Emmanuelle Riva

Born: 1927-02-24

Emmanuelle Riva (February 24, 1927 – January 27, 2017) was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour and Amour. In 2013, Riva won the BAFTA Award and the César Award for her lead role in Michael Haneke's Amour as Anne Laurent, and was nominated for the Academy Award for the same role.[2][3] She had previously been nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1960 for Hiroshima mon amour, and had won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 for Thérèse Desqueyroux.


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Three Colors: Blue

as Mother
Released: 1993-09-08

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now...

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Amour

as Anne
Released: 2012-09-20

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their...

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Hiroshima Mon Amour

as Elle
Released: 1959-06-10

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this...

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Venus Beauty Institute

as Tante Lyda
Released: 1999-02-03

Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train...

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Lost in Paris

as Martha
Released: 2017-01-14

Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue,...

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Skylab

as Mrs. Prévost
Released: 2011-09-19

It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate...

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The Possessors

as la secrétaire de Noël
Released: 1958-11-19

Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press -...

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Léon Morin, Priest

as Barny
Released: 1961-09-22

The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small...

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Kapo

as Terese
Released: 1960-09-27

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination...

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A che punto è la notte

as Professoressa Chaldiny
Released: 1994-04-07

In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A...

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The Great Alibi

as Geneviève Herbin
Released: 2008-04-30

Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion...

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Recourse in Grace

as Germaine Tourier
Released: 1960-05-19

Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with...

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Trintignant by Trintignant

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2021-10-11

A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis...

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My Son

as Grandmother / La grand-mère
Released: 2006-03-07

Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is...

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The Eyes, the Mouth

as Madre
Released: 1982-09-10

A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and...

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Adua and Her Friends

as Marilina
Released: 1960-09-16

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business...

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Wide-Awake

as The Superwoman
Released: 2012-12-07

Ingénues, icons, action heroes, divas and the world's next great comedy star: 13 actresses who...

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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

as Mother
Released: 1988-12-26

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way...

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I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse

as Madame Rey
Released: 1973-11-22

Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has...

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Michael H. – Profession: Director

as Self
Released: 2013-03-15

Over the past twenty-five years, director Michael Haneke has established himself as a towering...

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Marx Can Wait

as Mother (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2021-07-15

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met...

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XXL

as Sonia Stern
Released: 1997-12-10

Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette...

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The Passion of Bernadette

as Mère Marie-Thérèse Vauzou
Released: 1990-05-09

French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde...

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For Sasha

as Mrs. Malka
Released: 1991-04-10

Israel, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two...

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A Man and His Dog

as Femme église
Released: 2009-01-14

An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.

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The Games of Countess Dolingen

as Une invitée
Released: 1981-09-01

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and...

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Le coup de grâce

as Sophie
Released: 1966-05-08

During WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face...

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C'est la vie

as Dominique
Released: 2001-11-07

Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything...

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Risky Business

as Suzanne Doucet
Released: 1967-12-21

A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape...

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Eros Therapy

as Emma
Released: 2004-08-25

A husband wants to win back his wife, even though she has been living with her lesbian lover for...

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Thomas the Impostor

as la princesse de Bormes
Released: 1965-06-01

In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow,...

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The Hours of Love

as Maretta
Released: 1963-03-01

In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in...

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A Greek Type of Problem

as Granny
Released: 2013-02-06

"Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child....

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Is There a Frenchman in the House?

as Adélaïde Tumelat
Released: 1982-04-28

An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by...

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Safari 5000

as uncredited
Released: 1969-07-19

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French...

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Gates of Fire

as The Baroness
Released: 1972-03-15

In October 1942, as an offensive was launched against Rommel's troops, a vehicle carrying a...

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I Kill, You Kill

as Lucia Rossi Perozzi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")
Released: 1965-03-25

Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.

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Therese

as Thérèse Desqueyroux
Released: 1962-09-21

Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose...

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Au long de rivière Fango

as Mathilde
Released: 1975-01-22

Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was...

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Funny Boy

as Micky's Mother
Released: 1987-08-26

Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he...

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A Man of My Measure

as uncredited
Released: 1983-01-16

A tall and gangly Victoire arrives in Paris looking for the ideal French lover -- and because...

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The Eighth Day

as Françoise
Released: 1960-02-24

Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she...

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Éclats de famille

as Maguerite
Released: 1995-09-02

Marguerite Mercier is a retired seamstress who lives in an old apartment.A real estate agent has...

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Bitter Fruit

as Soledad
Released: 1967-01-11

A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of...

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Man of Desire

as Valentine
Released: 1971-03-17

A man reevaluates his life. Étienne, a married writer, gives a lift to a young hitchhiker...

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The Devil in the Heart

as Mrs. Bouvier, the mother
Released: 1976-05-26

It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair...

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Green Paradise

as La mère de Lucas
Released: 2004-02-25

Lucas, a young sociologist, finds in his home village two friends, Isabelle and Simon....

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A Shadow of a Doubt

as Grandmother
Released: 1993-09-11

Aline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family...

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Alma

as uncredited
Released: 2021-05-07

After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their...

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Capitaine au long cours

as Clémentine / Calypso
Released: 1997-08-27

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Caterina

as Caterina
Released: 1963-12-21

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Ariane

as Pasiphae
Released: 1974-12-01

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.

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The Big Hit

as Clémence Grandval
Released: 1964-06-24

Frank Willes, a young professional footballer, is involved in a road accident from which he...

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Liberty at Night

as Mouche
Released: 1984-10-03

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.

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La forêt noire

as Maria Richter
Released: 1968-02-06

Inspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of...

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Proust, l'art et la douleur

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1971-06-17

From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust. Freely intersperses documentary...

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Médée

as Le choeur
Released: 2001-02-20

Repudiated by her husband Jason, Medea takes cruel revenge on her children.

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Climates of Love

as Isabelle
Released: 1962-04-11

The Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity...

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Far from Brazil

as Juliette
Released: 1992-09-09

Since her husband left to live in Brazil years ago, Juliette has lived alone in a vast Normandy...

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L’or et le plomb

as La femme du monde
Released: 1966-03-16

The story is based on Voltaire's tale "Le monde comme il va" ("The world as it is"). Sent by the...

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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Kulturzeit

as self
First aired: 1995-10-02

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Discorama

as Self
First aired: 1959-02-04

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A che punto è la notte

as Professoressa Chaldiny
First aired: 1994-12-14

In Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to...

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