Biography
Zabou Breitman (born Isabelle Breitman; 30 October 1959), or simply Zabou, is a French actress and director. She is the daughter of actors Jean-Claude Deret and Céline Léger. At the age of four, she appeared in her first movie. Since 1981, Zabou has acted in dozens of roles in films, TV movies, and theaters. She made her directoral debut in 2001 with Se souvenir des belles choses, for which she won a César Award for Best Debut. In 2012, she participated in Rendez-vous en terre inconnue. Zabou h...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Better Me
2026
Alex, a quiet forty-something, leads an ordinary life until new neighbours move in. The husband is Alex’s perfect lookalike… except for one thing: he ...
La Bonne étoile
2025

No Signal!
2025
It is about two young step-siblings spending the weekend with their parents in a lodge in a remote forest who accidentally film two bumbling criminals...

Angels & Co.
2025
as Séraphine
Paul and Léa should never have met. But ever since, they've been irresistibly drawn to each other. Raphaëlle and Gabriel, two angels who are complete ...

Cassandre
2025
as Mère
Summer 1998. Countryside. Cassandre is 14. Her parents and older brother notice that her body has changed.

The Boy
2025
Director, Screenplay
Actress-director Zabou Breitman embarks on an unusual adventure: imagining the life of a boy discovered in an old photo from an album bought at a flea...

Merci Dorothée !
2025
as Self
A spectacular evening hosted by Nikos Aliagas to honor the legendary Dorothée, who shaped the childhood of millions in France. Today’s stars, who grew...

Start Me Up
2024
A grandfather decides to launch a childcare business alongside a bitter divorcee who is also an aging game show icon trying to make a comeback.

Super Papa
2024
as Sylvie
For the 8th birthday of his son Gaby, Tom, unwittingly offers him a book ... which contains only blank pages. Faced with Gaby's disappointment and in ...

14 Days to Feel Better
2024
as Clara
Maxime, an ambitious and Cartesian executive, thinks only of his career and his future marriage to Nafège, the daughter of his boss. On the verge of b...

All Because of the Cat
2023
as Laure
Laure and Daniel welcome their friends for the yearly holidays in their country home, but their cat’s disappearance soon makes old secrets resurface.

The Grand Restaurant IV
2022
For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for ...

Murder Party
2022
as Emmanuelle
Jeanne, a brilliant architect has a new assignment: renovate the sumptuous Daguerre mansion owned by an eccentric family, head of a Board Game empire....

Logiquimperturbabledufou
2021
Director, Writer
It's a crazy story. A happy journey to the epicenters of madness, the show parades portraits of a humanity of bipolar, paranoid and lost of all kinds...

The Devil Inside
2020
as Catherine
Catherine Borowiak, 50 years old, is the head of a conditional release agency. Being in charge of 20 years old Hugo's case, recently released from jai...

Encore un peu de patience mon amour
2020
Alice has wanted a child for a long time. Gabrielle just never thought about it. After seven years together they are finally getting started. Appointm...

La Dame de chez Maxim
2020
Stage Director
Doctor Petypon, a respectable doctor, partied until early morning at Maxim's. His best friend discovers him asleep at noon under an overturned sofa. F...

The Swallows of Kabul
2019
Director, Screenplay
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. ...

Poor Bastards
2019
Poor Bastards is a sketch film, written by twelve authors. Mirror or projection, poor bastards have fun with everyday facts and do not tell a story, b...

Dad Friend
2018
as Christelle
Stéphane defers his frustration at not having had a son on his sons-in-law. So when her younger daughter decides to leave a rugby player than the idol...

Mr & Mme Adelman
2017
as La directrice de l'école d'Arthur
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals...

La Loi de Pauline, mauvaise Graine
2017
as Maître Pauline
Pauline, a fifty-year-old woman going through a divorce, starts a career as a lawyer, but her first cases end in disaster. She is assigned to a case o...

He Even Has Your Eyes
2017
as Claire Mallet
Paul is married to Sali. Everything would be fine if they could get a child. Until the day when Sali receives the call that they have been waiting for...

