Marie-France Pisier Filmography

The Perfect Friend

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Antoine de Caunes, Claude Miller, Carole Bouquet, Martina Gedeck

Ordo

Actors: Roschdy Zem, Marie-Josée Croze, Marie-France Pisier, Yves Jacques, Scali Delpeyrat

Inch'Allah Dimanche

Actors: Fejria Deliba, Zinedine Soualem, Marie-France Pisier, Mathilde Seigner, Rabia Mokedem

Synopsis: Set in 1974, when the French government decided to allow the families of Algerian men working in France to legally emigrate to join them, Inch'Allah Dimanche tells the story of one such family. Upon arriving in France with her three children, Zouina (Fejra Deliba), is sent off to live in a house Read More

Comme un Avion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bérénice Bejo, Marie-France Pisier, Clement Van Den Bergh, Laurence Côte, Samuel Labarthe

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

Combat d'amour en songe

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Elsa Zylberstein, Lambert Wilson, Christian Vadim, Diogo Doria

Synopsis: Raul Ruiz's Love Torn in a Dream is introduced with a fake newsreel, taking place in postwar France, in which the cast of the film meet with the producer, who explains the film's complex weave of nine narratives. A diagram in which each story is represented by a letter of the alphabet explicates Read More

Sur Un Air d'Autoroute

Actors: Sacha Bourdo, Aure Atika, Philippe Nahon, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: A man discovers he's no longer as close to his ear as he once was in this absurdist comedy. Jeff (Sacha Bourdo) is minding his own business when a phonograph record tossed from a passing car accidentally cuts off his ear. The ear falls into traffic, gets stuck on the windshield of another vehicle Read More

The Ice Rink

Actors: Tom Novembre, Mireille Perrier, Dolores Chaplin, Bruce Campbell, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: Acclaimed Belgian novelist Jean-Philippe Toussaint drew attention to his directorial talents in 1990 with a remarkable satire on modern life, Monsieur. His third feature, La Patinoire, is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Read More

Pourquoi pas Moi?

Actors: Amira Casar, Julie Gayet, Bruno Putzulu, Alexandra London, Carmen Chaplin

Synopsis: The story of this gay comedy reminds one of the fashionable boulevard theatre of 1950's Paris whose major theme was bourgeois adultery. A couple would invite another couple to dinner, and half way through the second course it would be revealed that the husband was having an affair with his best Read More

Marion

Actors: Coralie Tetard, Pierre Berriau, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: A financially struggling mason, his wife and their 10-year-old daughter Marion, one of six children, find themselves faced with a difficult choice when a wealthy Parisian couple asks to adopt her. This moving drama is set in a quiet Normandy village. Marion and her family are new in town and the Read More

The Son of Gascogne

Actors: Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Grégoire Colin, Dinara Drukarova, Pascal Bonitzer

Synopsis: This gentle French comedy has a meandering plotline as it traces the exploits of a young man recognized as a the son of a star. The main protagonist is 23-year old Harvey who works as the guide for a group of Georgian singers who have a Paris gig. He is interested in Dinara, the 18-year old Read More

Pourquoi Maman es Dans Mon Lit?

Actors: Gerard Klein, Marie-France Pisier, Benjamin Chevillard, Lisa Martino, Sophie Desmarets, Jean-Michel Dupuis

Synopsis: A boy, blaming himself for his parent's break-up, devises a scheme to bring them back together in this entertaining French film. Antoine is angry because he can't have a leather jacket so he steals one from a boutique. He couldn't have one because his parents couldn't afford it. His father is a Read More

Tous les jours dimanche

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Maurizio Nichetti, Rod Steiger, Marie-France Pisier, Molly Ringwald

Synopsis: This Italian comedy was filmed in Sarasota, Florida and features the exploits of a would be gigolo and a violinist. Dodo, a Frenchman, is the gigolo, and Jesus is the Italian violinist who pursued his girlfriend to Florida to marry her. When Jesus finds that his gal is helping to support Dodo he 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

La Note Bleue

Actors: Janusz Olejniczak, Marie-France Pisier, Sophie Marceau, Noëmi Nadelmann, Féodor Atkine, Benoit Lepecq

Synopsis: On a summer day of 1846, George Sand hosts a large party at her country house in Nohant. Among the celebrities present are the painter Eugene Delacroix, the opera singer Pauline Viardot, and Viardot's lover, the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. As Sand's longtime affair with composer Frederick Chopin Read More

