Irène JacobFilmography

Born:: July 15, 1966 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: An actress whose classic beauty and thoughtful, almost melancholic style of acting have established her as a cinematic representative of European sophistication, Irène Jacob is one of the preeminent French actresses of her generation. First becoming known through her association with Polish...Read More

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The French Kissers

Actors: Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Trémolières, Julie Scheibling, Camille Andreys, Robin Nizan-Duverger, Baptiste Huet, Simon Barbery, Irwan Bordji, Yanis Aït-Ali

Synopsis: This wild, raunchy, gag-a-minute French farce concerns Hervé (Vincent Lacoste), a skirt-chasing 14-year-old boy struggling to contend with social awkwardness and the fact that he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Nor do female respond favorably to him either: he suffers rejection after Read More

2009
The Dust of Time

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob

Synopsis: A filmmaker looks to his family's history as the basis for a historical epic that reflects some of the most tumultuous events of the 20th Century in this grand-scale drama from Theo Angelopoulos. A. (Willem Dafoe) is a director struggling to complete shooting on his latest project, a sweeping Read More

2008
Fallen Heroes

Actors: Bruno Todeschini, Elio Germano, Irène Jacob, Maria de Medeiros, Paolo Graziosi

Synopsis: French filmmaker Paolo Franchi's sophomore feature follows a psychologically damaged youth who makes the grim decision to kill his parents. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
The Inner Life of Martin Frost

Actors: David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, Michael Imperioli, Sophie Auster, Paul Auster, Griffin Dunne

Synopsis: A successful American novelist who has retreated into the country following the publication of his most recent book meets a most mysterious muse in director/screenwriter Paul Auster's elliptic psychological drama. His latest novel an instant success, famous author Martin Frost (David Thewlis) Read More

2007
Autumn

Actors: Laurent Lucas, Irène Jacob, Benjamin Rolland, Michel Aumont, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Dinara Droukarova, Samuel Dupuy

Synopsis: A conflicted hitman recently who has reconnected with his childhood soul mate finds his quest for redemption becoming increasingly complicated when the girl steals an important briefcase in director Ra'up McGee's stark crime drama. Jean-Pierre is looking to get out of the life of crime when he Read More

6/9/06
The Education of Fairies

Actors: Ricardo Darín, Irène Jacob, Bebe the Circus Queen, Victor Valdivia, Jordi Bosch

Synopsis: In a time of crisis, a young boy tries to make sense of the fine line between fantasy and reality in this drama from Spain. Nicolas (Ricardo Darin) is a toy designer who has married Ingrid (Irene Jacob), a scientist studying birds who has been raising her son Raul (Victor Valdivia) on her own Read More

2006
Battle of the Brave

Actors: Noemie Godin Vigneau, David La Haye, Sebastien Huberdeau, Juliette Gosselin, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Gerard Depardieu, Vincent Perez, and Jason Isaacs star in director Jean Beaudin's historical account of the battle waged between England and France in hopes of gaining a geopolitical foothold in Canada. When a fur-trapper (David La Haye) and a young widow (Noemie Godin-Vigneau) find themselves Read More

2004
Mille Millièmes

Actors: Patrick Chesnais, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Albert Delpy, Grégori Derangère, Suzanne Flon

Synopsis: Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors (Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Valérie Stroh) whose request to have their apartments Read More

2002
Fourplay

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Mike Binder, Colin Firth, Irène Jacob, Jack Dee, Stephen Marcus, Christopher Lawford

Synopsis: Comic and actor Mike Binder wrote, directed, and stars in this romantic comedy. Ben Greene (Binder) is an American comedy writer who moves to London when he's hired to work on a British television series called Tedford Gate. Tedford Gate stars Carly Matthews-Portland (Mariel Hemingway), a Read More

2001
The Pornographer (a love story)

Synopsis: The border between professional and personal relationships comes under fire in this independent drama. Michael (Martin Donovan) is a filmmaker whose last project featured a beautiful actress named Anna (Irène Jacob). While Michael is trying to work on his next screenplay, he can't get Anna out of Read More

