Dominique Sanda
Also Known As: Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne
Biography: Dominique Sanda (born 11 March 1951) is a French actress and former fashion model. Sanda was born as Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris to Lucienne (née Pinchon) and Gérard Sanda. She appeared in such noted European films of the 1970s as Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Good and Evil. She also appeared in The Mackintosh Man (with Paul Newman) and Steppenwolf (with Max von Sydow). She won the award for Best Actress at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film The Inheritance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dominique Sanda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Joseph
Overview: Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Joseph governed the country during a seven year famine, during which his brothers visit Egypt seeking grain, only to encounter their brother, presumed long dead.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-10
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1900
Overview: The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-28
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Lenin: The Train
Overview: March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-30
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A Room in Town
Overview: Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-27
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Overview: In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-04
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Caboblanco
Overview: Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-23
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Utopia
Overview: After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of his old friends but no one is to be found and the city is silent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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The Conformist
Overview: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Damnation Alley
Overview: Following World War III, four survivors at an desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where they hope more survivors are living, using a specially built vehicles to protect themselves against the freakish weather, mutated plant and animal life, and other dangers encountered along the way.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-10
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The MacKintosh Man
Overview: A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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Garage Olimpo
Overview: Maria is a militant activist in an organisation opposed to the military dictatorship in Argentina. She teaches reading and writing in the shanty towns and lives with her mother in an old and run-down residence. One morning, Maria is carried off, in front of her mother, by a military squad dressed in civilian clothes. The young woman is taken to the Olimpo garage, one of the numerous torture chambers which haunt Buenos Aires to the general indifference of the population. In order to make Maria talk, Tigre, the head of the centre, gives her to one of his best men, Felix.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-09-02
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The Crimson Rivers
Overview: Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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Dust of Empire
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-05
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The Wings of the Dove
Overview: A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-06
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With All Hands
Overview: The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-27
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A Sweet Journey
Overview: Two lifelong best friends spend a weekend at a secluded cabin. Through intimate conversations and silent moments, they explore their deep understanding of each other's personalities and desires.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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Beyond Good and Evil
Overview: The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-05
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Steppenwolf
Overview: In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-18
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Conversation Piece
Overview: A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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A Gentle Woman
Overview: When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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The Inheritance
Overview: In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage, securing her inheritance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-11
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I, the Worst of All
Overview: Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In order to pursue her love of writing, Juana enters the convent and gains international renown. When the Inquisition comes, the local Vicereine becomes Juana's protectress and erotic muse, and soon begins a thrilling romance of startling passion and intensity.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-08-09
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Without Apparent Motive
Overview: A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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The World of Jacques Demy
Overview: Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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Break of Day
Overview: A writer in her fifties spends the summer in her Saint-Tropez home, tending to her garden and animals while reflecting on her past. As nature thrives around her, a handsome young man and a restless woman draw near, bringing the uncertainties of desire and romance. Adapted from Colette's quasi-autobiographical novel.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Rosen-Emil
Overview: The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil falls in love with the prostitute Lissy. Through her he meets some criminals whom he can help thanks to his gymnastic skills. But on his rise in the criminal hierarchy, Lissy might fall by the wayside.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-08-19
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The Road to Bresson
Overview: A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-05-13
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Impossible Object
Overview: Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-24
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Going Away
Overview: Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-09-08
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First Love
Overview: The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-07
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Henry's Romance
Overview: It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk on life, but the sensitive Henry does not follow him. Lys has betrayed his fiancé, as Henry once betrayed his lost love Anna. In memory of Anna and his cruel Dickensian childhood, Henry challenges Lys to a duel to try to appease his guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-12-20
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The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Overview: Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel recounting an unfulfilled love story between two young Jews in Ferrara, while fascism was raging in Italy in the late 1930's. In 1972, Vittorio De Sica's film adaptation of the book won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, the fictional space of the garden became so tangible that people from all over the world come to Ferrara to look for it. Fifty years after winning the Oscar, reality and fiction come together once more, as we walk through an imaginary garden and bring to life the book, its author, its main protagonists, history, love, friendships and betrayals.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-07-04
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Saint Laurent
Overview: 1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-23
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The Crystal Cradle
Overview: An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-05-18
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The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Overview: Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-28
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L'Indiscrétion
Overview: An innocent man stumbles across a political intrigue, when he discovers that his neighbours apartment is bugged. They are then found dead and their killers description resembles the man.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-07-21
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The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife
Overview: Descotes, a young map expert, discovers the marvelous erotic secret of an elaborate ancient map that she lusts to own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-22
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Nobody's Children
Overview: An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-03
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To Save Nine
Overview: Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Italian TV drama. Piera Degli Esposti plays the widowed, impoverished mother of a huge farm family. The woman moves her nine children to Bologna, where their living conditions are deplorable. To avoid a hike in rent, she tells her landlady (Dominique Sanda) that she is living alone. Also known as To Save Nine (a curiously brief English-language title for a Wertmuller film!), IL Decimo Clandestino was expanded from 60 to 90 minutes for its theatrical release.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-03-25
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Le Matelot 512
Overview: Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-19
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Albert Savarus
Overview: Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths she goes to ensure their marriage, even after she learns he is deeply in love with another woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-30
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Night of The Flowers
Overview: A hippie tells a story to his wife about four hedonists who lived in an old house. The hedonists pass their time discussing various topics and arguing. One night, a spirit haunts them and drives them insane. When the story is over, the hippie’s wife gives birth.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-27
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The Journey
Overview: A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-04-30
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The Song of Roland
Overview: Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks out in favor of more just treatment for the downtrodden.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-04
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Le Navire Night
Overview: Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman, terminally ill with leukemia, living in isolation at her wealthy father's villa, and a man working night shifts at a telephone company. They have never met in person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-21
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Le lunghe ombre
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Warriors and Prisoners
Overview: Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-05
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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Overview: The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.
Genres: Drama History Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-29
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I'll Be Going Now
Overview: After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a melancholy and scratchy Gassman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-02-08
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On a Moonlit Night
Overview: An American journalist works for a French newspaper. He is writing an article about the reaction against people with AIDS, without knowing he is infected too. Once he finds out, he decides to cut off himself leaving his wife and daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-05
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Karakol
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-09-03
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The Beggars
Overview: This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while women steal other women's men from them just to prove they can. Drug smuggling, clandestine love affairs, and two lovers involved with the production of Shakespeare's Othello carry on with their own off-stage tragedy.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-04-06
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The Peacock’s Paradise
Overview: On a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone is a small journey into the intimacy and authenticity of human beings: a film about an extended family in which everyone talks but no one really listens. Until an unexpected event forces the family members to look into each other’s eyes and reveal themselves for what they really are.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-07-07
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Close up: Dominique Sanda ou le rêve éveillé
Overview: It's an intimate film that brings out the deeper vibrations of my person. It was for me at the same time a beautiful but disturbing experience. To deliver to such an extent what is behind the veil. I would add that it is not the portrait of a dressed Maja, but of the other one...(Dominique Sanda)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-04-30
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