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Isabelle Huppert has 44 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Amour.
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The Piano Teacher
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Max · Included

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Netflix · Included

Coup de Torchon
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Max · Included

Dior and I
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%MUBI · Included

Heaven's Gate
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 56%Prime Video · Included

Dead Man Down
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
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

A young woman becomes entangled with a successful businessman, but her ex tries to win her back, provoking intense jealousy that leads her to reconsider her choice. Ultimately, one man's actions force a resolution to her dilemma.
Dir. Claude Sautet · With Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Sami Frey

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel

A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
Dir. Anthony Fabian · With Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson
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

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury, and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting up with a young lover.
Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier

The true story of the Irish national Maureen Kearney- head tradeunion representative-turned-whistleblower of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. After denouncing top-secret deals that shook the sector, Kearney’s life is suddenly turned upside-down when she is violently assaulted in her own house.
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With Isabelle Huppert, Grégory Gadebois, Marina Foïs

Behind-the-scenes documentary revealing what goes on inside the colourful, privileged, and sometimes stressful Christian Dior fashion house.
Dir. Frédéric Tcheng · With Raf Simons, Pieter Mulier, Bernard Arnault

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert
Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isolated from the rest of the world. The arrival of a construction vehicle, however, pierces their tranquil, hermetic existence—before long a disused highway has been re-opened, and the family finds their home situated in the midst of rush-hour traffic. While the privileges of clean air, quietude and privacy are thus denied them, Marthe remains determined to stay no matter the cost.
Dir. Ursula Meier · With Isabelle Huppert, Adélaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd

Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.
Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis

Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
Dir. Samuel Benchetrit · With Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern, Tassadit Mandi

A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers the widow might not be all that she seems.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Chloë Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert, Maika Monroe

In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels and the army struggling for control, French peacekeeping forces move out, warning the remaining white residents that they’re on their own. But Maria refuses to be driven off the land, even as tragedy looms.
Dir. Claire Denis · With Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Dir. Ned Benson · With James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
Dir. David O. Russell · With Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt

Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation.
Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Finnegan Oldfield, Jules Porier, Catherine Mouchet

In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
Dir. Niels Arden Oplev · With Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard

Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Dir. Ned Benson · With Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Viola Davis

An elderly billionaire woman gives hundreds of millions of euros to a younger gay artist she is close to. Her daughter files a complaint for abuse of a vulnerable person and a scandal erupts.
Dir. Thierry Klifa · With Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Marina Foïs

When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny

In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out.
Dir. François Ozon · With Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
Dir. Michele Placido · With Riccardo Scamarcio, Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve · With Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski · With Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
Dir. Joachim Trier · With Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg

Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert
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