Stéphane Audran

Acting

Stéphane Audran

Born — Died

1932-11-08 — 2018-03-27

Place of birth

Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

79 titles

Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville; November 8, 1932 – March 27, 2018) was a French film and television actress. Best known for her performances in Oscar-winning movies such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987), and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978), she became mostly associated with haughty bourgeois women roles. She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964, after a short marriage to the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her son by her marriage to Chabrol (which ended in 1980) is the French actor Thomas Chabrol (born in 1963). Her first major role was …

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 7 titles

Maximum Risk poster
5.8

Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy.

Maximum Risk

1996

Betty poster
6.4

A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of Betty. Recovering in a hotel room, Betty begins to recount to Laure the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy and unfaithful marriage.

Betty

1992

Madeline poster
6.2

Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.

Madeline

1998

Belle Maman poster
5.1

At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.

Belle Maman

1999

Quiet Days in Clichy poster
4.4

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

Quiet Days in Clichy

1990

Weep No More, My Lady poster
4.4

When demanding actress Leila is found drowned there are numerous suspects but the main suspect is her husband Ted. Adapted from the novel by Mary Higgins Clark.

Weep No More, My Lady

1992

The Turn of the Screw poster
5.2

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

The Turn of the Screw

1992

1980s · 14 titles

Babette's Feast poster
7.2

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.

Babette's Feast

1987

The Big Red One poster
6.7

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.

The Big Red One

1980

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

La Cage aux Folles II poster
6.1

In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?

La Cage aux Folles II

1980

Coup de Torchon poster
7.0

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Coup de Torchon

1981

Faceless poster
5.7

A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret.

Faceless

1988

The Cry of the Owl poster
5.3

Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites him in...

The Cry of the Owl

1987

The Shock poster
5.3

Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...

The Shock

1982

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

The Spider Labyrinth poster
6.3

A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.

The Spider Labyrinth

1988

The Blood of Others poster
5.2

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.

The Blood of Others

1984

Thieves After Dark poster
5.3

A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.

Thieves After Dark

1984

Cop au Vin poster
6.1

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

Cop au Vin

1985

The Seasons of Pleasure poster
4.6

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.

The Seasons of Pleasure

1988

1970s · 21 titles

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie poster
7.4

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1972

And Then There Were None poster
5.7

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

And Then There Were None

1974

Death of a Corrupt Man poster
6.5

In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...

Death of a Corrupt Man

1977

Wedding in Blood poster
6.4

In a small French town, the mayor discovers his wife is cheating on him, a betrayal that eventually leads to murder.

Wedding in Blood

1973

The Butcher poster
7.1

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

The Butcher

1970

Eagle's Wing poster
5.4

Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.

Eagle's Wing

1979

Just Before Nightfall poster
6.5

A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.

Just Before Nightfall

1971

Silver Bears poster
6.1

Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa, consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi. This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife.

Silver Bears

1977

The Twist poster
4.1

Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's publisher. Then she discovers that her lover has a mistress, Charlie, who is also that of her husband...

The Twist

1976

Only the Cool poster
5.9

A secret agent is murdered by his jealous wife who mistakenly interprets his absences from home as acts of infidelity.

Only the Cool

1970

Without Apparent Motive poster
5.9

A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.

Without Apparent Motive

1971

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun poster
5.2

Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

1970

The Breach poster
6.2

An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.

The Breach

1970

As Far as Love Can Go poster
10.0

The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history professor on the beach...

As Far as Love Can Go

1971

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others poster
7.0

Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles strain friendships, a younger man captures the attention of one friend's wife, complicating their lives further.

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others

1974

Blood Relatives poster
5.7

A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.

Blood Relatives

1978

Violette Nozière poster
6.7

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Violette Nozière

1978

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby poster
5.5

A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with the less exciting guys on Earth.

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby

1974

The Winner poster
5.1

A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge.

The Winner

1979

Chi dice donna, dice donna poster
6.2

Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant.

Chi dice donna, dice donna

1976

The Black Bird poster
5.0

The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.

The Black Bird

1975

1960s · 11 titles

The Unfaithful Wife poster
6.9

A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.

The Unfaithful Wife

1969

Bluebeard poster
6.4

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

Bluebeard

1963

The Champagne Murders poster
5.5

A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.

