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Karin Viard

Karin Viard

French actress
January 24, 1966 (58 years old)
Fr. 2023. Sentimental comedy by Philippe Lefebvre with Franck Dubosc, Karin Viard, Clotilde Courau. Noting his wife's depression after thirty years of living together, a man undertakes to rekindle the flame by pretending to leave her.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2023. Drama by Isabelle Brocard with Karin Viard, Ana Girardot, Cédric Kahn. In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sevigné came into conflict with her daughter, brilliant and independent like her.
Runtime: 93 min.

Strangers By Night

V.O.: Une Nuit
Fr. 2023. Sentimental drama by Alex Lutz with Alex Lutz, Karin Viard, Jérôme Pouly. A man and a woman who don't know each other argue in a crowded metro, make love on the way out and then spend a night together in Paris.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2023. Drama by Virginie Sauveur with Karin Viard, François Berléand, Maxime Bergeron. A diocesan chancellor tries to understand how and with what complicity a woman has been able to pass herself off as a priest all those years.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2022. Sentimental comedy by Lauriane Escaffre, Yvo Muller with Karin Viard, Grégory Gadebois, Noée Abita. Assigned to the School of Fine Arts, a discreet cleaning lady, a poet at heart, discovers a new space of freedom with the whimsical janitor of the establishment.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2021. Drama by Olivier Peyon with Karin Viard, Stéphane Bak, Yumi Narita. In March 2011, as the Fukushima nuclear power plant threatens to explode, a French bank executive in Tokyo must choose between her work and her family.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2021. Thriller by Marc Fitoussi with Karin Viard, Benjamin Biolay, Lucas Englander. In Vienna, an expatriate woman of modest origins is ready to do anything to save her marriage, which has been damaged by the infidelity of her conductor husband.
Runtime: 108 min.

Dear Mother

V.O.: L'Origine du monde
Fr. 2021. Comedy by Laurent Lafitte with Laurent Lafitte, Karin Viard, Vincent Macaigne. When his heart stops beating, Jean-Louis must face his Oedipus complex— and ask his mother an unthinkable question — or risk dying in three days.‏
Runtime: 98 min.

An Ordinary Mother

V.O.: Une Mère
Fr. 2021. Drama by Sylvie Audcoeur with Karin Viard, Darren Muselet, Samir Guesmi. After a chance encounter with the abuser of her dead 17-year-old son, a mother doubts her plans for revenge as she slowly gets to know the young man.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 2019. Psychological drama by Lucie Borleteau with Karin Viard, Leïla Bekhti, Antoine Reinartz. When their second child is born, a young Parisian couple hires an attentive and devoted nanny who exhibits increasingly strange behaviours.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2018. Psychological drama by Andréa Bescond, Éric Métayer with Andréa Bescond, Carole Franck, Karin Viard. A contemporary dancer tells a psychologist about the sexual assaults she suffered at the age of nine by her parents’ best friend.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 2017. Dramatic comedy by David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos with Karin Viard, Dara Tombroff, Anne Dorval. Unable to understand her unhappiness, a divorced teacher begins to envy the happiness of others sowing doubt and sadness around her.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2016. Fantasy comedy by Jean-Marie Poiré with Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Franck Dubosc. A medieval knight and his servant attempt to leave the era of the French Revolution, where they were stranded after two eventful stopovers in the 1990s.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2015. Comedy by Julie Delpy with Julie Delpy, Dany Boon, Vincent Lacoste. In Paris, a computer programmer from the provinces becomes the target of his new wife
Runtime: 99 min.

Families

V.O.: Belles familles
Fr. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Paul Rappeneau with Mathieu Amalric, Marine Vacth, Gilles Lellouche. While trying to get the sale of the family home approved, a businessman meets the daughter of his late father
Runtime: 113 min.
Fr. 2015. Comedy by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu with Isabelle Carré, Karin Viard, André Dussollier. An uptight woman comes to bury her mother in a mountain village and is led into crazy adventures by a friend of the deceased.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Anne Le Ny with Karin Viard, Emmanuelle Devos, Roschdy Zem.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Belier Family

V.O.: La Famille Bélier
Fr. 2014. Comedy by Éric Lartigau with Louane Emera, Karin Viard, François Damiens. A sixteen-year-old girl discovers a gift for singing that could lead her away from her parents and brother, who are all Deaf.
Runtime: 105 min.

Weekends

V.O.: Week-ends
Fr. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Anne Villacèque with Karin Viard, Noémie Lvovsky, Ulrich Tukur. The habits of two couples, friends and neighbors for the past nearly thirty years, are disrupted when one of the husbands leaves his wife.
Runtime: 90 min.

