Emmanuelle Devos

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, impoverished and unloved Violette Leduc (Emmanuelle Devos, Coco Before Chanel) meets Simone de Beauvoir (Sandrine Kiberlain, The Apartment) in post war Saint-Germaindes-Pres. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette’s quest for freedom through writing and on Simone’s conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer. Based on the true story of French novelist Violette Leduc, Violette is directed by Martin Provost (Séraphine).

A master perfumer hoping to revive her stagnant career meets her match in a divorced chauffeur who is desperate to maintain custody of his daughter.

Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha-colored Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she’s learned the driver lives. But sometimes the path of revenge is more tortuous than it seems. Diane will have to face another woman, friendly and mysterious.

Two outcasts are drawn together by crime and passion in this early tour de force from Jacques Audiard, a noir thriller of unique depth and emotion. Emmanuelle Devos stars as an unappreciated, hard-of-hearing employee whose lonely life gets a jolt of excitement when she hires a new assistant (Vincent Cassel), an ex-con who soon enlists her—and her lip-reading ability—in a risky scheme.

A staid professor and an ebullient graphic designer develop an unexpected friendship when they meet at the hospital where both their partners are being treated for cancer. Though they have radically different ways of coping with their difficult situations, Bertrand and Lorraine find solace in each other's company.

Working in France while his wife and kids remain in Senegal, a lonely migrant's life is further complicated when he begins an affair with a divorcée.

On the eve of his wedding, handsome playboy Arnaud just isn't ready to settle down. He loves his bride to be, Anna, but is she really the one? To make matters worse, Arnaud falls for the woman of his dreams, Lea, at his stag party. Will Arnaud risk scandal and leave the wedding behind, or honor his vow to Anna?

Take a traditional Jewish funeral whose rituals no one can quite recall. Add a Yiddishkeit community in Paris, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and top it off with an ensemble cast of dysfunctional siblings and spouses. What you get in the assured hands of director Idit Cébula (Two Lives Plus One), is the charmingly poignant French film Rue Mandar. For elder brother Charles (Richard Berry, 22 Bullets), sister Rosemonde (Emmanuelle Devos, The Other Son, Coco Before Chanel) and youngest sibling Emma (Sandrine Kiberlain, The Women on the 6th Floor), their widowed mother’s funeral marks the end of an era. Brought together after years of separation, they are soon squabbling about religious tradition, each other and what to do with their parents’ apartment at 13 rue Mandar. Rue Mandar reminds us that the messy, sometimes humorous and often bittersweet business of death can lead to new beginnings.

When a young gigolo falls under the spell of a tantalizing con artist, a devious scheme is hatched under the French Riviera's burning sun. In their pursuit of a life of luxury, will the two lovers go so far as to sacrifice the livelihoods of a former movie star and a real estate agent?

A seductive and intense noir romance for our times, FRANK & LOLA is the twisted yet irresistible story of two people locked in a battle of passion and obsession.

In this noir thriller, a streetwise Parisian is torn between the underworld of his ruthless and unscrupulous property dealer father and his late concert pianist mother. After meeting a friend of his mother, his musical ambitions are awakened and he takes piano lessons. But which side of him will win through?