Biography
Bulle Ogier (born Marie-France Thielland on 9 August 1939) is a French actress. Ogier's first appearance on screen was in Voilà l'Ordre, a short film directed by Jacques Baratier with a number of the then-emerging young singers of the 1960s in France, including Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, etc. She worked with Jacques Rivette (L'Amour fou, Céline et Julie vont en bateau, Duelle, Le Pont du Nord, La Bande des Quatre), Luis Buñuel (Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the Bo...
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Complete Filmography
Both Sides of the Blade
2022
as Nelly
Jean and Sara have been living together for 10 years. When they first met, Sara was living with François, Jean’s best friend and an admirer from back ...
Wonders in the Suburbs
2020
as Delphine Souriceau
Political rivals try to sabotage a new mayor and her eccentric plans for an underprivileged French municipality.
Les murs du souvenir
2019
as Lucie Fisher
A detective captain learns that a mummy in an SS uniform has just been discovered, walled up in an old building undergoing renovation in Colmar...
The Venerable W.
2017
as Petite voix bouddhiste (voice)
A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement ...
False Confessions
2017
as Madame Argante
Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all h...
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016
as Self
In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the film’s...
Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
2016
as Self
A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual...
Encore heureux
2016
as Louise, la mère de Marie
Okay, Marie is a little tired of the insouciance of her husband Sam, framework sup unemployed for 2 years. Agree, it is very tempted to be seduced by ...
Boomerang
2015
as Blanche Rey
When Antoine returns to the island of Noirmoutier, secrets kept in the past resurfaces and threatens to change his family’s present.
Bulle Ogier sur Radio Ark en Ciel
2014
as Self
Les Déferlantes
2013
as Florelle
Holed up in a small Normandy town, Louise hides from her ghosts as she looks after grumpy old Theo, the retired lighthouse keeper who shares her passi...
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
2013
as Self
A documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
Pierre Clémenti, l'absolue liberté
2013
as Self
Marc'O, Philippe Garrel, Bulle Ogier, Jackie Raynal and others retrace the life and work of actor, filmmaker, painter and writer Pierre Clémenti.
In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter
2012
as Self
Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid died on August 5, 2006, and German filmmaker Werner Schroeter on April 12, 2010. They were close friends, and along with...
Rêves d'automne
2012
as La Mère
A man and a woman who loved each other find themselves in a cemetery. He is here to attend the funeral of his grandmother, she let herself be lured by...
Chantrapas
2011
as Catherine
A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship in...
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2010
as Self
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence h...
Rêve d'automne
2010
as The mother
A man and a woman who loved each other find themselves in a cemetery. He is here to attend the funeral of his grandmother, she let herself be lured by...
Wandering Streams
2010
as Lucie
Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe...
Another Man
2009
as Bulle Ogier
Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at ...
This Night
2009
as Doña Inês
Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The city...
La deuxième femme
2008
as Self
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see...
Souvenirs souvenirs
2008
as Self
Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.
Off and Running
2008
as Madeleine
A missed highway exit leads Darry Marzouki, an unemployed magician, to cross paths with Irène Montier Duval, a wealthy woman carrying a Hermès bag ful...
Let's Dance
2007
as Geneviève Bellinsky
In the Bellinsky family: there is Solomon the father, 80 years old, brimming with life. He is fighting not to be buried too quickly, between tap dance...
Vérités assassines
2007
as Mme Markovitch
Véra Cabral, an emergency psychiatrist, is called in to help Giselle Leguerche, who has been incarcerated for murder. The inmate, who is about to be r...
The Duchess of Langeais
2007
as Princess de Blamont-Chauvry
At a Spanish cloister, a celebrated French general of the Napoleonic Wars recognizes the voice of one of the nuns and recalls how, five years ago, she...
Belle Toujours
2006
as Séverine Serizy
38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and ma...
Gentille
2005
as Angèle
As Gentille opens, Fontaine Leglou is walking down a Paris street, and stops to confront a man whom she suspects is following her. She tells him he l...
