Valeria Bruni-TedeschiFilmography

The Feast

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Donatella Finocchiaro, Nino Frassica, Paolo Briguglia

Synopsis: Three aspiring moviemakers unexpectedly land a big break and their hometown comes out to celebrate in this warm comedy-drama. Gabriele (Paolo Briguglia), Nicola (Lele Nucera) and Marco (Lorenzo Di Ciaccia) are three young men growing up in Diamante, a small town in the Calabria region of Southern Read More

Actresses (Dreams of the Night Before)

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Noemie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel, Marysa Borini

Synopsis: Actress-cum-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's sophomore feature, the comedy-drama Les Actrices (Le reve de la nuit d'avant), follows the trials and travails of Marcelline (Tedeschi), a tense and jittery stage thesp whose personal and professional life threaten to fall into pieces simultaneously. Read More

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

A Good Year

Actors: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Abbie Cornish, Didier Bourdon, Tom Hollander, Freddie Highmore

Synopsis: Gladiator duo Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe re-team for this adaptation of author Peter Mayle's best-selling novel about a London-based investment banker who relocates to Provence in hopes of selling a small vineyard he has inherited from his recently deceased uncle. As a child, Max Skinner (Freddie Highmore Read More

Time to Leave

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Daniel Duval, Marie Rivière

Synopsis: Diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a short while to live, a successful fashion photographer embarks on one final journey in the second of three films in a trilogy about death and mourning from French director François Ozon (the first entry in the the trilogy was Under the Sand) . After Read More

Munich

Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful Read More

Cote d'Azur

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Gilbert Melki, Jean-Marc Barr, Jacques Bonnaffé, Edouard Collin

Synopsis: It's Summer Rental meets Blame it on Rio when a French family heads off to the Mediterranean for a sultry summer vacation in the ensemble sex comedy Côte d'Azur, co-directed by Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel (The Adventures of Felix). When the head of the clan, Marc (Gilbert Melki) Read More

5x2

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Stéphane Freiss

Synopsis: The rise and fall of one couple's marriage goes under the microscope in this drama from French filmmaker François Ozon. Gilles (Stephane Freis) and Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) have filed for divorce following several years of marriage, and after the judge declares their union is over, the film Read More

Tickets

Actors: Carlo delle Piane, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis, Filippo Trojano, Carolina Benvenga

Un Couple Parfait

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Bruno Todeschini, Joana Preiss, Jacques Doillon

It's Easier for a Camel...

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Denis Podalydès, Marysa Borini

Synopsis: A wealthy but dysfunctional family teeters on the brink of collapse in this emotional drama leavened with a strong dose of dark comedy. Federica (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) is the daughter of a wealthy Italian business magnate (Roberto Herlitzka) who relocated himself and his family to France in the Read More

La Felicita Non Costa Niente

Actors: Mimmo Calopresti, Vincent Perez, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Francesca Neri, Fabrizia Sacchi

Synopsis: Mimmo Calopresti directs and stars in the existential drama La Felicita Non Costa Niente (Happiness Costs Nothing). Calopresti stars as Sergio, a successful architect who is suddenly afflicted with a malaise. Haunted by the ghost of a co-worker, Sergio takes a mistress, offends his best friends Read More

Peau D'Ange

Actors: Morgane More, Guillaume Depardieu, Magalie Woch, Karine Silla, Hélène de Saint Père

Synopsis: Actor Vincent Perez makes his feature-film directorial debut with the romantic drama Once Upon an Angel, which he cowrote with his wife, Karine Silla, and Jerome Tonnerre. Young Angèle (Morgane Moré) sets out to find work in order to ease the burden for her poor, debt-ridden parents and finds a Read More

La Vita Come Viene

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Alberto Gimignani, Lorenza Indovina, Alessandro Haber, Primo Reggiani

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

Actors: Amit Arroz, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Mark Long, Alexandra Staden, Dominic West

Synopsis: Eight master directors of world cinema combine forces for this omnibus film that focuses cumulatively on the subject of time. Bookended by cello interludes, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello presents just one parameter to each of its filmmakers: no final entry can be more or less than ten minutes long. Read More

Ah! Si j'etais riche

Actors: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Richard Berry, François Morel, Zinedine Soualem

Synopsis: French filmmakers Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz write and direct the comedy Ah! Si j'etais Riche (If I Were a Rich Man). Salesman Aldo (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is getting divorced from his wife Alice (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). When he unexpectedly wins ten million euros in the lottery, he has to Read More

