Jacques Audiard

Directing

Jacques Audiard

Born

1952-04-30 (74)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

57 titles

Jacques Audiard (French: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952; Paris) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter. He has won both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language twice, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet, as well as winning the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. His 2012 film Rust and Bone competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and won the BFI London Film Festiva…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

Trintignant by Trintignant poster
6.8

A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed French actors of the last sixty years, known for his numerous roles on stage and screen.

Trintignant by Trintignant

2021

In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat poster
2.0

Alexandre Desplat is one of the most famous film music composer of today. Innovative artist with a singular expression, he is the successor of french masters of film music: Georges Delerue, Antoine Duhamel, Maurice Jarre. Writing music for films gather his two passions: music and cinema. Between working sessions, confidences, films and personnal archives, Alexandre Desplat offers, through this documentary, a great record on the creative process and today’s cinema.

In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat

2020

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America poster
7.4

To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema. The singular artistic vision of Sergio Leone has transcended national borders, creating the Spaghetti Western genre and transforming the international cinematic panorama forever with his innovative stylistic and narrative solutions, which have now become part of the language of the movies. The film, which is enriched with precious archive footage from the Cineteca di Bologna, including rare audio recordings and film clips shot behind the scenes, sees for the first time the direct participation of the Leone family and has interviews both with Leone’s longtime collaborators and with icons of Hollywood who have been profoundly influenced by his work.

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

2022

Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur poster
5.0

In eight films, Jacques Audiard has renewed French cinema, without alienating either the critics or the success. It is only at the age of 42 that he starts directing, after having been an editor and a scriptwriter. In 1994, he directed his first film, "Regarde les hommes tomber", whose conflicting shooting was an ordeal for this misanthropic beginner. It was with "Sur mes lèvres", in 2001, that he forged his cinematographic language: contained lyricism, deliberate imperfection of images, ellipses plunging the audience into a maelstrom of sensations. With each of his films, Jacques Audiard intends to renew himself, at the cost of challenges and doubts always more vivid.

Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur

2021

Making Emilia Pérez poster
4.8

Go behind the scenes of this Oscar-nominated, genre-defying film with director Jacques Audiard and stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez.

Making Emilia Pérez

2025

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2025 poster
NR

César winners revisit, sometimes for the very first time, the footage of that important moment in their careers: the night they received a César Award. It’s an opportunity to look back on and comment on this defining moment in their cinematic lives. Featuring Carole Bouquet, Sara Forestier, Emmanuelle Devos, André Dussollier, Justine Triet and Noémie Merlant.

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2025

2025

2010s · 4 titles

Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit poster
8.7

With his popular culture, prolific imagination, and verbal alchemy, Michel Audiard revolutionized cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. Alongside his mentor and friend Jean Gabin, his writing partner Albert Simonin, and his favorite actors Bernard Blier, Lino Ventura, and Michel Serrault, we find his verve and innate sense of repartee, which alone reflect the spirit of the French people and language. From elegance to cheekiness, cynicism to tenderness, he made words speak like no one else. Between the expressions he stole from bar counters to refine them and his encyclopedic knowledge of French culture, he created a unique style and ranks alongside Prévert and Jeanson as one of the greatest dialogue writers in French cinema.

Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit

2015

Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard poster
10.0

A lengthy and detailed examination of the making of the 2012 film Rust and Bone, directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts, with raw on-set footage, intimate details behind the technical aspects of the shoot including the extensive special effects, the process of shooting various scenes, the inherent challenges in making the movie, and more. The making of was an extra on the Blu-Ray.

Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard

2012

Dreamers poster
6.0

Dreamers is a film directed by Noelle Deschamps in 2012. Creation was always imagined as a mysterious process. Following these filmmakers, brings to light their passion, their imagination and their magical process.

