Alexandra Stewart

Alexandra Stewart

Born: June 10, 1939
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
​Alexandra Stewart (born June 10, 1939 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress. Besides her cinema career, she regularly appeared on television in shows such as Les Jeux de 20 heures and L'Académie des neuf. She has also appeared in the 1981 cartoon Space Stars and had cameos in Highlander: The Series, The Saint and the pilot episode of The X-Files. She was part of the jury of the 2004 Chicago International Film Festival. She has a daughter, Justine, with the French director Louis Malle.  

Movies for Alexandra Stewart...

After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
Title: After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
Character: Séverine
Released: October 20, 2021
Type: Movie
In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called After Blue, a lonely teenager named Roxy unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous, and sensual assassin from her prison.
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My Last Lullaby
Title: My Last Lullaby
Character: Nani
Released: October 16, 2019
Type: Movie
Is there a suitable age to face a loss for the first time? 20-year-old Paloma has just lost her grandfather. Her entire family gathers in the grandparents' house the day before the funeral. It is a place full of memories, and without noticing, Paloma is led to confront her loss, as if this end of summer marks the end of her frivolity.
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À cause des filles…?
Title: À cause des filles…?
Character: Mother of the bride
Released: January 30, 2019
Type: Movie
At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips away. The guests paint a full picture of clumsiness, lies, and bad luck, that makes impossible, whatever the age, all attempts of seduction... or close enough !
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In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
Title: In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
Character: Self
Released: May 3, 2016
Type: Movie
On 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition hommage, was held in Paris. Actors Stéphane Audran, Guillaume Gouix and Alexandra Stewart read some extracts of Bernard Bastide's new biography Bernadette Lafont, une vie de cinéma, including some original letters written by Bernadette. The event was filmed by Gérard Courant and aired as an episode of Carnets filmés, In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont.
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Joseph Morder tourne « La Duchesse de Varsovie »
Title: Joseph Morder tourne « La Duchesse de Varsovie »
Character: Self
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: Movie
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Duchess of Warsaw
Title: Duchess of Warsaw
Character: Nina
Released: February 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Valentin is a young gay painter who lives in the imaginary world of his paintings. When he finds his grandmother Nina, a Polish Jewish émigré whith whom he feels very close, he confesses his lack of inspiration and loneliness. During these few days together in a psychedelic Paris, Valentin expresses more and more the need to know the past Nina always tried to hide …
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Valentin Valentin
Title: Valentin Valentin
Character: Sylvia
Released: January 7, 2015
Type: Movie
In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
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Merry Christmas
Title: Merry Christmas
Character: Maya Dawn Lewis
Released: December 6, 2013
Type: Movie
With money running low, nine New Yorkers forgo their annual Christmas in Aspen and head to Pennsylvania for a murder-mystery weekend.
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Shotgun Garfunkel
Title: Shotgun Garfunkel
Character: Massive Book Naked Chick
Released: May 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A group of friends in their thirties go on the quest for an epic night out, opening the door to betrayal, lies, honesty and love. This movie was South Africa's attempt at creating the fastest feature film ever made.
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Ma compagne de nuit
Title: Ma compagne de nuit
Character: La mère de Julia
Released: November 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Julia is suffering from a terminal illness. While in hospital she encounters Marine and, taking advantage of the young woman's precarious financial situation, makes her an offer. In exchange for a weekly 1000 euro payment, Marine will accompany Julia to her death. An exclusive and singular relationship forms between the two women.
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The Hidden Face
Title: The Hidden Face
Character: Emma
Released: September 16, 2011
Type: Movie
A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.
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À deux c'est plus facile
Title: À deux c'est plus facile
Character: Madeleine
Released: December 12, 2009
Type: Movie
In order not to be thrown from his big Parisian apartment by his sister, the idiosyncratic pensioner Joseph takes the 20-year-old farmer's daughter Marilyn with him. She wants to complete an apprenticeship as a make-up artist in the capital, preferably for horror films. An unequal pair, which soon finds attraction as well as rejection.
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Bazar
Title: Bazar
Character: Joanna
Released: December 2, 2009
Type: Movie
Gabrielle, a pleasant woman in her sixties, learns that she is about to be evicted from her second-hand shop...
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Malle's Fire Within
Title: Malle's Fire Within
Character: Self
Released: May 13, 2008
Type: Movie
In these interviews, conducted in 2008, actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff discuss the making of The Fire Within.