Le Lait de la tendresse humaine

Actors: Patrick Bruel, Marilyne Canto, Dominique Blanc, Sergi López, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: A woman discovers that the joys of parenthood are not making her especially happy in this dark comedy/drama. Christelle (Marilyne Canto) is a new mother who isn't dealing well with the anxieties of caring for her child. One day, she suffers a severe panic attack while alone with the baby, and her Read More

Voci

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Miki Manojlovic, Gabriele Lavia, Gabriella Pession, Erica Blanc

Rien à faire

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Patrick Dell'Isola, Sergi López, Florence Thomassin

Synopsis: In this low-key drama from France, Marie (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) has been laid off for over a year; depressed and with little to do, she drifts through the aisles of a supermarket, aimlessly doing her shopping. She bumps into Pierre (Patrick Dell'Isola); they strike up a conversation and she Read More

The Nanny

Actors: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Maya Sansa, Jacqueline Lustig, Piergiorgio Bellocchio

Synopsis: One of the masters of Italian cinema, Marco Bellocchio, who has made his name with political films, has been continuing his work with mostly adaptations from literature. La Balia, inspired by a novella of Luigi Pirandello, continues this tradition. The period costume drama takes place during a Read More

Au Coeur du Mensonge

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Antoine de Caunes, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: This thriller from veteran director Claude Chabrol is a tense suspense drama, leavened with sly humor, about the fallout from a shocking crime in a small town. Frederique Lesage (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), the new chief of police in a cozy and fashionable seaside community in Brittany, soon finds Read More

La vie ne me fait pas peur

Actors: Magalie Woch, Ingrid Molinier, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Camille Rousselet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: In this bittersweet look back at the trials of growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Emilie (Magali Woch), Ines (Ingrid Molinier), Stella (Julie-Marie Parmentier), and Marion (Camille Rousselet) become friends as they share the humiliations that are a part of adolescent life -- going to Read More

Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train

Actors: Pascal Greggory, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Charles Berling, Bruno Todeschini

Synopsis: Patrice Chereau (Queen Margot) directed this French drama about a train trip to an artist's funeral. Friends of painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich (Jean-Louis Trintignant, seen in flashbacks) gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The Read More

Petites

Actors: Magalie Woch, Ingrid Molinier, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Camille Rousselet, Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis: Following the international success of her first film Oblie-moi (1994) for which she was also the co-writer, Noémi Lvovsky has concentrated mostly on screenwriting until Petites, a "buddy film" for girls. Emilie, Stella, Ines and Marion come from different social backgrounds but share the same Read More

La Parola Amore Esiste

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Marina Confalone, Emanuela Macchniz, Giovanna Giuliani

Synopsis: Former documentary filmmaker Mimmo Calopresti (The Second Time) made this Italian-French romantic drama that focuses on fragile and phobic 30-year-old Angela (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). She should have a comfortable life, yet she sinks into solitude, hungers for love, can't communicate with her Read More

The House

Actors: Francisco Nascimento, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: Like its predecessor Few of Us, Lithuanian cult film director Sarunas Bartas's The House is highly abstract and nearly silent but for a pair of narrators. Whereas the first film was primarily centered on life in a remote mountain village in Lithuania and had loose plot, this one pays tribute to a Read More

Amour et Confusions

Actors: Patrick Braoudé, Kristin Scott Thomas, Gérard Darmon, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: The debate between gender roles and the nature of masculinity and femininity in the '90s provides the basis of this romantic comedy. Dan is divorced and designs ladies lingerie for a living. Sarah is a powerful business executive. She and Dan spend one night making passionate love and then lose Read More

Nénette et Boni

Actors: Grégoire Colin, Alice Houri, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Vincent Gallo, Jacques Nollot

Synopsis: Nenette (Alice Houri) is a 14-year-old girl with an attitude problem who runs away from her boarding school only to knock on the door of her older brother Boni (Gregoire Colin). Boni has his own problems most of which center around an erotic fixation with the baker's sexy wife (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Read More

Montana Blues

Actors: Jean-Pierre Bisson, Garance Clavel, Frank Nicotra, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This French drama chronicles the romantic exploits of a Parisian alcoholic who falls in love with the wife of his drinking buddy. Fortunately for him, the wife has a twin sister whom the drunk manages to locate. He then convinces her to return to Paris with him where they go to the Montana jazz Read More

Encore

Actors: Jackie Berroyer, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Natacha Régnier, Laurence Côte

Synopsis: The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really let himself go. Though a successful writer, and supposedly working on a book about 'regret,' he is barely functioning. He can't sleep at night. Read More

