Joana Preiss
Actor · b. 1972 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Joana Preiss (born 22 May 1972) is a French actress, director, singer, and performer. Joana Preiss has starred in the films of Christophe Honoré, Olivier Assayas, Nobuhiro Suwa and Pia Marais, and has also collaborated with Nan Goldin in her works. She has also worked with Ugo Rondinone, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. She has performed on stage in the shows of Pascal Rambert and Eleanor Weber. She was trained in classical singing and contemporary music, and regularly performs in concerts. She founded the duo White Tahina with Vincent Epplay, Hiroyuki, and Frédéric Danos, in which she sings poems by Hölderlin. In 2011 she directed her first film Sibérie. Source: Article "Joana Preiss" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Movie6.2DramaAn American filmmaker faces challenges and self-discovery as she arrives in Paris for Fashion Week on a life-and-death journey.
Movie7.0HorrorDramaStringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.
Movie6.8DramaRomanceOlivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Movie4.5DramaAfter his father's death, a young man is introduced to a world of hedonism and depravity by his amoral mother.
Ma mère
2004 · 182 votes
Movie6.5ComedyLola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.
LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
2009 · 1.4K votes
Movie5.0ThrillerDramaA beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife.
Boarding Gate
2007 · 121 votes
Movie6.4DramaAfter she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.
Clean
2004 · 76 votes
Movie5.7ComedyAntoine, a bachelor party-goer, gets new roommates: Jeanne and her two children.
Movie5.5DramaThrillerTwo police detectives investigate the murder of a high-end male prostitute, and his relationship with his girlfriend.
Movie5.9DramaRomanceA book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
Movie10.0MusicBroken Poet is a compelling investigation into the meaning of success, rock stardom and even freedom itself which, as Janis Joplin sang, is just another word for nothing left to lose.
Broken Poet
2020 · 1 votes
Movie5.2DramaLouise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Movie5.1DramaHistoryThe life and death of the Scottish monarch.
Mary, Queen of Scots
2013 · 35 votes
Movie6.1DramaFamilyWhen 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV positive, his family quickly rallies around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother away to protect him, the love and loyalty of the two brothers is tested.
Movie6.0ComedyDramaAfter a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father and aimless brother Jonathan but refuses to get out of bed.
Movie5.5DramaA French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's wedding. They announce to another friend they are having dinner with that they are going to split.
MovieDramaHorrorSet over the course of a one night stand, a woman comes to question the destructive nature of her routine night time behaviour
High
2009
Movie6.0DramaA companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.
MovieRomanceDramaOur feelings, our choices, even our death wander on the web like options, like ghosts. For the time of a last train journey, for the time of a love chat, a deadly chat, or an unlikely casting, three generations will try to definitively wrest from virtual nomadism, to put an end to self-exile that undo our lives... Between Rotterdam and Tourcoing, diving in the Flatlands, tenuous and fragile...
Movie5.5DramaIn Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance.
Movie2.8DramaHervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair of lovers: his colleague and his wife who sells her body with her husband's blessing.
Movie4.5DocumentaryMusicFootage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.
Noise
2006 · 6 votes
MovieDramaDocumentaryPortraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think they were lost, and men just as lost as them.