Biography
Emmanuelle Bercot is a French actress, film director, and screenwriter. Bercot wrote, directed, and played a lead role in the film Clément, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Her 2013 film On My Way (Elle s'en va), starring Catherine Deneuve, premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. Her 2015 film Standing Tall (La Tête haute), also with Deneuve, was selected to open the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Also at Cannes...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Badh
2025
When police officer Ilias is shot and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her former identity as Badh, a ruthless intelligence operative and skil...

Ollie
2025
as Lisa
The story revolves around Pierre who is 13 years old when he loses his mother. He’s a shy boy who lives only for his passion: skateboarding. Thirty-so...

Baise-en-ville
2025
as Marie-Charlotte
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, ...

The Fantastic Three
2024
as Aude
Max, a witty and brave 12-year-old, feels like he has two families instead of one. In and after school, he spends all his time with his two best frien...

Game Changers
2024
as Sonia
Ten days into the competition, the International Games are a complete fiasco for the French delegation as they’ve consistently failed to win any gold ...

Making Of
2024
as Viviane
Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting to protect their factory from being relocated. But...

Abbé Pierre - A Century of Devotion
2023
as Lucie Coutaz
The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.

Sentinelle
2023
as Florence Cazeaux-Rocher
François Sentinelle has two lives. By day, he is the most famous cop of Réunion Island, known for his tough methods and flowery shirts, pursuing crimi...

Grand Expectations
2023
as Gabrielle Dervaz
Summer 2019. Just graduated from Sciences Po, Madeleine leaves to prepare the orals of the ENA in Corsica with Antoine, her lover with whom she shares...

Goliath
2022
as France
Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer f...

My Night
2022
as Isabelle
Marion faces Paris at night with a feeling of vulnerability linked to the loss of her sister. She crosses paths with Alex. Their encounter will evolve...

The Enemy
2022
as Béatrice Rondas
Prominent politician Louis Durieux is accused of having murdered his wife, found dead in their hotel room. The case blows up into an intense media sto...

The Mad Women's Ball
2021
as Jeanne
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles'...

Peaceful
2021
Writer, Director
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. T...

Jumbo
2020
as Margarette
Jeanne, a shy young woman, works as a night guard at an amusement park and has a close relationship with her mother. While no man can compete with thi...

Building Permit
2019
Build. Rebuild. Grieve. Buy a green plant.

Happy Birthday
2019
as Claire
A mother of two gathers her loved ones to celebrate her birthday in her big house near the Loire Valley. The festivities are disrupted by the arrival ...

School's Out
2018
as Catherine
Pierre Hoffman joins a prestigious school as a substitute teacher and soon notices, among some of his students, an unjustified hostility and a spark o...

Girls of the Sun
2018
as Mathilde
Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their...

150 Milligrams
2016
Writer, Director
In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She...

My King
2015
as Marie-Antoinette Jézéquel, aka 'Tony'
Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look ba...

Standing Tall
2015
Director, Screenplay
The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirele...

Turning Tide
2013
as Race doctor
Yann Madec, long-time best mate of Frank Drevil, the star skipper of Global System Insurance, sees his dream come true when he replaces the injured Fr...

On My Way
2013
Director, Writer
Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy...

La Classe américaine
2012
as Self
The story of the successful publicity campaign that made it possible for the French film The Artist (2011) to win five Academy Awards: an intimate loo...

The Players
2012
Director
Eight short films explore the subject of male infidelity. Serial cheaters, Fred and Greg, spend a night on the town doing what they do best, and with ...

Polisse
2011
as Sue-Ellen
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed ag...

Polisse
2011
Screenplay
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed ag...

Carlos
2010
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 ...

Student Services
2010
Director, Screenplay
Nineteen-year-old Laura is stressed by her first year at college when money worries distract her from her studies and so, desperate for cash, she answ...

Enfances
2007
as Orson Welles' mother
Six stories, six films that follow on from each other; this is a glance at the childhood of renowned directors whose style has marked the history of f...

Backstage
2005
Director, Writer
An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intert...

Wild Camp
2005
as Florence
A tranquil campground in rural France is the backdrop for this erotic sizzler between beautiful teenager Camille and down on his luck ex con, Blaise. ...

À tout de suite
2004
as Laurence
A girl from bourgeoisie discovers the pleasures of banditism, following her lover in his lifestyle.

Clement
2001
as Marion
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the myst...

Clement
2001
Director, Writer
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the myst...
Scénarios sur la drogue
2000
Director

One 4 All
1999
as La femme de Sam Morvan
Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the ...

La Puce
1999
Director, Screenplay
Marion is a 14-year-old girl who is on holiday with her family by the sea in Normandy. But she soon comes into conflict with her mother and siblings. ...

It All Starts Today
1999
as Madame Tievot
In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his s...

Le Choix d'Elodie
1999
Director

Class Trip
1998
as Miss Grimm
A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.

Les Vacances
1997
Writer, Director
Anne doesn't have enough money to take her daughter, Mélody, away from the small provincial town where they live for a few days during the summer holi...

The Gods Must Be Daring
1997
as La deuxième fille de l'agence
A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of the...

Inner City
1995
Pierre, a young man in his thirties, grew up with his two brothers in a city in the suburbs of Paris. He still lives there today with his wife, Debora...

Ragazzi
1991
as Emmanuelle
In this very light romantic comedy, two young men who are in search of the hypothetical perfect woman believe they have found her at a wedding recepti...
Illustre inconnue
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Le mystère Talabot
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La colonie
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Director, Screenplay
1934. Fifty-six children escape from the penal colony of Belle-Île-en-mer. Among them, only one manages not to be caught: Jules Bonneau, nicknamed La ...