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Emmanuelle Riva

Emmanuelle Riva (24 February 1927 – 27 January 2017) was a French actress who appeared in more than 70 films throughout her career. She was best known for her role in the 2012 film Amour, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Riva died at the age of 89.

Titles credited to Emmanuelle Riva

Amour

Amour

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's...

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Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima mon amour

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1959 IMDB Rating: 7.9

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hirosh...

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Léon Morin, Priest

Léon Morin, prêtre

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1961 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to baptize her and chooses priest Léon Morin to do so. Af...

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The Passion of Bernadette

La Passion de Bernadette

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 6.5

French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (portrayed by Sydney Penny), a young shepherdess who claimed to have seen numerous apparitions...

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Skylab

Le Skylab

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6.4

It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA will fall on th...

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Lost in Paris

Paris pieds nus

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 6.3

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.

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The Eyes, the Mouth

Gli occhi, la bocca

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 6.1

A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.

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