Fanny Ardant
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1949-03-22
Locus Natus: Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Et ut: Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant, Фанни Ардан, Фанні Ардан
Paris Je T'aime
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18...
release : 2006.06.21popularis : 10.636
Confidentially Yours
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on...
release : 1983.08.10popularis : 6.353
8 Women
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the...
release : 2002.02.06popularis : 12.6
Vivement Truffaut
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!,...
release : 1985.07.12popularis : 3.754
Don't Tempt Me
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
release : 2001.11.30popularis : 6.305
Elizabeth
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the...
release : 1998.09.13popularis : 12.625
What a Drag
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
release : 1996.03.27popularis : 7.125
The Woman Next Door
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day,...
release : 1981.09.30popularis : 13.363
Beyond the Clouds
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which...
release : 1995.10.27popularis : 8.044
The Green Shutters
The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social...
release : 2022.08.24popularis : 3.619
Ridicule
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
release : 1996.05.09popularis : 12.118
Colonel Chabert
When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.
release : 1994.09.21popularis : 5.083
Tresor
Nathalie and Jean-Pierre have been together for five years, to celebrate their anniversary, Jean-Pierre prepare a surprise present for his...
release : 2009.11.11popularis : 4.945
The Family
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose...
release : 1987.01.20popularis : 6.186
Afraid of the Dark
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
release : 1991.10.10popularis : 3.734
The Secrets
Noemi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might...
release : 2007.06.14popularis : 3.863
Crossed Tracks
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes...
release : 2007.06.27popularis : 4.547
Bolero: Dance of Life
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the...
release : 1981.05.27popularis : 7.09
Love Unto Death
A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.
release : 1984.09.05popularis : 3.449
The Scent of Blood
A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of...
release : 2004.04.02popularis : 3.473
Nathalie...
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail....
release : 2003.09.11popularis : 6.498
Family Business
French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several...
release : 1986.03.19popularis : 2.319
Life Is a Bed of Roses
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school...
release : 1983.04.20popularis : 5.236
The Nonentity
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the...
release : 1986.08.13popularis : 3.619
Benvenuta
A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François...
release : 1983.09.07popularis : 2.449
The Dinner
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young...
release : 1998.09.03popularis : 5.377
Callas Forever
Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "Carmen."
release : 2002.09.18popularis : 3.801
Amusia
In a world saturated with music, a girl who is born without the means to hear it. The disease is called Amusia. It exists but nobody knows about it...
release : 2022.11.18popularis : 0.981
Hello Goodbye
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a...
release : 2008.11.26popularis : 2.647
Hard Off
This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years....
release : 1999.05.17popularis : 2.681
Italia: Fire and Ashes
The epic and poetic tale of the early years of Italian cinema, from 1896 to 1930: how peplum was born, how the first stars shone, how many daring...
release : 2023.03.15popularis : 0.855
Rasputin
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
release : 2011.12.30popularis : 4.305
The Dogs
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
release : 1979.03.07popularis : 4.14
Face
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
release : 2009.10.02popularis : 3.611
Desire
Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is...
release : 1996.04.10popularis : 2.995
Australia
Following a stint as a WWII fighter pilot, Belgian-born Edouard falls in love with an Indonesian woman, has a daughter with her and immigrates to...
release : 1989.09.13popularis : 3.703
Five
A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to...
release : 2016.03.30popularis : 7.163
Marie, the Doll
Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a...
release : 1976.08.25popularis : 3.554
One Hundred and One Nights
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all...
release : 1995.01.25popularis : 8.325
The Libertine
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
release : 2000.03.15popularis : 6.47
Mélo
Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not,...
release : 1986.09.03popularis : 5.169
Change My Life
Slightly over-the-hill actress Nina has a fainting spell in a Paris park and Sami, an Algerian man, out for a run comes to her aid. She seeks him out...
release : 2001.11.28popularis : 2.003
Mr. Blake At Your Service!
Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go back to France, in the house he met her. This...
release : 2023.11.01popularis : 6.283
The Lookout
When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his...
release : 2012.09.05popularis : 10.815
The Son of Français
A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure....
release : 1999.12.15popularis : 3.115
The Trial Begins
A civil servant (Michele Lastella) uses shady methods to become a powerful businessman.
release : 2007.09.07popularis : 1.79
Swann in Love
In early 20th century, Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and...
release : 1984.02.23popularis : 8.832
Love and Fear
Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusions, goals and desires in Margarethe von...
release : 1988.04.19popularis : 3.364
El año del diluvio
In a particularly hot summer, Sister Consuelo, superior of an order dedicated to caring for the sick, decided to transform the dilapidated hospital...
release : 2004.04.28popularis : 1.447
The Palace
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them...
release : 2023.09.28popularis : 38.999
Bright Days Ahead
Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all,...
release : 2013.06.19popularis : 8.824
American Star
An assassin on a final assignment in Fuerteventura, to kill a man he has never met. When his target is delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island,...
release : 2024.01.26popularis : 7.473
Passion Fanny Ardant
A portrait of the famous French actress Fanny Ardant, who has worked with great figures of cinema such as Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais,...
release : 2023.09.27popularis : 4.258
The Lanzac Clan
A war of inheritance in the Lanzac family, a rich industrial family from Bordeaux, against a backdrop of family secrets and the unsaid. Elisabeth...
release : 2013.03.02popularis : 1.97
Back to Alexandria
After more than 20 years, Sue returns from Switzerland to her home country Egypt because her mother Fairouz is in a hospital bed. Sue ran away from...
release : 2024.10.16popularis : 7.363
Casanova Variations
Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beautiful writer, Elisa von der Recke, comes to...
release : 2014.08.21popularis : 1.983
Sabrina
An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused...
release : 1995.12.15popularis : 20.478
Balzac: A Life of Passion
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a...
release : 1999.09.13popularis : 6.687
Les enragés
Marc and Laurent, two worrying misfits, break into a large isolated property in the middle of the countryside. Marc discovers with amazement that the...
release : 1985.01.09popularis : 0.578
Miroir mon amour
The story starts where the tale ends: Snow White wakes up to the age of sexuality and discovers a world where the dwarves have become tall, and her...
release : 2012.10.26popularis : 1.241
Rachel's Game
Home cook Rachel, a sort of Ma Dalton, has raised her sons Sam and Jeremiah, and her grandson, Nathan, in the cult of conning. From bad plans to...
release : 2024.03.13popularis : 1.72
Chic!
Helene must act as a matchmaker for her world famous fashion designer boss, Alicia Ricosi.
release : 2015.01.07popularis : 3.661
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
For seven years, Antoine de Caunes and José Garcia made their mark on French comedy history each evening in prime-time on their show, "Nulle...
release : 2004.09.24popularis : 2.599
Next Summer
Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage...
release : 1985.01.09popularis : 2.572
Ma France à moi
France has been living alone in her apartment since the death of her husband. When she hears on the radio that the Singa association puts homeless...
release : 2023.12.20popularis : 5.407
Good Morning Midnight
Like every other night, Sasha goes out to drown her loneliness in alcohol at the local bistro. But this time, she meet Paolo, an attractive man who...
release : 2021.10.17popularis : 1.208
The Opera!
Modern version of Orpheus and Eurydice.
release : 2024.10.18popularis : 0.97
Words in Progress
Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
release : 2004.04.15popularis : 1.02
The Great Beauty
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep...
release : 2013.05.21popularis : 12.73
E Trema Ancora, the Other Voice of Luchino Visconti
What remains of the Island of Ischia and the Villa? What remains of these landscapes in which Luchino Visconti, icon of the cinema, lived and dreamed...
release : 2024.05.16popularis : 0.66
Paris Calligrammes
Ulrike Ottinger weaves her personal memories of Parisian bohemianism and the serious social, political and cultural upheavals of the time into a...
release : 2020.10.14popularis : 1.01
Pleure Pas My Love
After the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who happens to be the man who directed his mother's last...
release : 1989.01.18popularis : 0.787
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema as he directs Beyond the Clouds (1995), assisted...
