# The best Isabelle Adjani movies

From The Story of Adèle H. to Queen Margot, by way of Possession and One Deadly Summer: the best-ranked films of the five-time César winner on AlloCiné, L'Éclaireur Fnac and Collider.

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- Apr 20, 2026 · episode94
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## Top 15

1. **Possession (1981)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Andrzej Żuławski: a couple tears itself apart in West Berlin; best actress at Cannes.
2. **The Story of Adèle H. (1975)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — François Truffaut: Victor Hugo's daughter and her obsessive passion.
3. **The Tenant (1976)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Roman Polanski: a Paris flat and creeping madness.
4. **Deadly Circuit (1983)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Claude Miller: a detective follows a murderess across Europe.
5. **Camille Claudel (1988)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Bruno Nuytten: the sculptor and her devastating passion for Rodin.
6. **Queen Margot (1994)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Patrice Chéreau: the St Bartholomew's Day massacre and Queen Marguerite.
7. **Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Werner Herzog: Lucy faces Klaus Kinski's vampire.
8. **The Driver (1978)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Walter Hill: the mysterious gambler in a tense crime film.
9. **The Slap (1974)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Claude Pinoteau: a schoolgirl and her father, Lino Ventura.
10. **Skirt Day (2009)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A literature teacher takes her class hostage; her fifth César.
11. **Subway (1985)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Luc Besson: Christopher Lambert and the underground world of the Paris metro.
12. **Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — François Dupeyron: Omar Sharif as the grocer of rue Bleue.
13. **The Brontë Sisters (1979)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — André Téchiné: Emily Brontë alongside Isabelle Huppert and Marie-France Pisier.
14. **One Deadly Summer (1983)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean Becker from Japrisot: Éliane and her revenge; César for best actress.
15. **All Fired Up (1982)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean-Paul Rappeneau: a serious daughter and her gambler father, Yves Montand.

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