Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert become fast friends with deadly results in La cérémonie, master auteur Claude Chabrol’s sinister black comedy inspired by the same true events as Jean Genet’s The Maids.

Isabelle Huppert flexes her comic muscles in Serge Bozon’s Tip Top, a topical madcap screwball detective story set in a suburb of the northern French city of Lille.

One of her earliest star turns, The Lacemaker features Isabelle Huppert playing a reserved young hairstylist who experiences the tragic fall-out from an abortive first love.

In Catherine Breillat’s autobiographical Abuse of Weakness, Isabelle Huppert plays a film director progressively scammed out of a sizeable amount of money by a charming con man, who takes advantage of her after her debilitating stroke.

In The Piano Teacher, Isabelle Huppert gives one of cinema's most fearless performances as a piano instructor at a Viennese conservatory whose repressed fantasy life precipitates a series of increasingly aberrant sexual outbursts.

Isabelle Huppert gives as good as she gets in Loulou, Maurice Pialat’s film of love as battleground.