release : 1995.09.02popularis : 2.379
Jane Birkin by Friends
Jane Birkin was scheduled to perform at the Olympia in Paris on February 3, 2024. After she passed away on July 16, 2023, her daughters and her...
release : 2024.07.17popularis : 4.466
Desiderio
After losing the ferry that should bring her to Greece by her husband, an Italian-French journalist finds herself in her native country in Puglia and...
release : 1984.02.23popularis : 2.902
Waiting for You
Compelled by grief and curiosity a young Englishman travels to France where he meets an eccentric older woman and unearths truths about the father he...
release : 2017.02.24popularis : 2.247
Nothing But Lies
Frustrated with her life, a Parisian tells her philandering husband about her lover.
release : 1991.12.11popularis : 1.002
Amok
Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules...
release : 1993.10.09popularis : 2.089
Adventure of Catherine C.
In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a...
release : 1990.08.29popularis : 1.6
D'un film à l'autre
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film...
release : 2011.04.13popularis : 1.182
François Truffaut, une autobiographie
A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborators and admirers.
release : 2004.10.01popularis : 1.804
The Fall of the House of Usher
After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick...
release : 1981.04.12popularis : 2.13
For This Is My Body
This is the story of an encounter. An encounter between a groupie and the rock star she has always worshipped, This is a story of fascination and...
release : 2016.11.02popularis : 0.561
Lola Pater
When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid became Lola.
release : 2017.08.09popularis : 2.414
Il Divo
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything:...
release : 2008.05.28popularis : 9.751
Sarah
A stage play by John Murrell, adapted by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, performed to perfection by Fanny Ardant and Robert Hirsch about the last days of...
release : 2003.01.17popularis : 1.929
Croque monsieur
Coco Baisos, a mature woman who likes to lead a big train, finds herself once again a widow, the fifth to be more precise. Bursting with energy and...
release : 2016.11.12popularis : 0.551
Mag Bodard, un destin
Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.
release : 2005.10.01popularis : 1.08
La Traversée du désir
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
release : 2009.03.16popularis : 6.226
My Mother Is Crazy
A road trip comedy about a crazy mother who has a tense relationship with her son.
release : 2018.12.05popularis : 3.731
Diary of My Mind
On February 27, 2009, pupil Benjamin Feller commits a crime which he has meticulously described beforehand in a diary entry. He goes to the post...
release : 2018.01.27popularis : 1.615
Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face...
release : 2009.06.28popularis : 0.642
Vostok N°20
Daily life in a third-class Transsiberian wagon named Vostok N 20. Between discomfort, shared meals, boredom and confessions to strangers, people...
release : 2018.08.24popularis : 1.153
Alliés Nés
Micha works with her father who owns a shoe repair shop. Like every Friday evening, he goes to dinner with his parents. That evening, his brother...
release : 2014.09.16popularis : 0.637
Les bons bourgeois
In May of 1968, a well-off family from the XVIth district in Paris lives through the revolutionary fever of the Latin District in its own...
release : 1981.07.15popularis : 0.667
The Bare Necessity
Pierre Perdrix has been enjoying an enchanted though restless existence since the enigmatic Juliette Webb burst into his life. a stranger who landed...
release : 2019.08.14popularis : 6.84
La Belle Époque
Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love...
release : 2019.11.06popularis : 9.634
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk...
release : 1993.05.14popularis : 1.19
The Session
A photographer gets to take a last picture of a muse he is obsessed with during a rather strange session.
release : 2014.12.28popularis : 0.9
You Never Left
Set in an allegorical "other place" that is a metaphor of a lost Egypt. Sketching a parallel between exile and death, creating a genuine...
release : 2010.12.10popularis : 1.236
DNA
DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it...
release : 2020.12.10popularis : 6.48
Night Shift
With no career expectations, a temperamental young woman gave in to a job as a maid in a hotel. Makes the beds, replaces the towels, replaces the...
release : 2017.07.05popularis : 0.881
The Young Lovers
Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief...
release : 2022.02.02popularis : 8.23
The Colors of Fire
February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial...
release : 2022.11.09popularis : 14.062