21 Grams 2003  R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clea DuVall, Danny Huston, Melissa Leo, Marc Musso, Teresa Delgado, Carly Nahon, Claire Pakis, Stephen Bridgewater, Nick Nichols, John Rubinstein, Denis O'Hare
This story leaps forward and backward in time featuring short moments in the lives of three strangers–Paul Rivers (Sean Penn), Jack Jordan (Benicio Del Toro), and Cristina Peck (Naomi Watts)–whose lives are forever changed by one horrific accident. Naomi Watts was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress, and Benicio Del Toro was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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The Cement Garden 1993 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrew Birkin
Cast: Andrew Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin, Sinead Cusack, Hanns Zischler, Jochen Horst, Gareth Brown, Dick Flockhart, Mike Clark
Four London siblings Jack, Julie, Sue, and Tom (Andrew Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alice Coulthard, and Ned Birkin) live alone in their concrete-walled home. First, their father died, and then their mother (Sinead Cusack) also died–she is secretly buried in the basement so that the kids can still get her allotment checks. The plot deals with the relationships between the four and how they can continue maintaining their secret.
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Happily Ever After 2004  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Yvan Attal
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat, Emmanuelle Seigner, Alain Cohen, Angie David, Anouk Aimee, Claude Berri, Aurore Clement, Kitu Gidwani, Keith Allen, Johnny Depp
Parisian 40-year-olds (Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat, and Alain Cohen) are unhappy in their current romances, and each searches in his own unique way for solutions in the war between the sexes.
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The Intruder 1999  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: David Bailey
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charles Edwin Powell, Nastassja Kinski, Molly Parker, John Hannah, Charles Papasoff, Marianne Therien, Mike Tsar, Angelo Tsarouchas, Janis Kershner
A distraught woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) enters a police station and confesses to the murder of her husband's first wife–but that wife died two years previously. The rest of this remake of "Gaslight" is told in flashbacks: after coming to the U.S. from Europe, our heroine meets and marries Nick (Charles Edwin Powell). Soon after she finds out his first wife had been murdered, strange things go on in and around their apartment. Is she going crazy?
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I'm Not There 2007 R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Julianne Moore, Kris Kristofferson, Don Francks, Roc LaFortune, Michelle Williams, Yolonda Ross, Peter Friedman, Bruce Greenwood
In this impressionistic biography of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, six actors take roles of Dylan's persona as their separate stories shift back and forth. The fictionalized stories begin with 11-year-old music prodigy Woody (Marcus Carl Franklin) and continue with 19-year-old Arthur (Ben Whishaw) who is a poet in Greenwich Village during the 1960s. Then, there is the story about socially conscious Jack (Christian Bale) and another story involves rebel actor Robbie (Heath Ledger). Cate Blanchett shines in her story impersonating Dylan as a folk-singer during his electric rock era. Finally, there is the reclusive Billy (Richard Gere) who finds sanctuary in a tiny Missouri town that is on the verge of being turned into a superhighway. Together, the characters represent roles that Dylan played during his lifetime, and the result is an enjoyable film. Blanchett received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Jane Eyre 1996 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, William Hurt, Joan Plowright, Anna Paquin, Geraldine Chaplin, Fiona Shaw, John Wood, Josephine Serre, Billie Whitelaw, Maria Schneider, Nic Knight, Nicola Howard, Sasha Graff, Amanda Root, Leanne Rowe
This is Charlotte Bronte's classic tale of the persecuted girl, Jane Eyre (Charlotte Gainsbourg), who rises in life with her heartless aunt, Mrs. Reed (Fiona Shaw), and the repressive school run by the tyrannical Mr. Brocklehurst (John Wood). Following graduation, Jane is hired to care for a young child (Josephine Serre) and is taken under the wing of the maternal Mrs. Fairfax (Joan Plowright). Jane then finds her brooding soul mate in her master, Edward Rochester (William Hurt).
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La Buche 1999 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Daniele Thompson
Cast: Sabine Azema, Emmanuelle Beart, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Claude Rich, Francoise Fabian, Christopher Thompson, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Isabelle Carre, Samuel Labarthe, Francoise Brion
When Yvette's (Francoise Fabian) second husband drops dead just before Christmas, she asks her grown children to spend Christmas with her instead of her ex-husband Stanislas (Claude Rich). Daughter Sonia (Emmanuelle Beart) immediately sets plans into action for the "perfect" Christmas–despite the fact that she is dealing with secrets, secrets, and more secrets of her sisters Milla (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and Louba (Sabine Azema).
