Valérie Kaprisky

Acting

Valérie Kaprisky

Born

1962-08-19 (64)

Place of birth

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Valérie Kaprisky (née Chérès; born 19 August 1962) is a French actress. She was born Valerie Chérès on 19 August 1962 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Kaprisky is her Polish mother's maiden name. She is of Greek-Ottoman and Argentine descent on her father's side. When she was eight years old, her family moved to Cannes, where she discovered the Cannes film festival and decided to become an actress. At 17, she moved to Paris, attending high school during the day and the Cours Florent acting school at night. She appeared in a French erotic movie (Aphrodite), then made her American debut in the À bout de souffle remake Breathless (1983) starring alongside Richard Gere. She also appeared in La femme pub…

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 10 titles

Special Correspondents poster
5.1

R2I, a famous news radio station, sends its best reporting duo to Iraq: Frank, journalist, and Poussin, sound engineer. Very quickly, millions of listeners follow their highly documented stories, reflecting the hot intensity of the fighting and the difficult survival of the population.

Special Correspondents

2009

Les Irréductibles poster
5.7

On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job, no qualifications, no prospects. Michel soon realises that the only way he is going to get another job is by first passing his baccalaureate. So, he goes back to school, with his friend Gérard, who is in the same position. Naturally, Michel’s son is not at all pleased to find himself in the same class as his dad...

Les Irréductibles

2006

By the Pricking of My Thumbs poster
6.2

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

2005

3 Women poster
8.0

It is the story of three women in three different places: Turin, Paris and Luxembourg City. Stefania, whose husband has left her for a younger woman, lives alone and types fiction teleplays for a living... until the day she decides to open a new chapter of her life. Elena tries to commit suicide by jumping into the River Seine. She is saved by Bernard, a tramp who, after attempting to reanimate her, takes her to the emergency ward. Later on, they meet again. Stella tries to wake up her drunk companion so that he can become again Diabolique, the fire-eater of a small circus. She more or less manages to but her man is wounded while performing his act and finishes the night in a hospital room.

3 Women

2003

Frenchmen 2 poster
6.1

Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.

Frenchmen 2

2007

Jean Jaurès, naissance d'un géant poster
5.0

In 1892, Jean Jaurès, a republican deputy from the bourgeoisie, supported the miners' strike in Carmaux, in the south of France.

Jean Jaurès, naissance d'un géant

2005

A Place Among the Living poster
6.5

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

A Place Among the Living

2003

C'est mon tour poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

C'est mon tour

2009

So Woman! poster
4.5

Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.

So Woman!

2009

Sentiments partagés poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sentiments partagés

2002

1990s · 8 titles

Tell Me Yes... poster
5.5

Stéphane Villiers, a pediatrician in his thirties, leads a carefree life in Bordeaux. This charming man finds it easy to win over one woman’s heart after another, yet he fails to form lasting bonds with the young women he so effortlessly seduces. His life takes a dramatic turn one night when 12-year-old Eva is found sitting in his stairwell; she manages to secure shelter in his home through a clever ruse. With her romantic view of the world, sensational piano playing, and demanding nature, the bright girl quickly breaks through Stéphane’s emotional defenses. The two grow far closer than is socially or professionally advisable. Eva longs to be loved, while Stéphane is forbidden to love. As the doctor grapples with his inner emotional turmoil, he discovers that Eva is suffering from a progressive brain disease and resolves to do everything in his power to save her using a daring new treatment.

Tell Me Yes...

1995

Il tesoro di Damasco poster
10.0

A mysterious black marble tablet is found in Syrian desert by an Arab terrorist after an attack on a UN scientific expedition.

Il tesoro di Damasco

1998

Desire in Motion poster
4.7

During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.

Desire in Motion

1994

Glam poster
3.7

Traveling from the backwoods to Los Angeles to visit his cousin, a writer discovers a world of sex, drugs, crime and violence revolving around a beautiful young woman and her mobster boyfriend.

Glam

1998

La fine è nota poster
7.5

A young lawyer returns home and discovers that a man has committed suicide jumping through a window of his house. His wife, Maria, says that she let the unknown man enter because he said the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo start to investigate about the man and about the reasons of his suicide.

