Isabelle Huppert
1) Home
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road's construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The piano teacher).
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert stars in the first English-language film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo, "the love child Antonioni and Hou Hsiao-hsien never had" (Village voice). In a triptych of overlapping stories, three different French women (a filmmaker, an adulterer and a divorce- Huppert, Huppert and ... Huppert) visit a small Korean resort town and encounter a flirtatious director, a lovestruck lifeguard and far too much...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
The latest thriller from French New Wave veteran Claude Chabrol opens with a tongue-in-cheek claim that it does not depict real events, even though it's timely and provocative account of corporate and political corruption was inspired by a real-life scandal involving a French oil giant and several top-level politicians. The stunning and accomplished Isabelle Huppert (I heart huckabees) stars as Jeanne, a tenacious magistrate known as "the piranha"...
4) Mama Weed
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Yiddish
Description
A translator with the Paris police (Isabelle Huppert) finds herself in possession of a huge store of hash, the insider knowledge required to move it, and an unexpected flair for the danger that ensues.
5) The Nun
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Latin
Description
Born to a bourgeois family in 1760s France, Suzanne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music. Inexplicably, her parents abruptly decide to send young Suzanne off to a convent, where she resists structure at every turn until she discovers that she is an illegitimate child. Left with no other option, she pronounces her vows and suffers the consequences of her mother’s sin. Still uncertain of her path and wishing to revoke her vows,...
6) Souvenir
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Liliane (Isabelle Huppert) lives a modest and monotonous life. By day, she works in a pâté factory, and by night, she sits on the couch and watches TV. One day, a new worker named Jean arrives. The two form a platonic relationship, but Jean grows increasingly convinced that he recognizes Liliane from a European singing contest he saw as a child. Eventually, Jean convinces Liliane to confront her past. SOUVENIR is a beautiful portrayal of a friendship...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
The issue of assisted suicide made national headlines in Italy when the decision was made to end the life of Eluana Englaro, after she spent seventeen years in a vegetative state. DORMANT BEAUTY shows how assisted suicide affects the lives of four characters struggling with their own beliefs. A senator, forced to vote for a law with which he profoundly disagrees, is torn between his conscience and his loyalty towards the leaders of his party. His...
8) The Swindle
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
Français
Description
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
9) Mrs. Hyde
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
A late night laboratory accident transforms an unpopular science teacher (Isabelle Huppert) into the dangerously unpredictable MRS. HYDE.
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Luc Bondy’s final feature film as director draws talent from both stage and screen to bring Pierre de Marivaux’s play into 21st century Paris. Isabelle Huppert commands the screen as Araminte, the wealthy widow who unwittingly hires the smitten Dorante (Louis Garrel) as her accountant. Secrets and lies accumulate as Dorante and his accomplice, Araminte’s manservant Dubois, manipulate not only the good-hearted Araminte, but also her friend and...
11) Nightcap
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Français
Description
André Polonski, a virtuoso pianist, and Mika marry for the second time in Lausanne, years after their first, very brief union. In the meantime, André had married Lisbeth who gave him a son, Guillaume. On the day of his sixth birthday, while the family was staying with Mika in Switzerland, Lisbeth died in a car accident. Young Jeanne, who is preparing the Budapest piano competition, happens to learn that she was almost switched on the day of her...
12) Madame Bovary
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
Français
Description
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.
13) Entre Nous
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
In this bittersweet, often funny, semi-autobiographical period drama, director Diane Kurys reimagines the post-War years of her parents and the passionate friendship between two women.
14) Time of the Wolf
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Romanian
Description
Michael Haneke’s futuristic vision follows a global cataclysm, Anne (Academy Award Nominee Isabelle Huppert) and her family set out for a safe haven at their holiday home. But, when they arrive, the home is already occupied by other survivors. Their hopes for safety are immediately dashed by a violent tragedy, which serves as a lesson to take nothing for granted and expect the worst in this new, harsh landscape. Accompanied by a fierce young boy...
15) La Syndicaliste
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and politics, LA SYNDICALISTE follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the influential head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. A deft navigator of elite political and financial circles, Maureen becomes a whistleblower when she discovers international backroom dealings, exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector. Fighting against...
16) EO
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With his first film in seven years, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski directs one of his most free and visually inventive films yet, following the travels of a nomadic gray donkey named EO. After being removed from the traveling circus, which is the only life he’s ever known, EO begins a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness in equal measure, all the while observing the follies and triumphs of humankind....
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
In this darkly erotic drama from cult filmmaker Jeanne Labrune, Oscar-nominee Isabelle Huppert (*Elle, The Piano Teacher*) stars as a high-class prostitute named Alice who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele, from schoolgirl innocence to S&M. Fed up with the seamy underbelly of French masculinity, Alice crosses paths with Xavier, a neurotic psychoanalyst facing a marriage crisis. The two quickly realize their professions share a thing or...
18) Things to Come
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
After a bombshell revelation that her marriage is over, Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) sets out with a sense of liberation and rediscovers herself.
19) Gabrielle
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, early 1900's. Provoking a cataclysmic crisis in her conventional, bourgeois marriage, Mrs. Hervey and her husband each take on the supposed virtues of the opposite sex. Mr. Hervey loses everything in a fatal blow from the one place he would never have imagined: his wife, his wife who is no longer his wife. She, GABRIELLE, emerges as untouched and intact as a block of granite. Stripped of his manhood, Mr. Hervey, now left with nothing, will...
20) Claire's Camera
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A refreshingly sunny performance from Isabelle Huppert is at the center of this comic charmer from South Korean Master Hong Sang-soo. Huppert plays Claire, a school teacher with a camera (that might be magical) on her first visit to Cannes. She happens upon a film sales assistant, Manhee (Kim Min-hee), recently laid off after a one-night stand with a film director (Jung Jin-young). Together, this unlikely pair become detectives of sorts, as they wander...