Marie-Christine Barrault

Marie-Christine Barrault

1944-03-21 Paris, France 96 Credits

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Marie-Christine Barrault (born 21 March 1944) is a French actress. She is best known for her performance in Cousin Cousine (1975) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she released her autobiography, titled This Long Way To Get To You. Marie-Christine Barrault was born in Paris, France, the daughter of Martha (née Valmier) and Max-Henri Barrault. Her parents later divorced. Barrault's father, who worked in the theatre, died while she was a teenager. With n...

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La maman du bourreau

La maman du bourreau

2025

as Gabrielle de Miremont

Acting
The Ties That Bind Us

The Ties That Bind Us

2025

as La mère de Sandra et Marianne

7.2
Acting

A young single father trying to find the strength to love. A feminist librarian, single by conviction, who’s decided that she won’t be a mother. A six...

Per il mio bene

Per il mio bene

2024

7.3
Acting
Oldies But Goodies

Oldies But Goodies

2024

as Mme. Courtillet

5.2
Acting

As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation ...

Tout sauf l’ennui

Tout sauf l’ennui

2023

as Marie-Christine Barrault

6.0
Acting
Et doucement rallumer les étoiles

Et doucement rallumer les étoiles

2023

as Geneviève

8.6
Acting
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

2023

as Komura's Mother (voice)

7.0
Acting

A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tok...

George et Sarah

George et Sarah

2020

as George Sand

Acting
Zénon the Rebel

Zénon the Rebel

2019

as Self - Narrator

Acting

Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in André Delvaux’s film, p...

Deux gouttes d'eau

Deux gouttes d'eau

2018

as Elisabeth Davout

6.1
Acting

A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé. But he has an identical twin brother. The de...

All About Mothers

All About Mothers

2018

as Jacqueline

5.3
Acting

They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits, or lo...

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

2017

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

Les brumes du souvenir

Les brumes du souvenir

2017

as Alice Blondel

6.0
Acting
Twisting Fate

Twisting Fate

2016

as Jeanne

5.0
Acting

17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By ...

Mademoiselle de la Charce

Mademoiselle de la Charce

2016

1.0
Acting
The Easy Way Out

The Easy Way Out

2015

as Nelly

5.1
Acting

Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress ...

Toi que j'aimais tant

Toi que j'aimais tant

2014

as Hélène Maupin

6.1
Acting
Sleight of Hand

Sleight of Hand

2014

as Sophie Marescot

5.2
Acting

Arnaud Marescot has a penchant to steal small objects. When his compulsive fixation targets Emilie, and he thinks he's in control over her, it's alrea...

My Name Is Hmmm...

My Name Is Hmmm...

2013

as La grand-mère

5.5
Acting

Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a "luminous journey" in his beautiful red truck. She, escaping her desperate and incestuous father; h...

Domestic Life

Domestic Life

2013

as Nicole

5.6
Acting

Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their f...

The Big Bad Wolf

The Big Bad Wolf

2013

as La mère

5.3
Acting

Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering a...

Memories of a Disturbed Young Lady

Memories of a Disturbed Young Lady

2010

as The Gynecologist

4.7
Acting

Lola is still a virgin at the age of twenty-five. Her friends decide to stick their noses into it. Memoirs of a Disturbed Young Lady is the story of a...

Making Plans for Lena

Making Plans for Lena

2009

as Annie

5.6
Acting

Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her ...

Trivial

Trivial

2007

as Mélanie Bérangère

4.2
Acting

An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is he...

Passés troubles

2006

as Béatrice

1.0
Acting

A former police officer, Marc Lorca, sees his wife die from a terrible car accident, which occurred while he was driving. Previously alcoholic, Lorca ...

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

2005

as Self

7.0
Acting

This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant ...

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens

2005

as Self

10.0
Acting

Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual...

Parlez-moi d'amour

Parlez-moi d'amour

2004

as Élisa

Acting

Elisa, 65, has felt very lonely since her husband passed away 10 years ago. So she decides to rent a room in her residence to Clémentine, a young stud...

