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6.5

♡ 10

Drama

Bertrand Blier Director

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Camille Pelleveau

Gérard Depardieu as Doctor Marc Antoine Worms

Annie Girardot as Evangéline Pelleveau

Jean Carmet as Raymond Pelleveau

Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AIDS and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.

The City of Your Final Destination

2009

6.3

♡ 10

39%

based on novel or book

James Ivory Director

Anthony Hopkins as Adam

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Arden Langdon

Laura Linney as Caroline

Hiroyuki Sanada as Pete

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography.

Jane B. for Agnes V.

1988

7.2

♡ 6

Agnès Varda Director

Agnès Varda as Agnès Varda

Charlotte Gainsbourg as La fille de J.

Jean-Pierre Léaud as L'amoureux colérique

Serge Gainsbourg as Serge Gainsbourg

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.

Love, etc.

1996

parent child relationship

6.2

♡ 5

Marion Vernoux Director

Jimmy Jean-Louis as

Yvan Attal as Benoît

Valérie Bonneton as Florist

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Marie

A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the world's oldest 32-year-old. The shy, well-employed Benoît's life changes when he answers the personal ad of Marie, a 25-year-old who restores paintings. He's attracted to her and she likes his steady calm and his honest attention. They're soon a couple, and they include Pierre in their dinners, outings, and trips. What will happen when Pierre realizes that he too is in love with Marie?

Golden Door

2006

Italian

6.8

♡ 1

73%

Emanuele Crialese Director

Antonino Bruschetta as Italian emigrant

Paolo De Vita as Italian emigrant

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Lucy Reed

Vincent Schiavelli as Marriage Broker - on board ship

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

The Little Thief

1988

6.8

♡ 7

Claude Miller Director

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Janine Castang

Renée Faure as La Mère Busato

Jacques Herlin as Le sacristain

Joseph Stalin as Self

In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer she meets in prison—will help her learn from her mistakes.

The Cement Garden

1993

7.0

♡ 6

85%

74%

based on novel or book

Andrew Birkin Director

William Hootkins as Commander Hunt

Hanns Zischler as Father

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Julie

Sinéad Cusack as Mother

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.

Suzanna Andler

4.7

Benoît Jacquot Director

Niels Schneider as Michel

Julia Roy as Monique

Nathan Willcocks as Rivière

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Suzanna Andler

Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new house, will mark a turning point in her life. Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman in the 1960s. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover.

Dead Tired

1994

6.4

♡ 4

50%

55%

Comedy

Michel Blanc Director

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Charlotte Gainsbourg

Christian Clavier as Christian Clavier

Bernard Farcy as L'employé ANPE

Thierry Lhermitte as Thierry Lhermitte

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.

Jane by Charlotte

2021

mother daughter relationship

6.6

♡ 1

62%

mother daughter reunion

Music

woman director

Charlotte Gainsbourg Director

Serge Gainsbourg as Self

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Self

Jane Birkin as Self

Jo Attal as Self

Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of reserve. Using a camera lens, they expose themselves to each other, begin to step back, leaving space for a mother-daughter relationship.

Kung-Fu Master!

♡ 4

older woman younger man relationship

Agnès Varda Director

Léa Drucker as Invitée à la boum de Lucy

Judy Campbell as La mère

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Lucy

Hugh Laurie as Self

A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?

Amoureuse

1992

5.4

♡ 3

Jacques Doillon Director

Thomas Langmann as Antoine

Elsa Zylberstein as Clairvoyant

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Marie

Yvan Attal as Paul

Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada. Paul is instantly smitten and wants her to marry him. She puts him off by saying that she and Antoine have decided to have a baby. When Antoine returns, he becomes vividly jealous of his girlfriend's chaste encounter, which provokes her into having an affair with Paul.

I Think We're Alone Now

2018

5.8

♡ 24

63%

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

small town

Reed Morano Director

Peter Dinklage as Del

Elle Fanning as Grace

Paul Giamatti as Patrick

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Violet

After a catastrophe destroys most of humanity, recluse Del lives in his small, empty town, content with the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until an interloper, young Grace, disrupts his solitude.

Happily Ever After

2004

6.4

♡ 6

59%

Yvan Attal Director

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Gabrielle

Keith Allen as L'homme de la piscine

Johnny Depp as L'inconnu

Emmanuelle Seigner as Nathalie

Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.

The Tree

2010

6.5

♡ 18

72%

Julie Bertuccelli Director

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Dawn

Marton Csokas as George

Penne Hackforth-Jones as Mrs Johnson

Morgana Davies as Simone

The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.

Ismael's Ghosts

2017

5.5

♡ 11

51%

Arnaud Desplechin Director

Marion Cotillard as Carlotta Bloom

Mathieu Amalric as Ismaël Vuillard

Louis Garrel as Ivan Dedalus

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Sylvia

Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, presumed dead for 20 years, come crashing back into his life creating chaos in his work and his current romantic relationship with the starry-eyed astronomer Sylvia.

L'effrontée

1985

6.9

♡ 4

Claude Miller Director

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Charlotte Castang

Clothilde Baudon as Clara Bauman

Bernadette Lafont as Léone

Jean-Claude Brialy as Sam

Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.

Misunderstood

2014

Italian

6.6

♡ 1

81%

62%

Drama

woman director

Asia Argento Director

Gianmarco Tognazzi as Dodo

Anna Lou Castoldi as Donatina

Gabriel Garko as Padre

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Yvonne Casella, la madre

Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.

My Dog Stupid

2019