Charlotte Gainsbourg

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

Dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu · With Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio del Toro

West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.

Dir. Scott Cooper · With Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

Dir. Michel Gondry · With Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Dir. Lars von Trier · With Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

Dir. Eric Barbier · With Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon

The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris, Alexandre meets Mila, the daughter of his mother’s new partner, and invites her to a party. The next day, Mila files a complaint against Alexandre for rape, destroying family harmony and setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine that posits opposing truths.

Dir. Yvan Attal · With Ben Attal, Suzanne Jouannet, Charlotte Gainsbourg

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home.

Dir. Mikhaël Hers · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Quito Rayon Richter, Noée Abita

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

Dir. Lars von Trier · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin

Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, his mother and sisters decide it's time he got married, and the sooner the better!

Dir. Éric Lartigau · With Alain Chabat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.

Dir. Andrew Birkin · With Andrew Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alice Coulthard

The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.

Dir. Lars von Trier · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin

A man takes his wife and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane while facing divorce.

Dir. Florent Bernard · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, José Garcia, Lili Aubry

Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.

With Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox

Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.

Dir. Claude Miller · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

Dir. Emanuele Crialese · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...

Dir. Dominik Moll · With Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, André Dussollier

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.

Dir. Michel Blanc · With Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Dir. Lars von Trier · With Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm

Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to start over again. Yet when he discovers an unattractive, bad-mannered dog in his garden, he decides to adopt him and both start developing an unexpected friendship that inevitably upsets Henri’s family and neighbors.

Dir. Yvan Attal · With Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Eric Ruf

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

Dir. Todd Haynes · With Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin

The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.

Dir. Julie Bertuccelli · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgan Davies, Marton Csokas

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

Dir. Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano · With Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim

When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.

Dir. Michel Franco · With Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iazua Larios

In a country where women are in charge, a man goes to unusual lengths to make his dream of marrying the daughter of a military leader come true.

Dir. Riad Sattouf · With Vincent Lacoste, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon

Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.

Dir. Josée Dayan · With Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Christian Clavier

A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel.

Dir. Joseph Cedar · With Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi, Michael Sheen

Tridan Lagache has spent his whole life at Club Med, changing friends every 8 days. At 50, he resigns from the vacation spot where he was born, determined to track down his great mini-club childhood love, Violette. He shows up in Paris, naïve and lost but glad to be lodged by Louis, a half-brother he never knew he had. In order to be rid of the cumbersome Tridan, Louis passes one of his fling off as Violette, and Tridan, all emotional, thinks he recognizes her at first glance.

Dir. Dany Boon · With Dany Boon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kad Merad

Charlotte Gainsbourg agrees to play a witch condemned to be burned at the stake in the first film directed by Béatrice Dalle. But the chaotic production, technical problems, and psychotic breakdowns gradually plunge the shoot into a chaos of pure light.

Dir. Gaspar Noé · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Béatrice Dalle, Abbey Lee

Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.

Dir. Yvan Attal · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat