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Sabine Azéma
Sabine Azéma

Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949) is a French actress. Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, and began her film career in 1975. Azéma appeared in A Sunday in the Country (1984), for which she won a César Award for Best Actress, and numerous films of Alain Resnais, including Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983), ... more

Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949) is a French actress. Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, and began her film career in 1975. Azéma appeared in A Sunday in the Country (1984), for which she won a César Award for Best Actress, and numerous films of Alain Resnais, including Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983), L'Amour à mort (1984), Mélo (which won her a second César Award for Best Actress), Smoking/No Smoking (1993), On connaît la chanson (1997), Pas sur la bouche (2003), and Cœurs (2006). She has been nominated a further five times.

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Tanguy
(2001)
Comedy
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Étienne Chatiliez
Cast:
Éric Berger, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Hélène Duc, Aurore Clément
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Same Old Song
(1997)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, ...
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, André Dussollier
7.3
69%
N/A
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Private Fears in Public Places
(2006)
Drama, Romance
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Lambert Wilson
7.0
77%
77
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The Well Digger's Daughter
(2011)
Drama, Romance
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasi...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Daniel Auteuil
Cast:
Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Nicolas Duvauchelle
7.1
90%
67
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The Lacemaker
(1977)
Drama, Romance
Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Claude Goretta
Cast:
Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Renate Schroeter, Christian Baltauss
7.9
N/A
N/A
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Wild Grass
(2009)
Drama, Romance
Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny
6.3
67%
65
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A Sunday in the Country
(1984)
Drama, Family
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more imp...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Bertrand Tavernier
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Monique Chaumette, Geneviève Mnich
7.9
100%
N/A
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Happiness Is in the Field
(1995)
Comedy
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husban...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Étienne Chatiliez
Cast:
Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Sabine Azéma, Carmen Maura, François Morel
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Smoking / No Smoking
(1993)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male char...
Runtime:
298 min
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi
7.6
N/A
N/A
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The Officers' Ward
(2001)
Drama, Romance, War
The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...
Runtime:
135 min
Director:
François Dupeyron
Cast:
Éric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Derangère, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier
7.5
N/A
N/A
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Life and Nothing But
(1989)
Drama, War
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Cou...
Runtime:
135 min
Director:
Bertrand Tavernier
Cast:
Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier, François Perrot
7.6
N/A
N/A
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Season's Beatings
(1999)
Comedy, Drama
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Danièle Thompson
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Béart, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Claude Rich, Françoise Fabian
6.4
70%
66
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
(2003)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except ...
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Bruno Podalydès
Cast:
Denis Podalydès, Jean-Noël Brouté, Claude Rich, Scali Delpeyrat, Sabine Azéma
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Not on the Lips
(2003)
Comedy, Romance
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her siste...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Nanty, Audrey Tautou, Pierre Arditi, Darry Cowl
6.4
75%
N/A
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R.A.I.D. Special Unit
(2017)
Action, Comedy
The story of a woman who dreams to join an intervention group in the police department called RAID. Unfortunately, she is rather clumsy and both her family (and soon to be family-in-law) and a veteran of the RAID do not approve. However, Johanna is determined to prove them wrong.
Runtime:
105 min
Cast:
Alice Pol, Dany Boon, Michel Blanc, Yvan Attal, Sabine Azéma
5.5
N/A
N/A
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Mélo
(1986)
Drama, Romance
Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not, both are happy with their lives. Pierre is happily married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Marcel little suspects.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Jacques Dacqmine
7.2
N/A
N/A
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To Paint or Make Love
(2005)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
An affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Daniel Auteuil, Amira Casar, Philippe Katerine, Sergi López
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Knock
(2017)
Comedy
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able t...
Runtime:
113 min
Cast:
Omar Sy, Ana Girardot, Alex Lutz, Hélène Vincent, Chantal Lauby
5.9
N/A
N/A
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
(2012)
Drama
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater s...
Runtime:
115 min
6.4
83%
69
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Love Unto Death
(1984)
Drama, Romance
Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are ...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Life of Riley
(2014)
Comedy
In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Hippolyte Girardot, Caroline Sihol, Michel Vuillermoz, Sandrine Kiberlain
6.0
81%
70
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Cosmos
