Sabine AzémaFilmography

Born:: September 20, 1949 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: One of France's most respected actresses, Sabine Azema did not begin her film career until she was in her late thirties. A graduate of the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Sabine Azema spent several years on stage before she was invited by Alain Resnais to play in his Life is a Bed of Roses...Read More

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Wild Grass

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny, Emmanuelle Devos, André Dussollier

Synopsis: Alain Resnais, one of the towering figures of the French New Wave, demonstrates he still has plenty to say in this drama based on a novel by Christian Gailly. Marguerite (Sabine Azéma) is a successful dentist with a busy practice and an offbeat hobby, flying small airplanes. One day, while running Read More

1/1/09
Bancs publics

Synopsis: Directed by Bruno Podalydes (who helmed the "Montmartre" segment of the omnibus Paris, I Love You), Bancs publics chronicles three intersecting stories in the city of Versailles: an office worker who hangs a banner reading "Lonely Man" beneath his window, the feuding families and couples in a busy Read More

10/22/08
Journey to the Pyrenees

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Arly Jover, Gurgon Kyap, Philippe Katerine, Christian Ameri

Synopsis: Getting away from it all causes more problems than it solves in this comedy from the French writing-directing team of Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu. Alexandre Darou (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and his wife Aurore Lalu (Sabine Azema) are a pair of well-known actors who need a break from the Read More

2008
Private Fears in Public Places

Actors: Laura Morante, Lambert Wilson, Pierre Arditi, Isabelle Carré, André Dussollier

Synopsis: A handful of characters struggle to hold on to relationships with the people they care for in this collaboration between playwright Alan Ayckbourn and filmmaker Alain Resnais. Dan (Lambert Wilson) has recently finished up a hitch in the Army, but rather than deal with his emotional issues, Dan Read More

4/13/07
Gotta Dance!

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Sabine Azéma, Bulle Ogier, Bakary Sangare

Synopsis: An elderly couple and their grown-up children must deal with the consequences of advancing age in this comedy-drama from France. Sarah (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and her husband Francois (Arie Elmaleh) are a happy couple in their early forties who are facing with a dilemma not uncommon to folks Read More

2007
To Paint or Make Love

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Daniel Auteuil, Amira Casar, Sergi López, Philippe Katerine

2005
Ole!

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Gad Elmaleh, Sabine Azéma, Valeria Golino, Bob Swaim

Synopsis: A group of students are eager to get an education while on a class trip in this comedy from Italy. Salvatore (Vincenzo Salemme) and Archimede (Massimo Boldi) are two teachers at a private high school for boys who have arranged for their students to travel to Spain for a learning holiday. While Read More

2005
The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Michel Lonsdale, Olivier Gourmet

2005
Jane Birkin: Rendez-Vous Avec Jane

Actors: Jane Birkin, Marianne Faithfull, Alain Souchon, Yann Tiersen, Dominique A

2005
Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune

Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Michel Lonsdale, Pierre Arditi, Claude Rich

2003
Not on the Lips

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Nanty, Audrey Tautou

Synopsis: A high-society housewife finds her social standing threatened when her American ex-husband arrives in Paris in Hiroshima Mon Amour director Alain Resnais' adaptation of André Barde's farcical 1920s-era operetta. With money to spare and a lavish home, Gilberte Valandray (Sabine Azéma) spends most Read More

2003
La Chambre des Officiers

Actors: Eric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Derangère, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier

Synopsis: A man who thinks he's found an easy ride through the Army during World War I has his world turned upside down when facial injuries render him unrecognizable in this wartime drama. In the summer of 1914, Adrien Fournier (Eric Caravaca) is an engineer conscripted into the French Army, where he is Read More

2001
Tanguy

Actors: Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Eric Berger, Helene Duc, Aurore Clément

Synopsis: The director of the celebrated black comedy Tatie Danielle, Étienne Chatiliez returns to the realm of dark humor with Tanguy. When their eponymous son is born, Paul and Edith Guetz (André Dussolier and Sabine Azema) are so besotted with the new arrival that they make him the fateful promise he can Read More

2001
La Bûche

Actors: Claude Rich, Françoise Fabian, Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Béart, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: Noted French screenwriter Daniele Thompson makes her directorial debut with this lighthearted romantic comedy. After the December 21st funeral of Yvette's (Francoise Fabian) second husband, she is consoled by the three daughters from her first marriage to Stanislas (Claude Rich), a Russian-Jewish Read More

11/24/00
Same Old Song

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, André Dussollier, Agnès Jaoui

Synopsis: In this homage to acclaimed TV scripter Dennis Potter (1935-1994), famed 75-year-old French director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad) has actors lip-synch in a manner instantly recalling Potter's Pennies from Heaven (1978 TV serial, 1981 movie) and The Singing Detective Read More