2000
L'Affaire Marcorelle

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Khorsand, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Former Cahiers du Cinema editor Serge Le Peron writes and directs this screwball crime comedy chock full of ironic film references. The film opens with student radical-turned-magistrate Francois Marcorelle (Jean-Pierre Leaud) stumbling into an art house movie theater mid-film. The rather comely Read More

2000
My Life So Far

Actors: Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irène Jacob, Tchéky Karyo, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Synopsis: Director Hugh Hudson, who made his directorial debut with the award-winning Chariots Of Fire, returns to the theme of British life in the 1920s in the bittersweet family drama My Life So Far. Gamma Macintosh (Rosemary Harris) is the matriarch of a family that inhabits Harewood House, a castle in Read More

7/14/99
The Big Brass Ring

Actors: Rosemary Garris, William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Miranda Richardson, Irène Jacob, Ewan Stewart

Synopsis: An unproduced screenplay written by the late Orson Welles (penned in collaboration with actress Oja Kodar, Welles' significant other in his later years) forms the basis of this drama of political gamesmanship and blackmail. Blake Pellarin (William Hurt) is running for governor of Missouri in a Read More

1999
Spy Games

Actors: Bill Pullman, Irène Jacob, Bruno Kirby, Glenn Plummer, Udo Kier

Synopsis: Finnish director Ilkka Jarvilaturi directs an international cast in this deadpan post-Cold War spy farce. Jaded CIA veteran Harry (Bill Pullman) and young SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) are on-again off-again lovers who have little to do in Helsinki except spy on one another, until a courier (Bruno Kirby Read More

1999
To Make a Film: Making of Beyond the Clouds

Synopsis: Michelangelo Antonioni was one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers in the Italian cinema, with a career that had spanned five decades, before he suffered a severe stroke in 1985. The stroke seemingly put an end to his career as a director, but in 1995, noted German auteur Wim Read More

1999
Cuisine Americaine

Actors: Eddy Mitchell, Irène Jacob, Jason Lee, Thibault de Montalembert, Michel Muller

Synopsis: French-born, UCLA-trained screenwriter Jean-Yves Pitoun made his directorial debut with this French comedy in which self-taught cook Lorenzo, aka Loren (Jason Lee) is discharged from the U.S. Navy after hitting a superior who accused him of serving "sissy food" to the Admiral's guests. Back in Read More

10/21/98
U.S. Marshals

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey, Jr., Kate Nelligan, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Tommy Lee Jones returns as United States Marshall Sam Gerard, the role that earned him an Academy Award, in this sequel to the 1993 blockbuster The Fugitive. Gerard has been assigned to escort a federal prisoner to a maximum security prison in Missouri. On the same flight is Mark Sheridan (Wesley Read More

1998
Incognito

Actors: Jason Patric, Irène Jacob, Thomas Lockyer, Ian Richardson, Simon Chandler

Synopsis: European locations (UK, France, Netherlands) highlight this romantic thriller set in the art world. In New York, top forger Harry Donovan (Jason Patric) is hired by British art dealers to fake a $500,000 Rembrandt, despite pressure from his ill father (Rod Steiger) to use his talent on originals Read More

1997
Othello

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Irène Jacob, Kenneth Branagh, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Maloney

Synopsis: Actor Oliver Parker made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the tragic play by William Shakespeare that abridges the original text by half and ups the quotient of sex and violence. Laurence Fishburne stars as the Moorish general Othello, who returns a hero after crushing an invasion Read More

1995
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

1995
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

1995
Fugueuses

Actors: Marie Trintignant, Irène Jacob, Nicole Garcia, Stefano Dionisi

Synopsis: Sullen teenage orphan Johnny Miles (Josh Albee) is wrongfully accused of stealing from his foster parents. Running away from home, Johnny forms a bond with another youthful "runaway"--this one a leopard who has escaped from a nearby wild-animal compound. Both fugitives are sheltered by a harsh but Read More

