A veteran call girl and a neurotic psychotherapist discover that they have far more in common than they imagined in this...
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Alice Bergerac
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2011
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2011
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A woman trying to save a failing relationship gets some unexpected help from a well-meaning slob in this comedy from director...
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2011
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Maria Vial
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2010
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2010
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A middle-aged bohemian belatedly discovers the joys of capitalism in this comedy from French writer and director Marc...
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2010
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An entire household is caught in traffic thanks to the opening of a new super-highway in this satiric comedy drama from Swiss...
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Marthe
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2009
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Legendary French screen actress Isabelle Huppert headlines this sumptuous, passionate tale, adapted from a novel by...
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Ann
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2009
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2008
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Jeanne Charmant-Killman
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2007
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Director Tonino de Bernardi reworks the tragic myth of Medea into a passionate tale of a nightclub singer abandoned by her...
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Irene
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2007
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Screen legend Isabelle Huppert (La Dentellière, Les Soeurs Brontë) headlines acclaimed director Alessandro Capone's...
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Danielle
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2007
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Acclaimed actress Isabelle Huppert stars in this downbeat tale of a suicidal mental patient trapped in an endless maze of...
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Danielle
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2007
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A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, Gabrielle. Based on the...
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Gabrielle
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2006
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The sale of a family home causes some ugly truths to be uncovered in this drama from writer and director Joachim Lafosse....
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Pascale
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2006
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Five years after achieving commercial and critical success with his film Three Kings, director and screenwriter...
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Caterine Vauban
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2004
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Anne
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2004
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An attractive widow finds her attentions turning to her teenage son in a troubling manner in this drama from France. Pierre...
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Hélène
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2004
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Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) is a 40-year-old prostitute who works on the streets in Nice. Her teenage daughter Laurence...
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2004
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Martine
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2004
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A gaggle of mothers, wives, daughters, maids, and mistresses gather for a holiday homecoming at their country mansion -- and...
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Augustine
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2002
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Claude Chabrol directed this well-crafted thriller, which recalls the style and themes of his best-known work of the 1960s....
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Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller
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2002
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Acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas follows up on the international success of Fin Août, Début Septembre and Irma Vep...
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Nathalie
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2002
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How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a veteran piano instructor at a...
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Erica Kohut
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2002
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Avant-garde director Werner Schroeter's Deux (Two) is a willfully disjointed film about twin sisters played by...
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2002
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Noted French filmmaker Laurence Ferreira Barbosa directs this loosely-structured triptych about a trio of unconnected people...
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Claire
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2000
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A woman begins to wonder if her young son is who she thinks he is in this psychological suspense story. Ariane and Pierre...
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Ariane
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2000
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This historical drama is based on a true story from 17th century France. Madame de Maintenon (Isabelle Huppert) rises from...
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Madame de Maintenon
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2000
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This droll comedy from France was based on a popular stage play by the 18th century author Marivaux. As a lark, an attractive...
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The Countess
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2000
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An older man and a younger woman find love, with his time in jail the unlikely catalyst, in this witty drama from France....
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Agnes Jeancourt
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1999
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Dominique
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1998
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French director Christian Vincent charts the dissolution of a long-term relationship with his third film, based on the novel...
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Anne
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1998
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French philosopher/semiotician Roland Barthes once asked "Why and how do singers find their emotions in their voices?" This...
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1997
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Betty
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1997
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This French-Italian romantic drama is faithfully based on an early 19th century Goethe novel about the destruction of a...
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Charlotte
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1997
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Based on an award-winning play by Jean-Noel Fenwick, this fact-based drama offers a lively account of the lives and...
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Marie
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1997
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Jeanne
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1995
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In this erotic, melodramatic thriller set in rundown apartment block in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), Russia during the...
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Sofia
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1994
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Hal Hartley's fourth feature is a significant break from the quirky romantic comedy territory of his previous work -- though...
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Isabelle
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1994
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Lola
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1992
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Literary critics long regarded Gustave Flaubert's iconic French novel Madame Bovary as unfilmable (despite several attempts...
