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Sylvie Testud

Sylvie Testud

French actress, film director, writer and screenwriter
January 17, 1971 (53 years old)
Can. 2024. Drama by Brigitte Poupart with Monia Chokri, Julianne Côté, Sara Montpetit. Before resorting to assisted dying, an 18-year-old girl summons her two sisters, still traumatized by the actions of their father, convicted of rape.
Fr. 2023. Biography by Virginie Verrier with Garance Marillier, Émilie Dequenne, Alban Lenoir. The exceptional life and career of Marinette Pichon, French professional soccer star.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Isabelle Mergault with Sylvie Testud, Lambert Wilson, Josiane Balasko. Suffering from back pain, an illustrious writer, soon to be admitted to the Académie française, consults a female healer who changes his life.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2019. Comedy by Bertrand Blier with Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Farida Rahouadj. A bourgeois and a homeless man wander through the streets of Brussels, following the meta script that dictates their behaviours.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 2019. Comedy by James Huth with Christian Clavier, Ramzy Bedia, Sylvie Testud. Four celebrities are invited by the host of a reality show to stay with an African tribe living isolated from the modern world.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 2018. Crime drama by Nicolas Cuche with Sylvie Testud, Michaël Youn, Hugo Becker. Accused of the murder of his fiancée, a young man defends himself by claiming that his twin brother is the culprit.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 2017. Dramatic comedy by Stanley Tucci with Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy. While in Paris in 1964, American writer James Lord agrees to pose for Arturo Giacometti only to regret it later as the temperamental painter drags out their sessions.
Runtime: 90 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. 2016. Comedy by Diane Kurys with Sylvie Testud, Josiane Balasko.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2016. Comedy by Jean-Michel Ben Soussan with Jimmy Labeeu, Sophie Mousel, Charles Berling. Waiting for the hip German pen pal who will make him popular at his high school, a timid teenager instead sees a goth girl arrive, who will make his life hell.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 2015. Drama by Yves Angelo with Sylvie Testud, Grégory Gadebois, Mathilde Bisson. A lawyer from Toulon secretly helps a defendant that his wife, an examining magistrate, has discovered to be the mother of the boy they adopted 14 years earlier.
Runtime: 103 min.

24 Days

V.O.: 24 Jours, la vérité sur l'affaire Ilan Halimi
Runtime: 110 min.

French Women

V.O.: Sous les jupes des filles
Fr. 2014. Comedy by Audrey Dana with Audrey Dana, Vanessa Paradis, Alice Belaïdi. In Paris, during a hormonal cycle of twenty-eight days, the tribulations and intertwined meetings of eleven women with very different profiles.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 2014. Drama by Magaly Richard-Serrano with Freddy Kimps, Finnegan Oldfield, Sylvie Testud. Two nineteen year old friends, passionate about hip hop, prepare for an important dance audition.
Fr. 2013. Drama by Diane Kurys with Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Nicolas Duvauchelle. In the 1980s, a filmmaker investigates a post-war photograph showing her mother and sister posing with a man who is not her father.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2013. Drama by Éléonore Faucher with Sylvie Testud, Bruno Todeschini, Bulle Ogier. On a stormy day, a birdwatcher taking refuge on the Cotentin coast meets a mysterious man.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2013. Thriller by Frédéric Schoendoerffer with Gérard Lanvin, Niels Arestrup, Sylvie Testud. Forced under threat to get a criminal out of jail, a police commissioner is kidnapped by the mobster who wants to know the name of the man that betrayed him three years earlier.
Runtime: 96 min.

Another Woman's Life

V.O.: La Vie d'une autre
Fr. 2012. Sentimental comedy by Sylvie Testud with Juliette Binoche, Mathieu Kassovitz, François Berléand. When she wakes up one morning, a forty-year-old business person discovers that she has no memory of the past fifteen years.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2012. Crime drama by Philippe Setbon with Sylvie Testud, Loup-Denis Elion, Micky Sébastian. After having new hands transplanted, her own having been crushed in an accident, a famous violinist falls prey to strange phenomena.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2012. Comedy by Joël Franka with Dave, Patrick Timsit, Sylvie Testud.
Runtime: 95 min.

