Miou-MiouFilmography

Le Concert

Actors: Miou-Miou, François Berléand, Mélanie Laurent

Mia Mia and the Migoo

Actors: Garance Lagraa, Charlie Girerd, Laurent Gamelon, Jean-Pierre Coffe, Miou-Miou, Line Wible, Pierre Richard, Romain Bouteille

Synopsis: Jacques-Remy Girerd, acclaimed director of La Prophetie Des Grenouilles, returns to write and direct this animated fantasy adventure following a young girl as she encounters the Migou, a strange creature who teaches her about a sacred tree that is essential to all life on the planet. Young Mia Read More

The Great Alibi

Actors: Miou-Miou, Lambert Wilson, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Pierre Arditi, Anne Consigny

Synopsis: A man is shot dead, but is the woman with the gun really the killer? That's the all-important question in this thriller from France. Henri Pages (Pierre Arditi) is a successful politician who with his wife Elaine (Miou-Miou) has invited an eclectic group of guests to their country home for a Read More

Cycles

Actors: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Shulamit Adar, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: A brother and sister face the traumas of middle age while their mother loses her battle with Alzheimer's in this comedy-drama from France. Simon (Charles Berling) is a writer in his mid-forties who is getting his life back on track after a divorce; he's also looking after his teenage daughter Read More

The Science of Sleep

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: Inventive Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry takes a surreal trip through the mind of an introverted but wildly creative man whose attempts to balance his colorful dreams with his stark reality are complicated by the arrival of a beautiful woman into his life. Shy Read More

Avril

Actors: Sophie Quinton, Miou-Miou, Clément Sibony, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Richard Valls

Synopsis: A would-be nun pays a visit to an outside world that's full of surprises in this comedy-drama from France. Avril (Sophie Quinton) never knew her parents; rather than keep her, her folks left her on the doorstep of a convent, where she was raised by the nuns, led by Sister Bernadette (Miou-Miou). Read More

Family Hero

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Catherine Deneuve, Géraldine Pailhas, Emmanuelle Béart, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A down-and-out sleight-of-hand artist tries to pull off the trick of a lifetime by keeping a decaying cabaret in business in this comedy-drama with music from director Thierry Klifa. Gabriel Stern (Claude Brasseur) has spent over four decades running the Blue Parrot, a Parisian nightclub where he Read More

Riviera

Actors: Miou-Miou, Elie Semoun, Vahina Giocante, Mathieu Simonet, Antoine Basler

Synopsis: The staid lives of a mother and daughter eking out a living in a coastal French resort town seem to take a turn for the better when a new man enters their life in this drama from sophomore filmmaker Anne Villacèque. Years of toiling away at a lavish resort have weathered chambermaid Antionette (Miou-Miou Read More

L'apres-midi de Monsieur Andesmas

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Miou-Miou, Palomo Veinstein, Anne Issermann

Tout Va Bien On S'en Va

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natacha Régnier

Hors Jeu

Actors: Philippe Ambrosini, Rossy de Palma, Patrick Bruel, Clotilde Courau, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Karim Dridi, best known for Pigalle (1994) and Bye-Bye (1995), directed this French comedy-drama about actor Angelo Bastiani (Philippe Ambrosini) who installs satellite dishes when not auditioning for films. At one of these auditions he meets Concepcion Alibera (Rossy De Palma), and they go out Read More

Women

Actors: Miou-Miou, Carmen Maura, Marthe Keller, Marisa Berenson, Guesch Patti

Synopsis: Shot in Lisbon, this drama examines the issue of aging as seen from the viewpoints of five women facing middle age -- self-destructive actress-singer Branca (Guesch Patti), losing the respect of her daughter; single literature professor Eva (Miou-Miou), attracted to the son of her friend Barbara (Marthe Keller Read More

Dry Cleaning

Actors: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar, Mathilde Seigner

Synopsis: This French-Spanish drama depicts a flat marriage that picks up a few new wrinkles. Nicole (Miou-Miou) and Jean-Marie Kunstler (Charles Berling) have run their small-town dry-cleaning shop for 15 years. When they visit a local night club, they see the brother-sister act of Loic (Stanislas Merhar) Read More

Ma Femme Me Quitte

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Miou-Miou, Thierry Lhermitte, Line Renaud

Synopsis: Misunderstandings create romantic mayhem in this French comedy. Joanna Martin is an investigative television reporter who has lived happily with prominent lawyer Samuel Bosquier for over 15 years. The trouble begins when her station assigns Joanna to investigate the phony marriage/immigration Read More

