Michele Valley

Acting

Michele Valley

Bern, Switzerland

Michele Valley is an actress, known for Dogtooth (2009), Singapore Sling (1990) and Pretty Smart (1987).

Acting credits

Dogtooth poster
7.0

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

Dogtooth

2009

Greenhouse poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Greenhouse

1985

The Woman Who Dreamed poster
7.3

Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.

The Woman Who Dreamed

1988

No artwork available
NR

A short story about a great intrusion and an irreversible loss. Do you even know who you are? How often do you change your mind? How much can you trust what you think you know? Caught between memory and nightmare, Margarita is trying to shut the door.

Lost Girl

2012

Lula LeBlanc poster
NR

26th of September 1999. Alekos is dead. His teenage granddaughter, Margarita, refuses to attend his funeral and takes advantage of her parents’ absence to throw a small party at home. Three days earlier, unaware that this would be his last night, Alekos attends a reunion of old friends to celebrate the birthday of Lula, his first love, who now suffers from dementia.

Lula LeBlanc

2024

The Loser Takes All poster
6.3

A mysterious man, small-time grifter and big time hard-man has an anarchic tendency to riff on the system, society, police, the underworld itself and other things, along with his beloved bird, Bellafonte, meets up with an odd posse consisting of a young songwriter, a prostitute who gathers money in order to open a bookstore, an alcoholic girl haunted by the relationship with her dead mother, and the grudgey bar-woman-ex-girlfriend. The quintet get caught up in a scheme involving the media, the mob, politicians and the police. And they definitely want to get the hell out of the city, probably to some Caribbean paradise.

The Loser Takes All

2002

Thelma poster
4.5

Vincent, a down-at-the-heels French cab driver, desparately in need of cash for child support is intrigued when Thelma charters his cab for a trip to Crete. As they travel, talk and flirt, they become friends but the situation grows complicated when Vincent discovers that Telma is a trans woman. Will Vincent decide to explore a country that he's never been to?

Thelma

2002

Kala azar poster
3.7

A young couple employed by a pet crematorium finds fulfilment in respectfully removing cadavers. Their love blossoms in an environment where the boundaries between human and animal are fading. When they hit a stray dog, their relationship starts to derail.

Kala azar

2020

MAUVE poster
10.0

Two plants in the same pot are suffocating, their roots have become entangled. In a house filled with plants, a couple of girls prepare for a journey. They are Iris and Danae. We follow the last minutes of their relationship, their transformation into savages and their separation. Just like plants need more space to blossom, it is time for them to transplant.

MAUVE

2024

Singapore Sling poster
6.6

Singapore Sling pursues Laura, a romantic memory from his past. One night, he finds himself at a mysterious villa, watching two women bury a body. He falls into their trap and, in an atmosphere of isolation and decadence, the trio act out insane pleasure games and a ritual of blood and murder.

Singapore Sling

1990

Pretty Smart poster
4.8

In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the Mediterranean. She vents her anger by rebelling against the cruel and sicko headmaster. When she discovers that he has been secretly photographing them naked and profiting from the pictures, she rallies the other girls and gets revenge.

Pretty Smart

1987

Moderation poster
NR

Moderation, set in Egypt, Greece and Italy, revolves around a female horror director (Maya Lubinsky) and a screenwriter (Anna De Filippi), whose latest collaboration is haunted by encounters with its 'raw material' and the escalation of conflicting desires. Faced with the disintegration of their project, the director becomes more and more drawn into conversations with the actors she has cast (Aida El Kashef, Michele Valley and Giovanni Lombardo Radice), which reflect on the way horror traverses the affective and material realities of their lives on and off screen.

Moderation

2016

The Missing Piece poster
NR

After her grandmother’s passing, Alma travels to Greece in order to find the missing piece of a jewel, given to her by her relative before her death. During this initiatory journey in her grandma’s footsteps, Alma shall go not only through the grieving process, but eventually find another missing piece: the one tied to her desire for life.

The Missing Piece

2026

Symptom poster
5.0

A winter in an isolated island makes the appearance of a creature with a leather jacket and eyes that twinkle in the dark. Anyone who comes into contact with him losing his mind. Residents seeking the help of a strange girl who seems to be the only one that can put them with him. To strengthen her faith, it is driven to acts more and more extreme that seem to hide a secret relationship with him.

Symptom

2015

Morning Patrol poster
6.8

In a deserted city, a woman walks alone trying to approach and enter the forbidden zone. Traps and the morning patrol lurk everywhere. Electronic voices summon the (non-existent) people to abandon the city. Can a love affair survive?

Morning Patrol

1987

No artwork available
NR

Set in a satirical vision of modern Britain, Hadrian is a young and ambitious civil servant who arranges to receive Greek lessons in preparation for a government promotion which will see him steer British economic policy throughout Greece. But when he meets his teacher Maria, she asks that instead of payment, Hadrian exchanges an hour of his time each week to help her prepare for a citizenship exam that offers potential promotion from Class B to Class A immigrant.

On This Island

2012

Wild Beast poster
NR

The wild beast is preparing to leave the sewers behind and its roar echoes through the rooms of the apartment building.

Wild Beast

2013

Directing Hell poster
5.5

A Documentary about Nikos Nikolaidis' work. Nikos Nikolaidis was an acclaimed film director and author from Greece. He is famous for creating controversial characters in his films that have a rebellious attitude towards the social and political status quo. He illustrates a dark and pessimistic present and future, but also providing ambiguous hope for the end when his heroes find their escape in death. His films are shocking and contentious, raising questions during times when political visions start to fade away. His filming was poetic, dynamic and aesthetically beautiful in order to present situations on edge and elicit his audience's feelings. The aim of this project is to transfer his dynamics in a documentary that will convey some of his messages and create a platform for exchanging opinions among filmmakers from all over the world, in an effort to decipher his universe and his symbols as reflections of his unique and rare personality.

Directing Hell

2011

Dawn poster
NR

A girl, locked in a room, makes a magical portal to escape reality using her imagination, a stuffed rabbit and a diamond. She travels to a dark forest where she meets a mysterious man with an animal mask. Back to reality, her domineering mother prepares a birthday cake and after a while enters the room. The girl seems indifferent during the visit, but suddenly decides to hug her mother. Soon, the mother is seduced and lured into a dance with her daughter, only to find herself trapped on the other side of the portal, into the dark world her daughter created.

Dawn

2013

Helga Is in Lund poster
NR

A woman, her doctor, a piano student, a man, his wife and a cat. What connects these people? What separates them? Who is Helga? Where is Lund?

Helga Is in Lund

2016

Black Milk poster
4.7

Alekos is a young writer, who faces a creative block, can not find any meaning and redemption in his reality, wasting himself among adventurous romances and dangerous friendships.

Black Milk

2000

Voices in Deep poster
NR

Following a tragedy at sea, the lives of two orphaned refugees and an Australian aid worker are inextricably woven together in this bracing, humanistic drama.

Voices in Deep

2023

The Giraffe poster
NR

M is a woman Who lives alone. She suffers from insomnia and she needs someone to sleep with her. The process is the following: she finds different people to sleep with each time. She wants the touch of another body in her bed.

The Giraffe

2021

The Overcoat poster
7.0

Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, this blackly comic fairytale is about a lonely social outcast who, in an effort to raise his status at work, spends all his money on a new overcoat, which seemingly gives him the approval he craves. But when it's stolen from him, he cannot return to his previous life of anonymity, leading to a downward spiral from which there is no return.

The Overcoat

1997