Emmanuelle Riva
Birthday: 1927-02-24
Place of Birth: Cheniménil, Vosges, France
Biography: Emmanuelle Riva (February 24, 1927 – January 27, 2017) was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour and Amour. In 2013, Riva won the BAFTA Award and the César Award for her lead role in Michael Haneke's Amour as Anne Laurent, and was nominated for the Academy Award for the same role.[2][3] She had previously been nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1960 for Hiroshima mon amour, and had won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 for Thérèse Desqueyroux.
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Three Colors: Blue
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone...
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The Great Alibi
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a...
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Risky Business
A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape her....
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this cele...
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XXL
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern ...
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Venus Beauty Institute
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train sta...
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A Man and His Dog
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means....
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The Possessors
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - rei...
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Adua and Her Friends
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business runnin...
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Léon Morin, Priest
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a pr...
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Kapo
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, m...
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Le Coup de grâce
During WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face given ...
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Trintignant by Trintignant
A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trint...
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Therese
Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only...
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Skylab
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the ...
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My Son
Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growi...
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Amour
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter,...
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C'est la vie
Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything any...
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For Sasha
Israel, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two years. Th...
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Thomas the Impostor
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princes...
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I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a sp...
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La forêt noire
Inspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of Han...
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Liberty at Night
In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman....
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A Shadow of a Doubt
Aline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family cri...
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God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in ...
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A Greek Type of Problem
"Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child. But,...
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The Passion of Bernadette
French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde Soub...
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The Games of Countess Dolingen
This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the ve...
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The Eyes, the Mouth
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lo...
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Michael H. – Profession: Director
Over the past twenty-five years, director Michael Haneke has established himself as a towering figur...
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Eros Therapy
A husband wants to win back his wife, even though she has been living with her lesbian lover for six...
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The Hours of Love
In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in their ...
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Resist or the Captives of Aigues-Mortes
1730: shortly after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, women refusing to abjure Protestantism ar...
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Marx Can Wait
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met befor...
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Funny Boy
Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs ...
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Climates of Love
The Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity and Ph...
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Proust, l'art et la douleur
From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust. Freely intersperses documentary languag...
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Safari 5000
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driv...
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The Devil in the Heart
It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl...
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A Man of My Measure
A tall and gangly Victoire arrives in Paris looking for the ideal French lover -- and because she st...
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The Modification
While on a train to Rome, Léon muses about his love life after leaving his wife....
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The Big Hit
Frank Willes, a young professional footballer, is involved in a road accident from which he emerges ...
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L’Or et le plomb
The story is based on Voltaire's tale "Le monde comme il va" ("The world as it is"). Sent by the gen...
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Man of Desire
A man reevaluates his life. Étienne, a married writer, gives a lift to a young hitchhiker called Ru...
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Green Paradise
Lucas, a young sociologist, finds in his home village two friends, Isabelle and Simon. Discovering t...
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Lost in Paris
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly i...
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a ...
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The Eighth Day
Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she atten...
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Au long de rivière Fango
Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was Mathild...
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Far from Brazil
Since her husband left to live in Brazil years ago, Juliette has lived alone in a vast Normandy esta...
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Bitter Fruit
A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of conspira...
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Wide-Awake
Ingénues, icons, action heroes, divas and the world's next great comedy star: 13 actresses who gave ...
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Recourse in Grace
Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, ...
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Gates of Fire
In October 1942, as an offensive was launched against Rommel's troops, a vehicle carrying a doctor a...
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I Kill, You Kill
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it....
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Éclats de famille
Marguerite Mercier is a retired seamstress who lives in an old apartment.A real estate agent has com...
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Alma
After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war...
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Is There a Frenchman in the House?
An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the de...
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Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent
After abandoning his poetry, from 1880 until his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud drifts between Yemen ...
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La mort de l'utopie
1974 saw the end of beans. The Halles were being destroyed. The extreme left was hesitating between ...
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