Marie-Christine Barrault

A Woman's Life (2026)

Gabrielle, a dedicated surgeon and head of a hospital department, is stretched thin by the weight of responsibility. There is little time left for her private life: a loving husband and a mother who depends on her care. Yet this is the life she wanted, the ...

The Ties That Bind Us (2025)

A young single father trying to find the strength to love. A feminist librarian, single by conviction, who's decided that she won't be a mother. A six-year-old child trying to find a place in a new family structure. By revealing their aspirations, their fe ...

La Maman du bourreau (2024)

Oldies But Goodies (2024)

As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation of a retirement home in the south of France. ...

Tout sauf l’ennui (2023)

Et doucement rallumer les étoiles (2023)

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2023)

A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives. ...

George et Sarah (2020)

Zénon the Rebel (2019)

Zénon is the hero of "The Abyss", the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in André Delvaux's film, played by Gian Maria Volonte, for the movie adaptation of the same book in 1988. But what does Zénon rep ...

Deux gouttes d'eau (2018)

A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé. But he has an identical twin brother. The detectives have to go beyond appearances and defeat their demons to find the true murderer. ...

All About Mothers (2018)

They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits, or losing their heads. Alive or already a memory. They are mothers, and it's their party. ...

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)

Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. ...

Les brumes du souvenir (2017)

Twisting Fate (2016)

17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By a stroke of luck, Claire survives, but finds herself alone, far from home in a country where everything is ...

Mademoiselle de la Charce (2016)

The Easy Way Out (2015)

Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is ...

Toi que j'aimais tant (2014)

Sleight of Hand (2014)

Arnaud Marescot has a penchant to steal small objects. When his compulsive fixation targets Emilie, and he thinks he's in control over her, it's already too late to realize he's fallen into a deadly trap. ...

My Name Is Hmmm... (2013)

Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a "luminous journey" in his beautiful red truck. She, escaping her desperate and incestuous father; he, far from his native Scotland and the sad memory of his lost wife and daughter. In the course of a few ...

Domestic Life (2013)

Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she has an ...

The Big Bad Wolf (2013)

Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situatio ...

Memories of a Disturbed Young Lady (2010)

Lola is still a virgin at the age of twenty-five. Her friends decide to stick their noses into it. Memoirs of a Disturbed Young Lady is the story of a mad chase after a politically correct loss of virginity. ...

Making Plans for Lena (2009)

Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any means neces ...

Trivial (2007)

An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane? ...

Passés troubles (2006)

A former police officer, Marc Lorca, sees his wife die from a terrible car accident, which occurred while he was driving. Previously alcoholic, Lorca seems to collapse under the weight of guilt. But a former colleague, Marianne Duriez, recently become a po ...

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre (2005)

This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Ma ...

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens (2005)

Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who s ...

Parlez-moi d'amour (2004)

Elisa, 65, has felt very lonely since her husband passed away 10 years ago. So she decides to rent a room in her residence to Clémentine, a young student who recently broke up with her boyfriend. The two women quickly form a strong bond and help each othe ...

L'empreinte de l'ange (2004)

In a highly civilized society of the future, a capsule is sent on an expedition, in search of parallel universes. Astronaut Oria will soon realize that, beyond this ultimate frontier, no human proportion can anymore be conceived: the creature she's been ri ...

Saint-Germain ou La négociation (2003)

This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the religions wars between catholics and protestants in France. Both sides are decided for a truth, to enable peaceful negociations of a settlement, which will become ...

Azzurro (2000)

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family ...

La Dilettante (1999)

Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzerland, Pierrette one day packs her bags full of fashionable outfits and returns to her native Paris with no ...

Le grand Batre (1997)

The story of a family and a tradition that remain the same despite the time going by, in a land that has existed for centuries. In La Camarga, one of the last natural sanctuaries that still exist, the Azéracs, landowners and aristocrats, work as wild bull ...

Obsession (1997)

Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a fateful encounter in a Berlin train station. The allure of forbidden l ...

Un coup de baguette magique (1997)

Jeanne, Achille, and their family belong to the middle class. They have their own house. Their marriage has not always gone smoothly, but they both make up for it. Then they both lose their jobs, and the incredible happens: the house is sold and they becom ...

Love, Math and Sex (1997)

A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man. ...

Mon père avait raison (1996)

After being abandoned by his wife, a man raises his son alone for twenty years. ...

Tendre piège (1996)

The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives. ...

Bonsoir (1994)

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give ...

Next Time the Fire (1993)

The study of semantics has convinced Amedio that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on an Italian holiday with his family, he conceives the idea that his aging wife should assume the role of hi ...

Necessary Love (1991)

In the 19th century Europe, an aging scheming couple decides to manipulate and seduce a couple of young newlyweds in love, just for the fun of it. ...

Marie Curie, Une Femme Honorable (1991)

Documentary about the tumultuous life of the famous scientist Marie Curie. ...

Gallant Ladies (1990)

Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century French court than for battles. Unfortunately for him, his true love, Victoire, is beyond his reach most o ...

Stormy Summer (1989)

Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arrival of a British skydiver, Jack, will completely upset Laurence. Louis, jealous like crazy, will betray the ...

The Silent Woman (1989)

French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere. ...

