Jean-Marc Barr
16 titles
Filmography
16 results

The Big Blue
(1988)The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.

Europa
(1991)This early triumph by Lars von Trier, which won no less than three prizes at Cannes, is one of his most bizarre yet accessible works: a feverish retooling of film noir, an unhinged thriller, and a visually mind-blowing odyssey into a nightmare of our past.

The Cellar
(2018)A slumming musician whose marriage is falling apart turns to desperate and lawless measures when his daughter suddenly goes missing.
Blood On The Docks
In French with English subtitles. The Port of Le Havre is at war with the gangsters who control the local drug trade, and on the front line are two cops, each with a very different approach. By-the-book Richard Faraday plays good cop, while Paul Winckler is the bad boy who's not shy about bending the law if it gets results.

And They Call It Summer
(2012)A man haunted by psychological trauma sabotages his relationship through sexual dysfunction and obsessive behavior, despite deeply loving his partner.

Silent Land
(2022)After arriving at an Italian villa, vacationers Adam and Anna discover that the swimming pool on the property is empty. Ignorant to the fact that the island is facing a water shortage, they call for it to be repaired. But when the migrant worker sent to fix the problem suffers a deadly accident, the chain of events that follows shakes their moral foundations to the core.

My Best Part
(2020)Nicolas Maury (Netflix's Call My Agent! and Knife+Heart) stars in this Cannes Official Competition coming-of-age dramedy as Jérémie, a hypersensitive struggling actor with an uncontrollable green-eyed monster on his back. Grappling with personal loss, a love life in shambles, and a faltering career, Jérémie turns to his clear-headed mother for support (Nathalie Baye in one of the loveliest roles of her career) in this auspicious, often touching, directorial debut.

Breaking the Waves
(1996)In a remote Scottish village, a devoted couple’s marriage is interrupted by a tragic accident. Physical intimacy is replaced with verbal frankness, as the wide-eyed Bess devotes her body to the erotic impulses of her husband. It’s a journey of sexual martyrdom and religious ecstasy, portrayed with unwavering commitment by Emily Watson in her remarkable film debut.

Making Plans for Lena
(2009)Recently liberated from her job and husband, Lena heads home for the holidays, hoping to enjoy at least a temporary escape from all she's gone through.

UK18
(2017)After stumbling onto something shocking, a documentary filmmaker begins to think she is being brainwashed by a shadow government group.

Tara Road
(2005)Two women, one American and one Irish, swap houses and alter the course of their lives. Starring Andie MacDowell, Iain Glen, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Olivia Williams.

The Pod Generation
(2023)In the near future, a couple secures a spot at the Womb Center, where detachable artificial pods offer a convenient, shareable form of pregnancy.

Manderlay
(2005)A difficult yet rewarding film from the equally complex Danish provocateur Lars von Trier! This fiercely polemical, little-seen sequel to Dogville tackles a topic as sensitive as slavery, all the while maintaining its predecessor’s Brechtian premise, anti-American bent, and yes, its brilliance.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
(2013)NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME II continues the story of the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her adulthood, during which her journey of self-discovery leads to darker complications. With Jamie Bell, Willem Dafoe, Stellan Skarsgård.

Bad Banks
After being wrongly fired from Crédit International, a prestigious Investment bank in Luxembourg, Jana Liekam, a talented young investment banker, is offered a dream-job in Frankfurt under the supervision of prominent Gabriel Fenger, Head of Investment Banking at Deutsche Invest. Suddenly, Jana not only had to give up her job, but also leave her boyfriend and his 5-year-old daughter behind. While Jana quickly manages to impress Fenger and his team with her passion and ambition, she realizes only too late that Christelle Leblanc, her former boss at Crédit International, has secretly been pulling the strings and manipulating Jana to her own advantage. Soon, Jana finds herself torn between her new obligations and Leblanc’s relentless blackmail…will she and her career survive this merciless powerplay?

Anthracite
An old case is wrenched open when a reporter goes missing, leading his web sleuth daughter to a small mountain town haunted by a sect, secrecy and death.