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004
as Claude Sabrié
A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his...
Bed and Breakfast
2003
as Odile De Castellane
Tired of their stressful parisian lifestyle, Caroline and Bertrand decide to start a new life, running a traditional gîte in deepest Provence. It is n...
All the Fine Promises
2003
as Beatrice
Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress who is still alive. Her journey to find this mysterious woman takes her to places a...
Seaside
2002
as Rose
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in t...
Deux
2002
as Anna
After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.
Confusion of Genders
2000
as Laurence's Mother
Bisexual attorney Alain is bedding his female boss, his murderer client, the client's hairdresser girlfriend, and a precocious boy who knows what he w...
Venus Beauty Institute
1999
as Madame Nadine, la patronne
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliatin...
The Color of Lies
1999
as Évelyne Bordier
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive...
Shattered Image
1998
as Mrs. Ford
Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman recovering from rape and an apparent attempted suic...
Stolen Life
1998
as La dame du cimetière
Three women live together in an old rectory on the seashore. Alda lends her body to a string of carnal relationships but never commits her feelings. O...
Irma Vep
1996
as Mireille
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a...
Don't Forget You're Going to Die
1996
as Benoit's Mother
Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty, ...
Circuit Carole
1995
as Jeanne
The quiet agony of a mother whose daughter grows up to pursue her own life is chronicled in this realistically presented French drama. The Circuit Car...
Fado, Major and Minor
1995
as Katia
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in...
Son of Gascogne
1995
as Self
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because t...
See How They Fall
1994
as Louise
A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a...
Nobody Loves Me
1994
as Françoise
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister...
Bête de scène
1994
Bernard Nissille’s little gem imagines a love triangle between the director, the Queen, and the Bear during a staging of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Ta...
La mort de Molière
1994
as Madeleine Béjart
A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by Müller himself. ...
North
1992
as The mother
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for...
Adrien's Sleep
1991
Marie lives with her daughter in a large Parisian apartment. She rents a room to a student: Adrien.
Out 1
1990
as Pauline / Emilie
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
Jacques Rivette, the Watchman
1990
as Self - Actor
This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from “Cahiers du cinéma”, t...
Rupture
1989
as Joa
Joa (Bulle Ogier), an archaeologist from Mexico, comes to Paris in search of her sister Anna (Mireille Perrier), of whom she is suddenly without news....
Gang of Four
1989
as Constance
Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other girls....
Candy Mountain
1988
as Cornelia
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
The Distant Land
1987
as Genia
Vienna at the turn of the century: The industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter is a vain, self-important man who is used to taking what he wants and who enj...
My Case
1986
as Actrice n° 1
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the sc...
L'Énigme blanche
1985
as Apolline
Like every year, five old friends come together in a chalet in the middle of a Canadian snow desert. Henri, his wife Apolline, brother-in-law Maxence,...
Cheaters
1984
as Suzie
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the y...
Savannah Bay c’est toi
1984
as Self
Notre Dame de la Croisette
1983
as Mademoiselle Betty
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
Aspern
1982
as Mlle Tita
A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.
Le Pont du Nord
1982
as Marie
Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried ...
Le Pont du Nord
1982
Scenario Writer, Writer
Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried ...
Short Memory
1982
as Geneviève Derhode
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She...
Le rose et le blanc
1982
as Jeanne
Agatha and the Limitless Readings
1981
as Agatha
A man and his sister meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
Alone
1981
as Lucienne
Jean, the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his dreams...
Paris s'en va
1981
Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical tea...
L.A.X.
1980
as Narrator
Essay on the history of Los Angeles
Légitime défense
1980
as Pascale the clerk
White Journey
1980
as Various Roles (voice)
One of Werner Schroeter's most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Genet's notorious Querelle depicts the erotic adventur...
The Third Generation
1979
as Hilde Krieger
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which ...
Le Navire Night
1979
Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman, terminall...
