Karin Viard
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1966-01-24
Locus Natus: Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Et ut: Карин Вьяр, Карін Віар, カリン・ヴィアール, Карін В’яр
Delicatessen
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low...
release : 1991.04.17popularis : 9.041
Saddle Up For Revenge
Parody of the acclaimed Australian series of the 80s, Return to Eden. Wealthy heiress Stephanie Harper marries athlete Craig Danners, without...
release : 2021.10.04popularis : 2.259
Auntie Danielle
Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title...
release : 1990.04.04popularis : 8.098
Summer Things
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it...
release : 2002.03.04popularis : 12.149
Paris
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he...
release : 2008.02.20popularis : 8.678
An Ordinary Mother
Aline never managed to get closure from the death of her 17-year-old son in a street fight. When she sees the assai- lant recently released from...
release : 2022.03.23popularis : 8.923
The Ax
A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
release : 2005.03.02popularis : 7.446
The Ex-Wife of My Life
Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.
release : 2004.12.08popularis : 2.467
Hikers
A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives while...
release : 1997.03.12popularis : 8.978
Hikers in Saint-Tropez
Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer...
release : 2008.04.09popularis : 3.95
Time Out
An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
release : 2001.09.10popularis : 4.112
The Hook
A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.
release : 2004.08.11popularis : 1.863
Change of Plans
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
release : 2009.02.18popularis : 8.912
All About Actresses
A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the...
release : 2009.01.28popularis : 10.098
Sitcom, A Movie
In the morning, two friends, a producer and an actor, discover the corpse of a young woman who accompanied them the previous night. The shooting of...
release : 1999.06.02popularis : 2.276
France Boutique
Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with...
release : 2003.10.29popularis : 2.589
Children's Play
Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives...
release : 2001.06.19popularis : 4.246
The Children
Pierre Esteban is a middle-aged technology teacher, divorced from Hélène, who has two children. Jeanne Lancry is a lively estate agent...
release : 2005.04.06popularis : 0.95
The Children of the Century
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But...
release : 1999.09.12popularis : 4.747
The New Eve
Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of...
release : 1999.01.27popularis : 4.505
Hell
Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
release : 2005.11.16popularis : 5.317
Le fils préféré
Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal...
release : 1994.12.21popularis : 3.697
A Hell of a Day
Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being...
release : 2001.10.24popularis : 4.078
Polisse
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed...
release : 2011.10.06popularis : 6.988
Happy End
Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his...
release : 2009.08.19popularis : 3.925
Trophy Wife
In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His...
release : 2010.11.10popularis : 5.897
Nothing to Declare
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
release : 2010.12.20popularis : 10.722
Enchanted Interlude
Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a...
release : 2000.04.26popularis : 1.718
True Enough
Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter...
release : 2007.09.12popularis : 0.992
Le Débarquement
Inspired by the American program Saturday Night Live from NBC, around thirty actors take part in various humorous sketches.
release : 2013.01.18popularis : 4.049
My Father's Guests
A human-rights activist takes in an illegal immigrant and her daughter, then shocks his family when they learn that he has married the sexy...
release : 2010.03.31popularis : 3.708
Ambitious
On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young...
release : 2007.01.24popularis : 3.246
In Mom's Head
Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
release : 2007.03.28popularis : 2.204
My Piece of the Pie
France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her...
release : 2011.03.16popularis : 9.073
The Role of Her Life
A humble copy editor becomes a personal assistant to her favorite actress and eventually loses herself both in the actress' demands and her own ego.
release : 2004.06.16popularis : 4.864
Battle Cries
A woman in the fourth month of her first pregnancy fights to save the baby while being treated for breast cancer.
release : 1999.11.03popularis : 2.149
La Séparation
In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny...
release : 1994.11.09popularis : 2.465
On Air
A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.
release : 2012.01.11popularis : 4.314
Diary of a Seducer
Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both....
release : 1996.02.28popularis : 2.699
Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition...
release : 2012.04.16popularis : 2.439
Adultery (A User's Guide)
This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the...
release : 1995.05.26popularis : 1.823
Sage homme
After failing the medical entrance exam, Léopold enters midwifery school by default, hiding the truth from those around him. While he is...
release : 2023.03.15popularis : 4.986
Maria into Life
Maria is a cleaning lady, who is reserved, shy and clumsy. When she is assigned to the School of Fine Arts, she meets Hubert, the school's whimsical...
release : 2022.09.28popularis : 10.287
Madame de Sévigné
In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman in her own...
release : 2024.02.28popularis : 6.502
Magnificat
When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been...
release : 2023.06.21popularis : 7.333
Emmène-moi
Authentically painful study of an ill-matched couple's forlorn attempts to revive their relationship after a two-year break.
release : 1995.03.15popularis : 1.998
Fourbi
Writer Paul attempts to interview Rosemonde, a young woman who killed an alleged rapist in self-defense six years prior, for a true crime television...
release : 1996.05.26popularis : 3.566
Love Is the Perfect Crime
Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a...
release : 2013.09.27popularis : 7.582
Lulu in the Nude
After a job interview gone wrong, Lulu sets sail leaving her husband and three children behind. But being an adventurer is easier said than done.
release : 2013.09.28popularis : 5.051
Les Victimes
Paris, 1996. Parisian editor Pierre Duval has an affair with Claire, wife of wealthy architect Bernard Jaillac. The latter has to supervise a...
release : 1996.09.11popularis : 3.455
Week-ends
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you...
release : 2014.02.26popularis : 2.091
The Chef's Wife
The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her rôle as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied...
release : 2014.06.25popularis : 5.731
New Beginnings
Alain and Diane have been together for 30 years. In his mind, Alain is still 30 years old. But the equation 30 years of routine feelings, empty nest...
release : 2023.09.27popularis : 6.422
Strangers by Night
In a crowded subway train, a woman pushes a man. They argue. Their little joust "barks loudly", but does not lack charm... Later, in the corridors of...
release : 2023.07.05popularis : 5.932
Teach Me If You Can
The three teachers Svetlana, Sandrine and Taslima teach children and young people in places that are hardly accessible for “normal”...
release : 2021.04.01popularis : 5.574
The Bélier Family
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially...
release : 2014.12.17popularis : 10.096
Lolo
On holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette meets life-loving IT geek Jean-René. Against all odds, there’s a...
release : 2015.09.03popularis : 7.692
The Visitors: Bastille Day
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social...
release : 2016.03.23popularis : 10.378
Families
Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short...
release : 2015.10.14popularis : 8.41
Ce que femme veut...
