Anne Canovas

Anne Canovas

Born: October 25, 1957
in Algiers, Algeria

Movies for Anne Canovas...

Anaïs in Love
Title: Anaïs in Love
Character: La mère d'Anaïs
Released: September 15, 2021
Type: Movie
A young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.
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The Adulteen
Title: The Adulteen
Character: Madame Mustier
Released: December 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Arnaud Mustier, lawyer and brilliant philosopher, arouses the annoyance of his younger brother Jules, age sixteen. One day, Arnaud is a victim of a late adolescent crisis. Helped by Jules, he is going to catch up this phase of the life which he did not live.
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Title: Falco
Character: Juge Letren
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: TV
In 1991, 24-year-old Detective Alexandre Falco has it all, a loving wife, a new-born daughter and his dream job. But one day out in the field, he is shot in the head. Falco opens his eyes again 22 years later to a changed world, where everything he once had is no longer as it was.
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Title: Murders in...
Character: Marie-Ève Dumoriez
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: TV
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
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Roxana's Hands
Title: Roxana's Hands
Character: Commissaire Laure Demsky
Released: March 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Christansen offers her a transplant of two new hands. What he omits to tell her is that the two hands in question belonged to a woman who murdered her own children. When unexplained incidents happen, followed by a murder in Roxana's entourage, she starts to wonder whether her new hands may be committing crimes of which she's unaware. Police Capitain Almeida, in charge of the investigation, falls in love with Roxana, but she remains the prime suspect. Is it possible that Roxana's hands are urging Roxana to do terrible things she's not even conscious of? Or is she the victim of some terrible plot?
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EVA
Title: EVA
Character: Julia
Released: October 6, 2011
Type: Movie
In 2041, humans live side-by-side with robots and androids. A well-known cybernetic engineer, Alex Garel, returns to his hometown to create a new model of robot child.
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J'ai oublié de te dire
Title: J'ai oublié de te dire
Character: Gabrielle
Released: March 12, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Ah, c'était ça la vie!
Character: Myriam Silberstein
Released: March 3, 2010
Type: TV
A vision of youth in Western Europe in the 50s, literature, jazz, politics and wars intermingle in their dreams, ideals and their first loves.
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Title: The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Character: Hélène Nevers
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
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Death on the Island
Title: Death on the Island
Character: Docteur Wizman
Released: October 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Violette Castillon, a young Parisian lawyer, goes to the Île de Ré where a criminal named Stany claims her to ensure his defense. In exchange, he will tell her the truth about his father, the late robber José Rocca. The day after Violette's arrival on the island, Stany is attacked, a notable from the region is found hanged and other misfortunes befall the island. While the dead are multiplying around her, Violette is determined to discover the truth.
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Premonition
Title: Premonition
Character: Alice Benesteau
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
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Title: Le Maître du Zodiaque
Character: Giovanna Livio
Released: July 10, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: Ange de feu
Character: Françoise Sorel
Released: January 23, 2006
Type: TV
Suicidal Françoise Sorel wants to be buried in Castelnac, the village she was born in Périgord. Her daughter Lola, discovers she doesn't know anything about her parents and their past life. She spends a few days in Castelnac. A man, an ex-friend of her father's, is murdered and Lola is the main suspect...
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An Italian Romance
Title: An Italian Romance
Character: Ines
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
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A Common Thread
Title: A Common Thread
Character: Mme. Lescuyer
Released: May 14, 2004
Type: Movie
French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere Madame Mélikian (Ariane Ascaride), who is grieving over the death of her own child. As the two women work together, they soon develop a supportive and fam
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Le Divorce
Title: Le Divorce
Character: Appraiser
Released: August 8, 2003
Type: Movie
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
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All About Love
Title: All About Love
Character: Maria's mother
Released: April 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a single day on the job she quits, claiming the work hurts her hands and she'd rather start her own restaurant. As Maria plots her next move, she impulsively swipes a piece of lingerie from a store, then tries to lie her way out of the situation when she's caught. But Maria finds that words can't get her out of this bind, and soon she's in jail and dealing with much deeper trouble than she ever imagined possible.
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Ready to Wear
Title: Ready to Wear
Character: Violetta Romney
Released: December 23, 1994
Type: Movie
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
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Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs
Title: Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs
Character: Leila
Released: September 13, 1993
Type: Movie
After a confinement in a harem, an illiterate Algerian takes her revenge by reinventing herself as a writer. Under the name of Elissa Rhaïs, she becomes the darling of the literary Paris of the inter-war period, in search of oriental fantasies.
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Vincent & Theo
Title: Vincent & Theo
Character: Marie
Released: December 2, 1990
Type: Movie
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
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Julie de Carneilhan
Title: Julie de Carneilhan
Character: Marianne
Released: February 20, 1990
Type: Movie
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High Frequency
Title: High Frequency
Character: Sylvie
Released: May 17, 1988
Type: Movie
A boy who operates a ham radio and a man who works at a satellite relay station witness the same murder thousands of miles apart and have to figure out how to warn the next potential victim.
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Promised... sworn!
Title: Promised... sworn!
Character: Paulette
Released: December 9, 1987
Type: Movie
The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.
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Title: Christopher Columbus
Character: Beatriz Enriquez
Released: March 7, 1985
Type: TV
After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.
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Mint Tea
Title: Mint Tea
Character: Joséphine
Released: October 20, 1984
Type: Movie
A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his mother unexpectedly arrives for a visit of several months, he is hard put to hide his circumstances -- and the fact that he has resorted to small-time criminal activity to support himself. His mother disembarks in her traditional attire, a warm-hearted woman who does not have a clue as to how this foreign society functions but also has absolutely no inhibitions about finding out, if the need arises. As the story progresses, the mother catches on to her son's circumstances though the two are still not able to confront the deception and right it. Even with a low budget, this first-time feature-length story by Bahloul Bahloul combines satire, comedy, and pathos to bring home a relationship between mother and son that transcends life's many obstacles.
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Dust of Empire
Title: Dust of Empire
Character: French Woman
Released: October 5, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1954, escorted by a sergeant, a French nun travels through Tonkin, spreading the good Catholic word as she goes. A mute child leads her to a remote village. Installed at a carpenter, the travelers prepare the projection material indispensable to their propaganda. At nightfall, in a storm, a group of maquisards surrounded the house. Fortunately, the carpenter is a respected man. The attackers withdraw. After a sudden rise in water, the mute child loses the precious message that had been entrusted to him by a wounded maquis...
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Zeder
Title: Zeder
Character: Alessandra
Released: August 25, 1983
Type: Movie
A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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La Puce et le privé
Title: La Puce et le privé
Character: Brigitte Marcellin
Released: March 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val, intrigued, decides to investigate.
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Title: Blanc, Bleu, Rouge
Character: Judith Malahougue
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: TV
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Title: Le Jeune Homme vert
Character: Marie Dévote
Released: June 29, 1979
Type: TV
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Bidasses Academy
Title: Bidasses Academy
Character: Karine
Released: September 28, 1978
Type: Movie
On a leave from the army, Cri-Cri gets with his friends and stumbles upon an hamlet of beautiful girls.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Mme Lenormand
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Hillbilly Specialty
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.