Catherine Spaak

Catherine Spaak

Born: April 3, 1945
Died: April 17, 2022
in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Catherine Spaak (3 April 1945 - 17 April 2022) is a French-Italian actress and singer.

Spaak spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star. From age 15 to 18, Spaak was the lead actress in at least 12 movies. As an adult, she appeared in many comedies and a few dramas from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. Most of them were for the Italian film industry, with some Hollywood or international productions. Among her most notable titles are Circle of Love (1964, directed by Roger Vadim), The Man, the Woman and the Money (1965, starring Marcello Mastroianni), The Incredible Army of Brancaleone (1966, written by Age & Scarpelli), Adultery Italian Style (1966), Hotel (1967), the sex comedy The Libertine (1969), Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969, with Claudia Cardinale), the drama The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971, written and directed by Dario Argento), the nunsploitation film Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), the controversial My Darling Slave (1973), the western Take a Hard Ride (1975), Sunday Lovers (1980), and Miele di donna (1981).

Movies for Catherine Spaak...

La vacanza
Title: La vacanza
Character: Carla
Released: September 3, 2020
Type: Movie
An upcoming film directed by Enrico Iannaccone. Valerio (Antonio Folletto) is a thirty year old man who leads a self-destructive life. The still beautiful Carla (Catherine Spaak) is an ex-magistrate, who begins to show the first signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's. Contrary to Valerio she has an overwhelming desire to live. These two tormented souls become friends and together they find the strength to confront the pains and secrets of their past. They are both related to a mysterious woman, Anneke (Veruschka von Lehndorff ). This is a journey of two people who are so different and yet so similar, sharing their most painful emotions. It will lead them to the discovery of a new way of loving.
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Ti sposo ma non troppo
Title: Ti sposo ma non troppo
Character: la madre di Andrea (lei)
Released: April 20, 2014
Type: Movie
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I più grandi di tutti
Title: I più grandi di tutti
Character: Esmeralda
Released: April 4, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Zen
Character: Donata
Released: January 2, 2011
Type: TV
Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on location in Italy, but the dialogue is in English. The series, which comprises three 90-minute films, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings from 2 January 2011 on BBC One. The three films were based on the books Vendetta, Cabal and Ratking.
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Alice
Title: Alice
Character: Bianca
Released: June 25, 2010
Type: Movie
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L'uomo privato
Title: L'uomo privato
Character: Ex amante
Released: February 21, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Questa è la mia terra
Character: Emma De Santis
Released: April 9, 2006
Type: TV
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Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Title: Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Character: La mère supérieure
Released: January 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
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Dalla parte giusta
Title: Dalla parte giusta
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Te lo leggo negli occhi
Title: Te lo leggo negli occhi
Character: Conduttrice TV
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: Movie
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Promessa d'amore
Title: Promessa d'amore
Character: Elisa
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Three orphans that grew up in an institution and refused to be separated by adoption meet again after becoming adults at the wedding of one of them.
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Tandem
Title: Tandem
Character: Madre di Camilla
Released: November 30, 2000
Type: Movie
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Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
Title: Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
Character: Veronica Benetti
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: Movie
As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but his lover at home, Anna, daughter of Karl's general manager Dr. Werner. Christian has a bad eye in Veronica, the woman who became Karl's much younger lover 'by travel fate', the first thing soon proved untrue. But by then, the Schneibel firm and estate have been taken over according to an elaborate conspiracy, which Christian takes on with some help from his friends.
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Secret Scandal
Title: Secret Scandal
Character: Laura
Released: April 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Marguerite receives as a gift from a filmmaker friend: a very modern, automatic camera, complete with remote control. Her life will change dramatically, as the machine reveals to her not only her husband's betrayal with her best friend, but also the desolation of her own existence.
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E se poi se ne vanno?
Title: E se poi se ne vanno?
Character: Francesca
Released: October 29, 1989
Type: Movie
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E Non Se Ne Vogliono Andare!
Title: E Non Se Ne Vogliono Andare!
Character: Francesca
Released: May 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: La voglia di vincere
Character: Lisa
Released: March 15, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Family Business
Character: Marisa Benetti
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: TV
The story of two sisters, two very different women: one is a determined and concrete businessman, the other a sweet and sensitive artist. Divided over everything, they will fall in love with the same man.
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Title: Forum
Character: Self - Host
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
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La Martingale
Title: La Martingale
Character: Giordana Muller
Released: October 13, 1983
Type: Movie
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Honey
Title: Honey
Character: Writer
Released: May 8, 1981
Type: Movie
