COUP DE TORCHON (Aka CLEAN SLATE) (1981)

 

Directed By: Bertrand Tavernier 

Written By: Bertrand Tavernier and Jean Aurenche

Based On The Novel “Pop. 1280” By: Jim Thompson 

Cinematography: Pierre-William Glenn

Editor: Armand Psenny 

Cast: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stephane Andean, Eddy Mitchell, Guy Marchand, Irene Skobline, Michael Beaune, Jean Champion, Victor Garrivier 

1938, in a French-African colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a machiavellian exterminating angel.

MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS (2022)

 

Directed by: Anthony Fabian 

Written By: Anthony Fabian, Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson and Olivia Hetreed 

Based On The Novel Written By: Paul Gallico 

Cinematography: Felix Wiedemann

Editor: Barney Pilling

Cast: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Jason Issacs, Lucas Bravo, Ellen Thomas, Rose Williams, Anna Chancellor, Christian McKay 

A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own.

GRETA (2019)

Directed By: Neil Jordan 
Written By: Ray Wright & Neil Jordan 
Story By: Neil Jordan 
Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey 
Editor: Nick Emerson 

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Chloe Grace Moritz, Makia Monroe, Zawe Ashton, Stephen Rea, Colm Feore, Thaddeus Daniels 


Frances , a sweet, naïve young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner Greta, an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The two become fast friends - but Greta's maternal charm begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta's life is what it seems.

ELLE (2016)

Directed By: Paul Verhoeven 
Written By: David Birke 
French Adaptation: Harold Manning 
Based on the book by: Philippe Djian 
Cinematography By: Stephane Fontaine 
Editor: Job Ter Burg 


Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Cosigny, Charles Berling, Christina Berkel, Vilmala Pons, Alice Issaz 


Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game, a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.

AMOUR (2012)

Written & Directed By: Michael Haneke 
Cinematography By: Darius Khondji 
Editor: Nadine Muse & Monika Willi 

Cast: Emanuelle Rivas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud, William Shimell

MA MERE (2004)

Written & Directed By: Christophe Honore 
Based On The Novel By: Goeroges Bastille 
Cinematography By: Helene Louvart 
Editor: Chantal Hymans 

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes, Joana Preiss, Jean-Baptiste Montagut, Dominique Reymond

MA MERE (2004)

Written & Directed By: Christophe Honore 
Based on the book by: Georges Bataille 
Cinematography By: Helene Louvert 
Editor: Chantel Hymans 

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma De Caunes, Jean-Baptiste Montagut, Joana Preiss