The Eighth Day

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Sadoyan, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: Two men with seemingly nothing in common become unlikely friends in this drama from France. Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is a salesman working for a large but faceless corporation, where he's become a success at the expense of his personal life. His wife Julie (Miou-Miou), frustrated by his lack of Read More

Montparnasse-Pondichery

Actors: Miou-Miou, Yves Robert, André Dussollier, Jacques Perrin, Maxime Leroux

Synopsis: After raising her daughter to be a beautiful young woman and developing a lively career as a wallpaper designer, one would think that Julie's (Miou-Miou) life was rather full. However, she recently got an offer from the French consul to a mission in Pondicherry, India to teach her skills to Read More

Little Indian, Big City

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Patrick Timsit, Ludwig Briand, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A jungle boy comes to Paris in this French adventure that while primarily aimed towards children, will be equally enjoyable to adult audiences. The film opens with Steph, an international trader, winging to Venezuela to formally divorce his estranged wife Patricia who left him thirteen years ago Read More

Tango

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Noiret, Miou-Miou, Judith Godrëche

Synopsis: If such a thing as gentle humor can be wrung from murderous misogyny, this all-star comedy is the embodiment of it. The basic point of the film seems to be this: unattached men long to live with women, and once they do, they long to live without them. In this story, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) is Read More

Germinal

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry

Synopsis: Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the gut-wrenching poverty and the intense day-by-day struggles of striking French coal-miners in 1884 at the Voreux mines of France. The film centers upon the bitter toils of Maheu (Gerard Depardieu Read More

Patrick Dewaere

Actors: Bertrand Blier, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: The Breton-born French actor Patrick Dewaere (1947-1982) was acclaimed as one of the two best actors of his generation, along with Gerard Depardieu, before his death by suicide at age 35. This documentary is an exploration of the man's life and work, featuring clips from his many films and Read More

Le Bal des Casse-Pieds

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Odette Laure, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible number of irritating or even genuinely upsetting encounters with inveterate pains-in-the-neck. He suffers from the rudeness (and worse) of Parisian drivers, his relatives, and Read More

Netchaïev Est de Retour

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Yves Montand, Miou-Miou, Carolina Rosi, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: Very few people know that Pierre Marroux (Yves Montand) is the father of the famous terrorist Netchaiev (Vincent Lindon), and that's the way he likes to keep it. His boy is now presumed to be dead, and he has a job to do, protecting the safety of those who pay him. However, the boy has recently Read More

La Totale!

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Miou-Miou, Eddy Mitchell, Michel Boujenah, Jean Benguigui

Synopsis: François (Thierry Lhermitte) has convinced his wife and nearly everyone else that he is a pleasant, downtrodden civil servant who has been immured in a dead-end job. In reality, he is a very competent secret operative for the government. Meanwhile, Helene (Miou-Miou), the mother of his two Read More

May Fools

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Blanc, Harriet Walter

Synopsis: This comic excursion from Louis Malle is set in May 1968, concurrent with a series of Parisian student uprisings. After the death of family matriarch Mme. Vieuzac (Paulette Dubost), the survivors converge on the French countryside for her funeral; they include her two sons, Milou (Michel Piccoli) Read More

La Lectrice

Actors: Miou-Miou, Christian Ruche, Maria Casarés, Patrick Chesnais, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: At the suggestion of a friend, Constance (Miou-Miou) places an ad in the paper offering her services as a reader in this romantic comedy drama. Her job leads her to a variety of employers and occasional romantic involvement. Maria Casares plays the widow of an East European general who has Read More

Un Vrai Bonheur

Actors: Miou-Miou

Les Portes Tournantes

Actors: Monique Spaziani, Gabriel Arcand, Miou-Miou, Francois Methe, Jacques Penot

Synopsis: Set in a small Quebec town in the late '20s, this moving drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist, who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film accompanist. As an added attraction, Celeste dons ornate gowns for each Read More

Tenue de Soirée

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Caroline Sihol

Synopsis: Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier aspects of Parisian life. Gerard Depardieu plays a crude but charismatic thief, whose own gayness does not prevent his commiserating with those of the opposite sex. Miou-Miou Read More

L'Argent

Blanche et Marie

Actors: Miou-Miou, Sandrine Bonnaire, Patrick Chesnais, Gerard Klein

Le Vol du Sphinx

Actors: Alain Souchon, Miou-Miou, Jean Benguigui, Francois Perrot, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: Stereotyped and predictable, this is a feeble romantic adventure story about Laura (Miou-Miou), her estranged husband Tournier (Robin Renucci), her erstwhile lover-to-be Tom (Alain Souchon), and the arms dealer they are out to foil (François Perrot). Laura and Tournier are in southern Morocco Read More

Attention, Une Femme Peut En Cacher une Autre

Actors: Miou-Miou, Roger Hanin, Eddy Mitchell, Charlotte de Turckheim, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: The French My Other Husband (Attention! Une Femme Peut en Cacher une Autre) would eventually suffer the indignity of an American TV-movie remake, which will go unnamed here to protect the guilty. The original film is a sprightly vehicle for the delectable Miou-Miou. Thanks to her resourcefulness Read More

Entre Nous

Actors: Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Guy Marchand, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: French filmmaker Diane Kurys directs the period drama Coup de Foudre (distributed in the U.S. as Entre Nous), adapted from a book she co-wrote with Olivier Cohen. The semi-autobiographical story is based on the life of the director's mother. Lena (Isabelle Huppert) is a Jewish refugee from Belgium Read More

Dog Day

Actors: Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, David Bennent

Synopsis: Dog Day was originally distributed in France as Canicule. In one of his last film appearances, Lee Marvin portrays a gunman on the lam with girlfriend Tina Louise. He briefly takes refuge with a farm family whose idiotic excesses make Marvin's former criminal associates seem like choirboys. The Read More

La Gueule du Loup

Actors: Miou-Miou, Paul Crauchet, Anémone, Gerard Sergue, Yves Bureau

Synopsis: When a nurse who is already morose has a patient die under her care, she is so overwhelmed by this death that she starts out on a search for the patient's relatives and friends. What she does find in the end, is a group of petty thieves and misfits who live in the area of the city's docks and had Read More

Guy De Maupassant

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean Carmet, Simone Signoret, Miou-Miou, Anne-Marie Philipe

Synopsis: This fictionalized biography of Guy de Maupassant uses his dying days, suffering under the last ravages of syphilis, to anchor a series of flashbacks that bring his life into view -- though much of that view is tempered by the famed author's passion for sexual encounters. The rest of the vignettes Read More

Josepha

Actors: Miou-Miou, Claude Brasseur, Bruno Cremer, Catherine Allegret

Synopsis: An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Est-Ce Bien Raisonnable?

Actors: Miou-Miou, Gérard Lanvin, Renée Saint-Cyr, Julien Guiomar, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Gerard Louvier (Gerard Lanvin), a young criminal trying to stay a few steps ahead of a police manhunt, winds up with Julie Boucher (Miou-Miou), a journalist searching out another story -- who thinks he is an up-and-coming judge with leads on her own case. The confusion is a catalyst for some Read More

L'Ingorgo

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Orazio Orlando, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

La Femme Flic

Actors: Miou-Miou, Jean-Marc Thibault, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, François Simon

Synopsis: Corinne (Miou-Miou) is a Parisian detective who is transferred to a small village in Northern France when an investigation uncovers evidence that is potentially damaging to some powerful local politicians. She is temporarily given a desk job before she is called on to solve the murder of a little Read More

La Dérobade

Actors: Miou-Miou, Maria Schneider, Daniel Duval, Niels Arestrup

Synopsis: Marie (Miou-Miou) is a young girl from a working-class family who falls for Gerard (Daniel Duval) before she discovers he is a vicious, sadistic pimp. She is degraded, abused, and beaten regularly by Gerard as she is forced into a life of prostitution. Marie later decides she must leave her pimp Read More

Au Revoir...à Lundi

Actors: Carole Laure, Claude Brasseur, Miou-Miou, David Birney, Frank Moore

Synopsis: Two francophones have become roommates in Montreal. One is from France, the other is from Quebec. Their love-lives revolve around affairs with married men who leave them on the weekends for their families in the countryside. Nicole thinks she has finally found a "live one" when she discovers that Read More

Les Routes Du Sud

Actors: Yves Montand, Laurent Malet, Miou-Miou, France Lambiotte, José Luis Gómez

Synopsis: Roads to the South is often omitted from the "official" lists of Joseph Losey's films, principally because it was made for French television rather than theatres. Conceived by screenwriter Jorge Semprun and star Yves Montand as a sequel to Alain Resnais' La Guerre est Finie, the film details the Read More

Dites-Lui Que Je L'Aime

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jacques Denis, Dominique Laffin, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: French filmmaker Claude Miller's This Sweet Sickness is based on a suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, of Strangers on a Train fame. In the original, the murder-protagonist was a psychotic, pure and simple (if such words are appropriate here!) In Miller's version, the "hero," David, is a Read More

Marcia Trionfale

Actors: Franco Nero, Miou-Miou, Michele Placido, Patrick Dewaere

Synopsis: The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri (Michele Placido) is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto (Franco Nero). He gradually becomes Read More

