Jacques Audiard
Jacques Audiard (French: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952; Paris) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter. He has won both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language twice, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipp... more
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A Prophet
(2009)
Crime, Drama
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himse...
Runtime:
155 min
Director:
Jacques Audiard
Cast:
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
(2005)
Crime, Drama, Music
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the u...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Jacques Audiard
Cast:
Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï, Gilles Cohen, Linh Đan Phạm
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Read My Lips
(2001)
Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Jacques Audiard
Cast:
Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Bernard Alane, Olivier Perrier
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Dheepan
(2015)
Crime, Drama
Three people who have lost everything, a soldier tired of fighting, a young woman and a little girl, pose as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka. They emigrate to France and settle in a chaotic neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, where apparently the law no longer exists; but they, who barely know each other, struggle to ...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Jacques Audiard
Cast:
Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Marc Zinga
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Venus Beauty Institute
(1999)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still dreams of the big day, Angèle no longer believes in love. Marie, the youngest of the three employees, dis...
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Tonie Marshall
Cast:
Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Nathalie Baye, Mathilde Seigner, Bulle Ogier
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A Self-Made Hero
(1996)
Drama, War
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Jacques Audiard
Cast:
Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel, Jean-Louis Trintignant
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Deadly Circuit
(1983)
Crime, Mystery
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. Although he never approaches her directly, he follows her and increasingly feels to be telepathically connected to her, because she reminds him of his daughter he never met. ...
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Claude Miller
Cast:
Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Macha Méril
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Baxter
(1989)
Comedy, Drama, Horror
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Jérôme Boivin
Cast:
Lise Delamare, Jean Mercure, Jacques Spiesser, Catherine Ferran, Jean-Paul Roussillon
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See How They Fall
(1994)
Drama, Thriller
Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, ...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Jacques Audiard
Cast:
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne, Mathieu Kassovitz, Bulle Ogier, Christine Pascal
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Barjo
(1992)
The narrator, "Barjo" (nutcase, crap artist), is an obsessive simpleton, given to filling his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of the world. When his house burns, he moves in with his twin sister, Fanfan -- an impulsive, quixotic egoist -- and her husband, Charles, th...
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Jérôme Boivin
Cast:
Richard Bohringer, Anne Brochet, Hippolyte Girardot
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Rust and Bone
(2012)
Drama, Romance
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Runtime:
123 min