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Lemming 2005 N/R, 129 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller
Director: Dominik Moll
Cast: Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, Andre Dussollier, Jacques Bonnaffe, Veronique Affholder, Michel Cassagne, Florence Desille, Emmanuel Gayet, Felix Gonzales
Alain and Benedicte Getty (Laurent Lucas and Charlotte Gainsbourg) invite Alain's boss Richard Pollock (Andre Dussollier) and Richard's wife Alice (Charlotte Rampling) over for dinner. The dinner sets off a series of incidents that are far from the norm–including Alice's suicide.
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Love Songs 1984  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical / Romance
Director: Elie Chouraqui
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lambert, Richard Anconina, Jacques Perrin, Nick Mancuso, Dayle Haddon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dominique Lavanant, Franck Ayas, Nelly Borgeaud, Laszlo Szabo, Inigo Lezzi
When Yves (Jacques Perrin) leaves for New York to work on a book, his wife, Margaux (Catherine Deneuve), remains behind in Paris to raise their children. While Yves is working across the Atlantic, Margaux meets and has an affair with rock singer Jeremy (Christopher Lambert). She sends the kids to New York to be with their father, but there is another problem: Jeremy's singing partner Michel (Richard Anconina) doesn't like the fact that Margaux is taking up valuable time with Jeremy. But, with success in the music world just around the corner, who will Jeremy then turn to?
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L'Effrontee 1985 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Charlotte and Lulu
Director: Claude Miller
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy, Clothilde Baudon, Julie Glenn, Raoul Billerey, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Richard Guerry, Simon de La Brosse, Cedric Liddell
Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg) has nothing to do for a month after school is out. Her friends are gone for the summer and her brother is also leaving town. Her life changes when she becomes obsessed with a younger girl, a piano prodigy, who will be having a concert in town. Though her life is no longer drab, problems lie ahead.
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 My Wife Is an Actress 2001 R, 93 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Yvan Attal
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp, Noemie Lvovsky, Laurent Bateau, Keith Allen, Jo McInnes, Ludivine Sagnier, Lionel Abelanski, Valerie Leboutte
Real-life married couple Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal star as Charlotte and Yvan–a famous actress and a sports writer. Yvan must deal with his jealousies over Charlotte's love scenes, and Ivan's suspicions hit new heights when Charlotte heads to England to costar with suave John (Terrence Stamp).
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Night Sun 1990 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Cast: Julian Sands, Nastassja Kinski, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti, Margarita Lozano, Patricia Millardet, Pamela Villoresi, Rudiger Vogler, Sonia Gessner, Tony Sperandeo, Matilde Piana, Teresa Brescianini
Based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, nobleman Sergio (Julian Sands) is to be wed (in an arranged marriage) to Cristina (Nastassja Kinski). When he finds out that she was the king's mistress, he becomes a monk–distancing himself from the outside world. But life will not be simple for Sergio as women desire him, and his reputation as a miracle-worker spreads.
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Nuremberg 2000 TV, 175 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Yves Simoneau
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox, Michael Ironside, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow, Matt Craven, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Colm Feore, Herbert Knaup
Alec Baldwin performs admirably as Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson to whom fell the responsibility of prosecuting Nazi war criminals Hermann Goring (Brian Cox), Rudolf Hess (Colm Feore), and Albert Speer (Herbert Knaup). A good reenactment of history and lessons that must never be forgotten.
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The Science of Sleep 2006 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Michel Gondry
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou, Emma de Caunes, Pierre Vaneck, Aurelia Petit, Sacha Bourdo, Stephane Metzger, Alain de Moyencourt, Inigo Lezzi, Yvette Petit
After his father dies, introverted Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal) moves to Paris where his mother (Miou-Miou) finds him a job at a calendar-making company. But, the job is not what Stephane expected, and now he falls in love with Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) who, unfortunately, does not feel the same way about him. When things go bad for Stephane, he escapes into his dream world, and, in this film, members of the audience join him in escaping from their real lives.
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| 1. 21 Grams (2003)
2. The Cement Garden (1993)
3. Happily Ever After (2004)
4. The Intruder (1999)
5. I'm Not There (2007)
6. Jane Eyre (1996)
7. La Buche (1999)
8. Lemming (2005)
9. Love Songs (1984)
10. L'Effrontee (1985)
aka: Charlotte and Lulu
11. My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
12. Night Sun (1990)
13. Nuremberg (2000)
14. The Science of Sleep (2006)
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