11/12/97
A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

1995
Mon Homme

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Sabine Azéma

Synopsis: A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French drama. Marie (Anouk Grinberg) has no real need for a pimp, being a self-reliant, unabashed woman so fond of her job as a hooker that she is able to convince strangers to Read More

1995
Noir Comme le Souvenir

Actors: Jane Birkin, Sabine Azéma, Benoit Regent, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris Read More

1995
Le Bonheur Est Dans Le Pré

Actors: Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Sabine Azéma, Carmen Maura

Synopsis: Lots of people wish they could be someone else, but a French businessman decides to do something about it in this satirical comedy. Francis Bergeade (Michel Serrault) runs a factory in a small town that makes toilet seats. With his employees on strike and his wife plundering his bank account as Read More

1995
Smoking/No Smoking

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Since Smoking and No Smoking, though they are separate films, were conceived (and shown) in tandem, and since they are both based on a closely connected set of plays by the English dramatist Alan Ayckbourn, they are considered together here. When the two films were shown in France, viewers Read More

1993
Life and Nothing But

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: The grim post-World War I era in Europe is grist for director Bertrand Tavernier's mill in Life and Nothing But. Philipe Noiret portrays a French major who is supervising the gruesome task of counting and identifying the corpses still strewn over the battlefield. Noiret is obsessed with the Read More

9/14/90
Vanille Fraise

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Isaach de Bankolé, Jacques Perrin, Riccardo Cucciolla

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy/spy thriller, Clarissa Boulanger (Sabine Azema) is eager to take a breather from her deteriorating marriage, so when the French Secret Service asks her to team up with Hippolyte (Isaach de Bankole) and pose as a newlywed in order to thwart the shipment of powerful weapons Read More

11/29/89
Trois Années

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Jacques Villeret, Philippe Volter, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: This film is based on a short novel by Russian author Anton Chekhov, with the settings changed to 1870 France. It concerns the romantic frustration of two extremely pleasant and civilized people. Alexandre (Jacques Villaret) is a middle-aged bachelor, pleasant and well-to-do, who fears the Read More

1989
Mélo

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Jacques Dacqmine

Synopsis: Director Alain Resnais faithfully adapted his script for Melo from a 1929 play by Henry Bernstein--the first time that Resnais handled his own screenplay. Violinists and lifelong friends Pierre Arditi and Andre Dussolier have each found happiness in adulthood, but only Dussolier has become famous. Read More

1/31/88
Cinq Jours en Juin

Actors: Annie Girardot, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Jacques Moreau

Synopsis: In this reportedly autobiographical piece, Michel Legrand makes his directorial debut. He is much better known for his orchestral scores for other movies. In this story, he is fourteen and living in Paris under the German occupation. It is June of 1944, and he and his mother, along with a young Read More

1988
La Puritaine

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Michel Piccoli, Sabine Azéma, Laurent Malet, Brigitte Coscas

Synopsis: This portrayal of the reunion of an estranged father and daughter is set against the backdrop of a theatrical production. The father Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon (Sandrine Bonnaire) lets him know that she is coming to see him after a Read More

1986
Zone Rouge

Actors: Richard Anconina, Sabine Azéma, Hélène Surgère, Jacques Nolot, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Corruption in the rarified air of the corporate and governmental elite drives the action in this fast-paced thriller. Claire Rousset (Sabine Azema) heads to a small town to come to the aid of her ailing ex-husband, who has been poisoned by the town's drinking water. As Claire arrives, she sees a Read More

1986
A Sunday in the Country

Actors: Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azéma, Michel Aumont, Genevieve Mnich, Monique Chaumette

Synopsis: French stage actor Louis Ducreux makes his film debut as a 76-year-old traditionalist painter, Monsieur Ladmiral, in this bittersweet portrait of a brooding artist. A widower, Ladmiral lives on an estate in the countryside near Paris with only his housekeeper, Mercedes (Monique Chaumette), and his Read More

1984
L'Amour à Mort

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Jean Dasté

Synopsis: Acclaimed French director Alain Resnais, winner of many international film awards for his ground-breaking creativity (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, L'Année Dernière à Marienbad), follows up his successful La Vie Est Un Roman with this continuing saga of love and death. This time, two principal actors from La Vie.. Read More

1984
La Vie Est Un Roman

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: With Life is a Bed of Roses, filmmaker Alain Resnais wanted to create a lighthearted tribute to three important French directors, each of whom defined a particular era in his country's cinema Melies (the first French filmmaker to use narrative--his most famous film is A Trip to the Moon), the Read More

1983
On N'est Pas des Anges... Elles Non Plus

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Pierre Vernier, Georges Beller, Henri Courseaux

1981
La Dentellière

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Annemarie Düringer, Michel de Re

Synopsis: The internationally produced The Lacemaker (La Dentelliere) stars Isabelle Huppert as Pomme, a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. Here Huppert becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student Francois (Yves Beneyton). The relationship Read More

1977