The Champagne Murders

1967

Line of Demarcation poster
6.3

It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre, is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German command centre. Whilst he is obliged to co-operate with the enemy, his wife Mary supports the resistance movement and is willing to risk her life for it. The Nazis step up their activity against the resistance, insisting that any who attempt to cross the line of demarcation will be shot. When his wife is arrested, Pierre decides to switch his allegiance.

Line of Demarcation

1966

The Third Lover poster
6.4

On a work assignment in Germany, failed journalist Albin crosses paths with Andreas, a successful writer, and his wife Hélène, who quickly becomes the apple of Albin’s eye. While Andreas is off on a business trip, Albin tries to seduce Hélèn and, eventually, take over Andreas’ life.

The Third Lover

1962

Les Biches poster
6.1

A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local architect and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.

Les Biches

1968

The Blue Panther poster
5.0

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind.

The Blue Panther

1965

Code Name: Tiger poster
4.1

A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediately he is the target of an assassin, and a special agent is assigned to protect him.

Code Name: Tiger

1964

Sign of the Lion poster
7.0

An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.

Sign of the Lion

1962

Six in Paris poster
6.6

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.

Six in Paris

1965

Les Bonnes Femmes poster
6.3

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams.

Les Bonnes Femmes

1960

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

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

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Samedi soir

1971

Brideshead Revisited poster
7.9

Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.

Brideshead Revisited

1981

Mistral's Daughter poster
6.0

Mistral's Daughter is a 1984 American television miniseries written by Terence Feely and Rosemary Anne Sisson, based on Judith Krantz's eponymous 1982 novel. The eight-episode serial—starring Stacy Keach, Stefanie Powers, and Lee Remick—follows the lives of women connected to tempestuous painter Julien Mistral, across several decades in France, exploring themes of art, love, and scandal.

Mistral's Daughter

1984

Matin Bonheur poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Matin Bonheur

1987

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story poster
5.7

The true story of Barbara Hutton, who had inherited $40 million by the age of 6. This insight explores the effects that money can have on one's life, loves, and careers.

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

1989

The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin poster
8.2

The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes, created by Dominique Roulet and Claude Chabrol and broadcast between September 15, 1988 and February 1, 1990 on TF1. It follows the two films Chicken in Vinegar and Inspector Lavardin directed by Claude Chabrol and already featuring Jean Poiret in the role of Lavardin. This short series depicts the investigations of Inspector Lavardin, a tongue-in-cheek policeman known for his bad manners.

The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin

1988

The Blue Bicycle poster
5.9

Léa, the daughter of a wealthy Bordeaux family, is spending happy days at the Montillac family estate at the end of the 1930s. Radiant with youth, she charms all the men who meet her on the blue bicycle offered to her by her father. She is in deep love with Laurent, when she tells him, he lets her down. He is in love with Camille, Lea's best friend. The war sounds the death knell of her carelessness. She takes refuge in Paris. There, she finds Laurent, his secret love, who has just married Camille. During a party given him, she meets mysterious François -a friend of Laurent who works for the government. He goes right on and starts to win Lea's heart, but she is not interested. Laurent has to go to the front-line. He asks Lea to stay with Camille in Paris, to look after her and the unborn baby. But the German troops are progressing, and Léa and Camille are forced to leave the capital.

The Blue Bicycle

2000

The Sun Also Rises poster
7.7

Adaptation of the novel by Ernest Hemingway.

The Sun Also Rises

1984

Orient Express poster
8.5

A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.

Orient Express

1979

No artwork available
6.0

Three ambitious young people set up a new kind of detective agency to outmanoeuvre criminals across Europe, with support from two Brussels-based lawyers.

TECX

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un’isola

1986

The Condor Mystery poster
9.0

Condor is a quiet and merry little town in the Gers which actively promotes sports. But things are not always what they seem and when horrible murders are committed there, it means tranquility is over - During the opening night of the Bandas festival, the mayor of the town is found dead, electrocuted in a fountain. The investigation gives Captain Julie Leroy a unique opportunity to dispel the mystery about her origins.

The Condor Mystery

2005

La Battante poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Battante

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

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