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Zabou Breitman

Zabou Breitman

French actress and film director
October 30, 1959 (65 years old)
Fr. 2024. Documentary by Zabou Breitman, Florent Vassault. Director Zabou Breitman imagines the life of a boy who appears in a vintage photo found in a flea-market album.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 2022. Police comedy by Nicolas Pleskof with Alice Pol, Pablo Pauly, Miou-Miou.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 2019. Animation by Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec. Under the Taliban regime in Kabul, a female prison guard comes to the aid of a young painter who is about to be executed for the accidental murder of her husband.
Runtime: 81 min.
Fr. 2019. Drama by Christian Faure with Zabou Breitman, Yvon Back, Maxence Danet-Fauvel. A correctional agency director puts her family at risk after starting an affair with a manipulative young parolee.
Runtime: 93 min.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 2015. Social drama by Arnaud Sélignac with Éric Elmosnino, Marius Blivet, Zabou Breitman. A social worker works to prevent an unemployed widower from being separated from his ten-year-old son who lives with him in an underground parking lot with no water or electricity.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2015. Thriller by Pascal Elbé with Vincent Elbaz, Julie Gayet, Zabou Breitman. A scammer pretends to be a bank manager on the phone to convince employees to embezzle large sums of money in the name of fighting money laundering.
Runtime: 98 min.

24 Days

V.O.: 24 Jours, la vérité sur l'affaire Ilan Halimi
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2013. Sentimental comedy by Catherine Castel with Audrey Fleurot, Zabou Breitman.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 90 min.

Incompatibles

V.O.: De l'autre côté du périph
Fr. 2012. Comedy by David Charhon with Omar Sy, Laurent Lafitte, Sabrina Ouazani. A suburban cop and a homicide captain must work together to solve the murder of a powerful boss's wife.
Runtime: 95 min.

Sincerely Yours

V.O.: Amitiés sincères
Fr. 2012. Dramatic comedy by Stéphan Archinard, François Prévôt-Leygonie with Gérard Lanvin, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Wladimir Yordanoff. An honest Parisian restaurant owner who is very attached to his twenty-year-old daughter and his two best friends has his illusions shattered when he discovers they have been lying to him.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 2011. Animation by Zep.
Runtime: 87 min.

The Minister

V.O.: L'Exercice de l'État
Fr. 2011. Political drama by Pierre Schoeller with Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman. The French Minister of Transport sees his rise held back by a controversial project aimed at privatizing the rail sector.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 2010. Drama by Arnaud Sélignac with Zabou Breitman, Catherine Jacob, Aladin Reibel. An emergency psychiatrist tries to prove the innocence of the son of a colleague, found in the midst of a psychotic delirium next to a murdered young woman.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2010. Psychological drama by Zabou Breitman with Nina Rodriguez, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Antonin Chalon. In order to help her, an introverted high school student invites a homeless girl with a rebellious streak to move in with her.
Runtime: 105 min.

Someone I Loved

V.O.: Je l'aimais
Fr. 2009. Sentimental drama by Zabou Breitman with Daniel Auteuil, Marie-Josée Croze, Florence Loiret-Caille. In order to console his daughter-in-law who has just left her husband, a sixty-year-old man tells her about an affair he had 20 years earlier.
Runtime: 112 min.

Crossfire

V.O.: Les Insoumis
Fr. 2008. Crime drama by Claude-Michel Rome with Richard Berry, Pascal Elbé, Zabou Breitman. Rejecting his superior's lax policy, an upstanding police officer investigates various cases of car theft and drug trafficking.
Runtime: 100 min.

First Day of the Rest of Your Life

V.O.: Le Premier Jour du reste de ta vie
Fr. 2008. Dramatic comedy by Rémi Bezançon with Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman, Marc-André Grondin. The life of a middle-class family, in five important moments between 1988 and 2000.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2007. Psychological drama by Arnaud Sélignac with Zabou Breitman, Michèle Bernier, Maher Kamoun. A psychiatrist tries to reason with an inmate who killed a guard on the eve of her release and took a baby hostage.
Runtime: 190 min.
Fr. 2006. Psychological drama by Zabou Breitman with Bernard Campan, Charles Berling, Léa Drucker. While on vacation in the country, a married chemist and family man falls in love with his neighbor who is a graphic designer.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2004. Comedy by Tristan Aurouet, Gilles Lellouche with Guillaume Canet, Zabou Breitman, Benoît Poelvoorde. A dishonest shrink tries to steal the work of a narcoleptic who transforms his dreams of being a fearless hero into beautiful comic books.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2002. Mores drama by Michel Deville with Simon Abkarian, Lubna Azabal, Zabou Breitman. In 1946, the employees of a small garment factory in the Jewish quarter of Paris are struggling to resume a normal life after the war.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 2001. Dramatic comedy by Zabou Breitman with Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, Bernard Le Coq. A young woman suffering from frequent memory loss falls in love with a widower with a painful past, who she met in a nursing home.

