Catherine Jourdan
Also Known As: Catherine Paule Mignon
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Catherine Jourdan (12 October 1948 – 18 February 2011) was a French actress. She appeared in 22 films and television shows between 1967 and 1989. She starred in the 1970 film Eden and After, which was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Azay-le-Rideau, Indre-et-Loire, France
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Birthday: October 12, 1948
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 18, 2011
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Aphrodite
Overview: Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Le Samouraï
Overview: After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-25
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The Girl on a Motorcycle
Overview: Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-21
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Zoo zéro
Overview: Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-09
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N. Took the Dice
Overview: N Took the Dice is essentially a reworking of Eden and After made possible by the roll of a dice (scenes from the 1970 film were combined with outtakes and additional footage in an aleatory way). Robbe-Grillet was always interested in music and since he perceived Eden and After to be serial in nature, it only made sense that its sister film would stand in opposition to that.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-11
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The Satin Spider
Overview: The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-26
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Eden and After
Overview: A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-20
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Love and Anger
Overview: Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-29
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Vortex
Overview: Rod Taylor plays a United Nations bio-warfare disarmament expert whose lonely wife (Catherine Jourdan) has a steamy affair while she's away in France. But soon she finds out the hard way that her lover is not quite the charming and stable guy she thought he was, and starts to fear him and wonder about his true motives.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-14
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The Prairie
Overview: At the request of settler boss Miles Forman, Natty Bumppo leads his trek to Michilimackinac, accompanied by Chingachgook. The group of settlers includes the criminal Bush family. After a few days, the wagon trail meets the Pawnee Indian tribe, whose chief Weucha knows Natty and by whom the settlers are warmly received. On the onward journey, the Bush sons veer off to seemingly hunt but sell the Sioux weapons they had stolen from a fort before leaving. On the way back to the trek they are surprised by two hunting Pawnees. In the following fight, one of the Bush sons is killed. The archer is immediately shot, and the other Indian is supposed to be lynched in the camp of the whites. Chingachgook, however, cuts the rope with a bullet. Later, Father Ismael Bush incites the peaceful Pawnees and Sioux against each other by having a Sioux killed and leading suspicion to the Pawnees. The Sioux attack and destroy the Pawnee village.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-06-04
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Le Petit Matin
Overview: Nina lives with her family in a superb property in the French region of Landes. She loves her cousin Jean who is overprotected by his possessive mother, Eva. There is war and, after the French defeat, Jean wants to reach London.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-21
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Meetings in the Forest
Overview: The fate of a young girl named Svea, who has always been hunted down, in the depths of an immense forest governed by the monstrous Akos, not far from a mysterious castle inhabited by the noble Adrien, who will become the willing sacrificial victim of an incredible sylvan entity.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-04
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Love in the Night
Overview: Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to open in Pigalle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-10
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Pourvoir
Overview: Patrice Enard’s ‘Pourvoir’ is a film mainly comprised of images of women in nature, his style is stark and repetitive, shots are angular, which both hide and reveal. There is though a visual poetry to his work - once the smoke dissipates, a sexual liberation emerges, with subtle flourishes in the staging and editing threaded together by Marxist and Freudian discourses.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-08-29
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Dehors-dedans
Overview: Inside an apartment, a young woman suffers from widespread distress. She lives alone in an attic with a skylight in the ceiling that is her only contact with the outside of Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-15
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Marriage a la Mode
Overview: The main character is a woman trapped in the long stifling marriage in a boring province. She has an affair with a traveling photographer, follows him to Paris, and then has a series of unsatisfactory but interesting relationships, one of which is with a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-20
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The Four Charlots Musketeers 2
Overview: This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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The Four Charlots Musketeers
Overview: This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-13
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Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Overview: Baron Yves de Kerfunte learns of his uncle's death. Overjoyed, he is astonished to discover that seven other individuals are vying for the inheritance. Worse still, when they open the will, they learn that only the elderly Louise de Kerfunte is the heiress, and that she intends to squander the money quickly.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-08-14
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Civil Wars in France
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-15
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El diablo y la dama
Overview: The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-04-03
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Love and Anger: Love
Overview: Godard dissects movie romance as row intellectuals watch an Italian-speaking man and his French-speaking partner talk about love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-29
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