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Fallen Heroes
Title: Fallen Heroes
Character: Bruno's mother
Released: March 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to remain nothing more than a son, he begins his downward slide, as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which there is no escape. Bruno can never have children .He says nothing about this diagnosis to Anne, his beloved wife. Nor does he tell her about a large debt he has taken out. It is as if Bruno were a man without any qualities or talents. A mediocre man who has lost all pride. Though now everything appears hazy in his memory. Like a river that flows peacefully, showing no signs of the hidden currents at work below. But at times those currents can return to the surface. Without warning.
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El Cantor
Title: El Cantor
Character: Edna
Released: March 15, 2006
Type: Movie
William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Title: By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Character: Mrs. Boscovan
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
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Photo de famille
Title: Photo de famille
Character: Miss Phillipe
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Joshua, in his thirties, has just learned that his file has been classified “child of X” : in other words, the identity of his parents remains unknown to this very day. He thereupon decides to designate his parents himself and sets out to “conquer” his unknown mother and father.
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Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Title: Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Character: Female Client
Released: August 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Eight-year-old Judith was plucked from everyday life to act in a film that was made in Paris. After returning home from the experience, she finds that her parents' marriage is on the rocks. She makes her way back to Paris with her friend Nora, and the two of them do what they can to survive.
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Faut-il tuer le clown ?
Title: Faut-il tuer le clown ?
Character: Gabrielle Chassagne
Released: April 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Fifi Martingale
Title: Fifi Martingale
Released: September 5, 2001
Type: Movie
The stage director of the play L’œuf de Pâquesis given the importante Molière award. Taking this reward for a bad joke, he thinks that a conspiracy mounts against him and decides to rewrite the play, transforming it into Molière’s La critique de l’École des femmes.
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Under the Sand
Title: Under the Sand
Character: Amanda
Released: September 11, 2000
Type: Movie
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
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La Candide Madame Duff
Title: La Candide Madame Duff
Character: Tante Lou
Released: March 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Married to a younger woman, Jacob sinks into jealousy, alcohol and violence.
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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Title: One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: May 15, 1999
Type: Movie
A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The title of the film is a play on the title of Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Seven Servants
Title: Seven Servants
Character: Hilda
Released: October 4, 1996
Type: Movie
An elderly man wants to exit earth in a state of unity with all creatures. To that end, he hires a quartet of manservants to plug his facial orifices with their fingers.
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Son of Gascogne
Title: Son of Gascogne
Character: Self
Released: February 18, 1995
Type: Movie
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
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Flammen der Liebe
Title: Flammen der Liebe
Character: Elena
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Highlander: Unholy Alliance
Title: Highlander: Unholy Alliance
Character: Catherine Legris
Released: February 21, 1994
Type: Movie
Immortal Xavier St. Cloud has mortals shoot his Immortal opponents so he can take their heads. Joe tells Duncan about the killings to warn him, and soon St. Cloud and his henchmen show up at the dojo. Duncan discovers the supposedly-dead Horton is working with St. Cloud, and Joe knew that Horton was alive. Meanwhile, an army intelligence officer named Renee Delaney gets involved while she is investigating one of the men working with St. Cloud.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Catherine Legris
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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John
Title: John
Character: Jane Clayton
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Le Retour de Lemmy Caution
Title: Le Retour de Lemmy Caution
Character: Domino
Released: July 2, 1989
Type: Movie
The owner of Black Angel is shot by Mamba, a killer in the pay of the Chinese mafia. The victim's daughter, who witnessed the murder and knows she is threatened, refuses to collaborate with the police and prefers to call on an old friend of her father's, Lemmy Caution, but is this man, who lives on an island paradise, still old enough to play the vigilante?
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: Cécile
Released: April 12, 1989
Type: Movie
This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved).
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Title: Bordertown
Character: Alexandra Cord
Released: January 7, 1989
Type: TV
Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed Bordertown when the western border between the United States and Canada was surveyed in 1880, dividing the town.
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The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Title: The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Character: Suzanne
Released: August 24, 1988
Type: Movie
A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.
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The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
Title: The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
Character: Mrs. Cornfield
Released: May 4, 1988
Type: Movie
An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.
