Emmanuelle Riva
Emmanuelle Riva (February 24, 1927 – January 27, 2017) was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour and Amour.
In 2013, Riva won the BAFTA Award and the César Award for her lead role in Michael Haneke's Amour as Anne Laurent, and was nominated for the Academy Award for the same role.[2][3] She had previously been nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1960 for Hiroshima mon amour, and had won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 for Thérèse Desqueyroux.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1187 |
| Birthday | 1927-02-24 |
| Place of Birth | Cheniménil, Vosges, France |
| Also Known As | Paulette Germaine Riva, Paulette Riva, Emmanuele Riva, |
1993
Three Colors: Blue
7.634/1882
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her...
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Three Colors: Blue
2008
The Great Alibi
5.2/60
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around...
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The Great Alibi
1967
Risky Business
7.421/38
A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape her. The police and the mayor investigate, but Doucet...
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Risky Business
1959
Hiroshima Mon Amour
7.663/921
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard...
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
1997
XXL
4.571/7
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chev...
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XXL
1999
Venus Beauty Institute
5.85/137
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliatin...
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Venus Beauty Institute
2009
A Man and His Dog
5.9/25
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
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A Man and His Dog
1958
The Possessors
6.877/53
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his business a...
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The Possessors
1960
Adua and Her Friends
7.288/66
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape t...
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Adua and Her Friends
1961
Léon Morin, Priest
7.07/164
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligen...
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Léon Morin, Priest
1960
Kapo
6.92/81
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a...
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Kapo
1966
Le Coup de grâce
5.75/4
During WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face given by plastic surgery, he is back and becomes friend...
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Le Coup de grâce
2021
Trintignant by Trintignant
6.8/4
A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed Frenc...
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Trintignant by Trintignant
1962
Therese
6.667/33
Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and proper...
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Therese
2011
Skylab
6/75
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...
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Skylab
2006
My Son
6.639/18
Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a...
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My Son
2012
Amour
7.756/1772
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her fam...
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Amour
2001
C'est la vie
7.105/19
Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything anymore. There he meets Suzanne, a volunteer who is d...
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C'est la vie
1991
For Sasha
5.987/38
Israel, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two years. They are visited by Simon, Michel and Paul, three fr...
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For Sasha
1965
Thomas the Impostor
6.531/16
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacua...
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Thomas the Impostor
1973
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
6.952/21
Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convin...
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I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
1968
La forêt noire
10/1
Inspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of Hans Richter, a great German musician. Then dying, he...
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La forêt noire
1984
Liberty at Night
6.346/13
In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
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Liberty at Night
1993
A Shadow of a Doubt
6.8/5
Aline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family crisis, is set forth with remarkable restraint. The s...
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A Shadow of a Doubt
1997
Capitaine au long cours
10/1
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Capitaine au long cours
1995
God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
5.333/3
The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is ac...
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God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
2013
A Greek Type of Problem
5.8/7
"Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child. But, some forty years and four sons later, nothing is...
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A Greek Type of Problem
1990
The Passion of Bernadette
7.5/4
French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (portrayed by Sydney Penny), a young shepher...
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The Passion of Bernadette
1981
The Games of Countess Dolingen
3.3/10
This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely erotic...
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The Games of Countess Dolingen
1982
The Eyes, the Mouth
5.543/23
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.
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The Eyes, the Mouth
2013
Michael H. – Profession: Director
6.2/23
Over the past twenty-five years, director Michael Haneke has established himself as a towering figure in modern cinema whose rigorous focus on the cra...
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Michael H. – Profession: Director
2004
Eros Therapy
4.25/18
A husband wants to win back his wife, even though she has been living with her lesbian lover for six months.
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Eros Therapy
1963
The Hours of Love
5/6
In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in their marriage. Seeking rekindling, they dare to step ou...
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The Hours of Love
1972
Le Cygne
9/1
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Le Cygne
1985
Resist or the Captives of Aigues-Mortes
0/0
1730: shortly after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, women refusing to abjure Protestantism are imprisoned in the Tower of Constance. Among them...
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Resist or the Captives of Aigues-Mortes
1966
La Fin de la nuit
10/1
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La Fin de la nuit
1967
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
7/1
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Disorder Is 20 Years Old
2021
Marx Can Wait
7.313/40
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated day...
