Known for Acting
Anouk Grinberg, daughter of writer Michel Vinaver. First a theater actress, she has performed in both private and public theaters, under the direction, among others, of Jean-Louis Martinelli, Patrice Chéreau, Didier Bezace, Jacques Lassalle, Alain Françon. In cinema or for television, she has toured in particular with Bertrand Blier, Jacques Audiard, Gilles Bourdos, Nina Companeez. She also performs in public readings. For several years, she has also exhibited her drawings and paintings.
Born
March 20, 1963 (age 63)
Birthplace
Uccle, Belgium
Filmography
45 films, 8 shows


Violette
2026
country: France
Violette Toussaint, a cemetery caretaker in a small town in Burgundy, is a unique observer and a compassionate listener. Her peaceful life is filled by conversations with quirky cemetery workers and the many visitors who share their stories of love, loss, and life. However, her routine is disrupted when a local police chief arrives at her door with an unusual request. As they grow closer, Violette comes to understand that the truth behind long-buried mysteries in her past must be uncovered if she wants to take another chance on life and, against all odds, love.


Melpomène
2026 · 1h 28m
country: France
Marthe discovers her mother’s death was a suicide, not an accident. At the hospital where she was once institutionalized, Marthe investigates the past—unraveling family secrets and facing a disturbing truth that threatens her grip on reality.


The Last Patient
2026
country: France
On the eve of her retirement, Judith, a suburban doctor, opens her practice door to Aïda — eight months pregnant and having fallen out of the medical care system. Confronted with a healthcare system pushed to the breaking point, Judith agrees to take the young woman in, embarking on a night that will put all her convictions as a healthcare professional to the test.


The Orphans
2025 · 1h 35m
country: France
Gab and Driss, childhood friends on bad terms since they left the orphanage, now have opposite lives - one is a cop with the IGPN, the other a fixer for thugs. When their first love dies in a suspicious accident, her 17-year-old daughter, Leïla, takes Gab's gun and sets off on the trail of a powerful organization willing to do anything to cover the case up. Forced to team up, the orphans must stop her before she crosses a line she can't return from...


Lucky Winners
2024 · 1h 43m
country: France
After winning the lottery, the life of the happy winner turns into a nightmare. The movie consists of four separate stories divided into five parts. They tell the different stages of the winner's life, from discovering the reward to witnessing the consequences caused by the prize.


Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe
2024 · 2h 2m
country: Belgium
When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn’t know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the “painter of happiness”, appearing in more than a third of his work. Together, they reached their artistic fulfillment thanks to a colourful love, different from the standards of their time, nurturing the great mystery around their relationship. Based on a true story.


Suzanne
2023
country: France


Re-belles
2023
country: France


The Innocent
2022 · 1h 39m
country: France
Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship.


The Green Shutters
2022 · 1h 37m
country: France
The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.


The Night of the 12th
2022 · 1h 54m
country: Belgium
Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara's murder case lands on his desk. Vivés and his team investigate Clara's complex life and relations, but what starts as a professional and methodical immersion into the victim's life soon turns into a haunting obsession.


Deception
2021 · 1h 45m
country: France
An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge. A student he loved in another life. A former lover confined to a hospital in New York.


Les Damnés de la Commune
2021 · 1h 27m
country: France
Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in 1871.


The Other
2020 · 1h 17m
country: France
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.


Money
2017 · 1h 30m
country: France
The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside.


Baby Love
2016
country: France


Sea, No Sex & Sun
2012 · 1h 29m
country: France
A comedy that affectionately pokes fun at men and their eternal quest for satisfaction. At last, a film about self-acceptance and renunciation.


Joseph l'insoumis
2011 · 1h 30m
country: Belgium
1956, a handful of families survive in makeshift shelters in appalling poverty and daily violence. A man, Joseph Wresinski , a priest, himself born into great poverty, decides to settle among those he calls "his people". Among these families, that of Jacques. His life will be transformed by his meeting with Father Joseph. His own, but also that of the people who will join the fight of this revolutionary priest. A fight against assistance and charity which, he says, “push the poor into indignity


Camus
2010 · 1h 40m
country: France
A romantic, a scoundrel, a private man .... The touching and absurd story of the philosopher Albert Camus as seen through the eyes of the many women in his life.


Shoah by Bullet: The Forgotten History
2008 · 1h 25m
country: France
SHOAH BY BULLETS reveals a chapter of the «final solution» that is generally misunderstood or even unknown: the stories of the hundreds of thousands of Jews murdered by gun shot by Nazis during the invasion of the Soviet Union.


Fragments of Antonin
2006 · 1h 30m
country: France
A psychiatrist who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers attempts to unlock the secret that drove a gentle but deeply-disturbed World War I veteran to the edge of insanity.