Le Coeur Fantome

Actors: Luis Rego, Aurelia Alcais, Maurice Garrel, Evelyne Didi

Synopsis: A hangdog, middle-aged painter falls in love with a tender young college student after he leaves his philandering wife and his children in this romantic French drama. To console himself, the fundamentally bohemian Phillippe finds comfort in the arms of various prostitutes, especially Valeria. It Read More

Les Menteurs

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Lorraine Bracco, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless Read More

Le Livre de Cristal

Actors: Jean-François Balmer, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Douglas Ranasinghe, Gamini Fonseka

Synopsis: This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed for his studies of oriental culture and alcoholic who has never recovered from his wife's suicide, returns to Sri Lanka to translate a book written on Read More

La Seconda Volta

Synopsis: A former terrorist from the early 1970s, who has totally suppressed the memory of the night in which she almost executed a man; encounters her intended victim a few years after the crime was committed. He, who wound up with a bullet lodged in his skull has never forgotten her, and so begins a Read More

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

Queen Margot

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: The historical novel by Alexandre Dumas was adapted for the screen with this lavish French epic, winner of 5 Césars and a pair of awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of scheming Catholic power player Catherine de Read More

Oublie-Moi

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Emmanuelle Devos, Laurent Grévill, Emmanuel Salinger, Philippe Torreton

Synopsis: This film follows the exploits of a young middle-class girl obsessed with love. The viewer will either love or hate the protagonist as she struggles through her confusion to find true love. Neurotic Nathalie wants love, but cannot make up her mind. She throws her nice boyfriend Antoine out while Read More

Poisson Rouge

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, François Berléand

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

Sandra, C'est La Vie

Actors: Imogen Stubbs, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: Marie (Imogen Stubbs) has spent about the minimum amount of time she could with her daughter Sandra (Lisa Fusco), who up until now has been brought up at an institution. Sandra has Downs Syndrome, which produces a characteristic transformation of the features, typically comes with a few health Read More

Les Gens Normaux N'ont Rien d'exceptionnel

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Melvil Poupaud, Marc Citti, Claire Laroche, Serge Hazanavicius

Synopsis: Martine (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) hasn't been quite right in the head since she suffered a romantic reversal several years before, but she had been getting by in the regular world fairly well. However, when her current boyfriend tells her he's leaving, she promptly butts her head into a door so Read More

Condannato a Nozze

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy, Asia Argento, Patrizia Piccinini

Synopsis: In this fantasy comedy/drama, Roberto (Sergio Rubini) is a divorce lawyer who is very conflicted about what he does for a living. In fact, he has a great deal of difficulty sleeping at night. Most people simply toss and turn; Roberto literally splits in two. One Roberto is a fanatic advocate of Read More

L'Homme Qui A Perdu Son Ombre

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Dominic Gould, Ángela Molina, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: Paul (Dominic Guard) is a journalist who is up to date on the latest horrors of the modern world and is heartsick about them. He has a wife (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and a steady job but leaves both of them suddenly for parts unknown. His wife is worried about him, and she is angry that he left Read More

C'est La Vie

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Zabou, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: One might assume that the original title of this French production was C'est La Vie. Wrong: the film was initially released as La Baule-les-Pins, then distributed to English speaking countries under a more "understandable" French cognomen. The film is set during a deceptively idyllic Read More

Fortune Express

Actors: Thierry Frémont, Cris Campion, Herve Laudiere, Luc Bernard, Christian Bouillette

Synopsis: Pascal is used to adrenaline-crazed adventures. He lost the use of his legs during one of these episodes by falling from the top of an Alpine peak. Now he uses a wheelchair to get around, but he hasn't lost his sense of adventure. At a rehabilitation center he is learning to adapt to being a Read More

The Story of Boys and Girls

Actors: Felice Andreasi, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Davide Bechini, Lina Bernardi, Anna Bonaiuto, Massimo Bonetti, Angiola Baggi

Synopsis: The Story of Boys and Girls is about a rural Italian girl who invites the family of her rich Bolognese fiance over for a 20-course banquet at her home. Over the course of the meal, both families talk about many different topics, revealing a number of secrets along the way. ~ Stephen Thomas Read More

Dis Moi Oui Dis Moi Non

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Olivier Py

Bisbille

Actors: Roch Leibovici, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

L'Amoureuse

Actors: Marianne Denicourt, Aurelle Doazan, Dominic Gould, Catherine Bidaut, Eva Ionesco

Hôtel de France

Actors: Laurent Grévill, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Vincent Perez, Laura Benson, Thibault de Montalembert

Synopsis: Noted stage director Patrice Chereau adds his stylistic flair to this drama loosely taken from a story by Anton Chekhov. A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The Read More