19 Movies Starring Emmanuelle Bèart

Manon of the Spring

Manon of the Spring

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-12-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

Italy, France, Switzerland

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(15678 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Berri

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Claude Berri (adaptation)

Gèrard Brach (adaptation)

Marcel Pagnol (novel)

Fullplot:

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She determines to take revenge upon the men responsible for the death of her father in the first film.

Date with an Angel

Date with an Angel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-11-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (1962 Reviews)

Director:

Tom McLoughlin

Fullplot:

Jim is soon to be married to Patty, but when he wakes up after a bachelor party thrown by his friends, he finds an injured angel in his pool. When Patty sees her, she thinks he's seeing someone else and gets upset and tells her father. Now he has to figure out how to; cure the angel, tell Patty what happened, keep his friends from taking the angel to the papers, and keep Patty's father from killing him. It's no wonder he has a headache.

La belle noiseuse

La belle noiseuse

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-09-04

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Switzerland

Runtime:

238 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (4374 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Rivette

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Pascal Bonitzer (scenario)

Christine Laurent (scenario)

Jacques Rivette (scenario)

Honorè de Balzac (inspired by novella "Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu")

Pascal Bonitzer (dialogue)

Christine Laurent (dialogue)

Fullplot:

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife in his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start working again on a painting called 'La Belle Noiseuse', which he gave up a long time ago. And he wants Marianne as a model. The ensuing creative process will change the characters' lives. It will become a struggle for truth and meaning, and the question about the limits of art will arise.

I Don't Kiss

I Don't Kiss

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-11-20

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

115 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (809 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Isabelle Coudrier-Kleist (contributing writer)

Michel Grisolia

Jacques Nolot (screenplay)

Jacques Nolot (story)

Andrè Tèchinè

Fullplot:

A young man leaves his native town in southern France to discover Paris. Being too unexperienced and too naive, he drops into the reality of Paris 1991. He soon gives up his dream of becoming an actor and prostitutes himself. Throughout all these modern relationships, he keeps his innocence but becomes very emotionally blocked.

Un Coeur en Hiver

Un Coeur en Hiver

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-06-04

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (6888 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Sautet

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Claude Sautet (scenario and dialogue)

Jacques Fieschi (scenario and dialogue)

Jèrème Tonnerre (scenario collaborator)

Yves Ulmann (collaborating writer)

Fullplot:

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.

Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-06-21

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy, Germany

Runtime:

106 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (3188 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Sautet

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jacques Fieschi

Claude Sautet

Yves Ulmann

Fullplot:

When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities.

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-05-22

Languages:

English, French, Czech

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (272913 Reviews)

Director:

Brian De Palma

Cast:

Writer:

Bruce Geller (television series)

David Koepp (story)

Steven Zaillian (story)

David Koepp (screenplay)

Robert Towne (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Based on the hit T.V. series. Jim Phelps was sent to Prague for a mission to prevent the theft of classified material. His wife Claire and his trusted partner Ethan Hunt were members of Phelps' team. Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong and the mission failed, leaving Ethan Hunt the lone survivor. After he reported the failed mission, Kettridge the head of the agency suspects Ethan of being the culprit for the failed mission. Now, Ethan uses unorthodox methods (Which includes the aid of an arms dealer going by the name "Max") to try to find who set him up and to clear his name.

Don Juan

Don Juan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-03-18

Languages:

French

Countries:

Spain, France, Germany

Runtime:

104 min

IMDB Ratings:

4.9 (353 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Weber

Fullplot:

Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost. Don Juan promised to marry Donna Elvira and then forsook her. He is such a womanizer - when being saved by a fisherman from ship wreck, he causes two beautiful girls from the fishing village, Mathurine and Charlotte, fighting with each other to win his heart (and yet he never takes them seriously). Alonso and Don Carlos, Donna's brothers, are pursuing him like textbook medieval heroes bent on avenging the insult to their family's honor.

Marcel Proust's Time Regained

Marcel Proust's Time Regained

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-05-19

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy, Portugal

Runtime:

169 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1772 Reviews)

Director:

Raoul Ruiz

Cast:

Writer:

Marcel Proust (novel)

Gilles Taurand (scenario)

Raoul Ruiz (scenario)

Fullplot:

La bèche

La bèche

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-11-24

Languages:

French, English, Russian

Countries:

France

Runtime:

106 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (1415 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Danièle Thompson

Christopher Thompson

Fullplot:

Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?

Les destinèes

Les destinèes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-07-12

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Switzerland

Runtime:

180 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (953 Reviews)

Director:

Olivier Assayas

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Olivier Assayas

Jacques Chardonne (novel)

Jacques Fieschi

Fullplot:

In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife - and more talk when he decides to take her back. By this time he has been drawn to Pauline, niece of a Cognac distiller, and this precipitates him divorcing his wife, settling on her and his daughter the shares he owns in his family's porcelain factory. He resigns the ministry, marries Pauline, and moves to Switzerland and a tranquil life. On the death of his father he agrees to return home to save the factory, knowing the problems it will bring will change his life completely. So it proves, with service in the Great War having a further profound impact on him and those around him.