Le Bal du Gouverneur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kristin Scott Thomas, Didier Flamand, Laurent Grévill

Synopsis: Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by the director, actress Marie-France Pisier, this drama tells the story of a failing marriage between Charles Forestier (Didier Flamand), a stuffy colonial official stationed on New Caledonia (a French colony in the south Pacific), and his exciteable and Read More

L'Oeuvre Au Noir

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe, Anna Karina, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: Andre Delvaux directed this stylish, yet ultimately empty adaptation of a historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Gian Maria Volonte leads the cast as Zenon, a Belgian doctor and alchemist in the 1500s. Zenon travels across Europe for many years hiding from the Inquisition, which eventually Read More

Parking

Actors: Francis Huster, Laurent Malet, Keiko Ito, Gerard Klein, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: Parking is director Jacques Demy's homage to Jean Cocteau's 1948 masterwork Orpheus. As in the Cocteau film, Demy relates the Orpheus and Euridyce legend in a contemporary setting. Now a rock 'n' roll sensation (instead of the poet of the Cocteau film) Orpheus falls in love with Eurydice, who in Read More

44 Ou Les Recits De La Nuit

Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Marie-France Pisier, Christine Pascal

Les Nanas

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Dominique Lavanant, Macha Meril, Anémone, Clémentine Célarié, Odette Laure, Catherine Samie

Synopsis: This suavely-fashioned film with an all-female cast focuses primarily on three women and the man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman (Marie-France Pisier) with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It Read More

Der Stille Ozean

Actors: Bert Breit, Maria Emo, Marie-France Pisier, Bruno Dallansky

Synopsis: Cinematographer turned director (Xaver Schwarzenberger) has filmed a small, wintry story of epic human proportions. A young doctor (Hanno Poeschi) exiles himself to a remote Austrian village when he accidentally causes a death. Once at the village, winter sets in and against that harsh and poetic Read More

L'Ami de Vincent

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Françoise Fabian, Fanny Cottençon, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: In this plodding drama about a man searching for his friend's wronged lover, there is neither high action nor high suspense to keep -- or even reach -- a quick-paced storyline. A shallow womanizer (Jean Rochefort) plays the trumpet in an orchestra conducted by his steady and stable friend (Philippe Noiret Read More

Der Zauberberg

Actors: Rod Steiger, Marie-France Pisier, Flavio Bucci, Christoph Eichhorn, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: Hans Castrop (Christoph Eichhorn) goes to visit a cousin in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, intending to stay for about three weeks, but instead ends up staying for seven years observing the fascinating inhabitants at this supposed haven from the society that has slid downhill to the brink of Read More

Le Prix du Danger

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Pisier, Bruno Cremer, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Despite a fast-paced story that slams the broadcast industry and lotto mentality, this sci-fi action thriller emphasizes action over anxiety, and so its hunt-and-kill premise is less exciting than it sounds. Based on a Robert Sheckley tale, the action is brought about by a television show invented Read More

L'As Des As

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache, Günter Meisner

Synopsis: The French/German Ace of Aces stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a dauntless World War One flyboy. Nearly 20 years after cessation of hostilities, Belmondo attends the 1936 Berlin Olympics as manager of the French boxing team. Through a series of plot twists too incredible to relate, Our Hero finds Read More

Boulevard des Assassins

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Hot Touch

Actors: Wayne Rogers, Marie-France Pisier, Samantha Eggar, Patrick Macnee

Synopsis: In this routine action film, Danny Fairchild (Wayne Rogers) and Vincent Reblack (Patrick Macnee) are partners in an art-scam operation in which Danny forges valuable paintings and Vincent authenticates them; both pretend to run a company that legitimately authenticates art for sale at auction. Read More

Miss Right

Actors: Karen Black, Margot Kidder, Virna Lisi, Marie-France Pisier, William Tepper

Synopsis: William Tepper, whose only significant credit to date was the lead role in the Jack Nicholson-directed 1972 cult film (#Drive, He Said), wrote and stars in Miss Right. He plays Terry Bartell, a U.P.I. reported stationed in Rome. Bartell is an inveterate ladies man who suddenly decides he's through Read More

Chanel Solitaire

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Timothy Dalton, Rutger Hauer, Karen Black, Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis: An ambitious Parisian fashion designer finds romance and great career success in this story about the life and loves of the legendary couturier, Coco (Gabrielle) Chanel. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Scruples

