Eric Ruf

Cassandre (2025)

Summer 1998. Countryside. Cassandre is 14. Her parents and older brother notice that her body has changed. ...

The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023)

D'Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Protestants finally escalates, as the king declares war — forcing the now four musketeers into battle. But ...

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023)

D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of Fr ...

The Line (2023)

Margaret, 35, has a history of violent behaviour which has cost her a romantic relationship. She has moved back in with her mother Christina, a fragile, immature 55-year-old woman who blames Margaret, her firstborn, for ruining her dreams of a career as a ...

The Nameless Woman: The Story of Jeanne & Baudelaire (2021)

The story, hidden by historians and biographers, of Jeanne, a black woman, whose real name is unknown, who was the muse and companion of the mythical French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). ...

My Dog Stupid (2019)

Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to start over again. Yet when he discovers an ...

An Officer and a Spy (2019)

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil's Island penal colony. ...

Maryline (2017)

A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris. ...

Three Sisters (2015)

For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov's greatest, most expansively mela ...

My Golden Days (2015)

Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life. ...

Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran (2015)

Going Away (2013)

Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama. ...

Meurtre en trois actes (2013)

With the ghost of Delphine, a sociétaire who committed suicide several months earlier, still hanging over the place, an unexplained series of backstage murders occurs at the Comédie-Française. Domont and his associate Strozzi investigate at this famous ...

Drumont, histoire d'un antisémite français (2013)

'Orsay (2012)

Le partage de midi (2011)

The Marquise of Darkness (2011)

Marie Madeleine Dreux, Marquise of Brinvilliers, was executed in 1676 for poisoning. Manipulated by her lover and having kept the aftereffects of her childhood, she does not hesitate to poison her father and two brothers to recover their inheritance. ...

Nobody Else But You (2011)

The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's will he unwi ...

The Big Picture (2010)

Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local ...

The Third Part of the World (2008)

Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears on ...

Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher (2007)

Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger (the first name was never used) in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony and violin in Paris, and after a brief period in Zürich, returned there to study with Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d'Indy. He continued to stud ...

Without Me (2007)

Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children. ...

Le Pendu (2007)

A small-town detective unravels a web of secrets after a mysterious hanging jolts the community. As whispers of betrayal surface, he confronts his own demons, navigating the fine line between justice and vengeance in a chilling quest for truth. ...

Cyrano de Bergerac (2007)

Rachel (2006)

Like every weekend, nineteen-year-old student Rachel is babysitter to the two-year-old baby Hugo. When Hugo's single father has gone out for the night, Christine takes advantage of it to invite her good friend Christine. ...

My Angel (2004)

Colette, a prostitute in love, receives a phone call in the middle of the night. An unknown colleague asks her for a favour in the form of a cry for help: to pick up her boy and bring him to her. She, herself, needs a child to make her loved ex return to h ...

Milady (2004)

Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously. ...

Phèdre (2003)

Hèdre is queen but doesn't love the king. She prefers his son Hippolytus, whom he had from a first marriage, to Theseus. A guilty love, hidden by feigned hatred, that makes her suffer and perish, and that she can't keep from confessing as soon as she hear ...

La Chanson du maçon (2002)

Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason. ...

Un pique-nique chez Osiris (2001)

The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with h ...

Passionnément (2000)

On the island of Porquerolles, Alice spies on Bernard, a man who has returned to France after living in Brazil for some years. The two had once been lovers, and Alice's obsession with Bernard -- which apparently didn't wane during their time apart -- sets ...

L'école des femmes (1999)

Theater play "L'école des femmes" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999. ...

Place Vendôme (1998)

The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing ...

Stolen Life (1998)

Three women live together in an old rectory on the seashore. Alda lends her body to a string of carnal relationships but never commits her feelings. Olga, the elder sister, has opted for a reclusive life as the soul of the household. Her daughter, Sigga, i ...

The Proprietor (1996)

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block. ...

Marie-Louise ou la permission (1995)

Star crossed lovers are the focus of this French romantic comedy. Marie-Louise, an American, has come to Paris to meet her new lover, Jean-Paul who has a weekend pass from his military service post. Unfortunately they misunderstood each other's instruction ...

La Bohème (2023)

La vie de Galilée (2019)

Accompanied by a child, the mathematician Galileo observes the firmament with a telescope. Ten years ago, the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned in Rome for having supported the idea of an infinite and centerless universe, based on the work of Copernicu ...

Roméo et Juliette (2018)

An adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet", staged by Éric Ruf. ...

Rossini: La Cenerentola (2018)

Divested of its traditional attributes – glass slipper and pumpkin carriage – and dominated by a tyrannical stepfather instead of a cruel stepmother, Rossini's la Cenerentola plays with these most conventional of fairy‑tale characters. Nonetheless Ci ...

Cyrano de Bergerac (2007)