Love is the Perfect Crime

V.O.: L'Amour est un crime parfait
Fr. 2013. Thriller by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu with Mathieu Amalric, Maïwenn, Karin Viard. In Lausanne, a professor of literature with a reputation for seducing his students begins an affair with one of their young mother-in-laws, who has gone missing.
Runtime: 111 min.
Fr. 2013. Dramatic comedy by Solveig Anspach with Karin Viard, Bouli Lanners, Claude Gensac. After failing a job interview in a coastal town, a timid mother takes an impromptu vacation from her domineering husband.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 2011. Political drama by Antoine de Caunes with Karin Viard, Jonathan Zaccaï, André Wilms.
Runtime: 105 min.

My Piece of the Pie

V.O.: Ma part du gâteau
Fr. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Cédric Klapisch with Karin Viard, Gilles Lellouche, Audrey Lamy. A single mother gets a job as a cleaning lady for a stockbroker responsible for the relocation to China of the factory in which she works.
Runtime: 109 min.
Fr. 2011. Social drama by Maïwenn with Karin Viard, Marina Foïs, JoeyStarr . The daily life of the police officers of a Parisian youth protection brigade, from the point of view of a photographer doing a report for the Ministry of the Interior.
Runtime: 127 min.
Fr. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Pierre Pinaud with Karin Viard, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Nadia Barentin. A talk show host, savvy on the air but stuck in life, tracks down her biological mother, who lives in a working-class neighbourhood.
Runtime: 89 min.

Nothing to Declare

V.O.: Rien à déclarer
Fr. 2010. Police comedy by Dany Boon with Dany Boon, Benoît Poelvoorde, Julie Bernard. In 1992, a French customs officer volunteers to participate in a mixed flying squad with a Francophobe Belgian colleague, whose sister he is secretly in love with.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 2010. Comedy by François Ozon with Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini, Gérard Depardieu. The CEO of an umbrella factory who, having gone on sick leave, discovers that his idle wife has succeeded him and finds a new vocation.
Runtime: 103 min.

My Father's Guests

V.O.: Les Invités de mon père
Fr. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Anne Le Ny with Karin Viard, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Aumont. An eighty-year-old man causes conflict among his two children by marrying a Moldavian immigrant threatened with deportation.
Runtime: 94 min.

Change of Plans

V.O.: Le Code a changé
Fr. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Danièle Thompson with Karin Viard, Dany Boon, Marina Foïs. Various incidents will upset the lives of the guests at a dinner party organized by an ambitious lawyer and her unemployed husband.
Runtime: 100 min.

Hikers in Saint-Tropez

V.O.: Les Randonneurs à Saint-Tropez
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Philippe Harel with Karin Viard, Géraldine Pailhas, Vincent Elbaz. Four Parisian friends on vacation on the French Riviera reconnect with their former Corsican guide, a jet-setter who shows them the joys of Saint-Tropez.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2008. Dramatic comedy by Cédric Klapisch with Romain Duris, Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini. In Paris, the intertwined fates of men and women of diverse social and ethnic backgrounds.
Runtime: 130 min.
Fr. 2008. Dramatic comedy by Diane Bertrand with Karin Viard, Stefano Accorsi, Valérie Benguigui. Torn by a late desire for motherhood, an executive in her early forties sets out to persuade her lover who absolutely does not want children.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Maïwenn with Maïwenn, Jeanne Balibar, Romane Bohringer. A filmmaker decides to film the intimacy of eleven actresses for a documentary on the various facets of their profession.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2007. Psychological drama by Bernard Campan with Bernard Campan, Karin Viard, Jean-Hugues Anglade. A forty-year-old man feels that his wife is slipping away from him and does not understand why.
Runtime: 93 min.

True Enough

V.O.: La Vérité ou presque
Fr. 2007. Mores comedy by Sam Karmann with Karin Viard, André Dussollier, François Cluzet. In Lyon, the emotional trials and tribulations of a gay writer, a television hostess and the members of their entourage.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2007. Sentimental comedy by Catherine Corsini with Karin Viard, Éric Caravaca, Jacques Weber. After becoming the lover of a publisher who rejected his manuscript, a writer draws inspiration for his next novel from her family history.
Fr. 2006. Psychological drama by Carine Tardieu with Karin Viard, Chloé Coulloud, Kad Merad. In order to help her mother recover from chronic depression, a teenage girl tries to find her childhood sweetheart.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2005. Social drama by Costa-Gavras with José Garcia, Karin Viard, Olivier Gourmet. Unemployed for two and a half years, an ex-manager decides to kill the five unemployed people who have the same qualifications as him.
Runtime: 122 min.
Fr. 2005. Dramatic comedy by Christian Vincent with Karin Viard, Gérard Lanvin, Brieuc Quiniou. The trials and tribulations of two divorced individuals who have chosen to move in together with their respective children.
Runtime: 88 min.