Box 27
2016
as Patricia
Circumstances have forced a father and his young son to live in a garage box, but they have been spotted by someone.

Baden Baden
2016
as Ana's Mother
Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough...

Après moi le bonheur
2016
as Véronique
A dying woman is fighting to choose a new family to keep her four children together, after she's gone.

Arrête ton cinéma !
2016
as Ingrid
Sybille, an accomplished actress, is given the chance to direct a film based on her own screenplay. Everything seems to go well at first. Her producer...

Thank You for Calling
2015
as Inspecteur Moretti
Biography based on the life of conman Gilbert Chikli who invented the "CEO scam" and was able to persuade bank and company officers to transfer money ...

All Three of Us
2015
as Mère de Fereshteh
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolut...

Our Futures
2015
as La mère de Yann
Yann who is trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to cope with his life generally and especially bereavement decides to look up Thomas, his best friend from ...

Among Friends
2015
as Astrid
Three longtime friends set off on a boat trip with their romantic partners, but inclement weather, jealousy and confessions, will put to test their fr...

Discount
2014
as Sofia Benhaoui
To fight against the introduction of automatic checkouts that threaten their jobs, staff members at Hard Discounts secretly create their own "Alternat...

24 Days
2014
as Ruth Halimi
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the ...

Darling Trap
2014
as Clémence Garnier
Clémence is pathologically jealous. Gabriel has asked her to marry him. To test whether he is faithful, unbeknownst to him she arranges that he crosse...

Le Système Ribadier
2013
Director

The Big Bad Wolf
2013
as Victoire
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...

Pieces of Me
2013
as Christine
A crazy father old before his time, a tyrannical, sick mother, a sister who disappeared four years ago and me, Erell, who films everything, all the ti...

True Friends
2013
as Stéphanie
The bonds of a 30-year friendship are tested when Walter's 20-year-old daughter, Clemence, falls in love with his friend Paul.

On the Other Side of the Tracks
2012
as Morland
Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.

Les Enfants de la Pop 80's
2012
as Self (archive footage)

The Minister
2011
as Pauline, communications director
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no ...

Titeuf
2011
as Maman (voice)
Titeuf is a comic series created by Swiss draughtsman Zep (real name Philippe Chapuis) depicting the life of a young boy (the title's namesake Titeuf,...

No and Me
2010
as Lou's mother
At thirteen-years-old, with an unusually high IQ and a knack for observing things about other people, Lou Bertignac is not only the youngest in her cl...

No and Me
2010
Director, Screenplay
At thirteen-years-old, with an unusually high IQ and a knack for observing things about other people, Lou Bertignac is not only the youngest in her cl...

Notre Dame des Barjots
2010
as Véra Cabral

Retour en terre inconnue
2009
as Self

The Ordinary People
2009
as Christine Barbieri
The Muller company organizes a reception to mark the launch of a new product. During the evening, we discover that this is actually a coaching exercis...

Someone I Loved
2009
Screenplay, Director
One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his ...

The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
2008
as Narrator (French version) (voice)
In the remote and forgotten wilderness of Lake Natron, in northern Tanzania, one of nature's last great mysteries unfolds: the birth, life and death o...

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
2008
as Marie-Jeanne Duval
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.

Crossfire
2008
as Commissaire Vasseur
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The d...

Vérités assassines
2007
as Véra Cabral
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 Man of My Life
2006
Screenplay, Director
A man vacationing in the country with his wife and children finds ideas he has of himself unexpectedly challenged.

La vie privée des animaux
2005
as (voice)

The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
as Edith Rance
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shoc...

L'Hiver sous la table
2005
Director

Narco
2004
as Paméla
Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best f...

Almost Peaceful
2002
as Léa
Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restar...

L'héroïque cinématographe
2002
The Heroic Cinematographer discusses the relationship between war and cinema beginning in the Civil War.

À l'abri des regards indiscrets
2002
as La joueuse
January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square, in Paris. 23 amazing characters will be meeting ...

Bécassine - Le Trésor Viking
2001
as Loulotte (voice)
Known and loved by generations of children, Pinchon's classic Bécassine is now a feature-length movie. A cross between Mary Poppins and Mr Bean, Bécas...