Dreamers

2012

Sacred Circuit poster
NR

A documentary on the making of Deadly Circuit

Sacred Circuit

2016

1990s · 2 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Emilia Pérez poster
6.4

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

Emilia Pérez

2024

Emilia Pérez poster
6.4

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

Emilia Pérez

2024

Emilia Pérez poster
6.4

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

Emilia Pérez

2024

The Sisters Brothers poster
6.8

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

The Sisters Brothers

2018

The Sisters Brothers poster
6.8

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

The Sisters Brothers

2018

Paris, 13th District poster
6.9

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

Paris, 13th District

2021

Paris, 13th District poster
6.9

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

Paris, 13th District

2021

Paris, 13th District poster
6.9

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

Paris, 13th District

2021

A Prophet poster
7.5

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

A Prophet

2009

A Prophet poster
7.5

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

A Prophet

2009

The Professional poster
7.2

Josselin Beaumont, a French secret agent, is tasked with assassinating Njala, the president for life of Malawi in Africa. A shift in French policy means that assassinating Njala is no longer an option. But instead of recalling their agent, high-ranking officials deliberately sacrifice Beaumont by handing him over to the Malawian authorities. Arrested, tried, and imprisoned, he nevertheless manages to escape. Back in Paris after a two-year absence, he informs his superiors through Colonel Martin that he will fulfill his contract during Njala’s upcoming official visit to Paris between the 12th and 15th of this month, and that he has a few scores to settle with the D.G.S.E. The question is, should Beaumont be stopped or not?

The Professional

1981

Deadly Circuit poster
6.1

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

Deadly Circuit

1983

Rust and Bone poster
7.2

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

Rust and Bone

2012

Rust and Bone poster
7.2

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

Rust and Bone

2012

Rust and Bone poster
7.2

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

Rust and Bone

2012

Read My Lips poster
7.0

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

Read My Lips

2001

Read My Lips poster
7.0

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

Read My Lips

2001

Sibyl poster
5.7

Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.

Sibyl

2019

Spirit of Ecstasy poster
5.5

A gender-questioning stock market trader is determined to make it in the world of finance — not for the glory or wealth, but because it's leading them on the path to freedom.

Spirit of Ecstasy

2023

Dead Tired poster
6.0

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.

Dead Tired

1994

The Beat That My Heart Skipped poster
6.9

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

2005

The Beat That My Heart Skipped poster
6.9

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

2005

Dheepan poster
6.8

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.

Dheepan

2015

Dheepan poster
6.8

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.

Dheepan

2015

Dheepan poster
6.8

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.

Dheepan

2015

A Self-Made Hero poster
6.9

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.

A Self-Made Hero

1996

A Self-Made Hero poster
6.9

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.

A Self-Made Hero

1996

La Cage aux Folles 3 poster
5.2

Third and final version of the La Cage aux Folles series has Renato's drag queen lover Albin learning that he can inherit a vast fortune from a distant relative. But the catch is that Albin must marry (a woman) and produce a heir within a year or the whole inheritance will be forfeited.

La Cage aux Folles 3

1985

Venus Beauty Institute poster
5.9

Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.

Venus Beauty Institute

1999

See How They Fall poster
6.5

A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.

See How They Fall

1994

See How They Fall poster
6.5

A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.

See How They Fall

1994

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NR

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Celles qui parlaient tout le temps

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Frequent Death poster
5.6

Jeanne Quester is a psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a radio station. She got a raw deal when she was a child.

Frequent Death

1988

Baxter poster
6.4

A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.

Baxter

1989

Swing troubadour poster
7.0

In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved. In 1962, exiled on Hatray cruises and feeling the coming death, Alex decides to compose for his love a testament: the photographic report of his agony.

Swing troubadour

1991

New Year's Eve At Bob's poster
6.2

On New Year's Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris, strange people - each for a different reason - are looking for the home of a man called Bob.

New Year's Eve At Bob's

1984

Barjo poster
4.9

The narrator, "Barjo" (nutcase, crap artist), is an obsessive simpleton, given to filling his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of the world. When his house burns, he moves in with his twin sister, Fanfan -- an impulsive, quixotic egoist -- and her husband, Charles, the Aluminum King. Charles becomes the focus of the film, as his wife and brother-in-law bewilder him.

Barjo

1992

Kisses Till Monday poster
4.8

Three thieves, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri decide to take on Frankie Strong, a wealthy businessman.

Kisses Till Monday

1974

Australia poster
4.7

Following a stint as a WWII fighter pilot, Belgian-born Edouard falls in love with an Indonesian woman, has a daughter with her and immigrates to Australia, all without the knowledge of his family back home. Years later, his love has passed away, and he's raising his daughter on his own. When his brother calls seeking help with his failing wool-processing company, Edouard agrees to temporarily return home to aid him.

Australia

1989

All Mixed Up poster
5.3

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

All Mixed Up

1985