanny Ardant) is unavoidably delayed in meeting her husband in Greece and so decides to take a detour (both geographically and emotionally) to visit her hometown in the south of Italy. Once there, she enters Read More

L'Amour à Mort

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Jean Dasté

Synopsis: Acclaimed French director Alain Resnais, winner of many international film awards for his ground-breaking creativity (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, L'Année Dernière à Marienbad), follows up his successful La Vie Est Un Roman with this continuing saga of love and death. This time, two principal actors from La Vie.. Read More

Swann in Love

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault

Synopsis: This ambitious attempt to film a portion of Marcel Proust's epic novel Remembrance of Things Past stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann, a Jewish intellectual who has managed to overcome growing anti-Semitism in 19th century France and travels in an elite social circle. But Swann has become obsessed Read More

La Vie Est Un Roman

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: With Life is a Bed of Roses, filmmaker Alain Resnais wanted to create a lighthearted tribute to three important French directors, each of whom defined a particular era in his country's cinema Melies (the first French filmmaker to use narrative--his most famous film is A Trip to the Moon), the Read More

Confidentially Yours

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Caroline Sihol, Philippe Morier-Genoud

Synopsis: In this light, sometimes tongue-in-cheek mystery based on a Charles Williams thriller -- with snippets of Hitchcock, Kubrick, and even Victor Hugo -- director François Truffaut showcases one of his favorite actresses, Fanny Ardant, as an enterprising secretary in love with her boss but up against Read More

Les Uns et les autres

Actors: Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Olbrychski, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Bolero covers a time span of half a century, concentrating on several generations of music lovers, all hailing from different nations and cultural backgrounds. Each of the principal actors plays multiple characters. Among the cast-members is James Caan, Robert Hossein and Read More

The Woman Next Door

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michele Baumgartner, Véronique Silver

Synopsis: François Truffaut's The Woman Next Door continues his fascination with obsessive love. It was also his first collaboration with Fanny Ardant, who would become his favored leading lady for the last phase of his career and offscreen love for the last years of his life. Bernard Coudray (Gerard Read More