Rebellion

V.O.: L'Ordre et la morale
Fr. 2011. War drama by Mathieu Kassovitz with Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi. In May 1988 in New Caledonia, the head of an elite unit tries to prevent an assault on Kanak independence fighters who have taken French gendarmes hostage.
Runtime: 136 min.
Fr. 2010. Drama by Raphaël Jacoulot with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Rottiers, Ludmila Mikaël. His son involved in a fatal hit-and-run, the owner of a hotel in the mountains pays special attention to a trainee he suspects knows their secret.
Runtime: 101 min.

Louise Michel, la rebelle

V.O.: Louise Michel
Fr. 2010. History by Solveig Anspach with Sylvie Testud, Nathalie Boutefeu, Alexandre Steiger. Deported in 1873 to New Caledonia after the failure of the Commune, a revolutionary woman takes up the cause of the natives in revolt against the bloodthirsty colonists.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Joël Séria with Sylvie Testud, Balthasar Dejean De La Bâtie, Jean-François Balmer. In the late 1940s, an unloved and rambunctious child is sent to a boarding school where his strict teacher, who believes in his potential, helps him get his certificate.
Runtime: 95 min.
Can. 2009. Comedy by Robert Ménard with Pierre Richard, Rémy Girard, Sylvie Testud. A Parisian professor and his daughter inherit an inn in a village in the Saguenay region, that is coveted by a devious local mayor.
Runtime: 108 min.

Vengeance

V.O.: Fuk Sau
H.-K. 2009. Crime drama by Johnnie To with Johnny Hallyday, Sylvie Testud.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 2009. Dramatic comedy by James Huth with Jean Dujardin, Daniel Prévost, Alexandra Lamy. Appointed by the president of the United States to pacify his hometown before the arrival of the railroad, Lucky Luke is challenged after accidentally killing one of his enemies.
Runtime: 104 min.
Autr. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Jessica Hausner with Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Bruno Todeschini.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 2009. Chronicle by Éléonore Faucher with Amira Casar, Sylvie Testud, Zoé Duthion. Raised with her two sisters by her Italian mother, a little girl from Lyon dreams of finding her father, of whom she has only a photo stolen from her mother's closet.
Runtime: 107 min.

The Round Up

V.O.: La Rafle
Fr. 2009. History by Roselyne Bosch with Hugo Leverdez, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh. In July 1942, in Paris, the lives of thousands of Jewish families were turned upside down following a roundup organized by the German occupiers in concert with the Vichy regime.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2008. Biography by Diane Kurys with Sylvie Testud, Pierre Palmade, Lionel Abelanski. The tumultuous life and career of the writer Françoise Sagan, from her first novel published in 1954 to her death in 2004 at the age of 69.
Runtime: 180 min.
Fr. 2008. Biography by Diane Kurys with Sylvie Testud, Pierre Palmade, Jeanne Balibar. The tumultuous life and career of the writer Françoise Sagan, from her first novel published in 1954 to her death in 2004 at the age of 69.
Runtime: 121 min.
Fr. 2007. Thriller by Laurent de Bartillat with Sylvie Testud, James Thierrée, Jean-Pierre Marielle. An art history student investigates the identity of a mysterious woman shown from behind in several paintings by Antoine Watteau.
Runtime: 82 min.

La Vie en rose

V.O.: La Môme
Fr. 2007. Biography by Olivier Dahan with Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory. The tumultuous life and career of French singer Edith Piaf, who died in 1963 at the age of 47.
Runtime: 140 min.
Fr. 2007. War drama by Serge Bozon with Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Verdier. During the 14-18 war, a French woman disguised as a boy joins soldiers in the hope of finding her husband who has left for the front.
Runtime: n/d

It's Our Life!