A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.
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Catherine and I
Title: Catherine and I
Character: Claudia Parise
Released: December 19, 1980
Type: Movie
Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, has a difficult relationship with his wife, maid and secretary/lover. During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him the key to solving all of his problems: Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid that does all domestic chores better than any human.
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The Precarious Bank Teller
Title: The Precarious Bank Teller
Character: Elena De Fanti - la moglie di Arturo
Released: March 14, 1980
Type: Movie
The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
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Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi
Title: Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi
Character: Ottavio's Wife (segment "Il teorema gregoriano")
Released: December 23, 1978
Type: Movie
For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fallen ill of "fallophobia" and consults a healer, a supposed extraterrestrial who is actually a young Swedish man who "works" for certain American psychologists.
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Horse Fever
Title: Horse Fever
Character: Gabriella
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
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Title: Domenica In
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 1976
Type: TV
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Burnt By A Scalding Passion
Title: Burnt By A Scalding Passion
Character: Milena Banotti
Released: August 12, 1976
Type: Movie
Virginia and Casimiro are both married with children to passionate spouses, while they are shy and devoted to poetry, crying watching "Anna Karenina" on TV. They commute every day from a little town in Lombardy to Milan and during the journeys they meet and fall in love. They suffer from being unable to realize their love without hurting their marriages but they don't know their respective spouses share a hot relationship...
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Take a Hard Ride
Title: Take a Hard Ride
Character: Catherine
Released: October 29, 1975
Type: Movie
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Senora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
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The Birds of Baden-Baden
Title: The Birds of Baden-Baden
Character: Elisa
Released: May 2, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Way of the Baboons
Title: The Way of the Baboons
Character: Fiorenza
Released: September 27, 1974
Type: Movie
In full marital crisis, Fiorenza, young Roman bourgeois, must travel to Eritrea to her dying father, former colonizer who made his fortune there. On the death of it, rather than return to Italy, Fiorenza decides to spend some time there, and met the extravagant Getulio, determined to make him discover Africa.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Story of a Cloistered Nun
Title: Story of a Cloistered Nun
Character: Sister Elisabeth
Released: November 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth, and the stern but evil Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.
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My Darling Slave
Title: My Darling Slave
Character: Rosalba
Released: October 4, 1973
Type: Movie
Demetrio Cultrera, is a young rich car dealership Sicilian bachelor who becomes engaged to the beautiful and rich Rosalba Giordano. After their wedding, Rosalba's attitude changes when she decides to try turning Demetrio into the modern husband she'd like. This causes a problem, as Demetrius prefers sticking to what he sees as more traditional gender roles. Despite her attempts, Rosalba's persistent attempts to convert him to the rituals of high society, enlightened, or feminine tastes do little more than annoy him. Strongly determined to build a stable relationship with a woman who can fulfill his visions of peaceful married life, he leaves for the Amazon, where he is offered the opportunity to choose and buy a new wife as a slave. The choice falls on the beautiful and docile Manua that he trains to act the way he'd like, then proudly shows to friends and to his former wife, attracting curiosity, envy, and his ex-wife's resentment.
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Dear Parents
Title: Dear Parents
Character: Madeleine
Released: February 9, 1973
Type: Movie
An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with the young woman's world. During the brief days they spend together, the women come to acknowledge the insurmountable differences that exist between them despite the love they share.
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A Murder Is a Murder
Title: A Murder Is a Murder
Character: Françoise
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
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Cause of Divorce
Title: Cause of Divorce
Character: Ernesta Maini
Released: March 3, 1972
Type: Movie
A couple is short of money and got marital problems. Sylverte knows Enrica and intent to marry her but before he needs divorce from his wife.
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The Boxer
Title: The Boxer
Character: Claire, Nick's daughter
Released: February 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die.
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The Cat o' Nine Tails
Title: The Cat o' Nine Tails
Character: Anna Terzi
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: Movie
A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
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With What Love, With What Love
Title: With What Love, With What Love
Character: Françoise
Released: January 29, 1970
Type: Movie
After spending many years as husband and wife, the architect Andrea discovers that his partner Francesca is cheating on him with Ernesto, his best friend. Andrea decides to forgive them, but as time passes he realizes that he wants to win Francesca back and decides to play all his cards during his rival's absence...
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Diary of a Telephone Operator
Title: Diary of a Telephone Operator
Character: Nanda
Released: November 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Title: If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Character: Woman Posing for Photographer
Released: April 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