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Barry Bostwick, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: Adapted from the Judith Krantz novel of the same name, the CBS miniseries Scruples zeroes in on a trendy, upscale Beverly Hills boutique. The guiding force behind the Scruples shop is beautiful Billy Ikelhorn (Lindsay Wagner), who, though born into grinding poverty, had risen to the uppermost Read More

La Banquière

Actors: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Brasseur, Daniel Mesguich

French Postcards

Actors: Miles Chapin, Blanche Baker, David Marshall Grant, Valerie Quennessen, Debra Winger

Synopsis: A "critic's darling" of 1979, the modestly produced French Postcards has an appeal that goes beyond the wine and cheese crowd. Miles Chapin plays Joel, an American student in France on an exchange program. Joel's teacher, Mme. Tessier (Marie-France Pisier), is a "Miss Jean Brodie" type whose ideas Read More

Les Soeurs Bronte

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: The Bronte sisters are profiled in this biography. The film dramatizes the repressed Victorian lives of the three famed authors who all died young. Their writing, so full of life, was a total contrast to the reality of their existence, focused mostly upon arguing with their father and taking care Read More

Love on the Run

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Dorothée, Daniel Mesguich

Synopsis: L'Amour en Fuite (Love on the Run) is presented in flashbacks from the previous four movies as Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) meets up with people from his past. As the fifth and final film in the series, Antoine is over 30 years old and meets with his wife, Christine (Claude Jade), to sign Read More

Les Apprentis Sorciers

Actors: Zouzou, Peter Chatel, Marie-France Pisier, Christian Marquand, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: "Radical chic" was a phenomenon of the upper classes in the late '60s and early '70s: liberal, socially concerned and very wealthy people would emulate the attitudes, mannerisms and style of the radicalized and revolutionary poor. They would even go so far as to socialize with revolutionaries and Read More

The Other Side of Midnight

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Gulager

Synopsis: One woman's life of love and larceny is recounted in this soapy drama based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. In the midst of WWII, innocent French girl Noelle Page (Marie-France Pisier) falls in love with dashing American pilot Larry Douglas (John Beck). When Larry is given new orders Read More

Serail

Actors: Leslie Caron, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: Eric (Corin Redgrave) is a novelist whose imagination is unusually powerful. While exploring a run-down mansion in the French countryside, looking for sites for his stories, he meets a girl dressed in clothes from another time. Returning to the site, he encounters a modern woman who says he Read More

Barocco

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Former film critic André Téchiné directed and co-wrote this offbeat crime drama. Samson (Gérard Depardieu) is a down-on-his-luck boxer who manages to win a fortune thanks to a fixed fight. However, while Samson and his girlfriend Laure (Isabelle Adjani) are trying to get away with the money, he is Read More

Le Corps de Mon Ennemi

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Blier, Daniel Ivernel

Synopsis: Francois (Jean-Paul Belmondo) was framed as a drug-trafficker by none other than the head trafficker himself and spent seven years in prison for his supposed crimes. Now an ex-con, the vengeful Francois carefully arranges things so that the kingpin's own henchmen murder him, as they believe that Read More

Cousin Cousine

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand, Ginette Garcin

Synopsis: Love turns out to be all in the family in this romantic comedy from France. When an elderly couple decides to marry, their families come together for a wedding banquet that turns into a raucous, wine-soaked celebration. Marthe (Marie-Christine Barrault) and Ludovic (Victor Lanoux) are distant Read More

The Phantom of Liberty

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur, Paul Le Person, François Maistre, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Verley, Milena Vukotic, Michel Piccoli, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau

Synopsis: One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a man sells postcards of French tourist attractions, calling them "pornographic." A sniper in Montparnasse is hailed as a hero for killing passersby. A "missing" child helps Read More

Souvenirs d'en France

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Auclair, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Mann, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions -- including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie -- to this episodic drama, which serves as a thinly-veiled portrait of France's economic peaks and valleys from the 1930s through the 1970s. Jeanne Moreau stars as Berthe Pedret, a Read More

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder

Synopsis: A story about story-telling, Jacques Rivette's self-referential classic centers on the fanciful world of two women literally lost in the stories they tell each other. Celine (Juliet Berto) and Julie (Dominique Labourier) go from sharing a story about a haunted house to being part of a story about Read More

Feminin - Feminin

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Olga Georges-Picot, Pierre Brice

