Cast: Emmanuelle Riva

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Emmanuelle Riva · Isabelle Huppert · William Shimell

Synopsis Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Eiji Okada · Bernard Fresson · Stella Dassas

Synopsis A young French actress is making an anti-war film in the rebuilt Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of the Second World War. Here, she has an affair with a Japanese...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Juliette Binoche · Benoît Régent · Florence Pernel · Charlotte Vêry

Synopsis Three Colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed European composer and her young daughter in a car accident....

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Maurice Garrel · Christine Boisson · Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis Set during the Algerian war for independence in the 1950s and early '60s, this drama centers on Jean (Maurice Garrel) who works covertly for the FLN, the Algerian independence fighters, and although he does not know it, the woman he...

Direction Antonio Pietrangeli

Cast Simone Signoret · Marcello Mastroianni · Gina Rovere · Sandra Milo

Synopsis Four prostitutes must give up the oldest profession in the world when Italy passes a law banning brothels. Left to explore other employment opportunities they decide to open a restaurant, but their resumes get in the way. The story begins...

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Susan Strasberg · Laurent Terzieff · Emmanuelle Riva · Didi Perego

Synopsis A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Philippe Noiret · Edith Scob · Sami Frey

Synopsis After Thérèse is acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Bernard Desqueyroux, she recalls the events that lead to her being charged. At the beginning of her marriage to Bernard, the only respite she found from the stifling provincial life...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Emmanuelle Riva · Iréne Tunc · Nicole Mirel

Synopsis A little French town during the Occupation. Barny is a young sexually frustrated widow, living with her little girl France. She is also a communist militant, and one days she enters in a church, randomly choses a priest and starts...

Direction Jean-Pierre Améris

Cast Jacques Dutronc · Sandrine Bonnaire · Emmanuelle Riva · Jacques Spiesser

Synopsis Dimitri is barely fifty when he discovers he has an incurable illness. Leaving his home in Marseilles, he moves into a hospice where he will live out his last few weeks in the company of other terminally ill men and...

Direction Yves Montmayeur

Cast Michael Haneke · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Emmanuelle Riva · Isabelle Huppert

Synopsis Enlightening documentary by Yves Montmayeur, looking at the extraordinary work of director Michael Haneke’s 25 year career and featuring interviews with actors Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche and Emmanuelle Riva.

Direction Fernando Arrabal

Cast George Shannon · Hachemi Marzouk · Emmanuelle Riva · Raoul Curet

Synopsis When his mother dies, the police want to talk to Aden Rey, but Aden, a guilt-ridden epileptic, has left for the desert. There he comes upon Marvel, a noble savage. Aden, Marvel, and Marvel's goat become companions through travels, a...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Lou Castel · Ángela Molina · Emmanuelle Riva · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis Aging actor Giovanni returns home for the funeral of his twin brother Pippo. The family tells him that Pippo has committed suicide leaving behind a short note explaining his motives. Yet, Pippo's mother is kept in the dark-she is told...

Direction Martial Fougeron

Cast Nathalie Baye · Victor Sevaux · Olivier Gourmet · Marie Kremer

Synopsis Julien is an adorable boy on the cusp of adolescence, but he is also a prisoner of love. His mother, neglected by her academic husband, adores him excessively and controls his every move, often through cruel psychological bullying. Miserable, he...

Direction Aline Issermann

Cast Mireille Perrier · Alain Bashung · Sandrine Blancke · Josiane Balasko

Direction Dominique Abel · Fiona Gordon

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Pierre Richard · Dominique Abel · Fiona Gordon

Synopsis Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

Direction Wojciech Has

Cast Michael Lonsdale · Daniel Emilfork · Emmanuelle Riva · Gabriela Kownacka

Synopsis A dream-like odyssey of a young man across plague-ridden 16th century Germany.

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Jean Servais · Fabrice Rouleau · Sophie Darès

Synopsis In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in...

Direction Julie Delpy

Cast Lou Álvarez · Julie Delpy · Eric Elmosnino · Aure Atika

Synopsis The story is set in France in 1979 during the international media event when there was rampant fear that the decaying orbit of the defunct US space station would bring the structure crashing down on a populated area. The action...

Direction Tonie Marshall

Cast Nathalie Baye · Bulle Ogier · Samuel Le Bihan · Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis Christmas and New Year's Eve are approaching. Angèle, who's over 40, picks up men for anonymous sex; yet when Antoine, an unkempt younger man (who's overheard one of her sex partners rudely dismiss her) declares that he loves her and...

Direction Francis Huster

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Max von Sydow · Tchéky Karyo · Linda Hardy

Synopsis For years, Charles, an elderly professor, has lived with the widow of his best friend. When she tells him that she is about to remarry and that there is no longer any place for him or his dog in her...