(2015)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Andrzej Żuławski
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Victória Guerra, Ricardo Pereira, Johan Libéreau, Andy Gillet
5.9
N/A
72
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Life Is a Bed of Roses
(1983)
Comedy, Drama
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Fanny Ardant, Geraldine Chaplin, Sabine Azéma
6.6
75%
N/A
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The Bottom Line
(1976)
Comedy
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Georges Lautner
Cast:
Pierre Richard, Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Renée Saint-Cyr, Gérard Jugnot
6.3
N/A
N/A
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black
(2005)
Comedy
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Bruno Podalydès
Cast:
Bruno Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Zabou Breitman, Olivier Gourmet, Jean-Noël Brouté
5.7
N/A
N/A
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Let's Dance
(2007)
Comedy
In the Bellinsky family: there is Solomon the father, 80 years old, brimming with life. He is fighting not to be buried too quickly, between tap dance lessons under the high patronage of Fred Astaire and the search for a companion... The mother, Geneviève, dreams of only one thing: quietly continuing her infantilisation, with her house...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Noémie Lvovsky
Cast:
Jean-Pierre Marielle, Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi, Sabine Azéma, Bulle Ogier, Arié Elmaleh
5.8
N/A
N/A
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Zone Red
(1986)
Thriller
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Black for Remembrance
(1995)
Crime
This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris became an alcoholic. The two are throw...
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Aunt Hilda!
(2014)
Animation, Comedy, Family
Plant loving Hilda, has created a museum where she preserves endangered and rare plants from all over the world. Meanwhile Attilem, a new genetically modified cereal, is launched on the market. Growing with little water and fertilizer while generating high crop field Attilem looks like an ideal solution to eradicate starvation and prov...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Benoît Chieux
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Josiane Balasko, François Morel, Bruno Lochet, Sergueï Vladimirov
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Ma famille t'adore déjà !
(2016)
Comedy
A young man meets his soon-to-be in-laws but discovers behind their proud and wealthy appearances some deep issues and lies.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Jérôme Commandeur
Cast:
Arthur Dupont, Déborah François, Thierry Lhermitte, Marie-Anne Chazel, Valérie Karsenti
4.9
N/A
N/A
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Fair is Fair
(2010)
Comedy
Condamné pour un crime qui n'était, selon lui, qu'un accident, Constant réussit à s'évader de la prison où il purge sa peine... Après une fuite aveugle, livré à tous les hasards, Constant finit par échouer dans un coin perdu, près des berges désertes d'un canal.... Se cachant sur une péniche à l'abandon, Constant tente de reprendre son...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Isabelle Mergault
Cast:
Daniel Auteuil, Sabine Azéma, Medeea Marinescu, Agnès Boury, Ariane Pirié
5.0
N/A
N/A
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Five Days in June
(1989)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A romantic story about a few days from the life of Michel Legrand told by himself.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Michel Legrand
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Annie Girardot, Matthieu Rozé, Bernard Lavalette, Bradley Cole
6.3
N/A
N/A
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The Prude
(1986)
Drama
Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses in his troupe act out different aspects of his daughter's character. Unfortunate...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Jacques Doillon
Cast:
Michel Piccoli, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sabine Azéma, Laurent Malet, Brigitte Coscas
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Vanille fraise
(1989)
Comedy
Director:
Gérard Oury
Cast:
Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Isaach De Bankolé, Riccardo Cucciolla, Venantino Venantini
4.7
N/A
N/A
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Le voyage aux Pyrénées
(2008)
Comedy
Getting away from it all causes more problems than it solves in this comedy from the French writing-directing team of Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu. Alexandre Darou (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and his wife Aurore Lalu (Sabine Azema) are a pair of well-known actors who need a break from the tension and fast pace of their lives in s...
Runtime:
102 min
Cast:
Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Sabine Azéma, Arly Jover, Gurgon Kyap
4.6
N/A
N/A
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Rossini! Rossini!
(1991)
Drama, Music
An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed in a wonderful way by famed actor and later director Sergio Castellitto.
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Mario Monicelli
Cast:
Philippe Noiret, Sergio Castellitto, Jacqueline Bisset, Sabine Azéma, Giorgio Gaber
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
(2017)
Documentary
Featuring previously unissued photographs and video archives as well as interviews of his friends and partners in crime, this documentary tells how the kid from the poor suburbs turned superstar photographer. It draws the intimate portrait of the life and work – being so closely interwoven – of and artist fiercely determined to be purv...
Runtime:
83 min
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Jean-Claude Carrière, François Morel
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Olé !
(2005)
Comedy
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Florence Quentin
Cast:
Gad Elmaleh, Sabine Azéma, Valeria Golino, Gaëlle Bona, Valentin Merlet
4.3
N/A
N/A
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Chouquette
(2017)
Comedy, Drama
Cast:
Sabine Azéma, Michèle Laroque, Michèle Moretti
4.4
N/A
N/A
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Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
(1976)
Comedy
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Claude Vital
Cast:
Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre, Daniel Ceccaldi, Francis Perrin, Claude Gensac
N/A
N/A
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