My Little Business

V.O.: Ma petite entreprise
Fr. 1999. Comedy by Pierre Jolivet with Vincent Lindon, François Berléand, Roschdy Zem. The owner of a burned down carpentry shop organizes a break-in at the offices of his insurance company to modify his policy that was invalidated by a scheming broker.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1999. Comedy by Yves Amoureux with Bernard Giraudeau, Zabou Breitman, Marc Lavoine. His wife cheats on him with his partner, a famous Parisian fashion designer sets out to get revenge with the help of his wife's wild twin sister.
Runtime: 93 min.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1997. Mores comedy by Marc Angelo with Zabou Breitman, Sam Karmann, Audrey Tautou.
Runtime: 92 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1994. Psychological drama by Jean-Paul Salomé with Zabou Breitman, Christian Charmetant, Michel Robin. A thirteen-year-old girl struggles to help her mother who has fallen into alcoholism.
Runtime: 84 min.
Fr. 1992. Satire by Coline Serreau with Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Zabou Breitman. Fired from his job the same day his wife leaves him, a lawyer tries in vain to confide in friends and relatives.
Runtime: 96 min.

Kitchen with Apartment

V.O.: Cuisine et dépendances
Fr. 1992. Mores comedy by Philippe Muyl with Zabou Breitman, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui. A bourgeois couple who receive friends for dinner, including a former comrade who became a celebrity, sees the evening turn sour.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1992. Mores comedy by Jean-Luc Trotignon with Zabou Breitman, Martin Lamotte, Chick Ortegua. The relatives of a murdered kingpin fight over his fortune.
Runtime: 90 min.
Bel. 1991. Sentimental drama by Michel Mees with Zabou Breitman, Wladimir Yordanoff, Michel Feller. In August 1917, a young washerwoman is the object of desire of the steward of the castle where she is staying, a Canadian airman and a German lieutenant.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1991. Police comedy by Jean-Paul Salomé with Magali Noël, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Daniel Gélin. Forty years after the end of their jazz band, five musicians, who all had an affair with the lead singer, are killed one after the other.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1991. Chronicle by Henri Verneuil with Richard Berry, Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif. After the death of his father, a successful author of Armenian origin returns with his mother to where he spent his childhood in Marseilles.
Runtime: 130 min.
Fr. 1990. Satire by Didier Kaminka with Margot Abascal, Grace de Capitani, Thierry Lhermitte. In Paris, two employees of the postal service use their charms to quickly climb the corporate ladder.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1989. Crime drama by Josée Dayan with Martin Lamotte, Zabou Breitman, Jean-Pierre Bisson. Transferred to Bordeaux, a journalist gets into trouble when he suspects a local bigwig of covering up a murder committed by his nephew.
Fr. 1989. Sentimental comedy by Paul Boujenah with Michel Boujenah, Zabou Breitman, Jean-Pierre Bisson. An architect and an orphaned tailor fight over their childhood home, which they inherited in equal parts when their grandmother died.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1988. Comedy by Didier Kaminka with Marlène Jobert, Patrick Chesnais, Claude Rich. A couple, unable to have a child, finds a pregnant teenager ready to give hers up.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1988. Drama by Yves Boisset with Zabou Breitman, Anna Galiena, Valérie Steffen. Frustrated by her boss
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1987. Mores comedy by Roger Planchon with Claude Brasseur, Zabou Breitman, Daniel Gélin. A wealthy peasant constantly embarrasses himself by trying to prove his young wife's infidelity.
Runtime: 113 min.
Fr. 1987. Crime drama by Yves Amoureux with Gérard Jugnot, Gérard Darmon, Marianne Basler.
Runtime: 102 min.

Make It Mine

V.O.: Le Complexe du kangourou
Fr. 1986. Mores comedy by Pierre Jolivet with Roland Giraud, Clémentine Célarié, Zabou Breitman. Believing to be the father of his former lover's son, a painter tries to reconnect with her, compromising his other relationships.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 1985. Chronicle by Jacques Fansten with Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Sandrine Dumas. Five friends with the same political ideals experience various disappointments while their party is in power.
Runtime: 100 min.

One Woman or Two

V.O.: Une Femme ou deux
Fr. 1985. Comedy by Daniel Vigne with Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Michel Aumont. A paleontologist mistakes a pretty advertising executive for a rich American who must finance his work.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1985. Police comedy by Christiane Spiero with Christian Pereira, Zabou Breitman, Roland Bertin. A journalist is put in jail to find a fabulous diamond hidden in the foot of a bed.
Fr. 1983. Adventures by Just Jaeckin with Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff, Zabou Breitman. A young girl runs away from the convent with her friend in order to rescue her father, an adventurous entomologist who has disappeared in Asia.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1983. Comedy by Claude Zidi with Coluche, Valérie Mairesse, Eva Darlan. An employee at a tourist rescue agency is drawn into various adventures.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1982. Mores comedy by Claude Pinoteau with Sophie Marceau, Brigitte Fossey, Claude Brasseur. The romance of a teenage girl is not without its ups and downs, while at the same time her parents' marriage is in crisis.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 1982. Fantasy comedy by Jean-Claude Sussfeld with Zabou Breitman, Martin Lamotte, Claire Magnin. Disappointed not to have a son, the king of France gets rid of his daughter who is raised by an English nurse and a constable.
Runtime: 82 min.

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