Romain Gavras’s high-octane comedic thriller finds Isabelle Adjani in hilarious satirical mode as bling-bling Danny, an international pickpocket and suffocating mother, heading to the Costa del Sol with her drug dealer son to pull off one last big haul.

A radiant Isabelle Adjani plays a married aristocrat who tries and fails to resist the advances of an ambitious younger man in this sensitive adaptation of Benjamin Constant’s classic novel of the illusions and cruelties of romantic love. Directed by Benoît Jacquot.

With this emotionally bare biopic, Isabelle Adjani won her third César, was nominated for an Oscar, and righted a historical wrong by turning the spotlight on Camille Claudel, scorned mistress
of Rodin (played by Gérard Depardieu) and an artistic genius in her own right. Directed by Bruno Nuytten.

This Truffaut masterpiece about a real case of obsessive love brought Isabelle Adjani international fame and an Oscar nomination at age nineteen for her haunting performance as Adèle H, the daughter of literary titan Victor Hugo.

This gripping Merchant Ivory adaptation of Jean Rhys’s acclaimed autobiographical novel features Isabelle Adjani as a penniless young woman who is toyed with by a wealthy British couple in 1920s Paris. Directed by James Ivory.

Isabelle Adjani made a triumphant comeback and won a fifth César as Sonia Bergerac, a harried drama teacher who stumbles into becoming a hostage taker after confiscating a gun from a student in her tough high school outside Paris. Directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld.

Film Change: On October 15, The Slap (La Gifle) will be screened in place of Barocco.

Isabelle Adjani plays an intense young 18-year-old who announces that she is dropping out of school to move in with her boyfriend in this family comedy brimming with unexpected developments. Directed by Claude Pinoteau.

Isabelle Adjani won Best Actress at Cannes and her fourth César for the title role in this spectacular adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s historical novel La Reine Margot, a tale of romance, bloodshed, and political scheming during the French wars of religion.

This delightful romp about an ambitious political aide whose life is turned upside down when her charming con man of a father resurfaces in Paris proved that Isabelle Adjani’s comedic talents matched her gift for emotionally raw performances of rare intensity. Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.

Was Isabelle Adjani truly possessed while shooting this allegorical fantasy about a couple separating in the shadow of the Berlin Wall? You might think so when you witness her César-winning performance as an alienated housewife and her doppelgänger in this paranoid masterpiece by Andrzej Zulawski.