Le Procès de Bobigny
2006 · 1h 28m
country: Belgium
In 1972 16-year-old Marie-Claire became pregnant after a rape. With help from her mother Michelle and three other women, she underwent a clandestine abortion. Under a 1920 law, the five women were arrested and charged. Supported by a procession of well-known French (eg Simone de Beauvoir), the five were released and the law was adapted.
Le fil rouge
Le fil rouge
2006 · 17m
country: France
A retelling of Bluebeard by renowned photographer Sarah Moon


I've Been Waiting So Long
2004 · 1h 45m
country: France
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair with a man whom she hadn't seen in twelve years.


Raining Cats and Frogs
2003 · 1h 30m
country: France
It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure.


Une preuve d'amour
2003 · 1h 40m
country: France
A beautiful, cultured Parisian nurse working in a backwards French region, ends up falling in love with a seemingly crass farmer. She finds out that he actually is very intelligent, and she tries to help him to study again.


Break of Dawn
2002 · 1h 50m
country: France
An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politician. As part of the plan, the two must themselves be murdered in order to make their target appear more powerful. But while their circumstances make them perfect fall guys, their lives are initially spared when the attack descends into chaos. Staying alive thereafter involves the two strangers working together to dodge both fellow conspirators and the police.


Les petites couleurs
2002 · 1h 34m
country: Switzerland
Swiss drama in the form of a road movie starring Bernadette Lafont. Hairdresser Christelle is harassed daily by her chauvinistic husband until she can no longer stand it and flees. She then meets the strong landlady Mona and learns to see her life from a different perspective.


Teeth
2000 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist, ça va sans dire), Antonio insults her in a fit of anger and in the fight she breaks off one of his teeth. Antonio now must travel across the country, going from dentist to dentist in search of someone who can make a crown that will suit his extra-large smile.


Disparus
1998 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
Sex, avant-garde art, and Communist ideology are at the heart of this compelling historical drama. The film opens just as the Soviet Empire crumbles in 1989. As Louise mourns the death of her lover, she discovers the journal of Alfred Katz, an earnest Jewish radical and erstwhile poet who disappeared in 1938. With the aid of a history professor, Louise unravels what happened to Katz. In the feverish climate of pre-WWII Paris, Katz reveals himself as both a fervent Trotskyite and an unabashed romantic. At a party thrown by the noted surrealist Andre Breton, he meets Mila, a beautiful part-time model, part-time whore. As soon as he falls for her, he learns of her other lover Felix, a fervent Stalinist. Bored with politics, Mila eventually marries Katz. Soon betrayal and politics catch up with the poet.


A Self-Made Hero
1996 · 1h 47m
country: France
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.


My Man
1996 · 1h 39m
country: France
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.


Bad Kid
1995 · 1h 30m
country: France
The struggles of a 28-year-old mother in Lyon who tries to combine her love life and raising her 12-year-old rebel son.


One, Two, Three, Sun
1993 · 1h 44m
country: France
A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. Schoolgirl Victorine has an insane mother and an alcoholic father who can never find his way home in their maze of slum apartment blocks. Aggressive, sexually threatening boys of all ages are everywhere, and while the teacher eventually relents to a gang of adolescent rapists, Victorine gives herself to a rowdy gang of older layabouts, eventually winning the heart of burglar Paul.


Août
1992 · 1h 30m
country: France
The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart.


Lest We Forget
1991 · 1h 52m
country: France
A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.


I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
1991 · 1h 38m
country: France
For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.


Thank You, Life
1991 · 1h 57m
country: France
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AIDS and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.


La Fille du magicien
1990 · 1h 30m
country: France
Lili is twenty years old, has an English mother, a magician father, a voice from elsewhere and a gift that only children know: the power of her own desire. It all starts with a summer night: that summer, Lili and Bruno will find love.
Les matins chagrins
Les matins chagrins
1990 · 1h 35m
country: France
Dan, a journalist, lives alone with his daughter since his wife left him for a friend. When he accepts an appointment with him, he finds him dead. Dan decides to investigate the circumstances of the death.


Winter's Child
1989 · 1h 24m
country: France
Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.


The Ghost Valley
1987 · 1h 42m
country: France
The efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling woman in his production.


Les fortifs
1987 · 1h 38m
country: France
In 1943, the young Jean rejects the Obligatory Work Service and returns to his native suburb. His house being occupied by the Germans, he decides to create an information network and begins to establish dangerous connections... A fair and discreet fresco of the turbulence that shook the intimate and collective life of the Occupation.


Last Song
1987 · 1h 38m
country: France
Rock star Billy Jackson is found dead with a bullet in his head, a death classified as suicide. His brother Tom leaves the United States to come to Paris to investigate Billy's former relatives.


My Heart Is Red
1977 · 1h 45m
country: France
A poll for an advertising agency during a working day resulting in a series of meetings with women and men from different social strata, each one of them with a different problem.