Géraldine Pailhas

Géraldine Pailhas

1971-01-08 Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France 59 Credits

Biography

Géraldine Pailhas (born 8 January 1971 is a French actress. She had her first international success in 1995 as Doña Anna, the unfulfilled love of Johnny Depp in the comedy Don Juan DeMarco. Born in Marseille she is married to actor Christopher Thompson. She has two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Géraldine Pailhas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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A Magnificent Life

A Magnificent Life

2025

as (voice)

Acting

In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a wee...

Baise-en-ville

Baise-en-ville

2025

as Sprite's mother

Acting

Sprite, a 20-year-old young adult, returns to Chelles after a breakup. To pay for his driver’s license and please his parents, he joins Allo Nettoyo, ...

Les Malvenus

Les Malvenus

2024

as Carole

5.8
Acting

After the trial concerning the inheritance of the family farm, which pits him against his brother, Luc finally fulfills his desire to leave Paris and ...

À jamais les premiers

À jamais les premiers

2023

as Self

Acting

The story of the 1992-1993 season, when the Olympique de Marseille became the first french soccer team to win a European Cup.

The Butcher's Daughter

The Butcher's Daughter

2022

as Charly Fleury

5.3
Acting

Charly is the editor in chief of a fashion magazine. When her father dies, she inherits the family business: a butchery. Not exactly her passion in li...

Everything Went Fine

Everything Went Fine

2021

as Pascale Bernheim

6.6
Acting

When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him en...

La part du soupçon

La part du soupçon

2019

as Sophie Lancelle

6.4
Acting

Alice experiences the ordinary happiness of a mother when everything changes: the man of her life, Thomas, the father of her child, is suspected of be...

The Sower

The Sower

2017

as Marianne

5.9
Acting

In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by ...

The New Life of Paul Sneijder

The New Life of Paul Sneijder

2016

as Anna Sneijder

6.1
Acting
Mobile Étoile

Mobile Étoile

2016

as Hannah Hermann

7.0
Acting
Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

2016

as Lucette Destouches

5.8
Acting

1948 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of the France. He is accompanied by ...

Rouge

Rouge

2015

as Célia Bhy

6.5
Acting

A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is ...

Portrait of the Artist

Portrait of the Artist

2015

as L'autre Célia Bhy

5.7
Acting

A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to t...

Disappeared in Winter

Disappeared in Winter

2015

as Christine

5.9
Acting

Daniel is a former police officer turned debt collector. Now in his late fifties, he goes about his "dirty job" without emotion or sympathy. One winte...

SMS

SMS

2014

as Stéphane

4.6
Acting

At 9:00, Laurent receives a worrying text message. 9:01, his mobile's stolen. 9:30, his son disappears. 10:00, his house burns down. 10:15, his wife l...

Divin enfant

Divin enfant

2014

as Pauline

3.9
Acting

A large house surrounded by vineyards. A Christmas Eve in a very blended family turns into an absolute nightmare when the mistress of the house tells ...

La rupture

La rupture

2013

as Marie-France Garaud

6.0
Acting

Upon the sudden death of President Georges Pompidou, the French right is taken aback. Who will succeed him? It is finally Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, ag...

Young & Beautiful

Young & Beautiful

2013

as Sylvie

6.5
Acting

Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute f...

The Fall of the Male Empire

The Fall of the Male Empire

2013

as Camille

7.0
Acting

After a visit to the Natural History Museum in Paris, Simon Esich is convinced that a prehistoric man has escaped from the Evolution Gallery and is me...

It Happened in Saint-Tropez

It Happened in Saint-Tropez

2013

as Une people à Cannes soirée Melko

5.4
Acting

Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. Th...

Vanished

Vanished

2012

as Betty Gaillon

6.2
Acting

A mother of two mysteriously disappears one morning. Her husband isn't worried as they've had rough patches; his wife just wanted to give him a scare ...

Le Paradis des bêtes

Le Paradis des bêtes

2012

as Cathy Lenikart

5.2
Acting

Dominique, a formidable and possessive husband and father, manages a large pet store, the Paradis des Bêtes, with his sister. One day he goes too far ...

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

2011

as Self (archive footage)

6.0
Acting

Une nouvelle vie

2011

as Nathalie Vaillant

4.7
Acting
His Mother's Eyes

His Mother's Eyes

2011

as Maria Canalès

5.6
Acting

A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, ...

L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues

L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues

2011

7.0
Acting

They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose...

Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)

2010

as Rebecca Herry / Géraldine Pailhas

10.0
Acting

Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Slick biopic.

