La daronne / Mama Weed (2020)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Hippolyte Girardot, Farida Ouchani, Liliane Rovère, Iris Bry, Nadja Nguyen, Rebecca Marder
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
House of 9 (2005)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Nine strangers, with no apparent connection between them are abducted: drugged, kidnapped and sealed in a house together.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Kelly Brook, Hippolyte Girardot, Susie Amy, Morven Christie, Peter Capaldi, Ashley Walters, Raffaello Degruttola, Julienne Davis, Jim Carter
Director: Steven R. Monroe
The Girl King (2015)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Starring: Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant, Laura Birn, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Manon des Sources / Manon of the Spring / Jean de Florette II (1986)
Drama
This sequel to 1986's Jean de Florette stars Emmanuelle Beart as Manon (the daughter of Jean de Florette's protagonist). Manon has grown up to become a beautiful woman, a shy and resourceful shepherdess who lives in relative seclusion from the townspeople of her provencal village, haunted by the tragic death of her father (played by Gerard Depardieu in part one). An outsider, like her father, Manon stays high up in the rugged hills preferring the company of her sheep to her nearby neighbors Cèsar (Yves Montand) and Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil). One fateful day, Manon discovers the real reason why her father's spring ran dry and comes up with a powerful revenge to exact on the men responsible for her father's downfall. Manon's action changes her life forever and uncovers long-hidden family secrets that powerfully affect the local villagers.
Starring: Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Hippolyte Girardot, Margarita Lozano
Director: Claude Berri
Le capital / Capital (2012)
Drama
The newly appointed CEO of a giant European investment bank works to hold on to his power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy out his company.
Starring: Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Liya Kebede, Natacha Régnier, Céline Sallette, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Costa-Gavras
A Christmas Tale / Un conte de Noël (2008)
Comedy | Drama
Junon and Abel are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth, a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband and a tortured teenage son, Paul; Henri, the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan, the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth- -Joseph, the eldest–died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone–including lovesick cousin Simon and Henri's girlfriend, Faunia–return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly–and hilariously–devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Les saveurs du Palais / Haute Cuisine (2012)
Biography | Comedy
The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
Starring: Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, Jean d'Ormesson, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Christian Vincent
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet / Vous n'avez encore rien vu (2012)
Drama
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun…
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Noël Brouté, Anne Consigny, Anny Duperey, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Alain Resnais
Schlafkrankheit / Sleeping Sickness (2011)
Drama
Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.
Starring: Pierre Bokma, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily, Hippolyte Girardot, Maria Elise Miller
Director: Ulrich Köhler
