Dominique Sanda

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.

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.

Entre os anos 1967 e 1976, o estilista Yves Saint-Laurent (Gaspard Ulliel) reinou sozinho no mundo da alta costura francesa. Esta biografia mostra o seu processo criativo, as fotografias e entrevistas polêmicas, a relação com o marido e empresário Pierre Berger (Jérémie Renier), os casos amorosos extra-conjugais e a relação com o álcool e as drogas, que quase destruíram o império da marca YSL.

Baptiste (Pierre Rochefort) é um homem solitário, que trabalha como professor no sul da França. Na véspera do fim de semana ele percebe que um dos alunos foi esquecido pelo pai negligente e decide levá-lo até a mãe (Louise Bourgoin), que trabalha numa praia em Montpellier. Surge uma união familiar entre os três, mas as dívidas da mulher atrapalham suas vidas. Para ajudá-la, Baptiste terá que retornar às suas origens.

Descotes, a young map expert, discovers the marvelous erotic secret of an elaborate ancient map that she lusts to own.

O veterano policial Pierre Niémans (Jean Reno) é enviado à cidade de Guernon para investigar um bizarro assassinato ocorrido próximo à uma famosa escola. Ao chegar, Niémans constata que o crime foi causado por alguém meticuloso, que não deixou nenhuma pista sobre quais os motivos do assassinato. A 300 km do local outro policial investiga a violação do túmulo de uma criança morta vinte anos atrás. Trata-se de Max Kerkerian (Vincent Cassel), um impetuoso policial novato que foi no passado ladrão de carros. As duas investigações seguem em paralelo até que os dois policiais se encontram e descobrem que os dois casos estão intimamente ligados e que precisarão trabalhar juntos para resolvê-lo.

Na época da ditadura militar, na Argentina, um agente secreto da polícia (Félix) leva uma vida dupla: torturador de prisioneiros e um dedicado cidadão. Um dia, sua namorada (Maria), uma jovem professora e militante de esquerda, é presa e torturada num centro clandestino de detenção conhecido como Garage Olimpo. Mesmo estando apaixonado, ele não consegue salvá-la de seu destino fatal.

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.

O patriarca Jacob tem preferência por José, entre todos os seus filhos. Esta predileção provoca o ódio de seus irmãos que resolvem vendê-lo como escravo. Quando conhece o Grande Faraó e interpreta seus sonhos corretamente é nomeado Chanceler. José, agora escravo no Egito, resiste às tentativas de sedução da esposa de seu senhorio. Quando conhece o grande faraó e interpreta seus sonhos corretamente é então, nomeado chanceler do reino, salvando o Egito da Fome.José ganha fama e respeito, reencontra seus irmãos e os perdoa, passando a viver com eles e seu pai no novo Egito.

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

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.

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.

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 in deeply in love to another woman.

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.

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.

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.

A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. The viceroy and his wife find her brilliant and fascinating. The prelate finds her a symbol of European laxity. He engineers the election of a new abbess, severe and ascetic. The virreina visits Sor Juana often and inspires her to write passionate poetry that the archbishop finds scandalous. The viceroy protects her. After he is replaced and returns to Spain with his wife, Sor Juana faces envy and retribution. A bishop betrays her, her confessor humbles her. Plague, a tribunal, and her confession as "the worst of all" end the great poet's life.

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....

Genua, 3rd October 1985. Together with over 500 other passengers Margot and Pierre Bergeron, a married couple from France, the Serafinis, an Italian family, Anne Higgins, an Englishwoman, Gitta and Helmut Holzer from Germany and an American couple called Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer board the 'Achille Lauro'. The mood is cheerful and relaxed, everyone is looking forward to twelve days of sun, sea and peace. No one suspects that there are four Palestinian terrorists among the passengers: Al Assadi, Fatayer, Al Ashker and Molqi, their leader. The ship puts to sea in perfect weather. Three marvellous days follow. Everyone appears to be happy and contented. But in the case of some of the passengers appearances are deceiving. Marilyn Klinghoffer, for example, only pretends to her crippled husband that she is well and happy; in reality she is seriously ill with cancer and knows that this will be her last voyage. She does not want to upset her husband, however. A crisis is brewing between ...

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.

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.

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.

The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.

Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.

Um documentário holandês sobre o lendário cineasta francês Robert Bresson.

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

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.

A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.

A perfect summer divertissement, the very rare Break of Day is based on the quasi-autobiographical novel by Colette, a serene, sometimes joyous meditation in which the novelist puzzles through the state in which she found herself, an older woman, traduced and misused in love, fearing that she would never be wanted again. Instead of obsessing on loss, she insists, one must accept it; at a certain age one must recognize the limits of human relationships and transfer one's attentions to nature.

O pacato vilarejo de Cabo Blanco perde o clima de paz com a chegada de um navio inglês. Um ex-combatente americano, que atualmente mora na região, se vê ameaçado pela beleza de uma viúva e a presença de um ex-oficial nazista, que chegam com a expedição.

Lucia and Elena are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the country. Their conversations are overtly intimate, but more revealing is their tacit understanding of each others' personality and desires.

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.

Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other. These people, shipwrecked lovers, are dying to love, to escape the abyss of solitude.

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.

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.

The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicting Nietzsche's opium addiction and madness meritorious.

Depois da Terra ser destruída num conflito nuclear, cinco sobreviventes enfrentam perigos percorrendo os EUA à procura de outras pessoas.

Uma retrospectiva histórica da Itália do início do século XX até o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial a partir das vidas de Olmo, filho bastardo de camponeses, e Alfredo, herdeiro de uma rica família de latifundiários. O pano de fundo é o intenso cenário político da época, com o fortalecimento do fascismo e, em oposição, as lutas trabalhistas ligadas ao socialismo.

Rome, 1880. Gregorio Ferramonti (Anthony Quinn) has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo (Gigi Proietti), Mario (Fabio Testi) and Teta that they will have to fend for themselves. But Irene (Dominique Sanda), the wife of Pippo, a beautiful, calculating and ambitious young woman, wants to take over the inheritance. Acting on intelligence, weighing every step and its consequences, she manages to convince the brothers that they must prevent at all costs that his father falls in love again to avoid the risk of losing their inheritance.

An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.

Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci

Um professor aposentado de origem americana vive uma vida solitária em um luxuoso palácio em Roma. Ele é confrontado por uma vulgar marquesa italiana e seu amante, por sua filha e pelo namorado de sua filha, e forçado a alugar para eles um apartamento no andar superior de seu palácio. Desse ponto em diante, sua rotina tranquila é transformada em caos pelas maquinações de seus inquilinos, e a vida de todos sofre uma reviravolta inesperada, mas inevitável.

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?

Um membro da inteligência britânica assume uma identidade criminosa fictícia e se permite ser pego, preso e libertado para se infiltrar em uma organização de espionagem e expor um traidor.

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.

A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.

Um italiano é atraído para o partido fascista quando é instruído a assassinar seu antigo professor universitário, um antifascista vocal exilado na França durante os anos 30. Baseado no romance homônimo de 1951, de Alberto Moravia.

No final de 1930 Ferrara, Itália, os Finzi-Contini são uma família de destaque: ricos, aristocráticos e urbanos; eles também são judeus. Os seus filhos adultos, Micol e Alberto, convivem num círculo diversificado de amigos para jogos de tênis e festas em sua casa de campo, com seus belos jardins, e tentam manter o resto do mundo à distância. Mas as tensões entre todos eles crescem à medida que o anti-semitismo cresce na Itália fascista, e até mesmo os Finzi-Contini terão de se confrontar com o Holocausto.

Based on Ivan Turgenev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.

When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.