Mathilda MayFilmography

Born:: February 8, 1965 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Karima Mathilda Hiam
Biography:: A deep-tanned, brown-eyed beauty whose background in ballet lends her a certain onscreen elegance unrivaled by many of her contemporaries, actress Mathilda May has lit up the screens of French cinema since the early '80s. Though international success has consistently eluded her through the years...Read More

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La Fille Coupée en Deux

Actors: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand, Mathilda May, Caroline Sihol

Synopsis: A television weatherwoman is pursued simultaneously by a spoiled pharmaceutical heir and a successful -- but much older -- writer in director Claude Chabrol's blackly comic tale of romance and class differences. Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier) has a high-profile job detailing the forecast on Read More

8/15/08
La-bas ... mon pays

Actors: Antoine de Caunes, Nozha Khouadra, Samy Naceri, Said Amadis, Mathilda May

Synopsis: The bitter legacy of the French/Algerian War set the stage of this drama from director Alexandre Arcady, himself a Frenchman of Algerian birth. Pierre Nivel (Antoine DeCaunes) is a noted French television journalist and network anchorman. One day, he receives an unexpected visitor, an Algerian man Read More

2000
Only Love

Actors: Marisa Tomei, Rob Morrow, Mathilda May, Paul Freeman, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: In this two-part made-for-TV romantic drama, a neurosurgeon finds difficulty in dealing with the fact that his latest critically ill patient is the woman whom he once wanted to marry. He is married to another woman, but he still has feelings for his patient. ~ Andrew Olthuis, All Movie Guide Read More

1998
The Jackal

Actors: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Tess Harper

Synopsis: In Moscow, after FBI deputy director Carter Preston (Sidney Poitier) and scarred Russian intelligence officer Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora) bring down a key figure in the Russian Mafia, they are threatened by the criminal's powerful brother who swears vengeance on the FBI and immediately hires Read More

1997
Celluloide

Synopsis: In 1945, filmmaker Roberto Rossellini released the daring Rome, Open City, a film that sharply criticized the Nazis and became a cornerstone of the Italian Neorealist movement. This Italian drama tells the fascinating true story of the film's genesis. Originally Rossellini and his screenwriter Read More

1995
La Teta y la Luna

Actors: Mathilda May, Miguel Poveda, Gérard Darmon, Biel Duran, Abel Folk

Synopsis: This Spanish/French film presents a loving ode to a woman's breasts and the three men who love them. The fairy tale is told from the viewpoint of 9-year old Tete, who jealous of his new brother's access to his mother's breasts, implores the moon to give him a nurturing breast of his own. French Read More

1994
Dead Tired

Actors: Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: A burned out actor begins to question his sanity in this French comedy that stars the writer/director Michel Blanc in a dual role. In the first role Blanc plays himself as an exhausted actor. He has been doing too much TV and too many movies. Odd things begin to happen and Blanc becomes convinced Read More

1994
Le Voleur et la Menteuse

Actors: Mathilda May, Gérard Darmon, Philippe Léotard, Nathalie Cerda, Jacques Bonnot

Synopsis: In this French romance, an escaped convict on the lam falls in love with a movie costumer. Paul Salomon is on the lam after he broke out of prison. He goes a winterbound resort town near the English Channel to retrieve a satchel full of loot. He is headed for Blighty. In the town, he stops in a Read More

1994
Becoming Colette

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Mathilda May, Virginia Madsen, Paul Rhys, John van Dreelen

Synopsis: Danny Huston's Becoming Colette purports to be an account of the early formative years of French author Gabrielle Colette (Mathilda May) and her evolution from naive country bumpkin to a Parisian socialite in a George Sand suit. The film turns up the heat with Colette as a teen with a crush on her Read More

11/6/92
Toutes Peines Confondues

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Patrick Bruel, Mathilda May, Bruce Myers, Vernon Dobtcheff

Synopsis: In this tedious and excessively complicated thriller, a cop (Patrick Bruel) who has been sent to investigate the corruption in a small French town, encounters a mysterious rival (Jacques Dutronc), who is trying on his own to investigate the murder of his father. Michel Deville demonstrates a whole Read More

1992
Naked Tango

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May, Esai Morales, Fernando Rey, Cipe Lincovsky