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Frantic
Title: Frantic
Character: Edie
Released: February 19, 1988
Type: Movie
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
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Under the Cherry Moon
Title: Under the Cherry Moon
Character: Mrs. Sharon
Released: July 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first, Tricky has Christopher Tracy talked into romancing her for her money, but in getting to know her, Christopher falls in love with her. This love comes between the brothers, and Tricky tells about the plan.
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Angel's Skin
Title: Angel's Skin
Character: Héléna
Released: January 29, 1986
Type: Movie
Héléna Werner leads a reclusive and deserted life. Alone, as if withdrawn from the world in her apartment of refined luxury. She places an ad for a private secretary, a "handyman" who would take her away from the daily grind. As soon as he starts working, Milo adopts an intriguing behavior. From the start, he takes everything in hand and the doors of the apartment close on them both.
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L'Herbe rouge
Title: L'Herbe rouge
Character: Aglaé
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.
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Title: Mistral's Daughter
Character: Mary Jane Kilkullen
Released: September 24, 1984
Type: TV
Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant and selfish man who places his work above everything. Their paths diverge as Mistral's art catches the eye of a rich American woman who becomes his patroness and eventually his wife. During the war years in France, Mistral collaborates with the Nazis in order to continue with his work, a decision that will come back to haunt him years later. In the meantime, Maggy has a daughter named Teddy who grows up and falls in love with Mistral with whom she has a child named Fauve. As Mistral ages, he comes to terms with his selfish past and wartime betrayal through his art, leaving a beautiful legacy for his daughter, Fauve.
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The Blood of Others
Title: The Blood of Others
Character: Madeleine
Released: May 2, 1984
Type: Movie
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
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Charlots' Connection
Title: Charlots' Connection
Character: Liane
Released: February 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Three friends begin to work the rent collectors. Fee collection goes with a lot of comic episodes...
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Le Bon Plaisir
Title: Le Bon Plaisir
Character: Julie Hoffman
Released: January 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
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Title: The Hitchhiker
Character: Jackie Winslow
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: TV
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
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Femmes
Title: Femmes
Character: Alexandra
Released: June 22, 1983
Type: Movie
Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with her
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Sans Soleil
Title: Sans Soleil
Character: Narrator (English Version) (voice)
Released: March 2, 1983
Type: Movie
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
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La Guérilléra
Title: La Guérilléra
Character: Alexandrine
Released: December 9, 1982
Type: Movie
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Le Choc
Title: Le Choc
Character: Wife of first victim (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...
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Chassé-croisé
Title: Chassé-croisé
Character: Une femme sculpteur
Released: March 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.
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Looking for Jesus
Title: Looking for Jesus
Character: Madre di Francesca
Released: March 3, 1982
Type: Movie
An average Joe becomes the poster boy for a book about Jesus due to his Christ-like appearance, but his meek and good-hearted nature ends up clashing with the publisher's earthly-minded motives.
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Title: Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Character: Clara
Released: September 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless pit!
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Title: Space Stars
Character: Jan (voice)
Released: September 12, 1981
Type: TV
Space Stars is a 1981 NBC Saturday morning cartoon created by Hanna-Barbera which ran from 1981-1982 on NBC and Nickelodeon.
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Madame Claude 2
Title: Madame Claude 2
Character: Mme Claude
Released: August 26, 1981
Type: Movie
A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny.
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Le Beau Monde
Title: Le Beau Monde
Character: Diane
Released: June 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Jean Pierre, a young Parisian salesman, decides to go on vacation by hitchhiking at random. Taken as a jaguar by a rich man, he finds himself invited to his villa in Saint Tropez and discovers a luxurious, idle and decadent universe. A tasty TV movie, written and directed by Michel Polac, with a very young Fabrice Luchini.
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Bolero: Dance of Life
Title: Bolero: Dance of Life
Character: Alexandra
Released: May 27, 1981
Type: Movie
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
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The Last Chase
Title: The Last Chase
Character: Eudora
Released: April 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
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Help Me Dream
Title: Help Me Dream
Character: Magda
Released: March 26, 1981
Type: Movie
In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.
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Chanel Solitaire
Title: Chanel Solitaire
Character: Nathalie
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.
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Final Assignment
Title: Final Assignment
Character: Sam O'Donnell
Released: October 1, 1980
Type: Movie
An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat.
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Phobia
Title: Phobia
Character: Barbara Grey
Released: September 9, 1980
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.
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Agency
Title: Agency
Character: Mimi Oliveri
Released: February 14, 1980
Type: Movie
A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...
