Catch Me If You Can 2002  PG-13, 140 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams, James Brolin, Frank John Hughes, Brian Howe, Steve Eastin, Chris Ellis, John Finn
Based on a true story, FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) is on the trail of con-artist Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) who has used numerous identities to collect over $2 million from his victims. Very entertaining. Christopher Walken received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; the film was also nominated for its Musical Score.
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C'est la Vie 1990  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Diane Kurys
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Zabou, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Lindon, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Didier Benureau, Julie Bataille, Candice Lefranc, Alexis Derlon
Set in the late 1950s, this film is the final entry in Diane Kurys' autobiographical trilogy (preceded by "Peppermint Soda" and "Entre Nous"). When Lena (Nathalie Baye) decides to divorce her husband, Michele (Richard Berry), she sends her daughters to a seaside resort and joins them later. As the girls learn life's lessons, Lena starts an affair with a young man, Leon (Jean-Pierre Bacri). The fun lifestyle ends when Michel arrives on the scene.
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Day for Night 1973  PG, 116 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Comedy
Director: Francois Truffaut
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Baye, Dani, Jean Champion, Maurice Seveno, David Markham, Bernard Menez
This film provides an excellent satire on the art of filmmaking. While filming at the Victorine Studio in Nice, chaos reigns on the set, which is filled with personal dilemmas as well as technical problems. At the center of all the turmoil is the director, Ferrand (Francois Truffaut), who attempts to keep his cast in line at least long enough to complete the project. The cast includes temperamental Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Leaud), emotionally unstable Julie (Jacqueline Bisset), closet homosexual Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), alcoholic Severine (Valentina Cortese), and pregnant Stacey (Alexandra Stewart)–all of whose problems affect Ferrand's effort to keep the filming on track. Winner of Best Foreign Film Academy Award.
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Detective 1985 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Claude Brasseur, Johnny Hallyday, Stephane Ferrara, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Alain Cuny, Eugene Berthier, Cyril Autin, Julie Delpy
New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard sets this story in the elegant Hotel Concorde at St. Lazare, France, where a variety of characters seek love, money owed them, or even the solution to a murder mystery. The plot is confusing, but the feel is pure Godard.
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The Flower of Evil 2003 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Benoit Magimel, Melanie Doutey, Suzanne Flon, Bernard Le Coq, Thomas Chabrol, Henri Attal, Kevin Ahyi, Francoise Bertin, Jerome Bertin, Caroline Baehr, Francois Maistre
Murder and genteel corruption come to the fore when Anne (Nathalie Baye)–a member of the wealthy, but dishonored, Charpin-Vasseur family–runs for mayor of a town in the Bordeaux region of France.
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La Balance 1982  R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Nark
Director: Bob Swaim
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Philippe Leotard, Richard Berry, Bernard Freyd, Christophe Malavoy, Jean-Paul Comart, Maurice Ronet, Albert Dray, Florent Pagny, Tcheky Karyo
Police employ brutal tactics to force Parisian prostitute Nicole (Nathalie Baye) and her racketeer pimp, Dede (Philippe Leotard), to become informers and help breakup a drug syndicate.
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 The Man Who Loved Women 1977 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Francois Truffaut
Cast: Charles Denner, Leslie Caron, Nelly Borgeaud, Genevieve Fontanel, Brigitte Fossey, Nathalie Baye, Jean Daste, Valerie Bonnier, Sabine Glaser, Henri Agel
This movie starts with a funeral and then focuses on a bachelor who is obsessed with women–and they seem to return his passions. Another good Truffaut film.
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Two People 1973 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Peter Fonda, Lindsay Wagner, Estelle Parsons, Alan Fudge, Philippe March, Frances Sternhagen, Geoffrey Horne, Nathalie Baye
On his way home to give himself up as a Vietnam War deserter, Evan Bonner (Peter Fonda) meets and falls in love with a model, Diedre McCluskey (Lindsay Wagner).
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Venus Beauty Institute 1999 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Tonie Marshall
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffe, Mathilde Seigner, Audrey Tautou, Robert Hossein, Elli Medeiros, Micheline Presle, Emmanuelle Riva
Madame Nadine (Bulle Ogier) and her employees–Angele (Nathalie Baye), Samantha (Mathilde Seigner), and Marie (Audrey Tautou)–at the Parisian Venus Beauty Institute make their customers feel better about themselves. But, at the same time, the beauticians suffer their own psychological ups and downs running the gamut from casual sex to jealousy to suicide. This film received four Cesars (French Oscars) for Best Picture, Screenplay, Director, and Young Actress.
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| 1. An Affair of Love (1999)
2. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
3. C'est la Vie (1990)
4. Day for Night (1973)
5. Detective (1985)
6. The Flower of Evil (2003)
7. I Married a Shadow (1982)
8. La Balance (1982)
aka: The Nark
9. The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
10. The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
11. Two People (1973)
12. Venus Beauty Institute (1999)
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