Isabelle Huppert
Actor
Films to Rent
- Rosebud (1975)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Peter Lawford…
- Preminger's penultimate film is sadly a mess. Members of the Palestinian Liberation Army kidnap five heiresses in order to bring attention to their…
- Heaven's Gate (1980)
- Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt…
- One of Hollywood's biggest financial disasters contributed to the demise of United Artists studios. Despite its flaws, this full–length version…
- Loulou (1980)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand
- Charismatic street rogue Gerard Depardieu lures an impetuous Isabelle Huppert out her stale, bourgeois partnership with Guy Marchand. Star chemistry…
- Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) (1981)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle…
- Mordantly humourous suspense set in dusty French Senegal, with Noiret playing a much–abused police chief who begins to have dreams of…
- Passion (1982)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
- 'Film within a film' from France's thorniest director, sowing narrative confusion in his story of director Michel Piccoli trying to make a arthouse…
- Cactus (1986)
- Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Norman Kaye
- Challenging and intriguing drama from dir. Paul Cox, about a French woman (Isabelle Huppert) having an uneasy vacation in Australia.
- Bedroom Window, The (1987)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Steve Guttenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Elizabeth McGovern…
- Steve Guttenberg becomes perilously entrapped in Hitchcockian mode.
- Une Affair Des Femmes (a Story of Women) (1988)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Francois Cluzet
- Traumatic, gripping fact–based story about the last woman to be guillotined in France. Isabelle Huppert is in feverish form as the woman both…
- Madame Bovary (1991)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy…
- Chabrol remains faithful to the text of this oft–filmed classic of French literature, with Isabelle Huppert bringing a glacial refinement to…
- Amateur (1995)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Lowensohn
- Hal Hartley approaches the conventions of a thriller in further probing his fixation with dysfunctional romance and relationships, and thus checks in…
- Gulliver's Travels (1995)
- Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Peter O'Toole…
- Epic, state–of–the–art version of Jonathan Swift's classic fairytale stars Ted Danson as the long–shipwrecked doctor who must…
- La Ceremonie (Judgement in Stone, A) (1995)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset
- Veteran new–wave director Chabrol takes this HEAVENLY CREATURES–ish tale of the unholy synergy between two women, adds some class theory,…
- Les Destinees Sentimentales (2000)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert
- Genteel family saga from the trilogy of novels by Jacques Chardonne that follows the destiny of pastor Charles Berling through the first decades of…
- Comedie de L'Innocence (Comedy of Innocence) (2000)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Charles Berling
- A spooky psychological thriller, in which a young boy of nine tells his mother (Huppert) that in fact he is the son of another woman.
When this…
- Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert
- Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…
- 8 Women (8 Femmes) (2001)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart…
- In the classic whodunnit mould, this whimsical French "thriller" starts with a man’s dead body in a snowbound Alpine manse in the 1950s, and eight…
- Piano Teacher, The (2001)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel
- Isabelle Huppert gives the bravest and possibly best performance of her career as a brittle, imbalanced music teacher in a drama that might prove too…
- Private Property (2002)
- Dir. Joachim Lafosse
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jeremie Renier
- Isabelle Huppert is held to emotional ransom by her two grown–up twin sons in this ‘Mexican standoff’ of family dysfunction and domestic…
- Time of the Wolf (Temps du loup, Le) (2003)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Beatrice Dalle, Olivier Gourmet
- Chilling, disconcerting post–apocalyptic nightmare that begins with Isabelle Huppert and children fleeing into a barren French countryside,…
- I Heart Huckabees (2004)
- Dir. David O. Russell
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg, Lily Tomlin…
- The meaning of life and capitalism in the post–millenial age are ambitiously tackled in this "existential comedy" from the dir. of FLIRTING…
- Me And My Sister (Les Soeurs Fachees) (2004)
- Dir. Alexandra Leclere
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Frot
- A deceptively simple French comedy, which has a bubbly and gauche rural–dwelling woman (Frot) visiting her arrogant and successful sister…
- Ma Mere (My Mother) (2004)
- Dir. Christophe Honore
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes
- A perverse Mediterranean sex–romp that manages to skirt regularly between tasteless debauchery and absurd immorality.
A heady Isabelle…
- Gabrielle (2005)
- Dir. Patrice Chereau
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
- Absorbing adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short story coolly dissects the disintegrating marriage of a bourgeois French couple.
Gorgeously framed…
- White Material (2009)
- Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach de Bankole…
- Isabelle Huppert stars as a woman who refuses to abandon her plantation in Claire Denis' disquieting depiction of an African country on the verge of…
- Copacabana (2010)
- Dir. Marc Fitoussi
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Aure Atika, Lolita Chammah
- Free–spirited and perpetually unemployed Isabelle Huppert must get with the program after learning her newly engaged daughter (played by her…
- Special Treatment (2010)
- Dir. Jeanne Labrune
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Bouli Lanners
- Playing a high class prostitute, Isabelle Huppert gets cosy with one her clients, a psychoanalyst, in this occasionally titillating, comically…
- Amour (2012)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
- An octogenarian couple find their love put to the ultimate test when one of them suffers a stroke in this devastating humanist drama from master…
- Dead Man Down (2013)
- Dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Feat. Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard…
- Dir. Niels Arden Oplev (THE GIRL WITH A DRAGON TATTOO) imports an Eastern European aesthetic into this New York–set gangland revenge thriller,…
- Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, The (2014)
- Dir. Ned Benson
Feat. James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis…
- An ambitious and elegant New York love story from first time director Benson follows a couple as they try to reclaim the life and love they once…
- Folies Bergère (Paris Follies) (2014)
- Dir. Marc Fitoussi
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Michael Nyqvist…
- Isabelle Huppert stars in this lighty comic French tale as a as a farmer’s wife who takes off to Paris on a whim and finds romance in unexpected…