Cécile is twenty. She is expecting a child from Pierre, who is thirty-five. She goes through her pregnancy with peace of mind. Quite unlike...
release : 1993.06.09popularis : 2.044
Wow!
Catherine and Oracio are real estate advisors, and are visiting two properties in quick succession: a large bourgeois house "which can have a...
release : 2023.06.07popularis : 8.864
21 Nights with Pattie
During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily...
release : 2015.11.25popularis : 6.895
The Roommates Party
An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le...
release : 2015.12.23popularis : 10.268
Sidestroke
Clara (Karin Viard) is a stripper with a high-strung, jealous boyfriend with the curious name of Loockeed (Antoine Chappey). The couple are friends...
release : 1993.12.22popularis : 1.637
Last Breath
In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind of...
release : 2024.09.25popularis : 9.513
A Bun in the Oven
There is one thing that Nicole, who is soon turning fifty, would have loved to be spared, is to learn that the symptoms that have been ruining her...
release : 2016.11.16popularis : 6.774
Skylab
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that...
release : 2011.09.19popularis : 5.729
Une visite
Carole sees her parents twice a year in Paris.
release : 1996.10.06popularis : 0.339
Rouen, cinq minutes d'arrêt
On a sunday, Marguerite and Mario meet while waiting for the train.
release : 1997.06.06popularis : 1.396
Urgence d'aimer
Joëlle, a simple and energetic young woman, works as a hairdresser for Mrs. Delbarre. When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks her...
release : 1993.02.12popularis : 1.896
Little Nothings
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He...
release : 1992.11.11popularis : 3.13
Fast
Jean-Louis is an naive, amiable orphan who spent his life with his elderly and very strict grandfather. Jean-Louis was a 25-year old virgin when a...
release : 1995.06.07popularis : 0.987
25 décembre 58, 10h36
Two children are cycling in a street of the Butte Montmartre, one of them falls and kills himself on the spot. The witnesses of the tragedy meet...
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 0.616
Où tu vas
Fired from his work and left by his girlfriend, Jean falls into despair
release : 1997.06.06popularis : 0.58
Elles étaient trois
Three girls are stopped on the side of the road. A man drives by and stops to meet them.
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 1.298
Zone Bleue
In a neighborhood threatened of destruction and where a majority of marginalized people live, Violette, a painter finds her friend Pierre.
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 0.843
It Happened in Saint-Tropez
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his...
release : 2013.01.13popularis : 15.07
Mes copines
Anne is thirty six ears old, her friends decide to organize a surprise birthday party where boys are excluded.
release : 2002.06.06popularis : 0.265
Je ne vois pas ce qu'on me trouve
24 hours in a man's life who became famous. He returns in his childhood's city after 30 years of absence
release : 1997.12.17popularis : 1.746
L'Amant de ma sœur
Story about Elise and Helene, two sisters who do everything alike.
release : 1991.05.22popularis : 1.418
Une journée entière sans mentir
Vincent and Claire are in their thirty's. They meet at Vincent's flat where he starts playing a perverse game.
release : 1996.01.01popularis : 0.49
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming
release : 1991.06.15popularis : 0.685
Rhesus-Romeo
When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks Joëlle, a simple young girl, to donate her bone marrow in view of a transplant, she agrees...
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 2.358
Jealous
A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.
release : 2017.11.08popularis : 7.819
Little Tickles
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and...
release : 2018.11.14popularis : 9.031
Kiss & Tell
Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife,...
release : 2018.10.10popularis : 5.507
L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they...
release : 2011.02.26popularis : 1.152
Bécassine !
Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely...
release : 2018.06.20popularis : 4.381
Perfect Nanny
When Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume his activity in a law firm, the couple is...
release : 2019.11.27popularis : 7.709
Dear Mother
One day, Jean-Louis discovers that his heart has stopped. He is not dead, can walk and talk, but his heart is no longer beating. With the help of his...
release : 2020.10.08popularis : 7.342
Appearances
Ève and Henri are among the happy few of the French community in Vienna. They are “la crème de la crème”. The...
release : 2020.09.23popularis : 7.031
La Haine
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for...
release : 1995.05.31popularis : 21.423
Fantasies
Faced with their fantasies, six couples try to explore the hidden sides of their intimate life. Six questions on access to pleasure. From role play...
release : 2021.08.18popularis : 10.566
Teach Me If You Can
From a Siberian nomads’ camp buried under snow to the remote bush of Burkina Faso, passing by the flooded lands of Bangladesh, Émilie...
release : 2021.10.06popularis : 2.09
Tokyo Shaking
March 11, 2011. The biggest tsunami Japan has ever experienced triggers the Fukushima disaster. Risks are being downplayed but the foreign community...
release : 2021.06.23popularis : 4.898
Three Times Nothing
Twig, Cap and Rusty live however they can in the Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. This may completely change the day they learn they are the...
release : 2022.03.16popularis : 4.904