20 Movies Starring Isabelle Adjani

The Slap

The Slap

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-10-23

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

104 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (657 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Pinoteau

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Loup Dabadie (original scenario)

Claude Pinoteau (original scenario)

Jean-Loup Dabadie (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife.His mistress has also left him.He has to do everything he can to be able to win his young daughter Isabelle's love and affection.

The Story of Adele H

The Story of Adele H

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-10-08

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (5207 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Franèois Truffaut (screenplay)

Jean Gruault (screenplay)

Suzanne Schiffman (screenplay)

Frances Vernor Guille (collaboration)

Adèle Hugo (diary)

Fullplot:

Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet obsessive love and self-destruction is based upon the real diary of Adèle Hugo.

Barocco

Barocco

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-12-08

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (511 Reviews)

Fullplot:

The story of Barocco is about a girl in love with a boxer. They plan to go abroad after making a lot of money by participating in an interview intended to discredit a politician at elections time. But the boxer is killed before, and the killer, little by little, fall in love with the girl that accept him finally at the condition that he looks like the boxer he killed.

The Tenant

The Tenant

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-06-11

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

126 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (25075 Reviews)

Director:

Roman Polanski

Genres:

Thriller

Cast:

Writer:

Roland Topor (novel)

Gèrard Brach (screenplay)

Roman Polanski (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors. Meanwhile he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella. After the death of Simone, Trelkovsky feels obsessed for her and believes his landlord and neighbors are plotting a scheme to force him to also commit suicide.

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-01-17

Languages:

German, English, Romany

Countries:

West Germany, France

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (21537 Reviews)

Director:

Werner Herzog

Genres:

Horror

Fullplot:

Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Varna, where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Varna, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.

Les soeurs Brontè

Les soeurs Brontè

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-05-09

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (509 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Pascal Bonitzer (scenario and dialogue)

Andrè Tèchinè (scenario and dialogue)

Jean Gruault (participation)

Fullplot:

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Possession

Possession

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-10-28

Languages:

English, French, German

Countries:

France, West Germany

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (11076 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaHorror

Cast:

Writer:

Andrzej Zulawski (original screenplay)

Andrzej Zulawski (adaptation)

Frederic Tuten (adaptation)

Fullplot:

During a secretive business trip away, Mark learns that his wife Anna is growing restless in what he believed was their happy marriage. Upon his return home, he learns from her that she wants a divorce. They both go through a series of different emotions related to their situation, Mark's which is generally obsessive about learning why Anna, who he still loves, wants the divorce, and Anna's which is generally increasingly histrionic in getting away from Mark. Caught in the middle is their infant son Bob, who Mark uses as a gage to Anna's mental state. Anna states that her want for the divorce is not because of another man, but Mark finds out that Anna has a lover named Heinrich. In the meantime, Mark also meets Bob's teacher Helen, who looks exactly like Anna, but is her polar opposite in temperament. Starting a relationship with Helen lessens his obsession with Anna. But as Mark and Anna's encounters together reach more emotional and violent levels, Mark, with help of a private investigative firm, learns that Anna's love life is not all that it appears. Anna's true obsession has a somewhat gruesome process and nothing will stop her from reaching her end goal.

Quartet

Quartet

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-10-25

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

UK, France

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (784 Reviews)

Director:

James Ivory

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Jean Rhys (novel)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay)

Michel Maingois (French dialogue)

Fullplot:

It's 1927 Paris. Following the conviction of her art dealer husband, Stephan Zelli, for theft for which he was handed a one-year prison sentence, Marya Zelli, originally from West India, moves in with her acquaintances, expatriate Brits H.J. and Lois Heidler. Marya knows that H.J. in particular has more in mind than just providing her lodging out of the goodness of his heart. From behind bars, Stephan encourages Marya to move in with them not knowing H.J.'s intentions. Marya agrees in part because she, being a foreigner, cannot get work and would thus become destitute otherwise. She learns she is the latest in a long line of lodgers. She also learns that H.J. and Lois' marriage is not all that it appears on the surface. The Heidler's hold on Marya becomes stronger when they convince her that Stephan not only has no money but has no future in France after his release. Their collective lives become more complicated when Stephan is released from jail and tries to figure out what he's going to do with his life to regain the high standard of living to which he became accustomed.

Deadly Circuit

Deadly Circuit

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-03-09

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1568 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Miller

Cast:

Writer:

Michel Audiard (adaptation)

Jacques Audiard (adaptation)

Marc Behm (novel)

Fullplot:

Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never approaches her directly, he follows her and increasingly feels to be telepathically connected to her, because she reminds him of his daughter he never met. After he led a blind artist, Catherine's truly beloved spouse, into a bus accident, she makes a living by bank robbery with young Betty till Betty gets shot. Alone again, Catherine leads a sad, uneventful life as a waitress, when she meets her follower.