Bus Palladium

Bus Palladium

2010

as Prune Angelli

5.3
Acting

A comedy that follows the break-up of a French rock group.

Spy(ies)

Spy(ies)

2009

as Claire

5.5
Acting

In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terr...

Château en Suède

Château en Suède

2008

as Éléonore

Acting

In a castle, isolated in the heart of winter, lives a strange family: Hugo, in his forties; Eléonore, his wife; Aunt Agathe, Hugo's sister, an old mai...

Hikers in Saint-Tropez

Hikers in Saint-Tropez

2008

as Nadine

5.0
Acting

Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer together on t...

Didine

Didine

2008

as Alexandrine Langlois, dite Didine

6.7
Acting

Alexandrine, 35, who everyone nicknames Didine, peacefully goes with the flow, the opposite of her best friend Muriel. In this way, she one day crosse...

The Price to Pay

The Price to Pay

2007

as Caroline

5.3
Acting

Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunc...

Family Hero

Family Hero

2006

as Marianne Bensalem

4.7
Acting

A story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" ("The blue parrot"). The innkeeper, Gabriel, dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his...

Made in Paris

Made in Paris

2006

as Diane

5.6
Acting

Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermann’s loyal author and friend, reveals in his new book the affair he once...

Sur la terre comme au ciel : Making of Les Chevaliers du Ciel

Sur la terre comme au ciel : Making of Les Chevaliers du Ciel

2006

as Self

5.7
Acting
Sky Fighters

Sky Fighters

2005

as Maelle Coste

6.1
Acting

Two air force pilots prevent a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.

The Returned

The Returned

2004

as Rachel

5.7
Acting

The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate ...

Five Times Two

Five Times Two

2004

as Valérie

6.5
Acting

As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing ...

Les parallèles

2004

as Louise

4.5
Acting

Paris, today. A corrupt businessman, Duchey, returns to France to confront the justice of his country. But his return to his homeland will cause the t...

Une vie à t'attendre

Une vie à t'attendre

2004

as Claire

4.5
Acting

A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair w...

The Cost of Living

The Cost of Living

2003

as Helena

5.7
Acting

Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodig...

The Adversary

The Adversary

2002

as Christine Faure

6.6
Acting

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist J...

L'Héritière

L'Héritière

2002

as Juliette Destrac

7.0
Acting

After the death of her father, whom she never knew, a young woman finds herself at the head of a large company.

The Officers' Ward

The Officers' Ward

2001

as Clémence

7.0
Acting

The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâc...

Enchanted Interlude

Enchanted Interlude

2000

as Marie

5.5
Acting

Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series...

Peut-être

Peut-être

1999

as Lucie

5.3
Acting

Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ce...

Hikers

Hikers

1997

as Nadine

5.7
Acting

A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives.

The Son Of...

The Son Of...

1995

as Sophie

6.4
Acting

A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (Géraldine Pa...

Tom est tout seul

Tom est tout seul

1995

as Hélène

4.7
Acting

After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets ...

Suite 16

Suite 16

1994

as Helen

6.0
Acting

After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and t...

Don Juan DeMarco

Don Juan DeMarco

1994

as Dona Ana

6.7
Acting

John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric trea...

La folie douce

La folie douce

1994

as Louise

4.0
Acting

Edouard gives pieces of advice on a radio station, but when he tries to use them in real life with his friends, his skills are dubious.

Un homme à la mer

Un homme à la mer

1993

as Lena

Acting

Pierre has disappeared. His ex-wife Fanny, their daughter and Maria, "the other", go looking for him. There and at the Grand Hotel de Cabourg with a v...

Comment font les gens

1993

as Léa

Acting

Serge and Yvette are on the verge of separating. Hervé and Irene are already separated. Serge will meet Irene and Yvette will meet Hervé. Chance will ...

IP5: The Island of Pachyderms

IP5: The Island of Pachyderms

1992

as Gloria

6.1
Acting

Young graffiti artist Tony and his friend Jockey jump-start an unexpected adventure on the streets of Grenoble, France, when they steal a car that's a...

Les arcandiers

Les arcandiers

1991

as Véronique / Bernadette Soubirous

7.5
Acting

In this surreal comedy, Tonio works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands on, but he remains a poor criminal in both senses ...

Snow and Fire

Snow and Fire

1991

as Christiane Mercier

4.3
Acting

While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a signi...

Three Seats for the 26th

Three Seats for the 26th

1988

as Dancer

5.8
Acting

Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical. Once there, he searches for the barmaid...