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Emma Bovary
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1991
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In this movie, a woman is going mad, literally, with frustration. Based on a novel by Ingeborg Bachmann, Isabelle Huppert...
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The Woman
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1991
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Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the...
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1991
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The women in this story are the customers of amateur abortionist Isabelle Huppert. The time is 1941, and the place is a...
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Marie
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1989
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In this drama, two disparate women are bereaved when the third part of their love triangle dies. After the funeral, the wife...
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Cecile
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1989
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This political drama is taken from the classic story from Feodor Dostoyevsky, but liberties have been taken and many...
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Maria Shatov
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1988
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Sylvia Wentworth
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1987
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Isabelle Huppert stars in this thriller as Sarah, a woman who has settled into a more or less normal life in Milan after her...
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Sarah
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1987
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Isabelle Huppert plays a French woman who travels to Australia after leaving her husband. Injured in an accident, Huppert is...
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Colo
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1986
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Charlotte
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1986
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Josiane Balasko ("the housewife's heroine") has been writing and directing good roles for herself since first entering the...
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1985
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Aline Kaminker/Edith Weber
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1984
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This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the...
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Pierra
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1983
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Isabelle Huppert plays an attractive Parisienne out looking for some fun during her vacation on the ski slopes of Courchevel...
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Vivane
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1983
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French filmmaker Diane Kurys directs the period drama Coup de Foudre (distributed in the U.S. as Entre Nous), adapted from a...
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Lena
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1983
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This French sex farce is translated in English as The Trout. Joseph Losey directed and co-wrote the film, which stars...
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Frederique
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1982
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Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses...
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Isabelle
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1982
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Very loosely based on the plot of Henry James' Wing of the Dove, this film resets the story about two lovers trying to steal...
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Marie
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1981
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Jean-Louis Trintignant's sinister yet subtle performance as a man who gives the most insane proof of love to his wife...
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Melanie Allen
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1981
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Rose
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1981
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In the original story of Camille by Alexandre Dumas, Jr. La Dame aux Camelias, a beautiful Parisian courtesan, Marguerite...
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Alphonsine Plessis
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1981
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A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie...
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Ella Watson
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1981
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Maurice Pialat's character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to...
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Nelly
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1980
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In this standard Hungarian drama, the effects of sterility and jealousy on a marriage are played out against a backdrop of...
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Irene
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1980
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Jeanne Kern
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1979
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Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie), a pessimistic but visually stunning film, marks Jean-Luc Godard's return to cinema after having...
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Isabelle Riviera
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1979
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The Bronte sisters are profiled in this biography. The film dramatizes the repressed Victorian lives of the three famed...
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Anne Bronte
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1979
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Claude Chabrol's Violette was based on the true story of 19-year-old Violette Noziere, who in the 1930s was tried and...
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Violette Noziere
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1978
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The internationally produced The Lacemaker (La Dentelliere) stars Isabelle Huppert as Pomme, a meek and mild French...
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Beatrice, "Pomme"
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1977
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Jenny (Isabelle Huppert) is a disconnected 16-year old schoolgirl who is so taken with a story of Native Americans coming to...
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Jenny
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1976
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A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made...
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Yvette
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1976
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Trouble comes swiftly to an entrepreneurial lad when his city relatives take his suggestion that they transform their...
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Maid
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1975
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A boisterous, cheerful and lusty man, Lajoie (Jean Carmet) meets his friends every year at a family campsite. During the...
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1975
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Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French...
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Rose
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1975
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Based on a novel by Joan Hemingway and Paul Bonnecarrere, Rosebud opens with five young women vacationing aboard a luxurious...
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1975
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A doctor gains a new perspective on her life and career when she faces a life-threatening illness in this drama. Francoise...
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Elisabeth
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1975
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Based on a groundbreaking 19th-century French trial, this movie recreates the courtroom controversy surrounding a young man...
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Sister
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1975
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1974
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The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of...
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Aloise as a child
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1974
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To pass the time while she does chores, a little Jewish girl makes up the story of the Ampelopede as she remains hidden on a...
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Woman
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1973
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1972
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This French comic action/adventure film tells the rollicking story of Flemish Vincent Van Horst (Jacques Brel), a World War I...
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1972
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