La fine è nota

1993

Brigade des mineurs poster
7.5

Captain Stéphane Delage, head of the Juvenile Brigade, witnesses the death of a close friend and fellow officer, who is replaced by Laurence Dorlaville. On her very first day, Delage learns that Simon, the 13-year-old son of his late colleague, has attempted suicide. Even more disturbing, the gun Simon used is identified as the same weapon used to shoot a security guard at a shopping mall. While Dorlaville investigates the case of a child who has been the victim of incest, Delage uncovers the shocking truth: Simon is part of a gang of teenagers completely controlled by an adult who terrorizes and ruthlessly exploits them.

Brigade des mineurs

1999

Milena poster
4.3

Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.

Milena

1991

Rendez-moi ma fille poster
7.0

A singer tries to get her daughter out of the grip of a guru by becoming a member of his cult herself.

Rendez-moi ma fille

1994

1980s · 11 titles

The Public Woman poster
6.0

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.

The Public Woman

1984

Year of the Jellyfish poster
5.8

Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.

Year of the Jellyfish

1984

Breathless poster
5.9

Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a highway patrolman, he becomes the most wanted fugitive in L.A.

Breathless

1983

Stradivari poster
6.8

As a boy the orphan Antonio Stradivari heard for the first time in his life the sound of a violin and he was fascinated by its voice. He tried to construct a violin and attracted the attention of Niccolò Amati, a famous lutist of Cremona. Antonio became apprentice in his bottega (workshop). Grown up, he fell in love for Francesca and he succeeded in marrying her. Afterwards he became more and more famous for his violins and he was granted a diploma from the king of Spain. After the death of his wife he was almost forced to marry again. He was chosen by Antonia Maria and it will be a happy marriage. In the background we have a look at the history of Northern Italy during the seventeenth century.

Stradivari

1988

My Friend the Traitor poster
6.4

After the end of World War II, a collaborationist seeks redemption.

My Friend the Traitor

1988

Men Prefer Fat Girls poster
5.1

Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.

Men Prefer Fat Girls

1981

Legitimate Violence poster
5.2

In the course of a violent hold-up at Deauville station, several innocent bystanders are shot dead. The victims include a politician, Robert Andréani, and three members of the same family. Devastated by the death of his wife, daughter and mother, Martin Modot resolves that their killers will be brought to justice. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, he decides to take matters into his own hands, with the support of a neo-fascist vigilante organization.

Legitimate Violence

1982

Une glace avec deux boules... poster
3.7

A film about a pair of sisters, whose parents are divorcing after their father leaves their mother for a younger woman, and who plot together to try to repair their fractured family.

Une glace avec deux boules...

1982

The Gypsy poster
4.4

Hubert Durieux is a banker in a small French town who is struggling to keep up with the demands of all the women in his life. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, his precious white Citroën is stolen under his eyes by a beautiful gypsy girl, Mona.

The Gypsy

1986

Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes poster
2.0

Five bourgeoisie women. Five men - husbands or companions - who, in different fields, possess a certain power. Characters who live in embassy lounges, frequent palaces and large houses, travel in expensive cars and yachts, eager for pleasure, guided by ambition.

Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes

1982

Aphrodite poster
4.6

Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...

Aphrodite

1982

Series credits

Chronicles of the Sun poster
6.6

Claire is surprised when she gets arrested for the murder of her childhood friend after she returns to Montpellier.

Chronicles of the Sun

2018

Spécial cinéma poster
9.5

Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.

Spécial cinéma

1974

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Le Grand Échiquier poster
8.0

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

Le Grand Échiquier

1972

Murders in... poster
7.3

Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

Murders in...

2013

Astrid & Raphaëlle poster
8.0

Astrid Nielsen works in the library of the judicial police. She has Asperger's syndrome. With an incredible memory, she excels at analyzing files of ongoing investigations. The district commander decides to use it to the fullest, entrusting her with very complex investigations which have remained unsolved to date.

Astrid & Raphaëlle

2020

30 millions d'amis poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

30 millions d'amis

1976

Les Nuls, l'émission poster
8.6

No synopsis available yet.

Les Nuls, l'émission

1990

Magellan poster
10.0

A French police inspector solves crimes and mysteries while also raising two teenage daughters.

Magellan

2009

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

2022

No artwork available
9.0

Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.

Iran: Days of Crisis

1991

Le Secret d'Élise poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Le Secret d'Élise

2016

Le Clan Pasquier poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Clan Pasquier

2007

L'Enfant du bout du monde poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Enfant du bout du monde

1997