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Fanny Ardant has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by La Belle Époque.
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Pillion
2025
Romance · Drama

An Ideal Husband
1999
Drama · Comedy

The Unbelievable Truth
1990
Comedy · Drama

Moliere
2007
Romance · Drama

Gemma Bovery
2014
Romance · Drama

Same Old Song
1997
Drama · Comedy

Is This Thing On?
2025
Comedy · Drama

You Hurt My Feelings
2023
Drama · Comedy

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.
Dir. Nicolas Bedos · With Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier

After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach

"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
Dir. François Ozon · With Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Dir. Shekhar Kapur · With Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin

Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go back to France, in the house he met her. This journey through happy days memories won't go as planned.
Dir. Gilles Legardinier · With John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant, Émilie Dequenne

February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire of which she is the heiress. But she has a son, Paul, who with an unexpected and tragic gesture will place her on the path to ruin.
Dir. Clovis Cornillac · With Léa Drucker, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alice Isaaz

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Dir. Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Bruno Podalydès · With Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe

Pierre Perdrix has been enjoying an enchanted though restless existence since the enigmatic Juliette Webb burst into his life, a stranger who landed in his family's unique world like a meteorite, and who by her presence alone will force this tight-knit microcosm to redefie their boundaries and finally begin to fully live their lives.
Dir. Erwan Le Duc · With Swann Arlaud, Maud Wyler, Fanny Ardant
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
Dir. Gabriel Aghion · With Patrick Timsit, Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry

Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant, John Cleese
A woman has a close bond with her beloved Algerian grandfather, who protected her from a toxic home life as a child; his death triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate, revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.
Dir. Maïwenn · With Fanny Ardant, Louis Garrel, Dylan Robert
Nathalie and Jean-Pierre have been together for five years, to celebrate their anniversary, Jean-Pierre prepare a surprise present for his girlfriend: a cute four month english bullgod. Nathalie loves her present and calls the puppy "Tresor"; her relationship with the dog is close and strong since the begining but causes problems in the couple.
Dir. Claude Berri, François Dupeyron · With Alain Chabat, Mathilde Seigner, Fanny Ardant
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