Jonah, Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Myriam Boyer, Dominique Labourier, Myriam Mezieres, Rufus, Roger Jendly

Synopsis: The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was possible to think that the radical idealism of the youth protests would finally take form in the world. In this film, eight people in their late tweties and early thirties try to keep the radical flames Read More

On Aura Tout Vu

Actors: Pierre Richard, Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Renée Saint-Cyr, Henri Guybet

Synopsis: A professional still photographer (Pierre Richard) has long wanted to make a movie from a story about love and politics. When the opportunity arises, he and his lady-love (Miou-Miou) are overjoyed. However, when the producer strongly urges that the movie be transformed into a hardcore pornographic Read More

F Comme Fairbanks

Actors: Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Michel Piccoli, John Berry, Jean-Michel Folon

Synopsis: Patrick Dewaere plays Andre, a hot-tempered young man who whiles away his spare time by fantasizing about the action films of Douglas Fairbanks. For years, a relative of his has promised him a job. For years, he has waited for the job, but to no avail. Finally too frustrated to stand it any more Read More

Fraiche

Actors: Annie Girardot, Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: Jip (Julien Clerc) is a piano teacher with two girlfriends who live in entirely different worlds. One is a young, kooky lass (Miou-Miou), the other is an older, middle-class married woman (Annie Giradot). The occasional juxtaposition of these two worlds, as narrated by Jip, fuel the laughs in this Read More

Pas de Problème!

Actors: Miou-Miou, Bernard Menez, Jean Lefebvre, Henri Guybet, Anny Duperey, Paula Moore

Synopsis: Following a car chase and shootout, a man stumbles into a girl's apartment and dies. Frantic to be rid of this encumbrance, and wishing to avoid getting involved with the police, the girl finds a willing lad in a bar who will help her with her predicament. He loads the body into the back of his Read More

D'Amour Et D'Eau Fraiche

Actors: Miou-Miou, Annie Girardot

Un Genio, Due Compari, un Pollo

Actors: Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: An amiable con man sets out to land a big score from a man even less honorable than himself in this comic spaghetti western. Joe Thanks (Terence Hill) is a swindler and quick-draw artist who wanders into a dusty little town after literally falling out of a stagecoach while asleep. After besting Read More

Going Places

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau, Jacques Chailleux

Synopsis: Director Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses features Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere as a pair of sociopaths wending their way across France. Though Depardieu is the more dominant of the two, both men are equally culpable in their disregard for common decency. They are particularly rough on Read More

Le Grande Trouille

Actors: Peter Cushing

Synopsis: When Macgregor (Peter Cushing) announces that he is no longer going to appear in horror films, but wants to work in romances, two screenwriters are sent to his eerie house to try to persuade the ghoulish man to keep doing horror films. They are not above dotting his house and the surrounding Read More

The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob

Actors: Louis de Funès, Marcel Dalio, Claude Giraud, Henri Guybet

Synopsis: This comedy concentrates on the mishaps befalling bigoted Frenchman Louis DeFunes. While en route to his daughter's wedding, the outspoken DeFunes accidentally gets mixed up in an Arab nationalist uprising. Through a bizarre and nearly indescribable combination of events, the fiercely anti-Semitic DeFunes Read More

Les Granges Brûlees

Actors: Fernand Ledoux, Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: In this French film, Rose (Simone Signoret) is the pillar on which her family depends, and against which it pulls. These forces are held in equilibrium until a murdered woman's body is found near their farm, the Les Granges Brulees of the film's title. At first, Police Inspector Larcher (Alain Delon Read More

Themroc

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Jeanne Herviale, Marilù Tolo

Synopsis: This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When a salt crystal is dropped into a solution of water that contains all the salt it can handle, something extraordinary happens: the swift formation of large crystals of salt from the apparently clear water. When Read More

Elle Court, Elle Court la Banlieue

Actors: Marthe Keller, Jacques Higelin, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: This dark French comedy satirizes suburban living. Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin play a newly married couple who have just moved into the suburbs. Nearly everything is oppressive: among other things, the walls of their house are too thin and their neighbors harangue them with complaints of all Read More

Quelques Messieurs Trop Tranquilles

Actors: André Pousse, Jean Lefebvre, Dani, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: In order to fight gangsters, the local townspeople and some hippie tourists overcome their differences in this French comedy/thriller. The villagers had hoped to lure a richer slice of the tourist trade to their town, but what they got were a bunch of fairly grungy hippies. After putting up with Read More

La Vie Sentimentale De Georges Le Tue

Actors: Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Gérard Depardieu, Romain Bouteille