Nils Tavernier Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Cinematographer, Screenwriter

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Aurore

Crew: Director

Actors: Carole Bouquet

2006
Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Paris Opera Ballet has long been one of the most respected ballet companies in France, and many of the nation's most gifted dancers vie for the privilege of performing there. This documentary offers an intimate look at the men and women of the Paris Opera Ballet as they prepare and rehearse Read More

11/8/02
Féroce

Actors: Samy Naceri, Jean-Marc Thibault, Bernard Le Coq, Claire Keim, François Berléand

Synopsis: Gilles de Maistre's political thriller Féroce (Ferocious) is about a man seeking revenge. Arab Alain (Samy Naceri) decides to join a fascistic French political party in order to assassinate the leader, Legle (Jean-Marc Thibault). Alain comes to this decision when his girlfriend's brother is Read More

2002
De L'Autre Cote Du Periphe

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Synopsis: Hoping to provide an insider's view of the horrible conditions endured by residents (most of them North African immigrants) of Paris' notorious suburban housing projects, noted filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and his son and co-director Niles Tavernier lived in one of them for several months. The Read More

1998
Un Frère

Actors: Jeannick Gravelines, Emma de Caunes, Nils Tavernier, Karole Rocher, Emmanuel Nicolas

Synopsis: In this controversial French drama, Loic (Jeannick Gravelines) is a photographer who is trying to leave his working-class background behind and make a name for himself as an artist. Loic's best friend Tony (Emmanuel Nicolas) has become involved with both hard drugs and Loic's former girlfriend Read More

11/26/97
After Sex

Actors: Brigitte Roüan, Patrick Chesnais, Boris Terral, Nils Tavernier, Jean-Louis Richard

Synopsis: A middle-aged woman temporarily abandons her role as wife and mother to embark upon a mad love affair with a man 20 years her junior. Up until the time she meets handsome young Emilio, Diane Clovier had a relatively happy life with her husband, kids and career. Emilio, with his amoral charm, is Read More

9/3/97
Love Reinvented

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Salvadori, Paul Vecchiali, Marion Vernoux, Nils Tavernier

Synopsis: Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of short vignettes. The film is designed as sort of a gay version of 1994's 3,000 Scenarios to Combat a Virus, an anthology that was comprised of 30 short films -- made by some of France's best directors -- out of story ideas Read More

2/12/97
Mina Tannenbaum

Actors: Romane Bohringer, Elsa Zylberstein, Florence Thomassin, Nils Tavernier, Stephane Slima

Synopsis: Two women who were best friends since childhood come to realize the toll that adulthood has taken on their understanding of each other in this acclaimed French drama. Mina Tannenbaum (Romane Bohringer) and Ethel Benegui (Elsa Zylberstein) first met when they were ten years old. As young Jewish Read More

1994
3000 Scenarios Contre un Virus

Actors: Anémone, Daniel Gélin, Patachou, François Cluzet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000 ideas put in by French school children and were made by filmmakers on a voluntary basis. Most of the vignettes deal with heterosexuality and AIDS, but one deals with drug-usage Read More

1994
Revenge of the Musketeers

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Raoul Billerey, Nils Tavernier

Synopsis: A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise (Sophie Marceau) is the daughter of the famed swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret); while she has a remarkable gift with a blade herself, Eloise is devoting herself to her Read More

1994
L.627

Actors: Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Philippe Torreton, Nils Tavernier, Jean-Roger Milo

Synopsis: Bertrand Tavernier directed this gritty, unglamorous look at the grunge work police officers perform in attempting to uphold the law. Didier Bazace stars as Lucien Marguet, a drug squad cop who is dedicated to getting drugs off the street. Lucien is passionate about eradicating drugs, even though Read More

9/9/92
Sissi

Actors: Nils Tavernier, Sonia Kirchberger

1991
Sisi Und Der Kaiserkuss

Actors: Nils Tavernier, Sonia Kirchberger, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around women but (according to this film) was constantly being propositioned, lewdly or otherwise, by ambitious courtesans. When he was finally married to his Empress, the teen-aged Bavarian princess Sisi Read More

1991
The Man Inside

Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Coyote, Nathalie Baye, Dieter Laser

Synopsis: Adapted from a true story, West German investigative journalist Gunther Wallraff (Jurgen Prochnow) decides to fight sleaze with sleaze as he goes undercover at a tabloid newspaper to dig up the dirt on the paper's own unethical practices. Rising to the top of the hierarchy by working at the kind Read More

10/26/90
Sale Comme un Ange

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Lio, Nils Tavernier, Roland Amstutz

Synopsis: Georges Deblache (Claude Brasseur) is a police inspector who is past middle age and who is so despondent about his life that he refuses to have a medical check-up, even though he suspects he has cancer. His partner is Didier Theron (Nils Tavernier), who has recently married a woman whom he has Read More

1990
Valmont

Actors: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Sian Phillips

Synopsis: The third adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic novel Les Liasons Dangereuses, Milos Forman's Valmont was released one year after Stephen Frears' more famous version of the de Laclos original, Dangerous Liaisons. The plot remains the same: two debauched, depraved 18th century French Read More

11/17/89
Story of Women

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier, Lolita Chammah

Synopsis: The women in this story are the customers of amateur abortionist Isabelle Huppert. The time is 1941, and the place is a Nazi-occupied French town. Struggling to survive, Huppert turns to illegally terminating unwanted pregnancies for a hefty fee. As her income increases, Huppert moves her family Read More

10/13/89
La Passion Béatrice

Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Julie Delpy, Nils Tavernier, Monique Chaumette, Robert Dhéry

Synopsis: In this 1987 film, director Bertrand Tavernier depicts French life in the Middle Ages as dreary, unromantic, and brutal. The story begins when a warrior leaves home to fight in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) between France and England. Before his departure, he gives his young son, François, a Read More

11/11/87
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

1983