9 Movies Starring Miou-Miou

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-12-19

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France, West Germany

Runtime:

126 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (3473 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Damiano Damiani (screenplay)

Ernesto Gastaldi (screenplay)

Ernesto Gastaldi (story)

Fulvio Morsella (screenplay)

Fulvio Morsella (story)

Fullplot:

Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.

Entre Nous

Entre Nous

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-04-06

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1196 Reviews)

Director:

Diane Kurys

Cast:

Writer:

Diane Kurys (scenario and dialogue)

Diane Kurys (adaptation)

Alain Le Henry (adaptation)

Fullplot:

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.

Mènage

Mènage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-10-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

84 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1714 Reviews)

Director:

Bertrand Blier

Fullplot:

A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.

La lectrice

La lectrice

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-10-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1127 Reviews)

Director:

Michel Deville

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Raymond Jean (novel)

Michel Deville (adaptation)

Rosalinde Deville (adaptation)

Fullplot:

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance's clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade's "120 days..."

May Fools

May Fools

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-07-01

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (1822 Reviews)

Director:

Louis Malle

Cast:

Writer:

Louis Malle (scenario)

Jean-Claude Carrière (scenario)

Fullplot:

Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent for Le Monde keeps turning up the volume of the radio for the latest news. A deceased sister's interest in the estate is represented by a niece who is an antique dealer, who is most interested in grandmother's emerald ring that Milou's daughter Camille has already slipped on her finger. A non-relative, a truck driver who can't deliver his load of tomatoes in Paris, brings a nephew who was part of the uprising. Everyone is on strike and the matriarch can't be buried.

Germinal

Germinal

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-03-31

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Belgium, Italy

Runtime:

160 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(3269 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Berri

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Claude Berri

Arlette Langmann

èmile Zola (novel)

Fullplot:

It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them

The Eighth Day

The Eighth Day

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-03-07

Languages:

French

Countries:

Belgium, France, UK

Runtime:

118 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (6586 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Georges has Down's syndrome, living at a mental-institution. Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife nor his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.

Dry Cleaning

Dry Cleaning

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-01-29

Languages:

French, English, Russian

Countries:

France, Spain

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (865 Reviews)

Director:

Anne Fontaine

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Nicole and Jean-Marie Kunstler are a nice, hard working couple who have been married for 15 years. They operate a dry cleaning business that keeps them both too busy to take a vacation, or to change their routine. A fateful trip to a drag club leads them to encounter Loic and Marilyn, a brother-sister drag queen performing team. Their shows fascinate the couple, as both Nicole and Jean-Marie find themselves growing more and more attached to Loic. Loic brings to the surface all of their suppressed desires and emotions - willingly and unwillingly. A psychological examination into the effects one attractive young man's entrance into the lives of an ordinarily seeming couple could have.

The Science of Sleep

The Science of Sleep

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-09-29

Languages:

French, English, Spanish

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (59222 Reviews)

Director:

Michel Gondry

Fullplot:

Following the death of his father in Mexico, Stèphane Miroux, a shy insecure young man, agrees to come to Paris to draw closer to his widowed mother Christine. He lands a boring job at a calendar-making firm and falls in love with his charming neighbor Stèphanie. But conquering her is no bed of roses for the young man and the only solution he finds to put up with the difficulties he is going through is escape into a dream world...

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