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A Rather Complicated Girl
Title: A Rather Complicated Girl
Character: Claudia
Released: February 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
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The Libertine
Title: The Libertine
Character: Margherita
Released: December 23, 1968
Type: Movie
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
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Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Title: Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Character: Allegra
Released: February 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!
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Night Is Made for Stealing
Title: Night Is Made for Stealing
Character: Valentine
Released: September 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A young widow, her nephew and various other characters attempt to steal the jewels contained in a supposedly inviolable safe.
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The Man with the Balloons
Title: The Man with the Balloons
Character: Giovanna
Released: August 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
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Hotel
Title: Hotel
Character: Jeanne Rochefort
Released: January 19, 1967
Type: Movie
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
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Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore
Title: Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore
Character: Ombrina
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
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For Love and Gold
Title: For Love and Gold
Character: Matelda
Released: April 7, 1966
Type: Movie
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
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Adultery Italian Style
Title: Adultery Italian Style
Character: Marta
Released: March 25, 1966
Type: Movie
To get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover.
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Mademoiselle de Maupin
Title: Mademoiselle de Maupin
Character: Magdeleine de Maupin
Released: January 13, 1966
Type: Movie
Mademoiselle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore. An army recruiter forces Theodore to enlist in the King's army, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. Theodore is assigned to be aide-de-camp to Alcibiade, a man as virile in combat, as he seems troubled for the figure of his aid. D'Albert, an aristocrat, will expose Theodore's true sex, and after a number of confusing, comedy situations, Alcibiade will appease his troubled feelings.
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Oggi, domani, dopodomani
Title: Oggi, domani, dopodomani
Character: Giovanna
Released: December 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Italian comedy film in three segments
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Made in Italy
Title: Made in Italy
Character: Carolina (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 2")
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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Six Days a Week
Title: Six Days a Week
Character: Maria / Silvana / Caterina
Released: March 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A young woman tries to deceive both her husband and her prospective lover, but is hoist with her own petard.
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Title: Weekend at Dunkirk
Character: Jeanne
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
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Circle of Love
Title: Circle of Love
Character: La midinette
Released: October 16, 1964
Type: Movie
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
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Three Nights of Love
Title: Three Nights of Love
Character: Ghiga /Giselle/ Cirilla
Released: October 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.
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La calda vita
Title: La calda vita
Character: Sergia
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage male friends to go for a beach vacation. Their main motive is to try to win her affection and get to sleep with her. Tragedy soon follows when the love triangle unravels.
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The Empty Canvas
Title: The Empty Canvas
Character: Cecilia
Released: December 4, 1963
Type: Movie
An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
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The Little Nuns
Title: The Little Nuns
Character: Sister Celeste
Released: August 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
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The Girl from Parma
Title: The Girl from Parma
Character: Dora
Released: February 13, 1963
Type: Movie
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
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Sex Can Be Difficult
Title: Sex Can Be Difficult
Character: Valeria (segment "Le donne")
Released: December 24, 1962
Type: Movie
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
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Il Sorpasso
Title: Il Sorpasso
Character: Lilli Cortona
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Eighteen in the Sun
Title: Eighteen in the Sun
Character: Nicole Molino
Released: August 11, 1962
Type: Movie
An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.
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Crazy Desire
Title: Crazy Desire
Character: Francesca
Released: March 15, 1962
Type: Movie
A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
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Three Faces of Sin
Title: Three Faces of Sin
Character: Danièle Pièges
Released: September 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
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Sweet Deceptions
Title: Sweet Deceptions
Character: Francesca
Released: October 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Francesca, a seventeen-year-old Roman, is finally sure she has found love. Almost sure. She spends the day observing other lovers' behaviors and considering whether she is ready to jump. Her age notwithstanding, this movie is more about coming of age than about improper or illegal romantic relationships.
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Le Trou
Title: Le Trou
Character: Nicole
Released: March 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.