Jeanne Balibar

A love story set in an eerily possible near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints.

Many noble families are locked in a chateau due to the French Revolution. The infamous Marquis de Sade is there and is generally shunned by the others. A teen-aged girl befriends him behind her parents back and learns about him and life in general. He initiates her into sexual exploration and leads her to become an independent, sexually-liberated woman. (imdb)

A romantic comedy which follows three men and three women as they become entangled in each other's lives during a brief run of a play in Paris. (Sony Pictures Classics)

The former successful forty-two years old rock star Lee Hauser is decadent and his friends blame his girlfriend Emily Wang for the fall in his career due to excessive use of drugs. Their son Jay is raised by his grandparents Albrecht Hauser and Rosemary Hauser in Vancouver. When Lee dies of overdose in a motel room, Emily is sentenced to six months in jail. She moves to Paris where she unsuccessfully struggles to keep clean. When she decides to retrieve the guard of he son, she is supported by her father-in-law and finds the necessary strength to rebuild her life. (imdb)

A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends nd lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives (imdb)

The life of Arthur, a professor living in Paris, changes when Frank comes to live on the same floor of the building where he is residing.

Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner questioning, this event - and its various consequences - also creates bonds. (imdb)

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers? (imdb)

Antoinette is the Duchess of Langeais, a married coquette who frequents the most extravagant balls in 1820's Paris during The Restoration, where hypocrisy and vanity reign.

Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side-the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that day, Camille's mother, Ariane, meets up with her son in the park. The boys appears perturbed. He is leaning against a tree, eyes cast down. He says that now he wants to return to his "real home" and his "real mother." (imdb)

Animated plastic toys like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have problems, too. Cowboy and Indian's plan to surprise Horse with a homemade birthday gift backfires when they destroy his house instead. Surreal adventures take over as the trio travel to the center of the earth. (imdb)

A throwback detective attempts to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of a young Parisian student named Rachel in this noirish mystery from director Guillaume Nicloux. His life a smoky and meaningless haze of women and seedy investigations, private eye François Maneri (Thierry Lhermitte) agrees to take the case of a missing student in an investigation that grows increasingly complex...(fandango.com)

While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them (imdb)

Documentary about Jeanne Balibar, showing three years of her life and the labor of her creative processes.

Cécile Cassard tragically lost her husband and trying to continue through her bereavement she embarks on the journey which is more psychological than physical in its nature.

In his early journals, Franz Kafka wrote frequently about his fascination with the cinema. According to Hanns Zischler, who examined Kafka's diaries and letters in his book and film of the same name, Kafka Goes to the Movies, these accounts stopped suddenly and without explanation in 1913. This film explores the many attempts since that time to adapt Kafka's writing for the screen and chronicle the relationship, imaginary or genuine, between the acclaimed writer and a revolutionary new medium.

Ellen (Jeanne Balibar) works as a flight attendant and one day she discovers that her partner Florian (Georg Friedrich) is cheating on her. She first leaves home, then unexpectedly a flight and is therefore fired. Ellen is almost broke and she doesn't want to go back home, so she becomes sort of a vagabond on her own will and starts a new way of living first in hotel rooms, then as a guest in a commune and tries to confide in strangers.

A banker has died. He trafficked in nuclear material, so French intelligence assign two agents to find his list of contacts, which are on a flash drive: Muriel - the boss, acerbic, willing to sleep with any man, wondering if she should have a child - and Philippe, younger, boyish, meticulous, bothered by Muriel's frank sexual interest. They watch Constance, the banker's widow: a naïf, friendly, open, trusting. She's taking opera lessons, so the French spies join the class, which Muriel enjoys. (imdb)

After the death of her mother Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress. In order to find her, she casts aside her boyfriend Étienne. The mistress is a pianist named Béatrice. Béatrice and Marianne strike up a friendship while reminiscing about the past. (imdb)

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s. (imdb)

Paris, during the summer, Annie, a young single doctor, does not have many patients. Her consulting-room is empty, so is her life. But soon two of them are going to worry her. Lucas suffers from AIDS, but refuses to be cured, what Annie can not understand. There is also Richard, an actor, they first met at a dinner, and now he is coming at her office, more and more often, and seems paranoid... He must be one of those doctor's nightmares, a persecuting hypochondriac... (imdb)

It explores the grieving process of a young performance artist, Lauren Hartke, following the suicide of her significantly older husband. The movie is sometimes described as a ghost story due to the appearance of an enigmatic figure that Lauren discovers hiding in an upstairs room of the house following her husband's death. (Wikipedia)

Léon returns to Dostoevsky to film an episode from The Idiot, starring Jeanne Balibar as the femme fatale Nastassia Philippovna, who finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. (themoviedb.org)

A director wants to make a biopic about the female singer Barbara.

A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris. (imdb)

Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, there is a net of family members, friends, and acquaintances who seem to swirl around the banking brothers. Frederic and Bruno are both trying to control the future of their beautiful niece, Vanessa. The coffee shop owners Eve and Jim complicate everybody's life with their intrigues and lies. (imdb)

A short film showing a rehearsal and live performance by Jeanne Balibar. Costa would go on to make a feature-length documentary with the same title and subject matter in 2009.

A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed with the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.

Stéphane joined the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, in the 93. He meets his new teammates, Chris and Gwada, and discovers the tensions between the different groups of the district.

Abstract documentary account of the 2005 Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring performances by Sonic Youth, Metric and others.

Emmanuelle Joly, mayor of Montfermeil, was elected on the background of an original political program. But the personal difficulties of the members of the municipal team rub off on the implementation of this unprecedented policy. (imdb)

A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance. (imdb)

An adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's novel "Lost Illusions". (imdb)

Jeanne and Pierre try to secure funding for their project, an adaption of Sophocles' Electra. We see excerpts of the play being performed by Balibar, Emmanuelle Béart, and Edith Scob, intercut with musical interludes of Balibar singing transcriptions of her emails. At one point she imitates a crying baby.

A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him. (imdb)

A young woman investigates a dead writer, without ever having published anything. During her journey, which brings her from Trieste to London, she meets relatives and friends of the deceased. (imdb)

Mira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and recent breakup, who comes to France to star as Irma Vep in a remake of the French silent film classic, "Les Vampires."

France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old Francoise Sagan shot to fame with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse. Flamboyant, scandalous and underrated, Sagan lived her life at the furthest edge of excess. She won and lost fortunes at the roulette table, bought and crashed superb sports cars, drank, danced and partied, leaving a trail of lovers in her wake.

A couple is no longer in love but they try to hang on despite their arguments instead of just giving up and separating (imdb)

A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.

Follows the boundary-pushing Rubinstein as she selects Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.