Cast: Catherine Hiegel

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


Michou d'Auber

2007 · Movie · 124 min. · France

Direction Thomas Gilou

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Nathalie Baye · Mathieu Amalric · Samy Seghir

Synopsis Messaoud, a young Arab boy, is placed in a foster family in rural France at the age of nine . The year is 1961 and Algeria is in the midst of revolution. Gisèle, his adoptive mother, by fear of the...

7.2

47 votes

7.2

47 votes

Life Is a Long Quiet River

1989 · Movie · 91 min. · France

Direction Étienne Chatiliez

Cast Daniel Gélin · Benoît Magimel · Hélène Vincent · André Wilms

Synopsis Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with...

6.6

469 votes

6.6

469 votes

Direction Jean-Jacques Zilbermann

Cast Josiane Balasko · Maurice Bénichou · Catherine Hiegel · Jean-François Dérec

Synopsis Irène is communist. Her candid faith in a bright future is cute, but not always resting for her family. She meets three red army choirs members in Paris, and kind of fall in love with them (in a pure way).

6.2

62 votes

6.2

62 votes

Violette

2013 · Movie · 132 min. · France

Direction Martin Provost

Cast Emmanuelle Devos · Sandrine Kiberlain · Catherine Hiegel · Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, relationship based...

6.2

990 votes

6.2

990 votes

Granny's Funeral

2012 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Bruno Podalydès

Cast Valerie Lemercier · Denis Podalydès · Isabelle Candelier · Catherine Hiegel

Synopsis Grandma is dead. Bertha is gone. Armand was "somewhat" forgotten his grandmother ... Pharmacist, he works with his wife Helen at Chatou. In a drawer of drugs, Armand hides his magic props because he is secretly preparing a tour for...

5.8

32 votes

5.8

32 votes

Man is a Woman

1998 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Jean-Jacques Zilbermann

Cast Antoine de Caunes · Elsa Zylberstein · Gad Elmaleh · Michel Aumont

Synopsis Simon has only ever been interested in boys. He turned his back on his family, duty and everything to do with Jewish tradition a long time ago. Rosalie was raised in a New York Hassidic Jewish family. Now she gives...

5.7

27 votes

5.7

27 votes

Secrets of State

2008 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Philippe Haim

Cast Gérard Lanvin · Vahina Giocante · Nicolas Duvauchelle · Simon Abkarian

Synopsis n France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same...

5.7

979 votes

5.7

979 votes

Les côtelettes

2003 · Movie · 86 min. · France

5.2

86 votes

5.2

86 votes

Client

2008 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Josiane Balasko

Cast Nathalie Baye · Eric Caravaca · Isabelle Carré · Josiane Balasko

Synopsis An elegant entrepreneur in her fifties, Judith unapologetically engages male escorts to minister to her sexual pleasure. When she answers Patrick’s ad, she’s charmed by the sensitive fellow in the classic suit; it’s as if he stepped right out of...

5.2

935 votes

5.2

935 votes

French Twist

1995 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Josiane Balasko

Cast Victoria Abril · Josiane Balasko · Alain Chabat · Ticky Holgado

Synopsis Laurent is the local estate agent, a job that offers easy opportunties for his womanising. His wife beautiful wife Loli looks after his home and two children unaware of his many affairs. However, their world is turned upside down by...

4.9

2K votes

4.9

2K votes

The Other Shore

1997 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Dominique Cabrera

Cast Claude Brasseur · Roschdy Zem · Catherine Hiegel · Marthe Villalonga

Synopsis Georges Montero, a French-born Algerian, travels to Paris to have a cataract operation. He makes the most of his stay in France to renew his acquaintance with family members and friends who have fled Algeria since the war of independence....

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He Is My Girl

2009 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Jean-Jacques Zilbermann

Cast Antoine de Caunes · Mehdi Dehbi · Elsa Zylberstein · Judith Magre

Synopsis A clarinetist is trying to finish his record when his wife and ten year old son reappear in his life.

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Les engagés

2022 · Movie · 98 min. · France

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Hygiène de l'assassin

1999 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction François Ruggieri

Cast Jean Yanne · Barbara Schulz · Sophie Broustal · Catherine Hiegel

Synopsis After agreeing to be interviewed by journalists, Prétextat Tach, Nobel Prize winner for literature, who has been living in seclusion for several years, terminally ill from cancer, is found dead, murdered. The police discovers during the investigation strange things about...

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My Life Is Hell

1991 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Josiane Balasko

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Josiane Balasko · Richard Berry · Michael Lonsdale

Synopsis A middle-aged single French woman (Balasko) falls in love with an annoying demon (Auteuil).

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It's Our Life!

2005 · Movie · 100 min. · France

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Malaterra (TV Miniseries)

2015 · Movie · 52 min. · France

Direction Chris Chibnall · Stéphane Kaminka · Jean-Xavier de Lestrade · Laurent Herbiet

Cast Simon Abkarian · Constance Dolle · Béatrice Dalle · Nicolas Duvauchelle

Synopsis A French remake of the British crime drama Broadchurch, set in Corsica.

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Fred

1997 · Movie · 84 min. · France

Direction Pierre Jolivet

Cast Vincent Lindon · Clotilde Courau · François Berléand · Stéphane Jobert

Synopsis Fred is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend , does the housework and sometimes goes to the job center but boredom is...

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