Victor Valance, an absent father who likes to gamble, returns home in order to take money from his family and gamble with it. Read More »
Tag Archives: Isabelle Adjani
Violette & François (1977) Jacques Rouffio, Isabelle Adjani, Jacques Dutronc, Serge Reggiani
Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal. Read More »
The Story of Adele H. AKA L’histoire d’Adèle H. (1975) François Truffaut, Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott
Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson Read More »
Skirt Day AKA La journée de la jupe (2008) Jean-Paul Lilienfeld, Isabelle Adjani, Denis Podalydès, Khalid Berkouz
An average school teacher is about to fall into a big depression due to threats Read More »
The Driver (1978) Walter Hill, Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani
“The Driver” is a specialist in a rare business: he drives getaway cars in robberies. Read More »
Le petit bougnat (1970) Bernard Toublanc-Michel, Claude Amazan, Isabelle Adjani, Vincenzo Sartini
This French film stars Claude Amazan as a child coal merchant eager to go to summer camp. Read More »
The Bronte Sisters AKA Les soeurs Brontë (1979) André Téchiné, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor Read More »
Ishtar (1987) Elaine May, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns Read More »
Camille Claudel (1988) Bruno Nuytten, Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson
Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. Read More »
Deadly Circuit (1983) Claude Miller, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand
Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Read More »
Possession (1981) Andrzej Zulawski, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Art-house, Horror, Drama
After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Read More »
One Deadly Summer / L’été meurtrier (1983) Jean Becker, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Drama, Mystery
Eliane is obsessed by the violent rape of her mother back in 1955, the very incident which spawned her. Read More »
The Tenant / Le locataire (1976) Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Thriller, Drama
In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors. Meanwhile he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella. After the death of Simone, Trelkovsky feels obsessed for her and believes his landlord and neighbors are plotting a scheme to force him to also commit suicide.
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Subway (1985) Luc Besson, Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Richard Bohringer, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Helena, the beautiful young wife of a wealthy businessman, invites a stranger Fred to her party. Fred repays her by stealing compromising documents from her husband’s safe, with the aim of blackmailing the couple. Pursued by police and the henchmen of Helena’s ruthless husband, Fred goes on the run, taking refuge in the Paris metro. Here, he meets other social misfits, including a roller-blader the police have been hunting for several months. Whilst Helena realises that she has fallen in love with Fred and makes every attempt to contact him, Fred occupies himself with forming a band by recruiting buskers. Meanwhile, the police and Helena’s husband are getting closer to their target…
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