Women in Prison (1988)

Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the warden Dessombes (Marie-Christine Barrault). The warden f ...

The Student (1988)

An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician. ...

L'Énigme des sables (1988)

A team of amateur filmmakers sets off, camera in hand, to the south of Morocco. During their stay, one of the members of the group, Fanette, a vulgar vampire, is murdered. The Moroccan police do not find the culprit, and Paris takes over the case. The insp ...

Sanguines (1988)

A new gardener arrives at the superb property of a French cultural attaché in Portugal. This frail young man does not have the head nor the figure for the job. And for good reason: Johann is a painter who, after a recent break-up, has fled to find the cal ...

The Abyss (1988)

The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, wher ...

Adieu, je t'aime (1988)

A wife struggles with her husband's infidelity with another man and eventually gives herself to both of them. ...

The Lizard King (1988)

A woman travels from France to Australia in search of her missing son. ...

Daniya, the emir's garden (1988)

Daniya is the story of a trip. A man of culture and resolute, the younger brother of the Countess of Barcelona, leaves the Catalan court for the kingdom of Denia (Daniya). The purpose of his trip is to accept the ecclesiastical authority entrusted to him b ...

Manuela's Loves (1987)

The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a protegee. ...

Vaudeville (1986)

The husband, the wife and the lover. The husband is tired of playing the eternal husband. The wife would like to live a last love story. The lover, seducer in the soul, only dreams of slippers. As a bonus, there is the brother-in-law, Santa Claus in a depa ...

L'Été 36 (1986)

In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vacation. ...

The Satin Slipper (1986)

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America ...

Power Of Evil (1985)

An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man. ...

A Better Life (1985)

Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of their differe ...

Pianoforte (1985)

Maria studies at the university while her boyfriend Paolo is an established journalist. Both are drug addicts. Maria and Paolo try to detox with the help of a specialized clinic but it doesn't last long: back from a trip during which they proved to themsel ...

Louise... l'insoumise (1985)

While watching the others on her TV screen, Louise becomes a rebellious girl. ...

Swann in Love (1984)

In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never loves him. ...

A Love in Germany (1983)

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the auth ...

Les Mots pour le dire (1983)

A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband w ...

Table for Five (1983)

J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie Perkins) and her new h ...

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi (1983)

Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society. ...

Mir reicht's - ich steig aus (1983)

The intelligent Linda, daughter of Joseph and Jane, takes a critical view of her parents' marriage. Her father's dominant behavior and her mother's indifference become so unbearable to her that she decides to run away. She manages to persuade Jane to accom ...

L'Amour trop fort (1981)

Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out o ...

Stardust Memories (1980)

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films. ...

Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme (1980)

Two couples, Eva and Edy and Martin and Charlotte are separated by a very different social condition. The first are rich bourgeois, the second are workers. ...

My Dearest (1980)

Jeanne has been divorced for seven years now and her life is centered around Sarah, her fifteen year-old daughter. They appear to have a perfectly harmonious life together, a relationship based on deep mutual understanding and trust. So when Sarah needs a ...

To Woody Allen from Europe with Love (1980)

Initiated by producer-director Pierre Drouot, Woody Allen for the very first time agrees to let a filmmaker, Belgium's André Delvaux, film him during one of his own productions, Stardust Memories. Woody talks about his work, always steering clear of the a ...

Woman Between Wolf and Dog (1979)

Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things ...

Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen (1979)

Woody Allen's interview with France Roche. ...

Perceval (1978)

The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes from the story of Gawain and the crucifixion of Christ. ...

Histoire vraie (1978)

A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master. ...

The Savage State (1978)

L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African sta ...

The Medusa Touch (1978)

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities. ...

Le Chandelier (1977)

Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André's suspicions about his wife's fidelity, Clavaroche suggests that Jacqueline take a "Chandelier". ...

Cousin, Cousine (1975)

Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends. ...

John Glückstadt (1975)

Adapted from the novel Die Döppelgänger by Theodor Storm, this black-and-white drama tells the tragic story of a war veteran who, in 1860, returns to his home in Schleswig Holstein after serving a term for robbery. There he finds nothing but hardship and ...

Le Tour d'Écrou (1974)

A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, and that the ghosts mean harm to the children. ...

La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (1974)

An Ideal Husband (1972)

Love in the Afternoon (1972)

Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Ch ...

Figaro-ci, Figaro-là (1972)

Menace (1972)

An esteemed surgeon, Charles Bernard, and his family are victims of a violent home invasion. When his young child is held for ransom, Charles must decide whether to comply or fight back. ...

Le Sagouin (1972)

In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a life of anguish and sadness in a sinister castle. He exasperates his mother who sees in him only the hated re ...

Les Cent livres : À la recherche du temps perdu (1971)

An evocation, realistic and poetic at the same time, of Proust's work " in which he is locked up as in the room ". Halfway between the audiovisual adaptation and the portrait of the dandy and reclusive writer, all in black and white signed Claude Santelli, ...

Le Misanthrope (1971)

Lancelot of the Lake (1970)

This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round Tables and falls secretly in love with Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, for whom he wants to accomplis ...

Distracted (1970)

A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another. ...

« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur (1970)

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My Night at Maud's (1969)

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, moralit ...