V.O.: La Vie est à nous!
Fr. 2005. Comedy by Gérard Krawczyk with Sylvie Testud, Josiane Balasko, Eric Cantona. In a Savoyard village, the rivalry between two shopkeepers is exacerbated by a truckers' strike.
Runtime: 100 min.

Tomorrow We Move

V.O.: Demain on déménage
Fr. 2004. Comedy by Chantal Akerman with Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Marielle. When her father dies, an author of erotic novels is forced to take in her mother, who gives piano lessons at home.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2004. Psychological drama by Alain Corneau with Sylvie Testud, Sergi Lopez, Camille Gauthier. A young woman who is voluntarily illiterate enrolls her mute daughter in a school for the deaf and dumb that is run by a life-weary teacher.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2003. Thriller by René Manzor with Lambert Wilson, Sylvie Testud, Frédéric Diefenthal. A police officer and a psychiatrist struggle to solve the mystery surrounding the identity and motives of a schizophrenic serial killer.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Alain Corneau with Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Taro Suwa. An interpreter of Belgian origin hired by a large Tokyo company is subjected to various humiliations by her superior.
Runtime: 105 min.

All For the Money

V.O.: Tout pour l'oseille
Fr. 2003. Comedy by Bertrand Van Effenterre with Bruno Putzulu, Sylvie Testud, Laurent Lucas. A group of broke guys rob a rich con artist who has embezzled money from a charity.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 2003. Comedy by Pierre Jolivet with Sandrine Kiberlain, Sylvie Testud, Vincent Lindon. A young shoe-thief befriends an uptight investigating judge and helps her in her investigations.
Runtime: 83 min.

Life Kills Me

V.O.: Vivre me tue
Runtime: 89 min.

A Loving Father

V.O.: Aime ton père
Fr. 2002. Psychological drama by Jacob Berger with Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu, Sylvie Testud. On his way to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize, a writer is intercepted by his son who wants to settle old disputes with him.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 2001. Dramatic comedy by Manuel Poirier with Sergi Lopez, Marilyne Canto, Sylvie Testud. Married and a father to three children, a man who was tempted by infidelity must bring home the daughter he had with a former mistress.

The Chateau

V.O.: The Château
U.S. 2001. Dramatic comedy by Jesse Peretz with Paul Rudd, Sylvie Testud, Romany Malco. Two young Americans who have inherited an old French castle are greeted coldly by the servants who live there.
Runtime: 91 min.

Murderous Maids

V.O.: Les Blessures assassines
Fr. 2000. Psychological drama by Jean-Pierre Denis with Sylvie Testud, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Isabelle Renauld. In 1933, two incestuous sisters working as maids come to murder their bosses.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 2000. Drama by Chantal Akerman with Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy. Consumed by jealousy, a young man sequesters the one he loves in his apartment.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 1998. Mores drama by Thomas Vincent with Sylvie Testud, Amar Ben Abdallah, Clovis Cornillac. During the carnival in Dunkirk, the young wife of a security guard has a brief affair with a beur mechanic.
Runtime: 88 min.

Les Raisons du coeur

V.O.: Flammen im Paradies
Suis. 1997. Mores drama by Markus Imhoof with Élodie Bouchez, Laurent Grévill, Sylvie Testud. In 1912, a wealthy European woman on her honeymoon swaps identities with a humble linen maid promised to a Swiss missionary living in India.
Runtime: 105 min.

Beyond Silence

V.O.: Jenseits der Stille
All. 1996. Psychological drama by Caroline Link with Sylvie Testud, Tatjana Trieb, Howie Seago.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1994. Mores drama by Didier Haudepin with Élodie Bouchez, Melvil Poupaud, Sophie Aubry. A student tries to discover the reasons behind a brilliant colleague's suicide.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1993. Mores drama by John Lvoff with Marie Bunel, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Todeschini. The erosion of a couple of yuppies comfortably installed in a beautiful apartment in Lyon.
Runtime: 99 min.

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