Saint-Germain ou La négociation

Saint-Germain ou La négociation

2003

as Chaterine de Médicis

6.7
Acting

This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the religions wars between catholics and protestants in Fran...

Azzurro

Azzurro

2000

as Elizabeth Broyer

7.1
Acting

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, ...

La Dilettante

La Dilettante

1999

as Thérèse Rambert

5.9
Acting

Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzer...

Le grand Batre

Le grand Batre

1997

as Thérèse

Acting

The story of a family and a tradition that remain the same despite the time going by, in a land that has existed for centuries. In La Camarga, one of ...

Obsession

Obsession

1997

as Ella Beckmann

4.0
Acting

Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about...

Un coup de baguette magique

Un coup de baguette magique

1997

as Jeanne

Acting

Jeanne, Achille, and their family belong to the middle class. They have their own house. Their marriage has not always gone smoothly, but they both ma...

Love, Math and Sex

Love, Math and Sex

1997

as La prof de maths

4.8
Acting

A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.

Mon père avait raison

Mon père avait raison

1996

as Germaine Bellanger

Acting

After being abandoned by his wife, a man raises his son alone for twenty years.

Tendre piège

1996

as Françoise

Acting

The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives.

Bonsoir

Bonsoir

1994

as Marie Wileska

3.6
Acting

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himse...

Crazy Love

Crazy Love

1993

as Louise

6.0
Acting

A young girl who has been orphaned, meets a man who has recently escaped from an insane asylum. The two pretend to be father and daughter and after fa...

Jenny Marx, la femme du diable

1993

as Jenny Marx

Acting
Next Time the Fire

Next Time the Fire

1993

as Elena

Acting

The study of semantics has convinced Amedio that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on ...

Necessary Love

Necessary Love

1991

9.2
Acting

In the 19th century Europe, an aging scheming couple decides to manipulate and seduce a couple of young newlyweds in love, just for the fun of it.

Marie Curie, Une Femme Honorable

1991

Acting

Documentary about the tumultuous life of the famous scientist Marie Curie.

Gallant Ladies

Gallant Ladies

1990

as Jacquette de Bourdeille

3.3
Acting

Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century...

Stormy Summer

Stormy Summer

1989

as Anne

1.0
Acting

Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arriv...

The Silent Woman

1989

as Marianne

Acting

French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.

Women in Prison

Women in Prison

1988

as La surveillante chef

3.8
Acting

Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow m...

The Student

The Student

1988

as Self (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.

L'Énigme des sables

L'Énigme des sables

1988

Acting

A team of amateur filmmakers sets off, camera in hand, to the south of Morocco. During their stay, one of the members of the group, Fanette, a vulgar ...

Sanguines

Sanguines

1988

as Nedie

2.0
Acting

A new gardener arrives at the superb property of a French cultural attaché in Portugal. This frail young man does not have the head nor the figure for...

The Abyss

The Abyss

1988

as Hilzonde

5.4
Acting

The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe unde...

Adieu, je t'aime

Adieu, je t'aime

1988

as Nicole Dupré

3.0
Acting

A wife struggles with her husband's infidelity with another man and eventually gives herself to both of them.

The Lizard King

1988

as Beatrice Aumond

Acting

A woman travels from France to Australia in search of her missing son.

Daniya, the emir's garden

1988

as Almodís

Acting

Daniya is the story of a trip. A man of culture and resolute, the younger brother of the Countess of Barcelona, leaves the Catalan court for the kingd...

Manuela's Loves

Manuela's Loves

1987

as Manuela

3.1
Acting

The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a protegee.

Vaudeville

1986

as Madeleine

4.0
Acting

The husband, the wife and the lover. The husband is tired of playing the eternal husband. The wife would like to live a last love story. The lover, se...

L'été 36

1986

as Lise

1.0
Acting

In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vacation.

The Satin Slipper

The Satin Slipper

1986

as La lune

7.2
Acting

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. M...

Power Of Evil

Power Of Evil

1985

as Sylvie

5.0
Acting

An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.

A Better Life

A Better Life

1985

as Véronique's mother

3.5
Acting

Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and ...