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Le Soleil en face
Title: Le Soleil en face
Character: Sandra
Released: January 16, 1980
Type: Movie
Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns she is diagnosed with cancer, she tries to hide the truth. But Marat doesn't take time to know.
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In Praise of Older Women
Title: In Praise of Older Women
Character: Paula
Released: September 22, 1978
Type: Movie
Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
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Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Title: Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Character: Théo Casarès
Released: August 23, 1978
Type: Movie
An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
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Emmanuelle 3
Title: Emmanuelle 3
Character: Dorothée
Released: October 14, 1977
Type: Movie
Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows very traditional signs of jealousy.
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The Uncanny
Title: The Uncanny
Character: Mrs. Joan Blake (segment "Quebec Province 1975")
Released: August 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
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Julie pot-de-colle
Title: Julie pot-de-colle
Character: Delphine
Released: April 20, 1977
Type: Movie
Julie asks Jean-Luc Farlot, authorized signatory of a big European bank to help her disguise a murder as an accident.
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Un animal doué de déraison
Title: Un animal doué de déraison
Character: Alexandra
Released: March 24, 1976
Type: Movie
A wealthy French promoter based in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but trapped in her strict education.
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Black Moon
Title: Black Moon
Character: Sister Lily
Released: September 24, 1975
Type: Movie
There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio.
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The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days
Title: The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days
Character: Barbara Lawrence
Released: April 28, 1975
Type: Movie
A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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The Marseille Contract
Title: The Marseille Contract
Character: Rita
Released: September 4, 1974
Type: Movie
An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.
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Bingo
Title: Bingo
Character: Hélène
Released: March 14, 1974
Type: Movie
A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
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Day for Night
Title: Day for Night
Character: Stacey
Released: May 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Title: Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Character: La paysanne
Released: March 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
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Because of the Cats
Title: Because of the Cats
Character: Feodora
Released: March 15, 1973
Type: Movie
A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.
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Title: Graf Luckner
Character: Jean
Released: February 20, 1973
Type: TV
Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix Graf von Lucker and his fictitious ship Niobe, which is the 1887 built Amphitrite from Southampton. Von Luckner is famous for his tactical genius in the first World War, especially sinking 14 enemy ships and only losing one crewman, whilst always seeking a peaceful outcome - making him the ideal seaman.
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Sugar Cookies
Title: Sugar Cookies
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1973
Type: Movie
A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.
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Title: L'Homme qui revient de loin
Character: Fanny de la Boissière
Released: September 18, 1972
Type: TV
The story of a rich and arrogant owner of a French château who disappears suddenly, leaving the direction of his company to his younger brother and his ambitious wife Fanny. But soon, the ghost of the missing brother arrives to disrupt the couple’s dream life.
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The Suns of Easter Island
Title: The Suns of Easter Island
Character: Alexandra
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
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Title: Les Évasions célèbres
Character: Lucrezia
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Far from Dallas
Title: Far from Dallas
Character: Jean's Wife
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Thriller centered round the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Title: Tanz auf dem Regenbogen
Character: Patricia
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: TV
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Where Did Tom Go?
Title: Where Did Tom Go?
Character: Alexandra
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested he ends up in a jail full of political prisoners for whose freedom he had been working. Eventually he manages to escape but only one would follow him. The others preferred to stay and testify before the court.
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Zeppelin
Title: Zeppelin
Character: Stephanie
Released: April 8, 1971
Type: Movie
The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.
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Ciel bleu
Title: Ciel bleu
Released: March 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Nicholas is a conscience-stricken international news photographer. Revolted by what he has seen in wars in Africa and Indochina, he leaves his job and his girlfriend to do sports coverage. While covering a rugby match between the French and Irish teams in Ireland, he runs into an ex-American girlfriend, and their affair begins again. As she is very down-to-earth, she helps him begin to sort things out.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Them
Title: Them
Released: November 18, 1970
Type: Movie
An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...
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Kemek
Title: Kemek
Character: Marisa Love
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A wealthy, eccentric chemical company owner sends his woman to get an American writer to take a mind control drug, Kemek, to verify its potential. She accomplishes her mission, but falls totally in love with the writer. The chemical magnate, satisfied with the results of the test, rewards her with murder, just as she is about to flee to Naples with her new lover. Her ex-husband and a private detective track the killer behind it all to a remote hideaway to unravel the solution.