One Deadly Summer

One Deadly Summer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-05-11

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

133 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (2813 Reviews)

Director:

Jean Becker

Genres:

DramaMystery

Cast:

Writer:

Sèbastien Japrisot (based on the novel by)

Sèbastien Japrisot (adaptation)

Fullplot:

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?

Subway

Subway

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-11-06

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (10210 Reviews)

Director:

Luc Besson

Cast:

Writer:

Luc Besson (dialogue)

Luc Besson (scenario)

Pierre Jolivet (scenario)

Alain Le Henry (scenario)

Marc Perrier (dialogue)

Marc Perrier (scenario)

Sophie Schmit (scenario)

Fullplot:

Fred is living in the Paris Metro system. He is blackmailing Helena, whose safe he has robbed. Fred has various 'friends' all living in this sureal setting. The Roller is a rollerskating bag snatcher and Big Bill is a 'strongman'. The blackmail and Freds relationship with Helena and her heavies make up the bulk of the plot but on the side are Freds attempts to start a band using buskers from the Metro.

Ishtar

Ishtar

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-05-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

4.1 (8343 Reviews)

Director:

Elaine May

Fullplot:

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-12-21

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

175 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (4592 Reviews)

Director:

Bruno Nuytten

Cast:

Writer:

Reine-Marie Paris (based on the book by)

Bruno Nuytten (scenario and dialogue)

Marilyn Goldin (scenario and dialogue)

Misa Terami (collaborator on dialogue)

Fullplot:

Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and for Rodin. She also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow...

Queen Margot

Queen Margot

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-12-09

Languages:

French, Italian

Countries:

France, Italy, Germany

Runtime:

159 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (12786 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Alexandre Dumas père (novel)

Danièle Thompson (scenario & adaptation)

Patrice Chèreau (scenario & adaptation)

Danièle Thompson (dialogue)

Fullplot:

The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations to incest.

Diabolique

Diabolique

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-03-22

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (10582 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Pierre Boileau (novel)

Thomas Narcejac (novel)

Henri-Georges Clouzot (screenplay)

Don Roos (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The strain starts to tell on the two women as a retired police investigator who is looking into the disappearance on a whim begins to think that they know more than they are telling, and their mental state is not helped when their victim is seen, apparently alive and well by one of the pupils.

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-01-17

Languages:

German, English, Romany

Countries:

West Germany, France

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (21413 Reviews)

Director:

Werner Herzog

Genres:

Horror

Fullplot:

Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Varna, where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Varna, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.

Bon voyage

Bon voyage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-05-21

Languages:

French, German, English, Italian

Countries:

France

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(4153 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Paul Rappeneau (scenario)

Patrick Modiano (scenario)

Jèrème Tonnerre (adaptation)

Jean-Paul Rappeneau (adaptation)

Gilles Marchand (adaptation)

Julien Rappeneau (adaptation)

Fullplot:

At the start of World War II, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux. Cabinet members, journalists, physicists, and spies of all persuasions gather in order to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris. High society socialites hobnob with jailbirds. Murderous intrigues, scientific secrets and love affairs flourish.

La journèe de la jupe

La journèe de la jupe

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-07-15

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Belgium

Runtime:

87 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1672 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Paul Lilienfeld (dialogue)

Jean-Paul Lilienfeld

Fullplot:

An average school teacher is about to fall into a big depression due to threats and humiliation she gets from schoolers. Nobody of her coworkers is interested in this situation, and they are not going to help. Once, after a horrible fight with one of the students, she gets a real gun. Now everyone is under her control, though the situation is still completely uncontrollable...

Mammuth

Mammuth

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-09-30

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (2780 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Benoèt Delèpine

Gustave Kervern

Fullplot:

Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60 and is about to retire from his job in a slaughterhouse. He has always worked from the age of sixteen, never been on sick leave. So, how will this man fill his days? He does not like reading; doing odd jobs about the house is not his cup of tea; shopping is not his passion ... To make matters worse, his wife Catherine, who still works in a supermarket, notices that her husband will not get full retirement benefits since some of his former employers failed to do the requisite paperwork. So off goes Serge, riding his old Munch "Mammut" bike, in search of the missing documents ...

Sous les jupes des filles

Sous les jupes des filles

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-06-04

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

116 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (985 Reviews)

Director:

Audrey Dana

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Audrey Dana (screenplay)

Raphaèlle Desplechin (screenplay)

Murielle Magellan (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, children. Every girl has their complexes and virtues. They always look elegant, hiding their inner feelings. Will they reach all the goals and overcome all their difficulties?

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