Hell

V.O.: L'Enfer
Fr. 2005. Psychological drama by Danis Tanovic with Emmanuelle Béart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain. Marked by their father's suicide, three sisters come together when a man makes a terrible revelation to one of them.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2004. Comedy by Josiane Balasko with Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte, Karin Viard. As he prepares to marry his young publicist, a writer sees his ex-wife, eight months pregnant, come into his life.
Fr. 2004. Thriller by Thomas Vincent with François Cluzet, Karin Viard, Bernard Giraudeau. A writer in need of a publisher agrees to kill the wife of a popular colleague who, in exchange, will sign his next novel.
Runtime: 107 min.

Role of her Life

V.O.: Le Rôle de sa vie
Fr. 2004. Dramatic comedy by François Favrat with Agnès Jaoui, Karin Viard, Jonathan Zaccaï. The life of a small-time journalist is turned upside down when she becomes the personal assistant to her favorite movie actress.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2003. Mores comedy by Tonie Marshall with Karin Viard, François Cluzet, Judith Godrèche. As their home shopping business is threatened by competition, a couple feels their marriage faltering.
Runtime: 92 min.

See how They Run

V.O.: Embrassez qui vous voudrez
Fr. 2002. Mores comedy by Michel Blanc with Michel Blanc, Charlotte Rampling, Carole Bouquet. The love affairs of three families and their friends in a wealthy seaside resort.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 2001. Mores comedy by Marion Vernoux with Karin Viard, Hélène Fillières, Victor Lanoux. Over 24 hours, four people experience all kinds of annoyances.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2001. Fantasy by Laurent Tuel with Karin Viard, Charles Berling, Camille Vatel. A young mother suspects her two children of being possessed by evil spirits.

Time Out

V.O.: L'Emploi du temps
Fr. 2001. Psychological drama by Laurent Cantet with Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet. A father who has hidden his recent job loss from those around him gets trapped in a vicious circle of lies.
Runtime: 132 min.
Fr. 1999. Psychological drama by Solveig Anspach with Karin Viard, Laurent Lucas, Philippe Duclos. A young musician, pregnant with her first baby, learns that she has breast cancer.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Enchanted Interlude

V.O.: La Parenthèse enchantée
Fr. 1999. Moral study by Michel Spinosa with Vincent Elbaz, Clotilde Courau, Karin Viard. In the midst of sexual liberation, five friends experience a variety of emotions and heartbreaks as they move into adulthood.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1998. Comedy by Michel Hazanavicius with Yvan Attal, Serge Hazanavicius, Karin Viard. Discovering in the early hours of the morning that their overnight partner is dead, a producer and a television actor decide to hide the body and go to work.
Fr. 1998. Sentimental comedy by Catherine Corsini with Karin Viard, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Catherine Frot. A single woman in her thirties falls madly in love with a family man, whom she will do anything to win over.
Fr. 1997. Mores comedy by Philippe Harel with Philippe Harel, Benoît Poelvoorde, Karin Viard.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1997. Dramatic comedy by Christian Vincent with Jackie Berroyer, Tara Römer, Karin Viard. After a thirty-year absence, a comedian returns to his home town, where he is the subject of a celebration that turns sour.
Runtime: 99 min.
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Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 1995. Mores comedy by Christine Pascal with Karin Viard, Vincent Cassel, Richard Berry.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1994. Psychological drama by Christian Vincent with Daniel Auteuil, Isabelle Huppert, Jérôme Deschamps.
Runtime: 88 min.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1993. Dramatic comedy by Xavier Durringer with Gérald Laroche, Karin Viard, Antoine Chappey.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1992. Crime drama by Claire Devers with Christophe Lambert, Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Marielle. A young thug joins an old retired hitman whom he is hired to kill.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 1992. Comedy by Cédric Klapisch with Fabrice Luchini, Antoine Chappey, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. The new manager of a Parisian department store encourages group activities among employees who have always ignored each other.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1992. Crime drama by Bertrand Van Effenterre with Bruno Cremer, Michel Bouquet, Bruno Wolkowitch. While staying in a small port town, Inspector Maigret catches a judge disposing of a man's corpse.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1991. Comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro with Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Douniac. In a ravaged suburb, a young janitor befriends the daughter of the disturbing butcher who owns the building.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1990. Satire by Étienne Chatiliez with Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty. A cantankerous little old lady who scares off all the people hired to take care of her comes across a janitor who doesn't take kindly to it.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1989. Crime drama by Jean-Paul Sassy with Jean Richard, André Penvern, François Perrot. Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a former singer found in the trunk of a car that was fished out of a canal.
Runtime: 90 min.

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