The best Isabelle Adjani’s drama movies

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

27/06/1955 (68 años)
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The Tenant

The Tenant
7.6/10
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.

The Driver

The Driver
7.1/10
The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 17/01/1979
  • Character: Lucy Harker
Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/10/2007
  • Character: Self (segment "47 Ans Après")
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

Queen Margot

Queen Margot
7.4/10
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.

Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/04/2003
  • Character: Viviane Denvers
Isabelle Adjani and Gerard Depardieu star in director Jean-Paul Rappenau's amusing farce set on the eve of World War II, which follows the intersecting lives of four Parisians as they cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. As the French government braces for impact, the lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.

The Story of Adele H.

The Story of Adele H.
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 08/10/1975
  • Character: Adèle Hugo
Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of Adèle Lewly. Albert continues to reject her, but she remains obsessive in her quest to win him over.

The Repentant

The Repentant
5.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/04/2002
  • Character: Charlotte / Leïla
A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...

Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel
7.3/10
The life of Camille Claudel, a french sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.

Monsieur Ibrahim

Monsieur Ibrahim
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/09/2003
  • Character: The Star
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.

The Slap

The Slap
6.3/10
A Parisian teacher (Lino Ventura) loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.

One Deadly Summer

One Deadly Summer
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 11/05/1983
  • Character: Eliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?

The Bronte Sisters

The Bronte Sisters
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/05/1979
  • Character: Emily Brontë
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Quartet

Quartet
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1981
  • Character: Marya 'Mado' Zelli
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.

Sisters

Sisters
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/06/2021
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him reveal where their brother is. When the past catches up, the three sisters have no choice but to put their differences aside.

Carole Matthieu

Carole Matthieu
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/08/2016
  • Character: Carole Matthieu
Isabelle Adjani is Carole Matthieu – a workplace physician employed in a call centre who has become emotionally involved in the suffering of her humiliated co-workers.

Adolphe

Adolphe
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/10/2002
  • Character: Ellénore
In the nineteenth century, Adolphe, a young man of twenty four carefree years, plans to obtain favors Ellenore, a beautiful woman of thirty years, much more vulnerable. This yields to his advances and he disclaims all. But already, Adolphe loves less. Yet the idea of ​​the pain is unbearable.

All Fired Up

All Fired Up
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/01/1982
  • Character: Pauline Valance
Victor Valance a quitté Paris depuis plusieurs années, laissant derrière lui sa mère et ses trois filles, pour réaliser de sombres opérations de casinos aux Bahamas et au Canada. Sa fille ainée, Pauline, est polytechnicienne, attachée au ministre des finances, et s'occupe de toute la petite famille.

Skirt Day

Skirt Day
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/11/2008
  • Character: Sonia Bergerac
A troubled and emotionally fragile woman finds herself at the center of a firestorm, in this gut-wrenching psychological drama.

Toxic Affair

Toxic Affair
4.6/10
In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast around for another occupation. When her boyfriend leaves her, she becomes quite hysterical, conjuring up schemes for revenge, contemplating suicide, and so on. These dramatics eventually exasperate her best friend Sophie (Clementine Celarie) so much that she contemplates killing Penelope, her ex-boyfriend, or the two of them together, just to stop the whining.

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