8 Women

8 Women

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-10-04

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (22433 Reviews)

Director:

Franèois Ozon

Cast:

Writer:

Franèois Ozon

Robert Thomas (play)

Marina de Van

Fullplot:

One morning at an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration at all because their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? His miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent chambermaid or the loyal housekeeper? Could it possibly have been one of his two young daughters? A surprise visit from the victim's chic sister sends the household into a tizzy, encouraging hysterics, exacerbating rivalries, and encompassing musical interludes. Comedic situations arise with the revelations of dark family secrets. Seduction dances with betrayal. The mystery of the female psyche is revealed. There are eight women and each is a suspect. Each has a motive. Each has a secret. Beautiful, tempestuous, intelligent, sensual, and dangerous...one of them is guilty. Which one is it?

Strayed

Strayed

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-08-20

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, UK

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (2574 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Gilles Perrault (novel)

Gilles Taurand (screenplay)

Andrè Tèchinè (screenplay)

Fullplot:

June 1940. German troops are advancing on Paris. Odile, a widowed teacher, succumbs to the widespread panic and, with her two children, joins the exodus from the city. Philippe is on the cusp of adolescence, Little Cathy knows only that they are going South. After fifty kilometres, a German plane attacks, decimating the helpless refugees. Odile and her children lose everything. A shaven-headed youth appears from nowhere and leads them away from the carnage. His name is Yvan, he's seventeen years old. Cut off from the rest of the world and living in confined quarters, Odile and Yvan find themselves confronted with their own desires.

The Story of Marie and Julien

The Story of Marie and Julien

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-11-12

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

150 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1328 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Rivette

Cast:

Writer:

Pascal Bonitzer (scenario)

Christine Laurent (scenario)

Jacques Rivette (scenario)

Pascal Bonitzer (dialogue)

Christine Laurent (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from Julien, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns Julien that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. Julien responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can Julien, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?

Nathalie...

Nathalie...

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-01-07

Languages:

French, Hungarian

Countries:

France, Spain

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (3732 Reviews)

Director:

Anne Fontaine

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Philippe Blasband (original idea)

Jacques Fieschi

Anne Fontaine

Franèois-Olivier Rousseau

Fullplot:

Nathalie is the name a Parisian prostitute assumes for a special mission or "private investigation." She is engaged in this unusual and secretive task by a professional, upper-middle-class wife who fears that her husband is unfaithful to her. Nathalie has to seduce the clueless husband and regularly report all details of her relationship with him, including his most intimate sexual preferences in bed. Nathalie is stunning, charming, and cunning. Can Nathalie and her reports to the mistrustful wife be trusted? Is the middle aged husband indeed unfaithful?

Hell

Hell

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-11-16

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy, Belgium, Japan

Runtime:

102 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (2056 Reviews)

Director:

Danis Tanovic

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Krzysztof Kieslowski (scenario)

Krzysztof Piesiewicz

Fullplot:

In Paris, a family is victim of a tragic incident, when the patriarch is accused by his wife of pedophilia. Years later, the three sisters have independent dysfunctional lives and never see each other. The middle sister Sophie finds that her beloved husband and photographer Pierre is unfaithful and is having an affair with Julie and he leaves her. When the lover discovers that Pierre has two children, she ends the affair. The youngest, Anne, is student of Sorbonne and has a crush and gets pregnant of her professor Frèdèric, who is married and father of her best friend. The oldest sister, Cèline, is a lonely woman that periodically travels by train to visit her handicapped dumb mother Marie that is trapped in a wheelchair in an asylum for elders. When the stranger Sèbastien contacts Cèline, she believes he is a shy admirer; however, after an awkward encounter, he reveals secrets from the past that will affect the relationship among the sisters.

The Witnesses

The Witnesses

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-03-07

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

112 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (2106 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Andrè Tèchinè (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Laurent Guyot (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Viviane Zingg (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Michel Canesi (idea)

Jamil Rahmani (idea)

Fullplot:

June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer's return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien, meets Manu, a young gay man from the provinces who lives with his sister, an opera singer. Adrien likes Manu, loves him even, in a Platonic relationship. Sarah, a writer, and Mehdi, a vice-squad cop, have an infant. Sarah discovers she has no taste for parenthood. Adrien bring Manu to Sarah's country cabin where Mehdi saves Manu from drowning. Back in Paris, an affair begins as a plague descends on Parisian gays. There are tests, illness, anger, relief, separations, and death. A year later, these friends meet again at the summer place. They are witnesses to how happiness has changed.

Vinyan

Vinyan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-10-01

Languages:

English, Thai

Countries:

France, Belgium, UK, Australia

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (4406 Reviews)

Director:

Fabrice Du Welz

Cast:

Writer:

Fabrice Du Welz

David Greig (additional material)

Oliver Blackburn (additional dialogue)

Fullplot:

In Phuket Island, Thailand, the architect Paul Bellmer and his wife Jeanne lost their son Joshua in a tsunami six months ago. Jeanne is disturbed and has not accepted the loss of her beloved son. While watching some footages from Myanmar (former Burma), Jeanne is convinced that a boy wearing a Manchester United shirt in a poor village is Joshua, and Paul accepts to seek out their son in the sea gypsies camp. They hire the trafficker Thaksin Gao and they travel in the boat of master Sonchai to search Joshua. After a series of weird incidents, Sonchai leaves the trio in an abandoned village. They have to walk through the jungle where they face a journey to hell.

It Begins with the End

It Begins with the End

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-05-26

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

88 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (179 Reviews)

Director:

Michaèl Cohen

Genres:

Romance

Cast:

Writer:

Michaèl Cohen

Michaèl Cohen (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

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