Emmanuelle Riva

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski · With Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

Dir. Alain Resnais · With Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas

Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.

Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · With Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Irène Tunc

Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

Dir. Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel · With Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva