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  • Binoche reveals acting doubts - 2 April 2012
    -French star Juliette Binoche has twice considered giving up acting after becoming convinced her career was on the slide.-The brunette beauty found fame in the 1980s and worked constantly before starring in 1991's Les Amants du Pont-Neuf.- Binoche admits the project was


  • Defending Binoche - 1 September 2010
    - -“Absolutely nothing!” That’s how Gerard Depardieu ripped into Juliette Binoche the other day. “Explain to me what the secret of this actress is meant to be? I would really like to know why she has been so esteemed for so many years. She has n


  • Bardem & Binoche triumph at Cannes - 24 May 2010
    -Oscar winners Javier Bardem and Juliette Binoche added major trophies to their collections on Sunday (23May10) when the two European stars landed the acting awards at the Cannes Film Festival in France.- -Spaniard Bardem shared the Best Actor Prize with Elio Germano, whi

Juliette Binoche - what members say


  • La Veuve De Saint-Pierre
  • La Veuve De Saint-Pierre review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars A very enjoyable film. 25 July 2005
    ...e guillotine. Good performances from Daniel Auteuil as the Army captain and Juliette Binoche as his wife. It is never clear thoughout the film who the widow would turn o...   Read customer review
  • Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf
  • Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf review by A customer from Leamington Spa
    Rated - 2.0 stars Lousy Lovers on Bridge Nine? 7 April 2004
    ...g spot on the bridge repair works of the Pont Neuf is taken by a female artist (Juliette Binoche) who we learn is going blind. They fall in love - eventually. Not much happens ...   Read customer review
  • Chocolat
  • Chocolat review by from SOUTHEND ON SEA
    Rated - 5.0 stars 29 September 2004
    ...vely small role in this movie, his presence cannot be missed. - Leading lady Juliette Binoche plays an infectious character, with warmth and a true star quality. As do Alfre...   Read customer review