Synopsis: A woman desperate to change her life takes a wrong turn into danger and degradation in this drama. In 1924, Stephanie (Mathilda May) is travelling to Buenos Aires with her husband, who is considerably older than her and in poor health. Stephanie is not happy with her life, so when a young woman Read More

8/23/91
Schrei Aus Stein

Actors: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mathilda May, Stefan Glowacz, Brad Dourif, Donald Sutherland, Al Waxman

Synopsis: Werner Herzog's cinema of obsession (Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo) has always owed some of its emotional expressionism to the post-World War I genre of German mountain films (The Blue Light, The White Hell of Pitz-Palu), in which German mountain climbers are compelled to scale the Read More

1991
Isabelle Eberhardt

Actors: Mathilda May, Tchéky Karyo, Peter O'Toole, Richard Moir, Arthur Dignam

Synopsis: Isabelle Eberhardt dramatizes the tragic true story of the iconoclastic Swiss-born writer, who gained notoriety for both her lifestyle and her work in North Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. Eberhardt (Mathilda May) began dressing as a man and converted to Islam in her teens. As the Read More

1990
La Passerelle

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Mathilda May, Jany Holt, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Marie Marion

Synopsis: Cora (Mathilde May) and her neighbor Jean (Pierre Arditi) meet for the first time when Cora's five-year-old son falls off the balcony in this drama. Jean is caught outside naked when a gust of wind slams the door closed, causing the frightened young boy to fall three stories. The two get to know Read More

1988
Trois Places Pour Le 26

Actors: Yves Montand, Mathilda May, Françoise Fabian, Patrick Fierry, Catriona MacColl

Synopsis: Yves Montand plays himself in this musical romantic comedy by Jacques Demy. Demy and Michel Legrand wrote the songs with Montand in mind as a tribute to the famous French singer and actor in his most celebrated roles. Choreography is provided by Michael Peters for the many background dancers who Read More

1988
La Vie Dissolue de Gerard Floque

Actors: Roland Giraud, Marie-Anne Chazel, Jacqueline Maillan, Clémentine Célarié, Gérard Rinaldi

Synopsis: Advertising executive Gerard Floque (Roland Giraud) has the worst day of his life in this routine comedy. He comes home after losing his job to find his daughter arrested on drug charges and his wife Cecile (Clementine Celaire) in bed with a famous television personality (Gerard Rinaldi). Gerard Read More

1987
The Cry of the Owl

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Mathilda May, Jacques Penot, Virginie Thévenet, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Le Cri du Hibou concerns Robert (Christophe Malavoy), a commercial artist who has moved to a quiet neighborhood in Vichy, hoping to escape a severe depression brought on by the unpleasant breakup of his marriage to Veronique (Virginie Thevenet). Robert finds Read More

1987
Lifeforce

Actors: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Director Tobe Hooper adapts Colin Wilson's edgy novel The Space Vampires in this in this horror/sci-fi epic with a cult following. The story concerns a joint British-American space probe of Hailey's Comet. Inside the comet, the astronauts, headed by Carlsen (Steve Railsback), find a spaceship that Read More

1985
Les Rois Du Gag

Actors: Michel Serrault, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Macha Meril, Mathilda May

Synopsis: Gaetan (Michel Serrault) is a television comic whose jokes have kept his program alive, but in more recent times, his senior gag writers have not had their hand on the pulse of his changing audience. A series of circumstances bring two young cafe-theater comedy writers to the rescue (Thierry Lhermitte Read More

1985
Dream One

Actors: Seth Kibel, Jason Connery, Mathilda May, Nipsey Russell, Harvey Keitel

Synopsis: The film tells the tale of the adolescent son of two wealthy socialites who have left him home alone while they go out on the town. At home, the boy begins a series of wild daydreams. He finds himself aboard an elevator that takes him through the Earth and onto another planet. There he finds the Read More

1984
Letters to an Unknown Lover

Actors: Cherie Lunghi, Mathilda May, Yves Beneyton, Ralph Bates, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: During World War II, allied soldiers Ralph Bates and Yves Beneyton escape from a Nazi POW camp in France. They escape to Lyons, where they accept the hospitality of mademoiselle Cherie Lunghi. The woman has a psychic sister, played by Mathilda May, who sees dark days ahead for the two escapees. Read More

1984