Entire Days in the Trees
1977
as Marcelle
An old lady returns from Africa where she made a fortune to find her son in Paris, whom she has not seen in five years, with the intention of bringing...
Surreal Estate
1976
as Ariane
An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberatel...
Aussi loin que mon enfance
1976
Italy, May 1969. A woman, her fiancé and two other revolutionaries are on their way to a demonstration in Rome. The trip is an opportunity for the you...
Duelle
1976
as Viva
Two enigmatic women, Leni and Viva, separately arrive in Paris, each with a hidden but shared motive. As they navigate the city and their search prog...
Gold Flakes
1976
as Murderous soul
Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evo...
Jamais plus toujours
1976
as Claire
Claire (Bulle Ogier) returns to France following the death of her actress friend Agathe (Loleh Bellon). She attends an auction of her friend's possess...
Maîtresse
1976
as Ariane
After breaking into a house he believes is empty, thief Olivier is caught by the owner, Ariane, who turns out to be a dominatrix. Improbably falling f...
A Happy Divorce
1975
as Marguerite, Morins tidligere kone
After having been rescued from suicide, a young man is the object of a bet by his doctor that the doctor can help him recover his joy in life. Ironica...
An Angel Passes
1975
Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice, discussi...
Marriage
1974
as Janine
Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.
Céline and Julie Go Boating
1974
as Camille
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a hau...
Céline and Julie Go Boating
1974
Writer
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a hau...
La Paloma
1974
as Countess Palewski
Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dy...
Un ange au paradis
1973
as Rita
A bored undertaker, married to an ex prostitute, falls in love with a transsexual.
Private Screening
1973
as Camille
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions ...
Lovely Swine
1973
as Marie, the singer
Pierre used to be a top level football player but he quit. Now he is both a prestidigitator and a stool pigeon, benefiting from the protection of the ...
Io e lui
1973
as Irene
Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredi...
Out 1: Spectre
1973
as Pauline/Emilie
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps...
George Who?
1973
as Marie Dorval
The film depitcs the life of the French author George Sand.
'M' as in Mathieu
1973
as Coffee student
Mathieu is collected from the hospital by his wife, and dropped of at an apartment. His wife returns home to their son. The next time she sees him, he...
The Hostage Gang
1973
as Liliane Guerec Nodier
Barely out of the psychiatric hospital where he went to seek care, Gilbert Nodier commits several assaults to have some money.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972
as Florence
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a v...
The Valley
1972
as Vivian
Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route...
Appointment in Bray
1971
as Odile
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacq...
The Salamander
1971
as Rosemonde
Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde....
Sophie's Ways
1971
as Julia
Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of t...
Trap
1970
as La seconde voleuse
A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at nig...
Paulina Is Leaving
1969
as Paulina
Paulina leaves the apartment where she lives with her two brothers, Nicolas and Olivier. Her departure is mark by chaotic and sometimes brutal confron...
48 Hours of Love
1969
as Pauline
Ingmar, a young Swedish architect, is engaged to Monika but, marriage being paradoxically a serious thing in Sweden, he wants to put his future wife t...
Pierre and Paul
1969
as Martine
Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with plenty of unresolved anger. After his father's death, his mother feels compelled to move in with him. Havi...
L'Amour fou
1969
as Claire
A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.
Et crac…!
1969
as Marie
A cuckolded husband is oblivious to his fed-up wife and her lover in this farcical menage à trois.
The Idols
1968
as 'Gigi la Folle'
This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, mani...
Les Aventures de Lagardère
1968
as Mariquita
A young man, Lagardère, discovers that a plot is afoot to assassinate the Duke of Nevers. He warns him and flees with his daughter, Aurore. Fifteen ye...
Pop' game
1968
as La chanteuse du cabaret (uncredited)
Poupée and her (so-called) brother Paulo share an apartment in Paris. They dream of becoming actors. In the meantime, life goes on, nothing happens, u...
Les filous
1967
Les Bargasses
1965
A film by Marc'o