List of the best Emmanuelle Riva movies: Hiroshima, mon amour(1959), Thomas the Impostor(1965), Amour(2012), Leon Morin, Priest(1961), C'est la vie(2001), Lost in Paris(2016), The Eyes, The Mouth(1982), Le Skylab(2011), Blue(1993), Venus Beauty Institute(1999) ... ...
Drama
France|Japan
1959
92 Minutes
Elle
Emmanuelle Riva Eiji Okada Stella Dassas Pierre Barbaud Bernard Fresson
architect actress somber bleak powerful hiroshima, japan love loss memory death war discovery love 1950s
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
Drama
France
1965
92 Minutes
Princesse de Bormes
Emmanuelle Riva Jean Servais Sophie Dares Michel Vitold Rosy Varte Bernard Lavalette Helene Dieudonne Jean-Roger Caussimon Édith Scob Gabrielle Dorziat Edouard Dermithe
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and ... See full summary »
Drama
Austria|France|Germany
2012
127 Minutes
Jean-Louis Trintignant Emmanuelle Riva Isabelle Huppert Alexandre Tharaud William Shimell Ramón Agirre Rita Blanco Carole Franck Dinara Droukarova Laurent Capelluto Jean-Michel Monroc
husband wife elderly person daughter janitor tender sad intense france apartment aging husband/wife relationship illness physical disability death sacrifice love 2010s
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Drama
France|Italy
1961
130 Minutes
Jean-Paul Belmondo Emmanuelle Riva Irene Tunc Nicole Mirel Marco Behar Patricia Gozzi Gisele Grimm Monique Bertho Marc Heyraud Nina Gregoire Monique Hennessy
communist widow mother priest daughter tense uneasy provincial town france church rectory religion world war ii unlikely friendship spirituality holocaust temptation forbidden love 1940s
Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
Comedy, Drama
France
2001
113 Minutes
Jacques Dutronc Sandrine Bonnaire Emmanuelle Riva Jacques Spiesser Annie Gregorio Maryline Canto Patrick Lizana Thierry Raso Julia Vaidis-Bogard Saïda Jawad Nathan Pavillon-Barré
Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything anymore. There he meets Suzanne, a volunteer who is dedicated to supporting people at the end of their lives.
Comedy
France|Belgium
2016
85 Minutes
Martha
Dominique Abel Fiona Gordon Emmanuelle Riva Pierre Richard Emmy Boissard Paumelle Céline Laurentie Philippe Martz Frédéric Meert
woman homeless person traveler old woman frenchman airy amusing charming paris france city eiffel tower travel discovery friendship comedy adventure discovery 2010s
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
Drama
Italy|France
1982
100 Minutes
Mother
A burned-out actor returns to his provincial hometown after his twin brother's death by suicide. While trying to make his mother believe that it was an accident, he meets the deceased's fiance, sparking a mutual attraction.
Comedy
France
2011
113 Minutes
Mme Prévost
Julie Delpy Eric Elmosnino Aure Atika Noémie Lvovsky Bernadette Lafont Emmanuelle Riva Vincent Lacoste Marc Ruchmann Sophie Quinton Valérie Bonneton Denis Menochet
grandmother first love adult emotional reunion coast celebration crash 1970s growing up 19th century
In July 1979, during the Summer holidays, in a house somewhere in Brittany, a whole family (parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and other relatives) are gathered to celebrate Granny Amandine's ... See full summary »
Drama
France|Poland|Switzerland
1993
97 Minutes
La mère
Juliette Binoche Benoît Régent Florence Pernel Hélène Vincent Philippe Volter Hugues Quester Emmanuelle Riva Julie Delpy Zbigniew Zamachowski Alain Decaux
widow friend exotic dancer mother journalist mistress touching dreamy sad passionate paris apartment nursing home hospital street france grief death starting over secrets
A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.
Comedy, Drama
France
1999
105 Minutes
Nathalie Baye Bulle Ogier Jacques Bonnaffé Mathilde Seigner Audrey Tautou Robert Hossein Édith Scob Marie Rivière Hélène Fillières Micheline Presle Emmanuelle Riva
beautician love interest coworker widower business owner witty charming paris beauty salon train station new love may-december romance relationships romance aging love transformation 1990s
Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.