List of the best Patrice Chéreau movies: Queen Margot(1994), Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train(1998), Intimacy(2001), Gabrielle(2005), Danton(1982), Lucie Aubrac(1997), Time of the Wolf(2003), Adieu, Bonaparte(1985), The Last of the Mohicans(1992) ... ...
Drama, History
France|Italy|Germany
1994
143 Minutes
Director
Isabelle Adjani Daniel Auteuil Jean-Hugues Anglade Vincent Perez Virna Lisi Dominique Blanc Pascal Greggory Claudio Amendola Miguel Bosé Asia Argento Julien Rassam
heiress king catherine de medici husband lover brother striking gripping france household palace political unrest arranged marriage family bloodline royalty political intrigue religious wars forbidden love pursuit 16th century
Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.
Drama
France
1998
122 Minutes
Director
Pascal Greggory Jean-Louis Trintignant Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Charles Berling Bruno Todeschini Sylvain Jacques Vincent Perez Roschdy Zem Dominique Blanc Nathan Cogan Marie Daëms
painter mourner friend lover teenager train passenger somber passionate gritty limoges, france cemetery train car paris death painful memories love-hate relationship journey relationships grief
Friends of a recently deceased minor painter Jean-Baptiste take a train in Paris for Limoges, where he wished to be buried, and all the people on the train have their problems.
Drama
France|UK|Germany|Spain
2001
119 Minutes
Director
Mark Rylance Kerry Fox Timothy Spall Alastair Galbraith Philippe Calvario Marianne Faithfull Susannah Harker Rebecca Palmer Joe Prospero
lover stranger emotional house paris affair curiosity forbidden love
A failed London musician meets once a week with a woman for a series of intense sexual encounters to get away from the realities of life. But when he begins inquiring about her, it puts their relationship at risk.
Drama
2005
90 Minutes
Director
Isabelle Huppert Pascal Greggory Claudia Coli Thierry Hancisse Chantal Neuwirth Thierry Fortineau Louise Vincent Clément Hervieu-Léger Nicolas Moreau Rinaldo Rocco Xavier Lafitte
writer wife engaging fiery intricate charming household paris infidelity marital problems romance love sacrifice temptation discovery 1920s
A fractured couple (Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory) mercilessly analyze their marriage after the wife leaves her husband for her lover, then goes back to him.
Drama, History
France|Poland
1982
136 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Wojciech Pszoniak Patrice Chéreau Anne Alvaro Roland Blanche Emmanuelle Debever Krzysztof Globisz Ronald Guttman
leader revolutionary wife robespierre intense fascinating paris france power struggle revolution political coup injustice historical events georges danton fall rivalry 1790s
In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
War
France
1997
116 Minutes
Carole Bouquet Daniel Auteuil Patrice Chéreau Jean-Roger Milo Eric Boucher Heino Ferch Bernard Verley Jean Martin Andrzej Seweryn Grégoire Oestermann Hubert Saint-Macary
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband, and the ... See full summary »
Drama
France|Austria|Germany
2003
113 Minutes
Isabelle Huppert Maurice Bénichou Lucas Biscombe Patrice Chéreau Béatrice Dalle Anaïs Demoustier Daniel Duval Olivier Gourmet Rona Hartner Florence Loiret-Caille Brigitte Roüan
mother father daughter son stranger boy bleak brooding gripping europe countryside train station death apocalypse violence survival escape fall 21st century
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Drama, History
Egypt|France
1985
113 Minutes
Michel Piccoli Mohsen Mohiedine Mohamed Atef Patrice Chéreau Christian Patey Mohsena Tewfik Hassan Husseiny Claude Cernay Gamil Ratib Ahman Abdel Asiz Farid Mahmoud
A story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradintion and modernization in the context of fighting the French invadors.
Romance, Adventure, Drama, History, War
USA
1992
114 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Madeleine Stowe Russell Means Eric Schweig Jodhi May Steven Waddington Wes Studi Maurice Roeves Patrice Chéreau
sister frontiersman colonel native american traitor brother thrilling powerful melodramatic new york state fort wilderness waterfall indian village adirondack mountains brotherhood changing times loyalty cross-cultural romance abduction
Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.