Emmanuelle Riva
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.
Three Colors: Blue
as MotherThe wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now...
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Amour
as AnneGeorges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their...
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
as ElleThe deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this...
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Venus Beauty Institute
as Tante LydaAging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train...
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Lost in Paris
as MarthaFiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue,...
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Adua and Her Friends
as MarilinaWhen a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business...
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Léon Morin, Priest
as BarnyThe widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small...
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The Great Alibi
as Geneviève HerbinLike every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion...
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Kapo
as TereseDetermined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination...
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Skylab
as Mrs. PrévostIt is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate...
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Michael H. – Profession: Director
as SelfOver the past twenty-five years, director Michael Haneke has established himself as a towering...
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I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
as Madame ReyRunning away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has...
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Trintignant by Trintignant
as Self (archive footage)A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis...
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Risky Business
as Suzanne DoucetA teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape...
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Safari 5000
as uncreditedA Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French...
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My Son
as Grandmother / La grand-mèreJulien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is...
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The Possessors
as la secrétaire de NoëlNoël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press -...
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XXL
as Sonia SternTunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette...
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For Sasha
as Mrs. MalkaIsrael, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two...
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Eros Therapy
as EmmaA husband wants to win back his wife, even though she has been living with her lesbian lover for...
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Marx Can Wait
as Mother (archive footage) (uncredited)"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met...
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Therese
as Thérèse DesqueyrouxThérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose...
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The Games of Countess Dolingen
as Une invitéeThis complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and...
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A Man and His Dog
as Femme égliseAn elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
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A Greek Type of Problem
as Granny"Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child....
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The Hours of Love
as MarettaIn "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in...
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Wide-Awake
as The SuperwomanIngénues, icons, action heroes, divas and the world's next great comedy star: 13 actresses who...
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I Kill, You Kill
as Lucia Rossi Perozzi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
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Is There a Frenchman in the House?
as Adélaïde TumelatAn official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by...
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C'est la vie
as DominiqueDimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything...
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The Eyes, the Mouth
as MadreA rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and...
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Recourse in Grace
as Germaine TourierMario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with...
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A che punto è la notte
as Professoressa ChaldinyIn Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A...
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Liberty at Night
as MoucheIn the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
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Le Coup de grâce
as SophieDuring WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face...
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The Big Hit
as Clémence GrandvalFrank Willes, a young professional footballer, is involved in a road accident from which he...
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
as MotherStory about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way...
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Funny Boy
as Micky's MotherMicky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he...
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The Passion of Bernadette
as Mère Marie-Thérèse VauzouFrench filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde...
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Thomas the Impostor
as la princesse de BormesIn the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow,...
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Green Paradise
as La mère de LucasLucas, a young sociologist, finds in his home village two friends, Isabelle and Simon....
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Man of Desire
as ValentineA man reevaluates his life. Étienne, a married writer, gives a lift to a young hitchhiker...
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Climates of Love
as IsabelleThe Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity...
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A Shadow of a Doubt
as GrandmotherAline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family...
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Ariane
as PasiphaeA dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.
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The Eighth Day
as FrançoiseFrançoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she...
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The Devil in the Heart
as Mrs. Bouvier, the motherIt takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair...
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Alma
as uncreditedAfter having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their...
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Au long de rivière Fango
as MathildeJérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was...
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Bitter Fruit
as SoledadA police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of...
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Gates of Fire
as The BaronessIn October 1942, as an offensive was launched against Rommel's troops, a vehicle carrying a...
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Médée
as Le choeurRepudiated by her husband Jason, Medea takes cruel revenge on her children.
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A Man of My Measure
as uncreditedA tall and gangly Victoire arrives in Paris looking for the ideal French lover -- and because...
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L’Or et le plomb
as World's womanThe story is based on Voltaire's tale "Le monde comme il va" ("The world as it is"). Sent by the...
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Proust, l'art et la douleur
as Narrator (voice)From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust. Freely intersperses documentary...
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Éclats de famille
as MagueriteMarguerite Mercier is a retired seamstress who lives in an old apartment.A real estate agent has...
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La forêt noire
as Maria RichterInspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of...
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Far from Brazil
as JulietteSince her husband left to live in Brazil years ago, Juliette has lived alone in a vast Normandy...
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Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent
as Vitalie RimbaudAfter abandoning his poetry, from 1880 until his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud drifts between...
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A che punto è la notte
as Professoressa ChaldinyIn Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to...
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