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Isabelle Huppert

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RosebudRosebud (1975)
Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Peter Lawford
Preminger's penultimate film is sadly a mess. Members of the Palestinian Liberation Army kidnap five heiresses in order to bring attention to their…
Heaven's GateHeaven's Gate (1980)
Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt
One of Hollywood's biggest financial disasters contributed to the demise of United Artists studios. Despite its flaws, this full–length version…
LoulouLoulou (1980)
Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand
Charismatic street rogue Gerard Depardieu lures an impetuous Isabelle Huppert out her stale, bourgeois partnership with Guy Marchand. Star chemistry…
Coup de TorchonCoup de Torchon (Clean Slate) (1981) Recommended
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Mordantly humourous suspense set in dusty French Senegal, with Noiret playing a much–abused police chief who begins to have dreams of…
PassionPassion (1982)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
'Film within a film' from France's thorniest director, sowing narrative confusion in his story of director Michel Piccoli trying to make a arthouse…
CactusCactus (1986)
Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Norman Kaye
Challenging and intriguing drama from dir. Paul Cox, about a French woman (Isabelle Huppert) having an uneasy vacation in Australia.
Bedroom Window, TheBedroom Window, The (1987)
Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Steve Guttenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Elizabeth McGovern
Steve Guttenberg becomes perilously entrapped in Hitchcockian mode.
Une Affair Des Femmes (a Story of Women)Une Affair Des Femmes (a Story of Women) (1988)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Francois Cluzet
Traumatic, gripping fact–based story about the last woman to be guillotined in France. Isabelle Huppert is in feverish form as the woman both…
Madame BovaryMadame Bovary (1991)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy
Chabrol remains faithful to the text of this oft–filmed classic of French literature, with Isabelle Huppert bringing a glacial refinement to…
Separation, TheSeparation, The (1994) Recommended
Dir. Christian Vincent
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil
Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuil provide a class double–act for this moving, mature portrait of a middle–class Parisian couple who put…
AmateurAmateur (1995)
Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Lowensohn
Hal Hartley approaches the conventions of a thriller in further probing his fixation with dysfunctional romance and relationships, and thus checks in…
Gulliver's TravelsGulliver's Travels (1995)
Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Peter O'Toole
Epic, state–of–the–art version of Jonathan Swift's classic fairytale stars Ted Danson as the long–shipwrecked doctor who must…
La CeremonieLa Ceremonie (Judgement in Stone, A) (1995) Recommended
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset
Veteran new–wave director Chabrol takes this HEAVENLY CREATURES–ish tale of the unholy synergy between two women, adds some class theory,…
Les Destinees SentimentalesLes Destinees Sentimentales (2000)
Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert
Genteel family saga from the trilogy of novels by Jacques Chardonne that follows the destiny of pastor Charles Berling through the first decades of…
Comedie de L'InnocenceComedie de L'Innocence (Comedy of Innocence) (2000)
Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Charles Berling
A spooky psychological thriller, in which a young boy of nine tells his mother (Huppert) that in fact he is the son of another woman. When this…
Merci Pour Le ChocolatMerci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001) Recommended
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert
Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…
8 Women8 Women (8 Femmes) (2001) Recommended
Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart
In the classic whodunnit mould, this whimsical French "thriller" starts with a man’s dead body in a snowbound Alpine manse in the 1950s, and eight…
Piano Teacher, ThePiano Teacher, The (2001) Recommended
Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel
Isabelle Huppert gives the bravest and possibly best performance of her career as a brittle, imbalanced music teacher in a drama that might prove too…
Private PropertyPrivate Property (2002) Recommended
Dir. Joachim Lafosse
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jeremie Renier
Isabelle Huppert is held to emotional ransom by her two grown–up twin sons in this ‘Mexican standoff’ of family dysfunction and domestic…
Time of the WolfTime of the Wolf (Temps du loup, Le) (2003) Recommended
Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Beatrice Dalle, Olivier Gourmet
Chilling, disconcerting post–apocalyptic nightmare that begins with Isabelle Huppert and children fleeing into a barren French countryside,…
I Heart HuckabeesI Heart Huckabees (2004) Recommended
Dir. David O. Russell
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg, Lily Tomlin
The meaning of life and capitalism in the post–millenial age are ambitiously tackled in this "existential comedy" from the dir. of FLIRTING…
Me And My SisterMe And My Sister (Les Soeurs Fachees) (2004)
Dir. Alexandra Leclere
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Frot
A deceptively simple French comedy, which has a bubbly and gauche rural–dwelling woman (Frot) visiting her arrogant and successful sister…
Ma MereMa Mere (My Mother) (2004)
Dir. Christophe Honore
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes
A perverse Mediterranean sex–romp that manages to skirt regularly between tasteless debauchery and absurd immorality. A heady Isabelle…
GabrielleGabrielle (2005)
Dir. Patrice Chereau
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
Absorbing adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short story coolly dissects the disintegrating marriage of a bourgeois French couple. Gorgeously framed…
White MaterialWhite Material (2009)
Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach de Bankole
Isabelle Huppert stars as a woman who refuses to abandon her plantation in Claire Denis' disquieting depiction of an African country on the verge of…
CopacabanaCopacabana (2010)
Dir. Marc Fitoussi
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Aure Atika, Lolita Chammah
Free–spirited and perpetually unemployed Isabelle Huppert must get with the program after learning her newly engaged daughter (played by her…
Special TreatmentSpecial Treatment (2010)
Dir. Jeanne Labrune
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Bouli Lanners
Playing a high class prostitute, Isabelle Huppert gets cosy with one her clients, a psychoanalyst, in this occasionally titillating, comically…
AmourAmour (2012) Aro Favourite
Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
An octogenarian couple find their love put to the ultimate test when one of them suffers a stroke in this devastating humanist drama from master…
Dead Man DownDead Man Down (2013)
Dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Feat. Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard
Dir. Niels Arden Oplev (THE GIRL WITH A DRAGON TATTOO) imports an Eastern European aesthetic into this New York–set gangland revenge thriller,…
Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, TheDisappearance of Eleanor Rigby, The (2014) Recommended
Dir. Ned Benson
Feat. James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis
An ambitious and elegant New York love story from first time director Benson follows a couple as they try to reclaim the life and love they once…

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