Happy End (
2017) | IMDb:
6.6
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
Starring:
Isabelle Huppert
,
Jean-Louis Trintignant
,
Mathieu Kassovitz
,
Fantine Harduin
,
Franz Rogowski
,
Laura Verlinden
Amour (
2012) | IMDb:
7.9
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Starring:
Jean-Louis Trintignant
,
Emmanuelle Riva
,
Isabelle Huppert
,
Alexandre Tharaud
,
William Shimell
,
Ramon Agirre
The White Ribbon (
2009) | IMDb:
7.8
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Starring:
Christian Friedel
,
Ernst Jacobi
,
Burghart Klaußner
,
Steffi Kühnert
,
Maria Dragus
,
Susanne Lothar
Directed by:
Michael Haneke
Funny Games (
2008) | IMDb:
6.5
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
Caché (
2005) | IMDb:
7.3
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.
Starring:
Daniel Auteuil
,
Juliette Binoche
,
Annie Girardot
,
Bernard Le Coq
,
Daniel Duval
,
Maurice Bénichou
Time of the Wolf (
2003) | IMDb:
6.5
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Starring:
Isabelle Huppert
,
Patrice Chéreau
,
Brigitte Roüan
,
Daniel Duval
,
Béatrice Dalle
,
Anaïs Demoustier
Directed by:
Michael Haneke
The Piano Teacher (
2001) | IMDb:
7.5
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Starring:
Isabelle Huppert
,
Annie Girardot
,
Benoît Magimel
,
Susanne Lothar
,
Udo Samel
,
Anna Sigalevitch