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Marx Can Wait
1987
Funny Boy
3.8/5
Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.
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Funny Boy
1962
Climates of Love
10/2
The Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity and Philippe's jealousy drive the couple apart. Philippe...
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Climates of Love
1971
Proust, l'art et la douleur
5/1
From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust. Freely intersperses documentary language with fiction, embodied in the figure of a visito...
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Proust, l'art et la douleur
1969
Safari 5000
7.25/4
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enl...
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Safari 5000
1976
The Devil in the Heart
4.857/7
It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl (but she sleeps with the dad). The young student...
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The Devil in the Heart
1983
A Man of My Measure
7/2
A tall and gangly Victoire arrives in Paris looking for the ideal French lover -- and because she stands well above many of her preceding romantic par...
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A Man of My Measure
1963
Caterina
10/1
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Caterina
1970
The Modification
8/1
While on a train to Rome, Léon muses about his love life after leaving his wife.
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The Modification
1964
The Big Hit
6.5/6
Frank Willes, a young professional footballer, is involved in a road accident from which he emerges partially crippled, having crashed into the car of...
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The Big Hit
1966
L’Or et le plomb
0/0
The story is based on Voltaire's tale "Le monde comme il va" ("The world as it is"). Sent by the genie who presides over the destiny of Persepolis (Pa...
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L’Or et le plomb
1971
Man of Desire
4.875/8
A man reevaluates his life. Étienne, a married writer, gives a lift to a young hitchhiker called Rudy who is mixed up with a gang of thugs. Étienne t...
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Man of Desire
2004
Green Paradise
9/1
Lucas, a young sociologist, finds in his home village two friends, Isabelle and Simon. Discovering that they almost got married ten years earlier, he...
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Green Paradise
2017
Lost in Paris
6.032/126
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 a...
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Lost in Paris
1974
Ariane
0/0
A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.
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Ariane
1988
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
6.611/18
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists,...
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
1960
The Eighth Day
5.917/6
Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her ta...
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The Eighth Day
1979
Les Jeunes Filles
8/1
French TV movie.
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Les Jeunes Filles
1975
Au long de rivière Fango
6.5/2
Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was Mathilde who founded her, a woman who left husband and ba...
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Au long de rivière Fango
1992
Far from Brazil
7.5/3
Since her husband left to live in Brazil years ago, Juliette has lived alone in a vast Normandy estate, with only a grumpy housekeeper, Honorine, for...
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Far from Brazil
1967
Bitter Fruit
9/1
A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of conspirators. The main characters are two sisters Soledad...
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Bitter Fruit
2012
Wide-Awake
5.8/9
Ingénues, icons, action heroes, divas and the world's next great comedy star: 13 actresses who gave the dreamiest performances of 2012.
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Wide-Awake
1960
Recourse in Grace
4.5/2
Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his...
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Recourse in Grace
1972
Gates of Fire
7.5/2
In October 1942, as an offensive was launched against Rommel's troops, a vehicle carrying a doctor and four nurses strayed into the desert. Prisoners...
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Gates of Fire
1965
I Kill, You Kill
4.571/7
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
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I Kill, You Kill
1995
Éclats de famille
8.5/2
Marguerite Mercier is a retired seamstress who lives in an old apartment.A real estate agent has come to her apartment looking for Mr. Alphonse Caron,...
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Éclats de famille
2021
Alma
5.5/2
After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 yea...
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Alma
1982
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
5.306/18
An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain an...
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Is There a Frenchman in the House?
2001
Médée
8/1
Repudiated by her husband Jason, Medea takes cruel revenge on her children.
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Médée
1995
Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent
10/1
After abandoning his poetry, from 1880 until his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud drifts between Yemen and Abyssinia as a shopkeeper, trader, explorer, a...
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Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent
1975
La mort de l'utopie
0/0
1974 saw the end of beans. The Halles were being destroyed. The extreme left was hesitating between the Molotof cocktail. The heirs of May '68 had not...
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La mort de l'utopie
2013
Making of Amour
0/0
The Making of Amour
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Making of Amour
1984
Un delitto
7/1
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Un delitto
2022
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
8.2/5
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had on...
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