Anne Alvaro — Actor (9)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
director: Julian Schnabel actor: Mathieu Amalric / Emmanuelle Seigner
other title: Lo scafandro e la farfalla / Dykkerklokken og sommerfuglen
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
Danton (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Danton
director: Andrzej Wajda actor: Gérard Depardieu / Wojciech Pszoniak
other title: Danton - O Processo da Revolução / O Caso Danton
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
City of Pirates (1984) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
La Ville des pirates
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Hugues Quester / Anne Alvaro
other title: La villa dei pirati / A Cidade dos Piratas
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
There Will Come a Day (2013) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Un giorno devi andare
director: Giorgio Diritti actor: Jasmine Trinca / Anne Alvaro
other title: Un giorno devi andare / Un jour tu dois partir
Painful family events lead Augusta to leave Italy. On a small boat, immersed in the Amazon Forest grandness, she begins a travel between Indios villages. From the favela to the isolation in the Forest, Augusta will go in search of herself.
Régime sans pain (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Régime sans pain
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Anne Alvaro / Olivier Angèle
Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music video (featuring French cult rock duo of Angèle/Maimone). Ruiz offered a counterproposal that he direct several music videos rather than one; once this deal was made, he shot enough material to interconnect the various videos until he arrived at a feature.
Vanishing Point (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Point de fuite
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Steve Baës / Rebecca Pauly
other title: Point de fuite / Fluchtpunkte
An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.
Maigret and the Dead Lover (2026) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb
Maigret et le mort amoureux
other title: Maigret et le mort amoureux / Maigret y la muerte del embajador
Commissioner Maigret rushes to the Quai d’Orsay with Lieutenant Janvier. There, they find Mademoiselle Larrieu in a state of shock. That very morning, she discovered the bullet-riddled body of Mr. Berthier-Lagès, a renowned former ambassador whom she had served as a housekeeper for 46 years. While searching the victim's apartment, Maigret and Janvier uncover hundreds of letters. The diplomat had maintained a fifty-year-long love correspondence with a certain Princess of Vuynes, whose husband — by a strange coincidence — had died just a few days earlier. As he confronts the various members of the two families and the suspicious silence of Mademoiselle Larrieu, Maigret finds himself faced with surprise after surprise, watching his certainties crumble — until the solution to the mystery finally hits him in the face at the very last moment...
Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
director: Sandra Nettelbeck actor: Michael Caine / Clémence Poésy
other title: Mister Morgan / O Último Amor de Mr. Morgan
A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.