Cast: Emmanuelle Seigner

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Emmanuelle Seigner. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Julian Schnabel

Cast Mathieu Amalric · Emmanuelle Seigner · Marie-Josée Croze · Anne Consigny

Synopsis At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the rakishly successful and charismatic editor in chief of French Elle was a man defined by his passion for life. On December 1995, he suffered a massive stroke and his brain stem was rendered inactive. In...

7.4

19K votes

7.4

19K votes

In the House

2012 · Movie · 101 min. · France

Direction François Ozon

Cast Fabrice Luchini · Ernst Umhauer · Kristin Scott Thomas · Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his...

7.3

26K votes

7.3

26K votes

A Few Hours of Spring

2012 · Movie · 108 min. · France

Direction Stéphane Brizé

Cast Vincent Lindon · Hélène Vincent · Emmanuelle Seigner · Olivier Perrier

Synopsis Alain Evrard, a trucker who has just finished serving a prison sentence, is forced to temporarily move back to his mother's house. This forced co-habitation causes all the violence of their past relationship to re-emerge. One day, Alain accidentally discovers...

7.1

216 votes

7.1

216 votes

Bitter Moon

1992 · Movie · 139 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Peter Coyote · Emmanuelle Seigner · Hugh Grant · Kristin Scott Thomas

Synopsis On a cruise to Istanbul in celebration of their seventh wedding anniversary, uptight British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi...

7.1

11K votes

7.1

11K votes

La vie en rose

2007 · Movie · 140 min. · France

Direction Olivier Dahan

Cast Marion Cotillard · Sylvie Testud · Pascal Greggory · Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis She was tiny and tender, but her private life was marked by extraordinary tragedy. Edith Piaf (1915-1963) conveyed French identity to the rest of the world as had no other singer before or after her. Known internationally as the "sparrow...

7.1

13K votes

7.1

13K votes

Venus in Fur

2013 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Mathieu Amalric · Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis Vanda is an unusually talented young actress determined to land the lead in Thomas' new play based on the classic erotic novel, Venus in Fur. Vanda's emotionally charged audition for the gifted but demanding playwright/director becomes an electrifying game of...

6.9

10K votes

6.9

10K votes

An Officer and a Spy

2019 · Movie · 126 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jean Dujardin · Louis Garrel · Emmanuelle Seigner · Grégory Gadebois

Synopsis On 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young promising officer, is degraded for spying for Germany, wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, who is promoted...

6.9

6K votes

6.9

6K votes

Frantic

1988 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Harrison Ford · Emmanuelle Seigner · Betty Buckley · Gérard Klein

Synopsis Roman Polanski’s FRANTIC is an engaging thriller in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock. Harrison Ford plays Richard Walker, an American heart surgeon vacationing with his wife, Sondra (Betty Buckley), in Paris, where he is to attend a medical convention. Sondra...

6.6

12K votes

6.6

12K votes

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

2017 · Documentary · 84 min. · United States

Direction Pappi Corsicato

Cast Julian Schnabel · Lola Schnabel · Vito Maria Schnabel · Al Pacino

Synopsis A look at the personal life and public career of New York artist Julian Schnabel.

6.2

56 votes

6.2

56 votes

At Eternity's Gate

2018 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Julian Schnabel

Cast Willem Dafoe · Rupert Friend · Oscar Isaac · Mads Mikkelsen

Synopsis The story focuses on the time in Vincent Van Gogh’s life that he spent in Arles.

6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

6.2

46 votes

The Siege of Jadotville

2016 · Movie · 108 min. · Ireland

Direction Richie Smyth

Cast Jamie Dornan · Guillaume Canet · Mark Strong · Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis Year 1961. Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during in the early 1960s.

6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

Happily Ever After

2004 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Yvan Attal

Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg · Yvan Attal · Alain Chabat · Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis Is the love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.

6.0

396 votes

6.0

396 votes

Detective

1985 · Movie · 95 min. · France

5.9

317 votes

5.9

317 votes

Essential Killing

2010 · Movie · 83 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Vincent Gallo · Emmanuelle Seigner · Nicolai Cleve Broch · Phillip Goss

Synopsis An Afghanistan soldier (Vincent Gallo) is captured by US forces and sent to a Guantanamo-like detention center in an unspecified eastern European country. But he manages to escape and run into a vast, unfamiliar snow-blanketed terrain, where he must, as...

5.8

804 votes

5.8

804 votes

The Ninth Gate

1999 · Movie · 133 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Johnny Depp · Lena Olin · Frank Langella · Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis Dean Corso (Johnny Depp), a rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.

5.8

28K votes

5.8

28K votes

Place Vendôme

1998 · Movie · 117 min. · France

5.8

184 votes

5.8

184 votes

Heal the Living

2016 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Katell Quillévéré

Cast Emmanuelle Seigner · Tahar Rahim · Anne Dorval · Alice Taglioni

Synopsis It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence is little more...

5.8

494 votes

5.8

494 votes

Backstage

2005 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Emmanuelle Bercot

Cast Emmanuelle Seigner · Noémie Lvovsky · Isild Le Besco · Valéry Zeitoun

Synopsis An adolescent groupie (Isild Le Besco) zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol (Emmanuelle Seigner) after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intertwine as, with near-operatic intensity, the film delves into the emotional...

5.6

48 votes

5.6

48 votes

Buddy Boy

1999 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

5.5

45 votes

5.5

45 votes