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The Man Who Had Power Over Women
Title: The Man Who Had Power Over Women
Character: Frances
Released: August 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
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Le lys dans la vallée
Title: Le lys dans la vallée
Character: Arabelle, Lady Dudley
Released: May 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes her life to a half-mad husband and two fragile children. Madame de Mortsauf maintains a friendly, tender relationship. But when she learns of the young man's affair with an Englishwoman, she dies of jealousy and regret.
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Slap in the Face
Title: Slap in the Face
Character: Celestine
Released: March 5, 1970
Type: Movie
Dressed only with a muff, Eva - naked as God created her - reaches the conference room of the big bank to expose Terbanks' capitalists and bankers and to protest against capitalism and exploitation. But the naked woman from the "Red October" community slapped the wrong man and pursued tangible own interests in the form of inherited shares ...
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Obsessions
Title: Obsessions
Character: Marina
Released: August 15, 1969
Type: Movie
A young medical student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.
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Umano Non Umano
Title: Umano Non Umano
Character: Self
Released: May 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
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Bye Bye Barbara
Title: Bye Bye Barbara
Character: Eve Michelli
Released: March 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.
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Only When I Larf
Title: Only When I Larf
Character: Liz
Released: May 27, 1968
Type: Movie
A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
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Spray of the Days
Title: Spray of the Days
Character: Isis
Released: April 21, 1968
Type: Movie
Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.
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The Bride Wore Black
Title: The Bride Wore Black
Character: Mlle Becker
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Julie Kohler, whose husband was inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding, is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her.
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Waiting for Caroline
Title: Waiting for Caroline
Character: Caroline
Released: June 21, 1967
Type: Movie
An indecisive young woman with an abnormal devotion to her father can't decide on which of her two boyfriends she should end her relationship with.
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Law of Survival
Title: Law of Survival
Character: Hélène
Released: April 19, 1967
Type: Movie
In 1960, Stan, the protagonist, after having made a fortune in Asia, returns to Corsica, to visit a friend's tomb. In Ajaccio, he meets Helene, who she rescues from her kidnappers, who take advantage of her "charms" in a house of ill reputation. They hide then somewhere in the mountains, where they are pursued by the Corsican mobsters...
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Maroc 7
Title: Maroc 7
Character: Michelle Craig
Released: March 22, 1967
Type: Movie
The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.
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The Wedding March
Title: The Wedding March
Character: Nancy
Released: February 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.
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Thrilling
Title: Thrilling
Character: Frida (segment "Il vittimista")
Released: October 21, 1965
Type: Movie
An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
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Mickey One
Title: Mickey One
Character: Jenny
Released: September 27, 1965
Type: Movie
A former comic is on the run from the mob.
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The Heat of a Thousand Suns
Title: The Heat of a Thousand Suns
Character: (voice)
Released: July 21, 1965
Type: Movie
A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet he discovers a serene, tranquil culture and falls in love with a girl. The story follows his problems adjusting to their sociological standards and customs where family units are comprised of sexual groups of eight people.
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Man Called Gringo
Title: Man Called Gringo
Character: Lucy
Released: March 19, 1965
Type: Movie
Dakota, 1880. In Silver Springs, with the help of hired thugs, a lawyer tries to take over the town by sabotage, theft and brutal murders. The arrival in town of a new undercover sheriff hinder their plans.
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Title: Dim Dam Dom
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: TV
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Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
Title: Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
Character: Laura
Released: February 27, 1964
Type: Movie
A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland.
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Thank You, Natercia
Title: Thank You, Natercia
Character: Sandra
Released: February 17, 1964
Type: Movie
A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia realizes that Alain no longer needs her.
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And So to Bed
Title: And So to Bed
Character: Rektorengattin
Released: November 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute.
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The Fire Within
Title: The Fire Within
Character: Solange
Released: October 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for all. His wife, living in New York, continues to pay for his treatment, but no longer contacts him directly. He intends to commit suicide, but first takes a ride to Paris to catch up with old friends.
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Sweet and Sour
Title: Sweet and Sour
Character: Anna, la fille de couverture
Released: September 4, 1963
Type: Movie
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
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The Endless Night
Title: The Endless Night
Character: Juanita
Released: May 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Berlin.
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Secret Violence
Title: Secret Violence
Character: Elisabetta
Released: February 24, 1963
Type: Movie
An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her is as tyrannical as more overt superior colonialist dogma. Based on a novel by Enrico Emmanuele.
