List of the best Arnaud Desplechin movies: Kings and Queen(2004), A Christmas Tale(2008), My Golden Days(2015), La vie des morts(1991), Esther Kahn(2000), Jimmy P.(2013), Ismael's Ghosts(2017), Playing `In the Company of Men'(2003) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
France
2004
150 Minutes
Director
Emmanuelle Devos Mathieu Amalric Catherine Deneuve Maurice Garrel Nathalie Boutefeu Jean-Paul Roussillon Magalie Woch Hippolyte Girardot Noémie Lvovsky Elsa Wolliaston Geoffrey Carey
father daughter grandchild ex-lover fiancé emotional grenoble, france mental institution family home paris family terminal illness love marriage mental illness transformation quest 2000s
Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.
Comedy, Other, Drama
France
2008
150 Minutes
Director
Catherine Deneuve Jean-Paul Roussillon Mathieu Amalric Françoise Bertin Laurent Capelluto Anne Consigny Emmanuelle Devos Hippolyte Girardot Chiara Mastroianni Emile Berling
mother daughter son tense emotional moving touching family home roubaix, france illness family death growing up sacrifice rivalry 2000s
The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
Drama
France
2015
123 Minutes
Director
Quentin Dolmaire Lou Roy-Lecollinet Mathieu Amalric Dinara Droukarova Françoise Lebrun Irina Vavilova Olivier Rabourdin Elyot Milshtein Pierre Andrau Lily Taieb Raphaël Cohen
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
Drama
France
1991
54 Minutes
Director
Thibault de Montalembert Roch Leibovici Marianne Denicourt Bernard Ballet Suzel Goffre Laurence Côte Benoît Brione Laurent Schilling Emmanuel Salinger Emmanuelle Devos André Cellier
A large family, traumatized by tragic deaths, reunites to wait for news about one of their cousins who is in hospital after a suicide attempt
Drama
France|UK
2000
163 Minutes
Director
Summer Phoenix Ian Holm Fabrice Desplechin Frances Barber Laszlo Szabo Emmanuelle Devos Akbar Kurtha Claudia Solti Berna Raif Paul Regan Ian Bartholomew
A Jewish girl in nineteenth century London, dreams of becoming a stage actress.
Drama
USA|France
2013
117 Minutes
Director
Benicio Del Toro Mathieu Amalric Gina McKee Larry Pine Joseph Cross Gary Farmer Michelle Thrush Misty Upham Jennifer Podemski Michael Greyeyes
soldier indian veteran emotional plains hospital tribe health blackouts transformation 1940s
A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst as they try to find a cure to his suffering.
Romance, Drama
France
2017
114 Minutes
Director
Mathieu Amalric Marion Cotillard Charlotte Gainsbourg Louis Garrel Alba Rohrwacher Laszlo Szabo Hippolyte Girardot Jacques Nolot Catherine Mouchet Samir Guesmi
filmmaker girlfriend former lover wife missing wife husband emotional tense intricate sultry passionate france beach house beach office filmmaker going home love relationships marriage
The story follows a filmmaker whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
Drama
2003
121 Minutes
Director
Sami Bouajila Jean-Paul Roussillon Wladimir Yordanoff Laszlo Szabo Anna Mouglalis Bakary Sangaré Hippolyte Girardot Anne Consigny Xavier Beja
Psychological portraits of two high-powered businessmen locked in combat and taking vengeance out on one another, whatever the cost.