At Eternity's Gate (2018)
Biography | Drama
A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Niels Arestrup
Director: Julian Schnabel
La môme / La vie en rose (2007)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Edith Piaf's life was a battle to sing and survive, live and love. Raised in poverty, Edith's magical voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the greatest names of the period – Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others – made her a star all around the world. But in her audacious attempt to tame her tragic destiny, the Little Sparrow – her nickname – flew so high she could not fail to burn her wings.
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau
Director: Olivier Dahan
The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during in the early 1960s.
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Mark Strong, Mikael Persbrandt, Jason O'Mara, Emmanuelle Seigner, Guillaume Canet
Director: Richie Smyth
The Man Who Laughs / L'homme qui rit (2012)
Drama
A proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Marc-André Grondin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Christa Théret, Arben Bajraktaraj
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Venus in Fur / La Vénus à la fourrure (2013)
Drama
An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.
Starring: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric
Director: Roman Polanski
Bitter Moon (1992)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Nigel Dobson is an English perfect gentleman, married to equally respectable Fiona. On a cruise heading for India, they meet a highly unconventional couple, American unpublished would-be literary celebrity Oscar, in a wheelchair, and his much younger Parisian wife, Mimi.
Starring: Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Roman Polanski
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Happily Ever After / Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Music
What makes a marriage? Georges and Natalie argue and shout constantly; Fred, a bachelor playboy approaching 50, sleeps with many women, loving them all, living with none. Vincent, nearing 40, best friend of Georges and Fred, is married to Gabrielle and they have a son. He keeps his feelings to himself. He and Gabrielle are playful and passionate with each other, then bored and detached. Is Vincent holding back, and if so, why? A colleague accuses him of believing in romantic fairy tales. Gabrielle imagines them separated. Are the basics of life women working and men chasing skirts? Is marriage the alternative to possibilities?
Starring: Johnny Depp, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Yvan Attal
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Dans la maison / In the House (2012)
Mystery | Thriller
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Ménochet, Bastien Ughetto
Director: François Ozon
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Dean Corso is highly skilled at his work, a position which requires dexterity, cultural expertise, nerves of steel… and few scruples. Known for locating rare books for wealthy collectors, Corso is hired by eminent book-lover and scholar of demonology, Boris Balkan. Corson's mission: to find the last two volumes of legendary manual of satanic invocation "The Ninth Gates of the Shadow Kingdom," compare them Balkan's first volume, supposedly the only one of its kind, and ascertain the authenticity of the series. Corso accepts the challenge. From New York to Toledo, Paris to Cintra, he immerses himself in a labyrinth full of pitfalls and temptations, disturbing encounters, violence and mysterious deaths. Protected by an angelic creature and guided by a force more powerful than himself, Corso solves one by one the mysteries of the dreaded Book and discovers the real purpose of his mission.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford
Director: Roman Polanski
Frantic (1988)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Richard Walker is heart surgeon from the U.S. vacationing in Paris with his wife. She suddenly disappears and he decides to report the incident. But neither the French police nor the US embassy offer much help or even appear particularly interested in his dilemma. Desperate, Walker decides to embark on an investigation himself, aided by Michelle, a carefree, seductive gamine who is also mixed up in the case, as he discovers after tracing back to her a mysterious piece of switched luggage that he suspects his wife's kidnappers are after.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Roman Polanski
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
Biography | Drama
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais
Director: Julian Schnabel