Synopsis: In this French romantic melodrama, Françoise is happy to respond to her husband's voracious sexual appetite, but otherwise she is not happy at the country mansion she lives in with her husband and mother-in-law. The mother-in-law is an impossible old biddy, and makes life decidedly unpleasant. Read More

Le Journal d'Un Suicide

Actors: Delphine Seyrig

Synopsis: As they travel the Mediterranean, a Guide (Sami Frey) tells many stories to the Interpreter (Delphine Seyrig) -- at her request -- but his biggest story seems to warp reality. A pair of anarchists bomb a government minister's family, killing all except a young girl, who now is guarded by a Read More

Paulina S'En Va

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Laura Betti, Michèle Moretti, Yves Beneyton

Synopsis: Paulina (Bulle Ogier) drifts aimlessly after she leaves her ailing brother. Struggling to find a place for herself in society, she first enters an insane asylum and later winds up in a whorehouse. She leaves the bordello and hooks up with some young revolutionaries as she continues to search for a Read More

Nous N'irons Plus Au Bois

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Richard Leduc, Siegfried Rauch, Jacques Higelin

Synopsis: We Will Not Enter the Forest entered French theatres as Nous N'Irons plus au Bois. The film is set in the waning days of the Nazi occupation of France. The German troops have no real clout, and as such are the targets of taunts and kidnappings. Marie-France Pisar plays a resistance fighter who Read More

Stolen Kisses

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis: The episodic romantic comedy Stolen Kisses is the third installment in François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, which started with The 400 Blows in 1959. In 1968, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is discharged from the military and comes home to Paris, getting an apartment in Montmartre with an Read More

L'Ecume Des Jours

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Jacques Perrin, Sami Frey, Alexandra Stewart, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: This uneven film has Colin (Jacques Perrin) marrying a delicate young girl who soon dies after their wedding. His friend Partre (Samy Frey) is an avid collector of objects belonging to his favorite author, often spending his remaining money on the souvenirs. After Colin's wife dies, he steals her Read More

Trans-Europ-Express

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nadine Verdier, Charles Millot, Catherine Robbe-Grillet, Daniel Emilfork

Synopsis: This complex and witty crime drama is set aboard a Paris train bound for Antwerp. Aboard are a husband and wife. Also aboard, but during a different time and space, is a gangster. The husband and wife are planning to make a film, Trans-Europ-Express featuring an actor who looks exactly like the Read More

Le Vampire De Dusseldorf

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Robert Hossein, Paloma Valdes

Synopsis: Robert Hossein and Marie-France Pisier star in this moderately suspenseful thriller. Peter is a laborer who dons fancy clothes and cruises the seedy dives of Dusseldorf for women. Whenever he is rejected by one of the females, he turns into a sadistic murderer. A shy young cabaret singer falls for Read More

Les Yeux Cernes

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: A widow (Michele Morgan) in a small town begins to realize that her late husband was hated by nearly everybody. She begins to receive blackmail letters that threaten to further humiliate her if she does not pay up. She enlists the help of Franz (Robert Hossein), a man who was once fired by her Read More

Les Amoureux Du France

Actors: Olivier Despax, Catherine Rouvel, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: Seeing an opportunity to make a financial recovery for the family, a nobleman attempts to wed his son to his wealthy friend's daughter. His plan is to send the boy for a cruise on the SS France with the prospective female. Upon arriving to meet the lovely girl, the young man switches places with Read More

La Mort d'un Tueur

Actors: Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier, Simon Andreu, Robert Dalban

Synopsis: When Massa (Robert Hossein) is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano (Simon Andreu), an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria (Marie-France Pisier). Feeling doubly betrayed because of Read More

Les Saintes Nitouches

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Michel Subor, Bernard Blier, Claude Cerval

Synopsis: This light comedy finds a pretty teenage girl stealing jewelry for fun rather than dating boys. Agents from the insurance company catch up with the felonious female on the Riviera. She returns the loot and parlays the experience into a job at the company. Eventually, her attention turns to boys as Read More

L'Amour à Vingt Ans

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Rosy Varte, Cristina Gajoni, François Darbon, Eleonora Rossi-Drago

Synopsis: Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story of innocent love between a young man in his mid-teens and a slightly older woman. Renzo Rossellini Read More

Antoine et Colette

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: Antoine et Colette, which was originally made as an episode in the series L'Amour à vingt ans, was a sequel to Truffaut's The 400 Blows. In the film, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) works at the Philips record store and courts the elusive Colette (Marie-France Pisier). The story of Antoine Read More