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).
2) Greta
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing is what it seems...
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"...
5) 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.
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...
7) 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.
8) 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,...
9) 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...
10) 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.
11) White as Snow
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Claire, a young woman of great beauty, arouses the uncontrollable jealousy of her stepmother Maud, who goes so far as to plan her murder. Rescued at the last moment by a mysterious man who takes her in on his farm, Claire decides to remain in the village, a decision that will awaken the emotions of its inhabitants. One, two, and soon seven men will fall under her spell!
12) 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...
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...
14) Elle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Michele seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michele's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
15) 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.
16) 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.
17) Frankie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Unfolding over the course of a late summer's day in the fabled resort town of Sintra, Portugal, this film follows three generations who have gathered for a vacation organized by the family matriarch. In this fairy tale setting, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, stirred by their romantic impulses, discover the cracks between them, as well as the unexpected depth of feeling.
18) 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...
19) 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...
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...