12 Movies Starring Amira Casar

La vèritè si je mens!

La vèritè si je mens!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-05-02

Languages:

French, Hebrew, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (2526 Reviews)

Director:

Thomas Gilou

Fullplot:

The sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community.

Marie from the Bay of Angels

Marie from the Bay of Angels

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-06-19

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(523 Reviews)

Director:

Manuel Pradal

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

A random montage of disturbing images tell a story about one summer in the lives of two teenagers who somehow find love within each other, Orso and Marie. After they realize this, they run off to a hidden island off the coast of France where they can not be bothered until Orso's hunger for danger and crime become too much for him, forcing him to return to his normal life...

Why Not Me?

Why Not Me?

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-01-06

Languages:

French

Countries:

Spain, France, Switzerland

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (719 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown together for a "coming out" party, another French Farce ensues.

How I Killed My Father

How I Killed My Father

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-09-19

Languages:

French

Countries:

Spain, France

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (827 Reviews)

Director:

Anne Fontaine

Cast:

Writer:

Jacques Fieschi

Anne Fontaine

Fullplot:

Jean-Luc is an established gerontologist who can do no wrong; he runs a private clinic specialising in anti-ageing treatments. Honoured for his work in this field, he throws a garden party at his home. It is during this social event that his father suddenly reappears, back after a long exile. A physician, he had left decades earlier without any apparent reason to practice in Africa. He moves into his son's home for several days, phlegmatically observing everything with an enigmatic smile. He peruses Jean-Luc's life and environment with cruel objectivity. The arrival of this interloper father, who everyone thought had disappeared for good, shatters the family microcosm: Jean-Luc doesn't know how to take him, as if the memory - or the resentment - was nothing but lost time; his wife becomes fond of this highly unconventional man; after first refusing to deal with him, Jean-Luc's younger brother strikes up a modest bond with him.

Sylvia

Sylvia

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-10-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (8572 Reviews)

Director:

Christine Jeffs

Cast:

Writer:

John Brownlow (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 1956, aspiring American poet Sylvia Plath meets fellow poet Edward Ted Hughes at Cambridge, where she is studying. Enthralled with the genius of his writing, Sylvia falls in love with him even before meeting him, and he quickly falls in love with her. They eventually marry. Sylvia quickly learns that others are also enthralled with her husband, for a combination of his good looks, charisma, fame and success. Sylvia lives in her husband's professional shadow as she tries to eke out her own writing career, which doesn't come as naturally to her as it does to Ted. She also suspects him of chronic infidelity. Both issues affect Sylvia's already fragile emotional state, she who once tried to commit suicide earlier in her life. Through her pain and her anger, she does gain minor success as a writer, with a completed semi-autobiographical novel and a few well received collection of poems. Following, she tries to regain some happiness in her life with Ted, but has an alternate plan if that does not work out as she wants.

Sylvia

Sylvia

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-10-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (8581 Reviews)

Director:

Christine Jeffs

Cast:

Writer:

John Brownlow (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 1956, aspiring American poet Sylvia Plath meets fellow poet Edward Ted Hughes at Cambridge, where she is studying. Enthralled with the genius of his writing, Sylvia falls in love with him even before meeting him, and he quickly falls in love with her. They eventually marry. Sylvia quickly learns that others are also enthralled with her husband, for a combination of his good looks, charisma, fame and success. Sylvia lives in her husband's professional shadow as she tries to eke out her own writing career, which doesn't come as naturally to her as it does to Ted. She also suspects him of chronic infidelity. Both issues affect Sylvia's already fragile emotional state, she who once tried to commit suicide earlier in her life. Through her pain and her anger, she does gain minor success as a writer, with a completed semi-autobiographical novel and a few well received collection of poems. Following, she tries to regain some happiness in her life with Ted, but has an alternate plan if that does not work out as she wants.

The Piano Tuner of EarthQuakes

The Piano Tuner of EarthQuakes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-02-17

Languages:

Portuguese, English

Countries:

Germany, UK, France

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (1181 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Alan Passes

Stephen Quay

Timothy Quay

Fullplot:

Felisberto Fernandez is a piano tuner of exceptional skill, hired by Dr. Emmanuel Droz to come to a remote clinic to clean and refurbish Droz's seven automatons, elaborate mechanical constructs. Droz wants the work done quickly, in time for an opera he's staging for himself. Fernandez's attentions are captured by two women at the clinic, Assumpta, the clinic's manager, and Malvina van Stille, a patient who is also a superb singer. Fernandez works on the machines and is drawn to the women while Droz may be manipulating more than the automatons. Do emotions and choice play any part, or it is all opera?

Anatomy of Hell

Anatomy of Hell

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-01-28

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

77 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

4.5 (3615 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Catherine Breillat (novel)

Catherine Breillat (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A man rescues a woman from a suicide attempt in a gay nightclub. Walking the streets together, she propositions him: She'll pay him to visit her at her isolated house for four consecutive nights. There he will silently watch her. He's reluctant, but agrees. As the four nights progress, they become more intimate with each other, and a mutual fascination/revulsion develops. By the end of the four-day "contract", these two total strangers will have had a profound impact on each other.

To Paint or Make Love

To Paint or Make Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-08-24

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (1085 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Arnaud Larrieu

Jean-Marie Larrieu

Fullplot:

An affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple.

Transylvania

Transylvania

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-10-04

Languages:

French, Romanian, English, Hungarian, Italian, Turkish

Countries:

France

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1958 Reviews)

Director:

Tony Gatlif

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Zingarina, who is two-month pregnant, travels from France to Transylvania with her friend Marie to seek out her lover Milan Agustin that was deported from France. They hire the guide and interpreter Luminitsa to help them to find the musician Milan. When she finds him, she is rejected and Milan tells that he was not deported, but left her. Zingarina has a breakdown and leaves Marie on the road, wandering with a street boy. Soon she meets the traveling trader Tchangalo and she joins him in a road travel without destiny.

This Night

This Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-01-07

Languages:

French

Countries:

Portugal, Germany, France

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (217 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Juan Carlos Onetti (novel)

Werner Schroeter (screenplay)

Gilles Taurand (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A group of people try to flee from a dictatorship government.

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-12-09

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Belgium, Canada

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (899 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (play)

Fullplot:

Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink he meets on the hospital stairs. As Christmas approaches, Rose uses her fantastical experiences as a professional wrestler, her imagination, wit and charm to allow Oscar to live life and love to the full, in the company of his friends Pop Corn, Einstein, Bacon and childhood sweetheart Peggy Blue.

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