Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

Birthday: 1955-06-27

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Biography: Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born June 27, 1955) is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Award for Best Actress with five, for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), Queen Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009). She was also given a double Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1981. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She performs in French, English, and German.

Movies

Monsieur Ibrahim
Monsieur Ibrahim

Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen a...

View Movie
The Driver
The Driver

The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented h...

View Movie
The Story of Adèle H.
The Story of Adèle H.

Halifax, 1863: Miss Lewly arrives in Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love...

View Movie
Subway
Subway

Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a...

View Movie
Queen Margot
Queen Margot

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...

View Movie
Diabolique
Diabolique

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed schem...

View Movie
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Nosferatu the Vampyre

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious C...

View Movie
Possession
Possession

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the trut...

View Movie
Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later...

View Movie
The Tenant
The Tenant

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit...

View Movie
One Deadly Summer
One Deadly Summer

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the to...

View Movie
Masquerade
Masquerade

Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his yout...

View Movie
Ishtar
Ishtar

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in...

View Movie
Le Petit Bougnat
Le Petit Bougnat

When the long awaited departure day arrives, le Petit Bougnat, a child coal merchant eager to go to ...

View Movie
Bon Voyage
Bon Voyage

On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German f...

View Movie
Antonieta
Antonieta

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific intere...

View Movie
Deadly Circuit
Deadly Circuit

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe....

View Movie
Mammuth
Mammuth

Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick...

View Movie
Peter von Kant
Peter von Kant

Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistr...

View Movie
Skirt Day
Skirt Day

A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage....

View Movie
Barocco
Barocco

A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend....

View Movie
Quartet
Quartet

When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a stra...

View Movie
Adolphe
Adolphe

Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten yea...

View Movie
Clara and the Why Not
Clara and the Why Not

Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a roc...

View Movie
All Fired Up
All Fired Up

Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he ret...

View Movie
The Bronte Sisters
The Bronte Sisters

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father...

View Movie
The Slap
The Slap

A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of schoo...

View Movie
One Hundred and One Nights
One Hundred and One Nights

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he en...

View Movie
Force
Force

Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander ...

View Movie
The Repentant
The Repentant

A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vai...

View Movie
L'Avare
L'Avare

Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lor...

View Movie
Dammi
Dammi

Returning to Paris, a man moves through memories of his past and surreal fragments of the present, s...

View Movie
Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau

...

View Movie
David et Madame Hansen
David et Madame Hansen

David is an occupational therapist who has recently arrived at a clinic for wealthy patients. One mo...

View Movie
Aïcha : Job à tout prix
Aïcha : Job à tout prix

...

View Movie
Toxic Affair
Toxic Affair

In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact t...

View Movie
Ishkq in Paris
Ishkq in Paris

Akash and Ishkq meet on a train from Rome to Paris and spend a romantic evening in the city....

View Movie
Ondine
Ondine

In the forest, knight-errant Hans meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attract...

View Movie
L'Âge d'or de la pub
L'Âge d'or de la pub

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television ...

View Movie
You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...

Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinemath...

View Movie
French Women
French Women

A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, childr...

View Movie
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother,...

View Movie
Mosaïque
Mosaïque

Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with ...

View Movie
Wingwomen
Wingwomen

Tired of life on the run, a pro thief decides to retire — but not before one easy last job with her ...

View Movie
Paparazzi
Paparazzi

Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match....

View Movie
Violette & Francois
Violette & Francois

Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, Fran...

View Movie
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a n...

View Movie
Goodbye Vinyle
Goodbye Vinyle

Late 1950s in France. One woman, two men. She, Ève Faugère, a glamorous diva at the peak of her care...

View Movie
Next Year If All Goes Well
Next Year If All Goes Well

Isabelle and Maxime are a pair of lighthearted lovers -- that is, until Isabelle gets the itch for m...

View Movie
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
The Making of 'Nosferatu'

Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set....

View Movie
Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess
Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess

France, 1963. Since she was a child, Natacha has dreamed of freedom and adventure. Her dream has a n...

View Movie
Isabelle Adjani, 2 or 3 Things We Don't Know about Her...
Isabelle Adjani, 2 or 3 Things We Don't Know about Her...

Documentary that retraces Isabelle Adjani's life and career....

View Movie
Carole Matthieu
Carole Matthieu

Isabelle Adjani is Carole Matthieu – a workplace physician employed in a call centre who has become ...

View Movie
Ariane
Ariane

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur....

View Movie
Sisters
Sisters

For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of f...

View Movie
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of ...

View Movie
La Folie Disneyland Paris : L'Anniversaire des 25 ans du Parc
La Folie Disneyland Paris : L'Anniversaire des 25 ans du Parc

...

View Movie
Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet
Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet

The life of the Tibetan people, forty years after the Chinese invasion. Filmed in Amdo and Kham, reg...

View Movie
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

View Movie
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1

The naked floodgates burst open in the Saucy 70s and the 80s continued the trend. Welcome to the 80s...

View Movie
Words in Progress
Words in Progress

Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals....

View Movie
The Last Horror Film
The Last Horror Film

A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincide...

View Movie
L'École des femmes
L'École des femmes

Arnolphe plans to marry Agnès, his ward, a naive and submissive young girl, whom he keeps recluse in...

View Movie
To Each His Own Cinema
To Each His Own Cinema

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brou...

View Movie
The World Is Yours
The World Is Yours

To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gan...

View Movie
Figaro
Figaro

Seville, 1766. Count Almaviva falls in love with a young woman called Rosina, who lives under the tu...

View Movie
Gainsbourg and His Girls
Gainsbourg and His Girls

Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his li...

View Movie
Les enfants du soleil
Les enfants du soleil

...

View Movie