Beautiful Memories
2001
as Marie Bjorg
Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her...

Beautiful Memories
2001
Director, Screenplay
Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her...

L'inconnue du Val-Perdu
2001
as Martine

Blue Away to America
1999
as Anna
The victim of a serious accident, Camille finds himself in a strange, huge, rehabilitation centre run by Professor Helpos. He soon teams up with a gro...

My Little Business
1999
as Nathalie
A wood worker is trying hard to make his company survive every day... But a fire in his workshop leaves him in a lot of trouble when he realizes his i...

Le double de ma moitié
1999
as Cécile / Suzy
With the help of a hidden twin sister, a couturier tries to take revenge on his wife who cheats on him with his partner.

Ça reste entre nous
1998
as Marie
Martin Lamotte made his directorial debut with this French comedy. Building contractor Patrick is unaware that Helene, his wife for 15 years, intends ...

Proper Attire Required
1997
as Catherine Sperry
His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He applied for unemployment benefits and now faces char...

Kitchen with Apartment
1993
as Martine
Jacques and Martine, an ordinary bourgeois couple, invite to dinner a friend whom they have not seen the last ten years. Since then he has become a me...

Just Before the Storm
1993
as Mathilde
In this somewhat literary exploration of the meaning of romance, loosely based on the works of Henry James, five modern-day couples gather at a countr...

The Crisis
1992
as Isa Barelle
Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family m...

588 rue Paradis
1992
as Astrid Setian
A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He n...

Crimes et jardins
1991
as Viviane
Suzanne is a former singer but also a seductress in her sixties. During a reunion meal with the former musicians of the orchestra that accompanied her...

Toujours seuls
1991
as Isabelle
A large family crams into a three-room flat in a drab suburb.Twelve people ,soon joined,out of the blue, by the prodigal son, released from jail.To ma...

Une époque formidable
1991
as Interviewer
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne,...

Blanval
1991
as Emma
August 1917. Two pilots whose aircraft was shot down by the Germans hide in a castle. They meet Justin, the employee, who has just killed his master.

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991
as Carole Ribéra
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

Promotion canapé
1990
as Carole
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

C'est La Vie
1990
as Bella
A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a ...

Moitié-moitié
1989
as Sarah
A man and a woman quarrel over an old building, a heritage they share. Their opposing characters make the situation conflictual.

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
1989
as Hélène Parnet
Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When ...

La Travestie
1988
as Nicole Armingaud
Nicole is a female attorney who is frustrated with the male-dominated world of provincial law. She embezzles money from a law firm and travels to Pari...

Dandin
1988
as Angélique
Claude Brasseur stars in this cinemadaptation of the Moliere play Georges Dandin, ou le mari confondu. Written in 1668, the play has been somewhat dwa...

Fucking Fernand
1987
as une prostituée
A bombing raid makes travelling companions of a blind man, Fernand, and Antoine, a criminal. Fernand is a virgin and is depending on his new friend to...

Le Beauf
1987
as Marylin
Gilbert, assigned to incinerate old banknotes at the Bank of France, lives with his wife, Gisèle, and his young son, Thomas. A few years earlier, he h...

Make It Mine
1986
as Odile
Loïc, a chestnut seller, has a mistress who wants a baby. Not daring to admit to her that he had the mumps late in life, he finds other excuses. Until...

États d'âme
1986
as Hélène
In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is ...

Follow My Gaze
1986
as L'handicapèe
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. A...

Billy Ze Kick
1985
as Juliette Chapeau
Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads to his daughter. Soon three girls turn up murdered...

Shadey
1985
as Hotel Maid
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thought...

One Woman or Two
1985
as Constance Michoux
An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologis...

Gwendoline
1984
as Beth
A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless but...

Banzaï
1983
as Sophia, de l'agence de voyages, l'amie d'Isabelle
Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. ...

The Party 2
1982
as Catherine, Philippe's ex
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have al...

Elle voit des nains partout !
1982
as Blanche-Neige
La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire d...
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