Juliette Binoche - filmography


  • Elles - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Anais Demoustier,  Joanna Kulig
    Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Anne (Juliette Binoche) is a journalist who, during her investigation into prostitution, encounters two young girls who use their bodies as a way to make easy money. Fascinated by them, she is drawn into their world, which stands in marked contrast to her own bourgeois life. Juliette Binoche gives ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 3 members
    Due for release on 20th August 2012
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  • Elles (2012)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Anais Demoustier,  Joanna Kulig
    Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Anne (Juliette Binoche) is a journalist who, during her investigation into prostitution, encounters two young girls who use their bodies as a way to make easy money. Fascinated by them, she is drawn into their world, which stands in marked contrast to her own bourgeois life. Juliette Binoche gives ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 8 members
    Due for release on 20th August 2012
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  • Cosmopolis (2012)
    Starring: Robert Pattinson,  Jay Baruchel,  Kevin Durand
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
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  • Shirin on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Golshifteh Farahani,  Mahnaz Afshar,  Taraneh Alidoosti
    Director: Abbas Kiarostami
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Widely regarded as one of the most important, ambitious and rewarding filmmakers at work today, Kiarostami continues to explore the potential of cinema, stimulating and challenging the viewer's imagination to an extraordinary degree. His new film Shirin, a retelling of a classic Persian love story,..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 252 members
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  • Summer Hours on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Charles Berling,  Edith Scob
    Director: Olivier Assayas
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle's exceptional 19th century art collections, dies suddenly. Left to come to terms with themselves and their differences, Adrienne, a successful New York designer, Frederic, an economist and university ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,663 members
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  • Dan in Real Life on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Steve Carell,  Juliette Binoche,  Dane Cook
    Director: Peter Hedges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Advice columnist Dan Burns (Carell) has his hands full with three daughters that he's not willing to let grow up. The girls still grieve for their mother who died four years ago, and Dan hasn't made any attempts to date. So he's pleasantly surprised when he meets Marie (Juliette Binoche) at a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 16,461 members
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  • Dan in Real Life - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Steve Carell,  Juliette Binoche,  Dane Cook
    Director: Peter Hedges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Advice columnist Dan Burns (Carell) has his hands full with three daughters that he's not willing to let grow up. The girls still grieve for their mother who died four years ago, and Dan hasn't made any attempts to date. So he's pleasantly surprised when he meets Marie (Juliette Binoche) at a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,965 member
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  • Bee Season (2005)
    Starring: Richard Gere,  Heather Barberie,  Juliette Binoche
    Director: Scott McGehee,  David Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Eliza Naumann spells words. Lots of words. Hard words. Long words. And with an effortlessness and understanding that surprises everyone around her. Her teachers, her fellow students. But especially those closest to her: her father, mother and brother. The people whose lives Eliza's new-found genius ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 3,336 members
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  • Hidden - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Annie Girardot,  Maurice Benichou
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Suburban couple Georges (Daniel Auteuil, JEAN DE FLORETTE) and Anne Laurent (Juliette Binoche, THE ENGLISH PATIENT) become the unwitting victims of an elaborate blackmail plot in this taught psychological thriller from master of suspense Michael Haneke (FUNNY GAMES). Georges, a television presenter,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,250 member
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  • Mary (2005)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Forest Whitaker,  Matthew Modine
    Director: Abel Ferrara
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An independent director casts himself as Jesus Christ in his film. The actress playing Mary Magdalene travels alone to Jerusalem after the shoot to continue her spiritual journey inspired by her role. A year later in Manhattan, a superstar network journalist investigates the life and times of Jesus ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 9 members
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  • In My Country on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Juliette Binoche,  Brendan Gleeson
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Langston Whitfield is a Washington Post journalist. His editor provocatively sends him to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, in which the perpetrators of murder and torture on both sides during the Apartheid era are invited to come forward and confront their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,047 members
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  • Jet Lag (2002)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Jean Reno
    Director: Danièle Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A worn-out businessman (Reno) and a beautician on the run (Binoche) collide in a Paris airport. Love arrives, all its hurdles be damned.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 41 members
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  • La Veuve De Saint-Pierre (2000)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Michel Duchaussoy,  Marc Beland
    Director: Patrice Leconte
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This dark drama explores a true tale set in 1850 on the isolated French-Canadian island of St. Pierre. Yugoslav director Emir Kustirica makes a fabulous acting debut as Neele August, an illiterate fisherman who brutally murders his ex-fishing captain in a night of drunken revelry. Sentenced to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,127 members
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  • Chocolat on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Peter Stormare,  John Wood,  Leslie Caron
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Lasse Hallstrom's CHOCOLAT is set in the late 1950s, but it might as well be the late 1850s in a small French town where everyone behaves as they should (supposedly), and attends church regularly. When a strong north wind blows through town, it brings the vivacious and mysterious Vianne (Juliette ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 39,850 members
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  • Code Unknown on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Thierry Neuvic,  Josef Bierbichler
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    German-born filmmaker Michael Haneke continues the bleak, formalist experimentation of his 1994 breakthrough 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance with this similarly fragmented tale of racism, intolerance, and hatred in modern-day Paris. The focus of the narrative is split between three sets of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 4,264 members
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  • Chocolat - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Johnny Depp,  Carrie-Anne Moss
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Lasse Hallstrom's CHOCOLAT is set in the late 1950s, but it might as well be the late 1850s in a small French town where everyone behaves as they should (supposedly), and attends church regularly. When a strong north wind blows through town, it brings the vivacious and mysterious Vianne (Juliette ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 303 members
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  • Children Of The Century (1999)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Benoit Magimel,  Stefano Dionisi
    Director: Diane Kurys
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The only thing more outrageous than French novelist George Sand's torrid love affair with the decadent author Alfred de Musset and her affinity for wearing men's clothing, was the content of her writing. Though Sand (otherwise known as the Baroness Dudevant) smoked cigars and cross-dressed, it was ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 24 members
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  • Alice Et Martin on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Alexis Loret,  Mathieu Amalric
    Director: Andre Techine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this meditation on family, romance, and the search for contentedness from French director Andre Techine (THE WILD REEDS, MY FAVORITE SEASON), a troubled young man named Martin (Alexis Loret), rethinks his past. At age 20, Martin finds himself living with his bohemian brother Benjamin (Matthieu ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,494 member
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  • The English Patient on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Kevin Whately,  Nino Castelnu,  
    Director: Anthony Minghella
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set during the Second World War, this epic romance tells the story of a mysterious Englishman found badly burned in the Sahara. His nurse transports him across war-torn Europe taking him to a deserted Tuscan monastery where he can die in peace. There they become friends and she begins to read to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 20,780 members
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  • Wuthering Heights on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Ralph Fiennes,  Sinead O'Connor
    Director: Peter Kosminsky
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A sweeping, epic production of Emily Bronte's classic tale of star-crossed lovers Cathy (Juliette Binoche) and Heathcliff (Ralph Fiennes), whose passionate love and tragic separation plays out against the verdant Yorkshire moors. Whereas most film adaptations of WUTHERING HEIGHTS end with the death ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,873 members
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  • Damage (1992)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Juliette Binoche,  Miranda Richardson
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Adapted from Josephine Hart's spare novel by British screenwriter David Hare and French director Louis Malle, this brooding erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual relationship between an English politician and his son's lover. Stephen Flemming (Jeremy Irons), an up-and-coming member of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,988 member
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  • Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Denis Lavant,  Edith Scob
    Director: Leos Carax
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In building a replica of the famed Parisian Pont-Neuf bridge, Carax's film became the most expensive French film ever produced, up to that point. This budget controversy threatened to overshadow the film itself, which has slowly begun to garner the proper recognition it deserves (thanks to Martin ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,667 members
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  • Rendez-Vous on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Lambert Wilson,  Juliette Binoche,  Wadeck Stanczak
    Director: Andre Techine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A provocative erotic drama, stylishly rendered by Andre Techine, who won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this compelling investigation into the intersection of sexual and artistic passion.
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 969 members
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  • The Leos Carax Collection (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Julie Delpy,  Juliette Binoche,  Michel Piccoli
    Director: Leos Carax
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Three modern classics from French filmmaker Leo Carax.Boy Meets Girl: Leos Carax's brilliant feature debut follows the relationship of an aspiring filmmaker (Denis Lavant), who has just been left by his lover and a suicidal young woman (Mireille Perrier), who is also reeling from a failed romance. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 241 members
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Juliette Binoche facts

5 most recent films

Elles - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Elles - 2.0 stars
Cosmopolis - 3 stars
The Certified Copy - 2.5 stars
The Certified Copy - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Three Colours Trilogy - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The English Patient - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Chocolat - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Chocolat - 3.5 stars
Three Colours Trilogy - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cosmopolis - 3 stars
Elles - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Elles - 2.0 stars
Mary - 2.5 stars
Jet Lag - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Denis Lavant - 6 times - show films
Michel Piccoli - 5 times - show films
Julie Delpy - 5 times - show films
Lena Olin - 4 times - show films
Catherine Deneuve - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Krzysztof Kieslowski - 9 times - show films
Anthony Minghella - 7 times - show films
Leos Carax - 6 times - show films
Michael Haneke - 4 times - show films
Lasse Hallstrom - 4 times - show films