1995
Victory

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Simon Callow, Jean Yanne, Ho Yi

Synopsis: This third feature film version of Joseph Conrad's tragic romantic drama (the best of which remains John Cromwell's 1940 adaptation) is the one that stick's closest to the original story of a reclusive, hard-hearted fellow living on a private island in the Dutch East Indies who must protect his Read More

1995
Le Moulin de Daudet

Actors: Jean-Pierre Lorit, Louis Lalanne, Robert Ripa, Irène Jacob, Arnaud Olivari

Synopsis: The tales of Alphonse Daudet, the 19th-century author, are depicted in this French film. The film begins as Daudet begins writing the tales. Included is the story of a man's visit to his friend's grandparents, a fantasy about a dying baby king, and a priest's trip to hell to visit the devil. Read More

1994
Red

Actors: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frederique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit

Synopsis: The concluding chapter in filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors" trilogy, Red stars the luminous Irène Jacob as Valentine, a young student and fashion model who befriends a bitter former judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant, his character a proxy for Kieslowski himself). Their accidental meeting Read More

1994
Predskazaniye

Actors: Oleg Basilashvili, Irène Jacob, Iren Zhakob, Andrei Sokolov, Alexei Zharkov, Caroline Sihol, Aleksandr Pashutin

Synopsis: Oleg (Oleg Basilashvili) is in for a really strange time, that much is clear. Of course, just the fact of his desire to visit a gypsy fortuneteller in the first place is an indication of that. He's well past middle age, in his 50s, and is an established, well-known writer. When the fortuneteller Read More

1994
Trusting Beatrice

Actors: Mark Jacobs, Irène Jacob, Charlotte Moore, Pat McNamara, Leo Cimino

Synopsis: Claude is a landscaper who is having a terrible day. He has been abandoned by his girl friend, humiliated by his boss, and just vented his rage on an innocent girl scout selling cookies. Later he is burning pictures of his girlfriend when something goes amiss and he ends up torching his apartment Read More

1993
The Secret Garden

Actors: Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Maggie Smith, Laura Crossley

Synopsis: The 1993 remake of The Secret Garden is a rendition of the classic Frances Hodgon Burnett novel about a young girl (Kate Maberly) who discovers an abandoned garden on her uncle's large Victorian country estate, as well as an invalid cousin she didn't realize she had. With the help of a local boy Read More

1993
La Passion Van Gogh

Actors: Irène Jacob, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Philippe Volter, Maria Meriko

Synopsis: To say that the renowned Impressionist artist, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) had a dysfunctional family is likely to do a disservice to ordinary dysfunctional families everywhere. In this unusual drama, the family (and one friend) of the troubled artist gather together to participate in the customary Read More

1993
Enak

1992
The Double Life of Veronique

Actors: Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Guillaume de Tonquedec, Aleksander Bardini, Sandrine Dumas, Claude Duneton, Philippe Volter, Halina Gryglaszewska, Jerzy Gudejko

Synopsis: The Double Life of Véronique is the story of two young women who are -- in some mysterious and irresolvable way -- the same woman leading two different yet interconnected lives. Those familiar with Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's later "Three Colors" trilogy of Blue, White, and Red will Read More

11/24/91
Une Lecon De Choses

Actors: Irène Jacob, Roch Leibovici

1990
Le Secret De Sarah Tombelaine

Actors: Irène Jacob, Marc de Jonge, Harry Cleven, François Caron

1990
La Baie Des Souvenirs

Actors: Irène Jacob

1989
Les Mannequins D'Osier

Actors: Robin Renucci, Alexandre Arbatt, Irène Jacob, Didier Sandre

1988
Au Revoir Les Enfants

Actors: Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud

Synopsis: Gaspard Manesse plays Julien, an 11-year-old Catholic boarding-school resident during the Nazi occupation of France. He is witness to the courage of his instructors, who defy the German's anti-Semitic policies and quietly enroll Jewish children into the school under assumed names. Manesse Read More

10/7/87

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