Emmanuelle Devos

Acting

Emmanuelle Devos

Born 1964-05-10 · Puteaux, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

Emmanuelle Devos (born May 10, 1964) is a French actress. Devos was born to daughter of actress Marie Henriau in Paris. She appeared in 50 films between 1986 and 2009. She won the César Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Sur mes lèvres, directed by Jacques Audiard. Also she has been nominated further three times. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emmanuelle Devos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Coco Before Chanel poster
6.9

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.

Coco Before Chanel

2009

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10.0

The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives.

Tendre piège

1996

Tailleur pour dames poster
7.0

Doctor Moulineaux, "serious and established" after a dissipated youth, lives a bourgeois life with his wife Yvonne and his servant Étienne. But he has gone to the Opera ball to win the heart of the elegant Suzanne Aubin. He arranges to meet her in a mezzanine that belonged to a seamstress. Impromptu visits from his acquaintances force him to pretend to be a tailor.

Tailleur pour dames

2008

Le Déménagement poster
4.6

Qui n'a pas connu le stress d'un déménagement ? Surtout quand on est un jeune écrivain comme Alain, sur le point de quitter une bonne maison d'édition pour écrire un sitcom pour la télévision, que sa femme est sur le point d'accoucher et de surcroît quand les déménageurs sont des Roumains qui travaillent au noir et qu'ils n'ont pas vraiment le sens de la ponctualité...

Le Déménagement

1997

Boléro poster
6.3

Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.

Boléro

2024

A Christmas Tale poster
6.8

When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.

A Christmas Tale

2008

How to Make a Killing poster
6.4

Michel and Cathy, wed for longer than they can remember, lead a quiet but monotonous life in the mountains. When a bear bursts out in front of Michel’s car, accidentally killing two drug dealers and revealing a €2 million loot in the process, their life takes an unpredictable turn, especially when they decide to cover up the incident and keep the money! But their plan leads them to stumble upon an unexplained trail of dead bodies. More used to being honest than crooked, Michel and Cathy’s clumsy cover-up efforts soon put an interfering inspector hot on their trail.

How to Make a Killing

2025

Those Who Remain poster
6.2

Bertrand dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They bump into each other during one of their visits and begin to meet for coffee. Coffee turns into Lorraine offering to drive Bertrand to the train station and the two turn to each other in their time of grief and confusion.

Those Who Remain

2007

Perfumes poster
6.5

Anne Walberg is a celebrity in the world of perfume. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible talent to companies of all kinds. She lives as a diva, selfish, with a strong temper. Guillaume is her new driver and the only one who is not afraid to stand up to her. No doubt this is the reason why she does not fire him.

Perfumes

2020

The Arrangement poster
6.0

This is the story of Céleste, a young, maid employed by Victoire and André in 1908. It is the story of Victoire, the model wife she doesn't know how to be. Two women who are completely different but who live under the same roof, defying conventions and the unspoken.

The Arrangement

2025

Masquerade poster
6.8

Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Margot, who lives off scams and amorous manipulations.

Masquerade

2022

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les vagues

Jacky in the Kingdom of Women poster
5.6

In a country where women are in charge, a man goes to unusual lengths to make his dream of marrying the daughter of a military leader come true.

Jacky in the Kingdom of Women

2014

Artemisia poster
6.1

The story of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), one of the first well-known female painters, including her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi.

Artemisia

1997

Moka poster
6.0

Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.

Moka

2016

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

Frank & Lola poster
5.6

A talented Las Vegas chef falls in love with an aspiring fashion designer but turns violently jealous when he realizes that she's hiding dark secrets.

Frank & Lola

2016

Forget Me poster
5.8

Nathalie is together with Antoine, who really loves her, despite her tendency to get away from him. Eric, the former partner of Nathalie, does not want to be with her anymore, but she can not accept this. In her despair, she tortures herself, Antoine, and Eric.

Forget Me

1995

Hear Me Out poster
6.4

Antoine, a history teacher in his early 50s, learns that he has become very hard of hearing. Unable to own up to his handicap, he resigns himself to living in his bubble, even though his entourage finds his behavior increasingly odd. His encounter with Claire, widow and mother of a young girl who has stopped speaking, will lead him to open up to the world. 

Hear Me Out

2021

Deception poster
5.4

An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge. A student he loved in another life. A former lover confined to a hospital in New York.

Deception

2021

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8.0

A parked car in a housing estate. Inside the car: Ariane and her thirteen-year-old son Thomas. They seem to be on the lookout for someone. When a woman appears in the street, Ariane freezes: will she manage to talk to her?

La Mère à boire

2015

Read My Lips poster
7.1

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

The Adversary poster
6.6

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

The Adversary

2002

Love Lessons poster
NR

On the eve of retirement, Émile delivers one final lesson about love and literature, urging his students to become the poets of their own lives. But is he still in love himself? Unable to answer, he returns home only to discover that his wife has left him. Émile must now live by the very words he’s been preaching, and thanks to unexpected encounters his life is turned upside down, helping him to reinvent himself.

Love Lessons

2026

Behind the camera