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Title: Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Character: Alexandra (segment "Il nuovo mondo")
Released: February 19, 1963
Type: Movie
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
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The New World
Title: The New World
Character: Alexandra
Released: February 19, 1963
Type: Movie
This short film shows a young couple during a short period after the explosion of a nuclear bomb 120 km above Paris. The city appears unaffected, but the man begins to notice changes in the behavior of the people in general and in that of his girl friend in particular. Part of the Italian anthology film RoGoPaG (1962).
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Bekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn
Title: Bekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn
Character: Prinzessin
Released: January 4, 1963
Type: Movie
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Title: The Saint
Character: Natalie Sheridan
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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A Swelled Head
Title: A Swelled Head
Character: Françoise
Released: June 20, 1962
Type: Movie
A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.
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Climates of Love
Title: Climates of Love
Character: Misa
Released: April 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity and Philippe's jealousy drive the couple apart. Philippe, manager of the family printing business, finds solace in Isabelle, a long-time employee at the paper mill. Isabelle's routine life, entirely devoted to her work, leads Philippe to strike up a romantic relationship with the playful young Misa. But, faced with Isabelle's grief, Philippe puts an end to the romance. When Odile, inconsolable since their break-up, finally commits suicide, Philippe realizes that she was his true love.
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Homage at Siesta Time
Title: Homage at Siesta Time
Character: Marianne Graham
Released: January 21, 1962
Type: Movie
The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungle to pay homage to them.
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The Season for Love
Title: The Season for Love
Character: Sandra
Released: June 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Sylvain, a suave, witty player as well as an accomplished writer and Genevieve met 10 months ago. He wanted a serious relationship for the first time so they moved to the country so they could be together and he could write.
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Naked Autumn
Title: Naked Autumn
Character: Hélène
Released: May 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then Milan returns to drive in Formula One.
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The Passion of Slow Fire
Title: The Passion of Slow Fire
Character: Belle
Released: March 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is found murdered. Despite Stéphane's innocence, the evidence points to him, and he learns that Belle harbored romantic feelings for him. Suspicions mount against him; even Christine thinks he is the culprit. Stéphane's sanity begins to crumble, and he lashes out in unprecedented ways.
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Midnight Meeting
Title: Midnight Meeting
Character: Jacqueline
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?
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Exodus
Title: Exodus
Character: Jordana Ben Canaan
Released: December 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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Trapped by Fear
Title: Trapped by Fear
Character: Véra
Released: November 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Frapier is a newspaper reporter, and one day finds his friend Porte - surrounded by the police after a car theft, and an accidental killing of a police officer. He helps him escape, and provides shelter with the complicity of his girlfriend Vera. Later, Frapier will have doubts about Vera's love, and lives a passionate night with beautiful Arabelle. However, he finds himself playing a game of life and death both with Vera, and Porte. It will end in sadness for one, and death for another.
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Tarzan the Magnificent
Title: Tarzan the Magnificent
Character: Lori
Released: July 20, 1960
Type: Movie
After the Banton family rob a store is a small village and kill the local police constable, Tarzan captures one of them, Coy Banton. He decides to return him to the authorities so that the dead policeman's family will benefit from the $5000 reward. The head of the clan, Abel Banton and his two sons have no intention of letting Tarzan deliver Coy and burn the river boat they were to use. Several of the passengers are now stranded forcing Tarzan to take them along on a trek through the jungle. Abel Banton trails them intent not only getting his son back but getting rid of Tarzan.
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Le bel âge
Title: Le bel âge
Character: Alexandra
Released: February 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
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A Game for Six Lovers
Title: A Game for Six Lovers
Character: Séraphine
Released: January 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of the will, even though they have been estranged from the family at an early age. However Robert, who had been living with Fifine in an open relationship, arrives and impersonates Jean-Paul. Robert falls for Fifine's cousin Miléna while Fifine has designs on Miguel. In the meantime, the butler César is focusing his lecherous intentions on Prudence, the maid he had just hired.
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The Motorcycle Cops
Title: The Motorcycle Cops
Character: The announcer
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police.
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The Woman From the Sunken Island
Title: The Woman From the Sunken Island
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The story takes us to an island with no future, given that it’s already partly submerged underwater. A woman is caring for ten or so very elderly individuals, but the arrival of five travellers turns their lives upside down…