Marie GillainFilmography

Les Femmes de l'ombre

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Déborah François, Moritz Bleibtreu

Synopsis: A handful of women use their smarts and allure in the service of the French Resistance in this historical drama set during World War II. Louise (Sophie Marceau) is a beautiful woman recruited into the French underground by her brother Pierre (Julien Boisselier) while Nazi forces occupy their Read More

Magic

Actors: Marie Gillain, Cali, Antoine Dulery, Louis Dussol, Benoit Briere

Synopsis: A self-sufficient beekeeper and her ten year old son begin to experience the change in their lives that both have been hoping for when a traveling circus erects their big top in the rolling back yard of their pastoral homestead. Single mother Betty (Marie Gillain) may be more than capable of Read More

Ma vie n'est pas une comedie romantique

Pars vite et Reviens tard

Actors: José Garcia, Lucas Belvaux, Marie Gillain, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: The bleakest and most claustrophobic nightmare of many a European actualizes in director Régis Wargnier's apocalyptic thriller Pars vite et reviens tard (AKA Have Mercy on Us All). Not long after his abandonment by his girlfriend, French police captain Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is confronted by a Read More

Fragile (s)

Actors: François Berléand, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Marie Gillain, Jacques Gamblin

Synopsis: Director Martin Valente weaves this elaborate tale of intersecting lives that originally screened at the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival. Unemployed Sara is down in the dumps, but her best friend Isa is determined to liven things up by taking her downsized friend on a weekend holiday in Read More

La Clef

Actors: Guillaume Canet

Synopsis: Guillaume Canet stars in Guillaume Nicloux's suspenseful post-noir thriller La Clef (The Key) as Eric Vincent, a thirtysomething whose wife, Audrey (Marie Gillain) longs for a baby. A troubled situation involving Eric's own dad, however (including years of estrangement) makes him extremely Read More

Hell

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain, Carole Bouquet, Guillaume Canet

Synopsis: Director Danis Tanovic picks up where the late-Krzysztof Kieslowski left off by taking on the second installment of Kieslowski's "Heaven," "Hell," and "Purgatory" trilogy (the first was adapted by Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer) with this tale of a family whose dark past returns with a Read More

Tout le Plaisir est Pour Moi

Ni Pour Ni Contre (Bien Au Contaire)

Actors: Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz, Zinedine Soualem, Simon Abkarian, Dimitri Storoge

Synopsis: A not-so-worldly twentysomething gets caught up with some shady Parisians in director Cedric Klapisch's 2003 crime comedy-drama Not for or Against. Wallflower camerawoman Caty (Marie Gillain) is three years into her career and residency in the French capital with little to show for it in the Read More

Safe Conduct

Actors: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Christian Berkel, Marie Gillain, Charlotte Kady

Synopsis: During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate; some filmmakers and technicians simply went along with what their new leaders demanded in hopes keeping themselves and their families safe, while others sought to subvert the messages of Read More

Barnie et Ses Petites Contrarietes

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Nathalie Baye, Marie Gillain, Hugo Speer, Serge Hazanavicius

Synopsis: A man keeping a few too many secrets finds them coming back to haunt him in this farcical comedy. Barnie (Fabrice Luchini) is an ordinary looking guy working in the shipping business who happens to have an unusually busy love life. While seemingly happily married to Lucie (Nathalie Baye) in Read More

Absolument Fabuleux

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Nathalie Baye, Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz, Claude Gensac

Synopsis: The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it Read More

Laissons Lucie Faire!

Actors: Marie Gillain, Dolores Chaplin, Delphine Zentout

Synopsis: Lucie (Marie Gillain), a woman in her mid-20s who makes a living by modeling and selling swimsuits at the beach, has lived with Lucien (Emmanuel Mouret, who also directed) for nine years. Their relationship has been plagued of late by Lucie's strange dreams and Lucien's inability to tell her of 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

Harem

Actors: Marie Gillain, Alex Descas, Lucia Bosé, Valeria Golino, Malick Bowens

Synopsis: Following the success of Hamam, Turkey-born, Italy-based Ferzan Ozpetek delivers another exotic film that delves into the traditions of his origin. Once again, the exotic city of Istanbul is the place of intrigue. But, unlike Hamam, which was a contemporary story, Harem Suare takes place at the Read More

On Guard

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain, Yann Collette

Synopsis: This period swashbuckler, set during the years 1699 to 1716, is the seventh screen adaptation of Paul Feval's 1857 serialized novel. Trained in circus stunts and fencing, Lagardere (Daniel Auteuil) becomes the bodyguard of the Duke of Nevers (Vincent Perez), whose cousin is the greedy Gonzague (Luchini Read More

Un Air Si Pur

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Jacques Boudet, Edith Scob, Jean-Pierre Lorit

Synopsis: In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicted from most every stratum of European society, most of whom show up with false hope in their hearts and plenty of equally false identities. Even the Read More

Elective Affinities

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Marie Gillain

Synopsis: This French-Italian romantic drama is faithfully based on an early 19th century Goethe novel about the destruction of a married couple. They are Charlotte and Edouard, an aristocratic couple who married late in life and happily lives in a lovely Tuscan villa. Their peaceful, marital bliss is Read More

Fresh Bait

Actors: Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Richard Berry, Philippe Duclos

Synopsis: This drama examines three amoral young people living in Paris. 18-year-old Nathalie (Marie Gillain) works in a clothing store and dreams of opening her own boutique in the United States. She shares an apartment with her boyfriend Eric (Olivier Sitruk) and his slow-witted pal Bruno (Bruno Putzulu); Read More

Marie

Actors: Marie Gillain, Alessandro Sigona, Aurore Clément, Sabrina Leurquin, Stephane Ferrara

Synopsis: This European road movie chronicles the misfortunes, hopes, and dreams of a troubled teenage girl alone in a cruel world. Life for Marie has always been hard, but lately things have gotten worse. Her former boyfriend committed suicide. She is pregnant by her current one, her mother is forcing her Read More

Mon Père Ce Héros

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Patrick Mille, Catherine Jacob, Charlotte de Turckheim

Synopsis: In this comedy, Andre is anxious to please his fourteen-year old daughter when he picks her up from her mother (whom he's divorced from) for a vacation on Maritius. She is full of romantic notions, and when she spies a cute windsurfer at the resort, she concocts a story to win him to her side. Read More