Catherine Deneuve
Born in Paris in 1943, Catherine Deneuve is one of France's "grandes dames". After making her movie debut in 1957 as a teenager, her breakthrough came in the wonderful musical Les Parapluies De Cherbourg. Deneuve went on to appear in
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Filmography Highlights
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Je Veux Voir
2009- Rated:
- 12A
Catherine Deneuve joins Lebanese writer and actor Rabih Mroue for a road trip from Beirut back to Mroue's bombed out village in this unusual documentary
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A Christmas Tale
2008- Rated:
- 15
Unfolding over the holiday season in the grey northern French town of Roubaix, this expansive family saga traces the confrontations and recriminations which ensue when the clan's least favoured son turns out to be the perfect bone-marrow match for their ailing matriarch. Catherine Deneuve stars
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Persepolis
2007- Rated:
- 12A
French feature length animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed autobiographical graphic novel about growing up in Iran
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Kings And Queen
2004- Rated:
- 15
The acclaimed director of Esther Kahn embarks upon an epic exploration of love and loss, centring upon the entwined histories of a young mother and her former lover, who is now incarcerated in a mental hospital
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8 Femmes
2002- Rated:
- 15
A family gathering turns into a murder hunt when the man of the house turns up dead, stabbed in the back. Catherine Deneuve and a host of France's female finest star in this exuberant confection from the consistently excellent François Ozon
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The Musketeer
2001- Rated:
- PG
Spectacular, but ultimately pointless, take on an oft-told tale. The handiwork of fight choreographer Xiong Xin Xin does however enliven the proceedings
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I'm Going Home
2001- Rated:
- PG
A curious little film from Portuguese writer-director Manoel De Oliveira. An ageing theatre actor announces "I'm going home" when he begins to feel that he's no longer at the top of his profession
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Dancer In The Dark
2000- Rated:
- 15
Typically innovative Cannes prize-winning musical from Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier. Björk stars as a Czech immigrant in 50s America who has a tendency to retreat into musical fantasy
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Time Regained
1999- Rated:
- 18
A lavish adaptation of the work of Marcel Proust in which the dying French writer relives a lifetime of dreams and memories. Featuring Marcello Mazzarella, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart and John Malkovich
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Pola X
1999- Rated:
- 18
The extravagance, boldness and pretentiousness of Carax's previous film, Les Amants du Pont Neuf, resulted in a long wait for this co-production, and a change of budget and attitude from the still-yo
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East-West
1999- Rated:
- TBC
Overblown but accomplished epic melodrama of love and resilience in Stalinist Russia from Régis Wargnier, the Oscar-winning director of Indochine. Stars Catherine Deneuve and Sandrine Bonnaire
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Place Vendôme
1998- Rated:
- TBC
Catherine Deneuve dazzles in this sophisticated French thriller that wheels and deals its way through the international diamond trade
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Ma saison préférée
1993- Rated:
- 15
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Indochine
1991- Rated:
- TBC
Winner of the 1992 Best Foreign Film Oscar (it also landed itself an Actress nomination for Deneuve), Wargnier's film is an epic bit of soap opera set against the 1930s political turmoil in Indochina
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Hunger, The
1983- Rated:
- 18
When vampire queen Deneuve and doctor Sarandon get it on (in a soft-focus soft porn moment) strong straight men have been known to go quiet and breathe funny. The story opens with Deneuve's lover and
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The Last Metro
1980- Rated:
- PG
Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star in François Truffaut's award-winning depiction of a theatre company's struggle to keep the show on the road in Nazi-occupied France
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Je Vous Aime
1980- Rated:
- TBC
A dinner party thrown by Deneuve in a nostalgic mood provides the opportunity to look back at her life and loves in this sentimental, well-acted but ultimately flimsy film by Jean de Florette directo
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Á Nous Deux
1979- Rated:
- TBC
An unremarkable addition to LeLouch's CV, although it does boast an excellent performance from the always watchable Deneuve as the woman who makes a living seducing men whose wives need an excuse for
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March or Die
1977- Rated:
- PG
The plot is a good one: a unit of the Foreign Legion is assigned to protect an archaeological dig, and the military presence results in all-out war between the unwelcome European visitors and the loc
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Second Chance
1976- Rated:
- TBC
Deneuve is on top form here as the woman who is sentenced to 20 years in prison as an accessory to murder, gives birth shortly after and is forced to give up her son. Two decades later, the boy havin
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Sauvage, Le
1975- Rated:
- TBC
A clever and classy screwball comedy, with Deneuve and Montand the eye-catching couple who leave their respective partners and end up running off around the world with each other. There is not much o
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Un Flic
1971- Rated:
- TBC
Bank robbbers plan a spectacular heist with the proceeds from a previous robbery
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Tristana
1970- Rated:
- PG
Catherine Deneuve falls prey to Fernando Rey's less-than-scrupulous adoptive father in one of Luis Buñuel's later, less overt dark comedies
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Once Upon A Time
1970- Rated:
- TBC
Catherine Deneuve stars in Jacque Demy's musical adaptation of a Charles Perrault fairy tale about a princess fleeing the incestuous advances of her father by disguising herself in the hide of a donkey
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