Pianoforte

Pianoforte

1985

as La mère de Maria

5.0
Acting

Maria studies at the university while her boyfriend Paolo is an established journalist. Both are drug addicts. Maria and Paolo try to detox with the h...

Pianoforte

Pianoforte

1985

as Andrea

5.0
Acting

Maria studies at the university while her boyfriend Paolo is an established journalist. Both are drug addicts. Maria and Paolo try to detox with the h...

Louise... l'insoumise

Louise... l'insoumise

1985

as Mme Royer

5.5
Acting

While watching the others on her TV screen, Louise becomes a rebellious girl.

Swann in Love

Swann in Love

1984

as Madame Verdurin

5.6
Acting

In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes, i...

A Love in Germany

A Love in Germany

1983

as Maria Wyler

4.9
Acting

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what...

Les mots pour le dire

Les mots pour le dire

1983

as Eliane Saint-Jean

6.5
Acting

A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria...

Table for Five

Table for Five

1983

as Marie

5.5
Acting

J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a fr...

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi

1983

as Jeanne

Acting

Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.

Mir reicht's - ich steig aus

Mir reicht's - ich steig aus

1983

as Jane

Acting

The intelligent Linda, daughter of Joseph and Jane, takes a critical view of her parents' marriage. Her father's dominant behavior and her mother's in...

L'amour trop fort

L'amour trop fort

1981

as Rose-Marie de Boisel

6.6
Acting

Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose...

Stardust Memories

Stardust Memories

1980

as Isobel

6.9
Acting

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme

Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme

1980

as Eva

4.0
Acting
My Dearest

My Dearest

1980

as Jeanne Rivière

4.0
Acting

Jeanne has been divorced for seven years now and her life is centered around Sarah, her fifteen year-old daughter. They appear to have a perfectly har...

Woman Between Wolf and Dog

Woman Between Wolf and Dog

1979

as Lieve

5.6
Acting

Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly re...

Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen

Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen

1979

as Self

6.0
Acting

Woody Allen's interview with France Roche.

Perceval

Perceval

1978

as La Reine Guenevievre

7.3
Acting

The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes fr...

Histoire vraie

Histoire vraie

1978

as Rose

Acting

A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.

The Savage State

The Savage State

1978

as Laurence Laurençon

6.2
Acting

L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of bo...

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

1978

as Patricia

6.8
Acting

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He re...

Le Chandelier

Le Chandelier

1977

as Jacqueline

Acting

Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André...

Cousin, Cousine

Cousin, Cousine

1975

as Marthe

6.1
Acting

Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to t...

John Glückstadt

1975

as Hanna Hansen

5.0
Acting

Adapted from the novel Die Döppelgänger by Theodor Storm, this black-and-white drama tells the tragic story of a war veteran who, in 1860, returns to ...

Le tour d'écrou

Le tour d'écrou

1974

as Miss Jessel

7.0
Acting

A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, ...

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

1972

as Lady Chiltern

10.0
Acting
Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon

1972

as Dream Sequence

7.3
Acting

Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In th...

Figaro-ci, Figaro-là

Figaro-ci, Figaro-là

1972

as Julie

Acting
Menace

Menace

1972

as Francoise

1.0
Acting

An esteemed surgeon, Charles Bernard, and his family are victims of a violent home invasion. When his young child is held for ransom, Charles must de...

Le sagouin

Le sagouin

1972

as Léone

Acting

In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a lif...

Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu

Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu

1971

as The mother

Acting

An evocation, realistic and poetic at the same time, of Proust's work " in which he is locked up as in the room ". Halfway between the audiovisual ada...

Le Misanthrope

Le Misanthrope

1971

as Célimène

Acting
Lancelot of the Lake

Lancelot of the Lake

1970

as Reine Guinevere

Acting

This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round...

Distracted

Distracted

1970

as Lisa Gastier

6.0
Acting

A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur

1970

as La sœur

Acting
My Night at Maud's

My Night at Maud's

1969

as Françoise

7.7
Acting

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly ...

L'empreinte de l'ange

N/A

as La mère suprême

6.0
Acting

La Vie d'une Femme

N/A

Acting

The life of Gabrielle, head of surgery in Paris, married, childless